UPS Freight Teamsters Approve 5-Year Pact Transport Topics ...UPS Freight employees in the Teamsters union approved a five-year agreement that gives workers a total $2.50 per hour wage boost...
Three county union contracts nearing vote Times Leader ...Luzerne County Council in Pennsylvania is expected to vote this month on three new collective bargaining agreements with unionized workers, including members of Teamsters Local 401 in Wilkes-Barre...
After 2 strikes and 18 months, school bus drivers approve contract Poughkeepsie Journal ...After 18 months, two strikes and multiple charges filed, school bus drivers and monitors with Teamsters Local 445 approved a contract with Poughkeepsie-based Durham School Services that will improve working conditions and safety…
WV: Freedom Industries Has Ties to Koch Brothers DailyKos ...If news reports have left you with the impression that Freedom Industries - the company that has contaminated the water supply serving 300,000 people (and who knows how much wildlife) in nine West Virginia counties - is a rinky-dink Charleston operation, that might be because the media isn't mentioning its influential ties...
Lack of oversight questioned in West Virginia chemical spill Salon ...Reports question why state and company officials were so slow to respond to the leak...
Boeing Goes to Pieces The American Conservative ...Aerospace execs sell their industry to Japan—one part at a time...
GOP lawmakers propose allowing 7-day work week in Wisconsin Associated Press ...Wisconsin manufacturing and retail workers could volunteer to work seven days straight without a day off under a bill two Republican lawmakers are circulating on behalf of the state's largest business group...
Per Capita Income: Wisconsin vs. Minnesota Econbrowser ...Real per capita income in Wisconsin has lagged Minnesota a cumulative 2.2% (log terms) since 2011...
Florida House panel votes to ban new red-light cameras Daytona Beach News-Journal ...Installation of new red-light cameras would be banned across the state under a bill that passed a key committee in the Florida House Thursday, signaling a renewed debate over the devices’ use to catch traffic light violations...
EU report reveals massive scope of secret NSA surveillance DW ...Moraes and his fellow rapporteurs showed themselves unconvinced that the NSA's only goal is the fight against terrorism, as the US government has claimed. In their draft report, European politicians suspect that there are instead "other power motives," such as "political and economic espionage."...
An Investment Manager's 2014 Update on the Top 1% Who Rules America? ...Wealth and income are streaming to the very top of the system and, particularly, to those who are direct or indirect beneficiaries of the financial industry. Professionals and workers have slipped further behind...
New report says millions of women at risk of falling into poverty, economic ruin NBC News ...a staggering number of women across the country are still teetering on the verge of poverty and economic disaster...
A Farewell to Retirement Security In These Times ...Here’s what the loss of pensions at Boeing means for U.S. workers...
BP loses bid over Gulf oil payouts
BBC News ...BP has lost an appeal to cancel the terms of its multi-billion-dollar
settlement with businesses over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. A US federal appeals court upheld the terms of the original 2012 settlement...
Now Neiman Marcus appears to have been hacked, too Washington Post ...Hours after we learned that the hack against Target was much worse than initially feared, the retailer Neiman Marcus has also admitted it was compromised during the holiday season...
Now We Know: JPMorgan Chase Is Worse Than Enron Truthout ...It's beginning to look as if JPMorgan Chase has had a hand in every major banking scandal of the last decade...
Feds investigating Christie’s use of money intended for Sandy relief Salon ...According to a CNN report, federal investigators are now looking into whether New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie steered Sandy relief funds to a firm that promised to feature him and his family in its ads to promote tourism at the Jersey Shore...
Unseasonably harsh weather kept a quarter of a million Americans home from work last month Salon ...And that was before the polar vortex...
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Today's Teamster News 05.25.12
More than 500 arrested as battle-hardened protesters march through the streets Montreal Open File ...Surrounded by a small army of riot police, hundreds of protesters sat down on Sherbrooke Street Wednesday night and chanted “let’s stay peaceful.” Within an hour 400 of them were rounded up, handcuffed and stuffed into city buses to be detained until Thursday morning...
Sources: Cuomo tried to keep New York public labor heads off DNC delegate list Politico ...New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had tried to keep the heads of four major New York state public sector unions off the list of Democratic National Committee at-large delegates, finally agreeing to add three of them late last night after a string of negotiations, multiple sources told POLITICO...
Half Of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out As City Shrinks Bloomberg News ...As it is, 40 percent of the 88,000 streetlights are broken and the city, whose finances are to be overseen by an appointed board, can’t afford to fix them...
How Governor Rick Scott Is Preventing Eligible U.S. Citizens From Voting In Florida ThinkProgress ...Scott instructed his former Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, to compile a list of people who were registered in Florida but ineligible to vote. Browning struggled to aquire accurate data and eventually resigned his post in February. Scott moved forward with the effort anyway...
Wisconsin Recall Roundup May 24, 2012 PR Watch ...Governor Scott Walker will be joined by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal at two campaign events in Wisconsin today to aid Walker as he faces Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in a June 5 recall election...
CP Rail strike could hurt terminals North Shore News ,,,NORTH Shore port terminal operators say they're hoping a settlement will be reached soon in the Canadian Pacific Rail strike - before it starts costing them money...
Sources: Cuomo tried to keep New York public labor heads off DNC delegate list Politico ...New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had tried to keep the heads of four major New York state public sector unions off the list of Democratic National Committee at-large delegates, finally agreeing to add three of them late last night after a string of negotiations, multiple sources told POLITICO...
Half Of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out As City Shrinks Bloomberg News ...As it is, 40 percent of the 88,000 streetlights are broken and the city, whose finances are to be overseen by an appointed board, can’t afford to fix them...
How Governor Rick Scott Is Preventing Eligible U.S. Citizens From Voting In Florida ThinkProgress ...Scott instructed his former Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, to compile a list of people who were registered in Florida but ineligible to vote. Browning struggled to aquire accurate data and eventually resigned his post in February. Scott moved forward with the effort anyway...
Wisconsin Recall Roundup May 24, 2012 PR Watch ...Governor Scott Walker will be joined by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal at two campaign events in Wisconsin today to aid Walker as he faces Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in a June 5 recall election...
CP Rail strike could hurt terminals North Shore News ,,,NORTH Shore port terminal operators say they're hoping a settlement will be reached soon in the Canadian Pacific Rail strike - before it starts costing them money...
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