Teamster News
Anheuser-Busch, Teamsters Reach Deal Wall Street Journal ...Anheuser-Busch InBev NV's union workers Wednesday ratified a five-year contract that called for wage increases and no plant closings, officials from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said in a statement posted on the union's website...
Abbotsford Teamsters And School District Reach Tentative Agreement BC Local News ...A tentative agreement has been reached between the Abbotsford school district and its support staff represented by Teamsters Local 31. Negotiators from both sides met today in Abbotsford and worked out the agreement...
Port Truck Drivers Alleging Wage Theft End Two-Day Picket Los Angeles Times ...A two-day protest by truck drivers who haul freight in and out of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach ended Wednesday, organizers said...
AGY Plant Members On Strike WJBY ...Members of a local Teamsters union are on strike after a failure in contract negotiations. The workers are picketing in front of the AGY Plant in Aiken. AGY makes fiberglass, and is located at 2556 Wagener Road...
Teamsters propose shareholder moves to limit Moyes' power at Swift Land Line ...The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has set its sights on trucking giant Swift Transportation and Chief Executive Officer Jerry Moyes...
Trade
Froman Takes Heat from Senators for a TPP that Does Not Promote "Our Values" Public Citizen ...If the TPP promotes our values, what does that say about our values? Do we value the ability of pharmaceutical corporations to reap monopoly profits during extended patent periods over the ability of cancer and HIV patients to access affordable medicines? Do we value the ability of banks to engage in high-risk trading over the financial stability of a nation?...
Open Letter To Obama Against The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement MrZine (Monthly Review Foundation) ...Dear President Obama, a part of me wants to say "Welcome to Malaysia" as we Malaysians are generally a hospitable people, and many of us were thrilled when you became the 44th President of the United States...
State Battles
Joan Banks, guest columnist: Right-to-work isn’t what’s right for Missouri The Joplin Globe ...“Right-to-work” is a deliberately misleading phrase intended to appeal to two basic American values: rights and work. Here’s what it’s actually about: The law would make it optional for workers to pay dues to a union in a company in which the workers are protected by a union contract while allowing those who don’t belong to the union to reap the benefits of the contract...
Seattle Mayor Details Plan for $15 Minimum Wage New York Times ...Mayor Ed Murray presented on Thursday what he described as an imperfect but workable plan to increase the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, more than twice the federal minimum wage and one of the highest anywhere in the nation, through a series of complex and phased-in stages...
Wisconsin Growth Forecasted to Decline; Kansas Flat Econbrowser ...Wisconsin growth is forecasted to decelerate from March growth rates, while Kansas forecasted growth is near zero since the beginning of the year...
War On Workers
Economy nearly stalls out Associated Press ...The U.S. economy slowed to a crawl in the first three months of the year as a harsh winter exacted a toll on business activity. The slowdown, while worse than expected, is likely to be temporary as growth rebounds with warmer weather...
My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal Time ...Once those companies have that personal data, users don’t have any control over where it goes or who might have access to it in the future. And unlike the early days of the Internet, in which digital interactions were ephemeral, today’s Internet services have considerable economic incentives to track and remember—indefinitely...
Astonishing video of a street collapsing in Baltimore Washington Post ...May 1, 2014 6:31 PM EDT — Dramatic footage shows a landslide swallowing part of a street and at least 10 cars in Baltimore on Wednesday...
SEC Chair Says Markets Are Not Rigged Versus SEC Diagram Showing How the Market Is Rigged Wall Street on Parade ...A few years ago Supreme Court made a ruling that corporations are people and they can spend money any where they want…many of us asked the SEC to address that issue — to simply require corporations who make political donations to simply publicize them — and the SEC has now taken a walk on that request after several years of being asked...
Miscellaneous
This Island Is The First In The World To Be Fully Powered By Wind And Water Think Progress ...The smallest and southernmost of Spain's Canary Islands is about to make an outsized mark on the path towards a more renewable energy powered future...
Showing posts with label ENDA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ENDA. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 7, 2013
Right-to-work-for-less amendment fails in Senate
Two of Congress’s most reliably anti-worker senators have a simple message for American workers: Love whoever you want, just don’t love unions.
Kentucky Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul proposed to make an anti-discrimination bill more discriminatory by attaching a national right-to-work-for-less law to the legislation.
If enacted, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would outlaw workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and identity. For McConnell and Paul, that’s a small price to pay in exchange for a national right-to-work-for-less law, which would effectively kill freedom in the workplace by crippling unions across the country.
Fortunately, the Senate passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act Thursday afternoon without the McConnell-Paul attack on workers. But let's take a moment to dissect exactly what they were trying to do.
The Huffington Post reports:
If enacted, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would outlaw workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and identity. For McConnell and Paul, that’s a small price to pay in exchange for a national right-to-work-for-less law, which would effectively kill freedom in the workplace by crippling unions across the country.
Fortunately, the Senate passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act Thursday afternoon without the McConnell-Paul attack on workers. But let's take a moment to dissect exactly what they were trying to do.
The Huffington Post reports:
The measure would forbid contracts between companies and labor unions that require workers to pay the union for bargaining on their behalf. Prized by Republicans and business groups and loathed by unions, such laws have made it onto the books in 24 states, most recently in Michigan.
Speaking on the Senate floor Tuesday, McConnell praised Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R), who signed the state law in December after it was fast-tracked through the Republican-controlled legislature. McConnell said he and Paul were following Snyder's lead.
Funny how two guys – Rand Paul especially – who think government is bad suddenly think government is a good tool for interfering with unions' ability to function and shrinking the middle class.
That’s exactly what right-to-work-for-less laws aim to accomplish. When McConnell says he wants to diminish the power of “Big Labor,” he wants us to forget that that he’s doing the bidding of billionaires and corporate CEOs determined to expand profits by exploiting workers.
The only kind of freedom that “right to work” laws promote is the freedom of corporations to ship more jobs overseas and treat workers as disposable objects with no rights worthy of the boss’s respect. Unions are the only force standing in the way of Wall Street and its dream of a world where workers are voiceless and impoverished.
Hence McConnell and Paul’s cynical ploy to tack a national “right to work” amendment on to a bill that’s supposed to eliminate discrimination in the workplace.
The bill now heads to the House of Representatives. Earlier this week, Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa urged the members of Congress to look in their hearts and move ENDA legislation forward, as the Senate has:
That’s exactly what right-to-work-for-less laws aim to accomplish. When McConnell says he wants to diminish the power of “Big Labor,” he wants us to forget that that he’s doing the bidding of billionaires and corporate CEOs determined to expand profits by exploiting workers.
The only kind of freedom that “right to work” laws promote is the freedom of corporations to ship more jobs overseas and treat workers as disposable objects with no rights worthy of the boss’s respect. Unions are the only force standing in the way of Wall Street and its dream of a world where workers are voiceless and impoverished.
Hence McConnell and Paul’s cynical ploy to tack a national “right to work” amendment on to a bill that’s supposed to eliminate discrimination in the workplace.
The bill now heads to the House of Representatives. Earlier this week, Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa urged the members of Congress to look in their hearts and move ENDA legislation forward, as the Senate has:
Workers for more than a century have joined forces to protect each other from intolerance and favoritism. We support ENDA because we stand for fair treatment of all workers, as we always have. Workers cannot be divided for any reason, whether it be race, religion, ethnicity, gender or any other basis.
Dividing workers is exactly what McConnell and Paul were trying to do. And it shows how serious these corporate flunkies are about quashing freedom and America’s middle class.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Today's Teamster News 11.06.13
Teamsters Urge Passage Of Employment Non-Discrimination Act teamster.org ...The Teamsters Union yesterday called on Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would provide strong federal protections against discrimination, making it illegal to base hiring decisions or to fire someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity...
Hudson firm bids $11.7 million for Empire Die Casting in Macedonia, Ohio Nordonia Hills News-Leader ...The investment firm New Growth Capital Group has signed a letter of intent to purchase Macedonia's Empire Die Casting, an East Highland Road metal parts manufacturer, for $11.7 million. Approximately 170 workers there are represented by Cleveland-based Teamsters Local 416...
Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul Hope To Tack Right-To-Work Law Onto Employment Non-Discrimination Act Huffington Post ...Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have proposed an amendment to a workplace discrimination bill in the hopes of creating a national right-to-work law...
Apple creates 2,000 jobs shifting production back to US The Guardian ...The California technology titan is beginning to shift production back to its home market, with the creation of its second US plant in under a year. It is understood the renewable energy powered facility in Mesa, Arizona, will produce laboratory grown sapphire crystals of the kind used in the iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner...
A Daily Reminder That Thousands Die In Preventable Workplace Deaths Every Year Economic Policy Institute ...the Cal-OSHA Reporter News Digest ... is filled with grim stories of workers mangled by machinery, suffocated by corn in a silo, killed in falls or struck by a careless driver as they worked on the highway, or sometimes, killed in ways so horrible that it beggars the imagination...
Ripping Off College Students Economic Future Angry Bear ...Student Debt has quadrupled from 2003 to 2013 going from ~$240 billion to > $1,000,000,000. Up from 41% in 1989, 66% of all students now have an average debt of ~$27,000...
FAA Orders Additional Pilot Training Washington Post ...Almost four years after an upstate New York commuter plane crash killed 50 people, the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday imposed stricter training requirements for commercial airline pilots...
First Wall Street Criminal Confession in a Generation...Still No One in Jail The Real News ... Bill Black: SAC Capital Advisors pleads guilty to insider trading, but owner Steven Cohen has yet to face criminal prosecution...
Illinois unions hold strong despite blows to labor Associated Press ...Across the middle of the country, organized labor has taken one hit after another in places that were once union strongholds: Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana, where workers lost bargaining power and saw their ranks shrink, leaving them weaker than almost any time in the past century. The notable exception is Illinois...
NLRB Moves Forward on Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against T-Mobile US cwa-union.org ...The National Labor Relations Board's Acting General Counsel announced that the U.S. government would prosecute T-Mobile US for violating U.S. labor law by illegally firing two workers at a Wichita, Kansas call center because of their union activity...
How Republicans Have Trashed The Economy, In 1 Chart Huffington Post ...The next time a Republican tells you government spending is out of control, this chart is all you need to prove otherwise...
America's Greatest Shame: Child Poverty Rises and Food Stamps Cut While Billionaires Boom AlterNet ...Since the start of the Great Recession in 2007, the percentage of poor children has climbed by 4.5 percent, while the income of the top 1 percent has risen by 34%.Why do we put up with such injustices?...
Half Of The World's Richest People Come From Just 2 Families Huffington Post ...Seven of the 12 richest people in the world have names ending in Koch, Walton or Adelson, according to a new calculation by Bloomberg Markets magazine. Of course, extreme wealth gives you a lot of political power. Here's how these folks wield their influence...
Walmart Is Trying to Block Workers' Disability Benefits Mother Jones ...If the Supreme Court rules in the retail giant's favor, it will be easier for companies to deny workers benefits...
Detroit emergency manager pressed on pension cuts at bankruptcy trial Reuters ...Detroit's unions called witnesses on Monday to testify that the city does not belong in bankruptcy including representatives of a union and retirees who said a negotiated settlement of the city's debts had been possible before it filed for bankruptcy in mid-July...
Hudson firm bids $11.7 million for Empire Die Casting in Macedonia, Ohio Nordonia Hills News-Leader ...The investment firm New Growth Capital Group has signed a letter of intent to purchase Macedonia's Empire Die Casting, an East Highland Road metal parts manufacturer, for $11.7 million. Approximately 170 workers there are represented by Cleveland-based Teamsters Local 416...
Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul Hope To Tack Right-To-Work Law Onto Employment Non-Discrimination Act Huffington Post ...Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have proposed an amendment to a workplace discrimination bill in the hopes of creating a national right-to-work law...
Apple creates 2,000 jobs shifting production back to US The Guardian ...The California technology titan is beginning to shift production back to its home market, with the creation of its second US plant in under a year. It is understood the renewable energy powered facility in Mesa, Arizona, will produce laboratory grown sapphire crystals of the kind used in the iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner...
A Daily Reminder That Thousands Die In Preventable Workplace Deaths Every Year Economic Policy Institute ...the Cal-OSHA Reporter News Digest ... is filled with grim stories of workers mangled by machinery, suffocated by corn in a silo, killed in falls or struck by a careless driver as they worked on the highway, or sometimes, killed in ways so horrible that it beggars the imagination...
Ripping Off College Students Economic Future Angry Bear ...Student Debt has quadrupled from 2003 to 2013 going from ~$240 billion to > $1,000,000,000. Up from 41% in 1989, 66% of all students now have an average debt of ~$27,000...
FAA Orders Additional Pilot Training Washington Post ...Almost four years after an upstate New York commuter plane crash killed 50 people, the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday imposed stricter training requirements for commercial airline pilots...
First Wall Street Criminal Confession in a Generation...Still No One in Jail The Real News ... Bill Black: SAC Capital Advisors pleads guilty to insider trading, but owner Steven Cohen has yet to face criminal prosecution...
Illinois unions hold strong despite blows to labor Associated Press ...Across the middle of the country, organized labor has taken one hit after another in places that were once union strongholds: Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana, where workers lost bargaining power and saw their ranks shrink, leaving them weaker than almost any time in the past century. The notable exception is Illinois...
NLRB Moves Forward on Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against T-Mobile US cwa-union.org ...The National Labor Relations Board's Acting General Counsel announced that the U.S. government would prosecute T-Mobile US for violating U.S. labor law by illegally firing two workers at a Wichita, Kansas call center because of their union activity...
How Republicans Have Trashed The Economy, In 1 Chart Huffington Post ...The next time a Republican tells you government spending is out of control, this chart is all you need to prove otherwise...
America's Greatest Shame: Child Poverty Rises and Food Stamps Cut While Billionaires Boom AlterNet ...Since the start of the Great Recession in 2007, the percentage of poor children has climbed by 4.5 percent, while the income of the top 1 percent has risen by 34%.Why do we put up with such injustices?...
Half Of The World's Richest People Come From Just 2 Families Huffington Post ...Seven of the 12 richest people in the world have names ending in Koch, Walton or Adelson, according to a new calculation by Bloomberg Markets magazine. Of course, extreme wealth gives you a lot of political power. Here's how these folks wield their influence...
Walmart Is Trying to Block Workers' Disability Benefits Mother Jones ...If the Supreme Court rules in the retail giant's favor, it will be easier for companies to deny workers benefits...
Detroit emergency manager pressed on pension cuts at bankruptcy trial Reuters ...Detroit's unions called witnesses on Monday to testify that the city does not belong in bankruptcy including representatives of a union and retirees who said a negotiated settlement of the city's debts had been possible before it filed for bankruptcy in mid-July...
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