Teamster News
Carpenters, Teamsters Join Forces To Protest At PA Convention Center Philadelphia Business Journal ...After being shut out of work for not signing a new customer satisfaction agreement, the Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 107 will join forces Wednesday morning to protest their joint lockout...
Workers At AGY In Aiken Remain Idle After Seven Weeks Of Unemployment Augusta Chronicle ...More than 500 employees at AGY glass fiber manufacturing in Aiken are entering their seventh week without jobs after contract negotiations between the company and their union proved fruitless this spring...
Trade
Report: Chinese Smartphone Comes Preloaded With Spyware Trade Reform ...G Data Software said it found malicious code hidden deep in the propriety software of the Star N9500 when it ordered the handset from a website late last month. The find is the latest in a series of incidents where smartphones have appeared preloaded with malicious software...
State Battles
Since 2010, New Laws in 22 States Restrict Right to Vote AFL-CIO ...Since Republicans gained control of many state legislatures in the 2010 elections, 22 states(see map above)—nearly all of them in the South and the Midwest—have rolled out new restrictions on the right to vote...
Unions Taking Fight To The People Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ...Union members fighting the end of collective bargaining for many city employees are holding a picnic Saturday and you’re invited...
War On Workers
Hospital Uses Executive Bonus Money To Give Its Workers A Raise Think Progress ...Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas will raise its own minimum wage to $10.25 an hour next month, paying for the increase with money originally devoted to executive bonuses...
Senators question closing of Social Security field offices Tallahassee Democrat ...In addition to shuttering field offices, the agency has cut thousands of field workers, eliminated hundreds of mobile stations, and reduced hours and services at hundreds of satellite offices over the past four years...
Income Gap Widens As American Factories Shut Down Associated Press ...In Reading and other American factory towns, manufacturing's decline is a key factor in the widening income gap between the rich and everyone else, as people like the Ludwigs have been forced into far lower-paying work...
Obesity Linked to Long-Term Unemployment in U.S. Gallup ...High blood pressure, cholesterol also more common among long-term unemployed...
Citigroup’s Dark Pools: Here’s Why the Public Doesn’t Trust Wall Street Wall Street on Parade ...while stock markets are setting new highs, stock ownership among U.S. adults is at a 16-year low, trending down from 65 percent participation in 2007 to a reading of 52 percent today, according to a Gallup poll released in May...
Wal-Mart's "Sham Transaction": How Giant Corporations Are Quietly Dodging U.S. Taxes Salon.com ...even when they’re not technically breaking the law, major corporations like Apple, Wal-Mart, Starbucks and more are systematically flouting its spirit and keeping profits they earned as part of the American community all to themselves...
Silicon Valley's Minimum Wage Success Story Al-Jazeera ...the San Jose City Council passed the living wage ordinance, raising the minimum hourly wage on projects that received public support to $9.50 with benefits and $10.75 without, at a time when the federal minimum wage was only $5.15 an hour. ... business over the next three years continued growing at a breakneck pace...
Miscellaneous
How To Tell If Your Member Of Congress Is A Crony Capitalist Huffington Post ...To win in 2012, U.S. senators had to raise an average of $14,351 a day, every single day of the week....
Obama: US must ‘strengthen unions’ The Hill ..."Weekends and overtime and benefits — things that now, non-union workers take for granted — well, you got those because unions were out there fighting for you for a very long time," Obama said...
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Today's Teamster News June 15, 2014
Teamsters
Obama signs order; SEPTA Regional Rails to roll Sunday Philly.com ...President Obama signed an executive order Saturday evening, appointing an emergency board to mediate the SEPTA labor dispute, thus averting a lengthy strike. All 13 SEPTA Regional Rail lines should be back to normal operating schedules Sunday morning...
Trade
Obama’s Free Trade Strategy Falters in Asia Inter Press Service ...Obama’s latest trip to Asia, however, underlined the inability of Washington to balance its economic and geopolitical initiatives in the region. While Obama managed to strike new strategic agreements with leading Southeast Asian countries, namely Malaysia and the Philippines, and strengthen bilateral military alliances with Japan and South Korea, there was, in turn, no concrete development vis-à-vis the ongoing TPP negotiations...
State Battles
Mayor vetoes collective bargaining ordinance WANE ...(Fort Wayne) Mayor Tom Henry has vetoed the ordinance passed by the City Council that would have ended collective bargaining for non-public safety union employees...
International Human Rights Violations in Detroit On the Commons ...The water department has decreed that it will turn the water off to all 150,000 residences that are behind on their bills by the end of the summer although it has made no such threat to the many corporations and other institutions that are in arrears on their bills as well...
War on Workers
Recession linked to more than 10,000 suicides CBS News ...New research suggests that the economic downturn could be linked with more than 10,000 suicides across North America and Europe. The study found that between 2008 and 2010, rates of suicide surged in the European Union, Canada and the United States…
A Three-Pronged Attack on Organized Labor Huffington Post ...The claim that companies leave the U.S. to avoid paying union wages is false. It's an outright lie disseminated by free market fundamentalists, and anyone who believes it is a dupe. The reason companies leave is to avoid paying an American wage...
Who actually earns the minimum wage? CBS News ...While more than a quarter of all low-wage workers were teenagers back in 1979, today only about one in 10 are teens ... almost 37 percent of these employees on low wages, defined as less than $10.10 per hour, are between 35 to 64 years old...
Senior NSA Executive: NSA Started Spying On Journalists in 2002 … In Order to Make Sure They Didn’t Report On Mass Surveillance Washington's Blog ...Senior NSA executive Thomas Drake tells Washington’s Blog that the spying on reporters started12 years ago – in 2002 – and has been fairly systematic...
Miscellaneous
As Iraq fighting rages, gas prices climb CBS Money Watch ...A rising tide of violence in Iraq is driving up prices at the pump...
Wait Times at the VA Angry Bear ...the VA is well beyond the typical private healthcare system in providing “evidence-based protocols of care — not inadvertently ordering up dangerous combinations of drugs, or performing unnecessary surgeries and tests just to make a buck and treating the whole patient and not just one part at a time...”
Obama signs order; SEPTA Regional Rails to roll Sunday Philly.com ...President Obama signed an executive order Saturday evening, appointing an emergency board to mediate the SEPTA labor dispute, thus averting a lengthy strike. All 13 SEPTA Regional Rail lines should be back to normal operating schedules Sunday morning...
Trade
Obama’s Free Trade Strategy Falters in Asia Inter Press Service ...Obama’s latest trip to Asia, however, underlined the inability of Washington to balance its economic and geopolitical initiatives in the region. While Obama managed to strike new strategic agreements with leading Southeast Asian countries, namely Malaysia and the Philippines, and strengthen bilateral military alliances with Japan and South Korea, there was, in turn, no concrete development vis-à-vis the ongoing TPP negotiations...
State Battles
Mayor vetoes collective bargaining ordinance WANE ...(Fort Wayne) Mayor Tom Henry has vetoed the ordinance passed by the City Council that would have ended collective bargaining for non-public safety union employees...
International Human Rights Violations in Detroit On the Commons ...The water department has decreed that it will turn the water off to all 150,000 residences that are behind on their bills by the end of the summer although it has made no such threat to the many corporations and other institutions that are in arrears on their bills as well...
War on Workers
Recession linked to more than 10,000 suicides CBS News ...New research suggests that the economic downturn could be linked with more than 10,000 suicides across North America and Europe. The study found that between 2008 and 2010, rates of suicide surged in the European Union, Canada and the United States…
A Three-Pronged Attack on Organized Labor Huffington Post ...The claim that companies leave the U.S. to avoid paying union wages is false. It's an outright lie disseminated by free market fundamentalists, and anyone who believes it is a dupe. The reason companies leave is to avoid paying an American wage...
Who actually earns the minimum wage? CBS News ...While more than a quarter of all low-wage workers were teenagers back in 1979, today only about one in 10 are teens ... almost 37 percent of these employees on low wages, defined as less than $10.10 per hour, are between 35 to 64 years old...
Senior NSA Executive: NSA Started Spying On Journalists in 2002 … In Order to Make Sure They Didn’t Report On Mass Surveillance Washington's Blog ...Senior NSA executive Thomas Drake tells Washington’s Blog that the spying on reporters started12 years ago – in 2002 – and has been fairly systematic...
Miscellaneous
As Iraq fighting rages, gas prices climb CBS Money Watch ...A rising tide of violence in Iraq is driving up prices at the pump...
Wait Times at the VA Angry Bear ...the VA is well beyond the typical private healthcare system in providing “evidence-based protocols of care — not inadvertently ordering up dangerous combinations of drugs, or performing unnecessary surgeries and tests just to make a buck and treating the whole patient and not just one part at a time...”
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