Register Now for the JRHMSF Golf and Poker Tournaments teamster.org ...Sign up for the James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund's 12th Annual "Drive for Education" Invitational Golf Tournament and 8th Annual "All In For Education" Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament in early May. The proceeds benefit children and financially dependent grandchildren of Teamster members...
Private Prisons Are a Net Loser for the Public teamster.org ...Governments, pressed by the corporate class, have in recent years increasingly looked for ways to outsource duties and services that could provide them with income. The growth in private prisons, as a result, has soared...
Black History Month: T.A. Stowers and the Early Teamsters Union teamster.org ...In August 2014, it will have been 112 years since a joint convention of the Team Drivers’ International Union and the Teamsters’ National Union was held in Niagara Falls, NY. At that convention in 1903, history was made for a number of reasons...
The Heated Politics of Free Trade Bring No Smoke, Plenty of Fire National Journal ...Biden, Madigan, and Schneiderman … joined 39 other states’ attorneys general in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman protesting emerging provisions in the Trans-Pacific trade pact that they fear would exempt U.S. tobacco companies from complying with state tobacco laws and regulations...
Local Lawmakers Weigh In on Right to Work Bills The Missourian ...A House bill seeks to have a public vote on whether Missouri should become a right to work state...
Evidence Mounting that Walker Campaign Is at Center of Criminal Probe Center for Media and Democracy ...Newly-unsealed court documents and media leaks add to a growing body of evidence that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s campaign is at the center of a wide-ranging secret probe into campaign finance violations during the state's contentious 2011 and 2012 recall elections...
Kasich floats ‘deregulation’ for schools Columbus Dispatch ...He could seek to ease licensing requirements for teachers to make it easier for business professionals to come into classrooms and teach, or establish some sort of formal tie between the state Board of Education and the business community so that business leaders could have a more-direct influence on curriculum...
More than a dozen communities in California could run out of water in months AFP ...California’s State Water Project announced for the first time in its 54-year history that it cannot deliver anything beyond the bare minimum to maintain public health and safety...
Weak Job Growth, but Declining Unemployment Give Mixed Picture in January Center for Economic and Policy Research ...The establishment survey showed the economy created just 113,000 jobs in January. Coupled with the 75,000 increase reported for December, this is the weakest two-month stretch since December, 2010-January 2011...
Payroll Data Shows a Lag in Wages, Not Just Hiring New York Times ...Wages are stuck, and barely rose at all in 2013. They were up 1.9 percent last year, or a mere 0.4 percent after accounting for inflation. Not only was that increase even smaller than the one recorded in 2012, it was half the normal rate of wage gains in the two decades before the last recession...
Chart of the Day #2: The Madness of Austerity Mother Jones ...If public sector employment had been growing normally during this period, we'd have about a million more jobs than we do now and the unemployment rate would probably be below 6 percent...
U.S. consumer credit posts biggest jump in 10 months Reuters ...U.S. consumer credit in December grew by the most in nearly a year due to a sharp increase in credit card usage...
I'm a Member of the American 'Used-to-Haves' Huffington Post ...I used to have a house. I used to go on vacations. I used to shop at department stores, get my hair done and even enjoy pedicures. Now, I don't. I'm a member of the American "Used-to-Haves."...
Privacy Activists' Nuclear Option: Suing Oakland Over Spy Center's Nuclear Weapons Contractors truthout ...The $10.9 million surveillance center is being built in stages and funded primarily through a Department of Homeland Security grant. The center will integrate the Oakland Police Department's license-plate scanners and gunshot detectors as well as social media feeds, mapping systems, feeds from hundreds of public and private cameras all over the city and other monitoring technologies into a centralized hub...
Brave Domino's Workers Successfully Win Back Stolen Wages ThinkProgress ...NYC Domino's workers win $1.3 million in settlement over withholding pay...
Union: IBM cuts coming again to New York Burlington Free Press ...An IBM employees’ union is warning workers to expect more job cuts in Vermont and New York later this month...
Ford steps up criticism of currency manipulation Detroit News ...Ford Motor Co. stepped up its campaign to convince the Obama administration to include provisions to block currency manipulation in a proposed 12-nation free trade agreement...
Rio fare protesters seize main station and let commuters travel free The Guardian ...After street protests, station invasions and turnstile vandalism, Rio de Janeiro’s free public transport movement finally got what it wanted for a few hours on Thursday night with a takeover of the city’s main train and bus hub...
Poverty Wages Unraveling Cambodia’s Garment Industry Inter Press Service ...Cambodia’s garment industry is regularly plagued with strikes and protests. But when armed security forces opened fire on striking workers in the capital city of Phnom Penh on Jan. 3, killing five and injuring dozens, it suddenly became clear that there is no end in sight for the crisis...
Democratic groups counter Kochs’ Senate push Politico ...A collection of Democratic-aligned groups are launching a coordinated push in 2014 Senate races to counter heavy spending from the powerfully funded conservative organization Americans for Prosperity, Democratic strategists said Thursday evening...
Federal Lawsuit Filed Against FEC Seeks to Shed Light on Karl Rove's "Dark Money" Donors truthout ...The votes by the three Republican FEC Commissioners effectively quashed any further official investigation into the allegations that Rove's group violated the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) when it spent the majority of its money during the 2010 election cycle on electioneering, but failed to register as a "political committee" with the FEC, as required by law...
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Friday, June 14, 2013
Today's Teamster News 06.14.13
Reminder: There Are Still 3 Times More Unemployed Workers Than Job Openings The Atlantic ...there are more job hunters than job openings in every single major industry sector...
White-collar Workers Turning to Labor Unions Los Angeles Times ...The next wave of union protesters isn't blue collar. It's lawyers, paralegals, secretaries, helicopter pilots, judges, insurance agents and podiatrists...
U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms Bloomberg ...Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said...
Secret Trade Agreements Threaten to Undo Our Last Shreds of Food Safety Alternet ...You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don’t meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could be powerless to shut down imports of unsafe food or food ingredients...
Conflicting Goals Complicate an Effort to Forge a Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal New York Times ...The leaders of the European Union, mired in recession and battered by increasing opposition from voters, are desperate for political success to promote economic growth. They are pushing for a rapid negotiation of a trade agreement with the United States aimed at expanding commerce and creating jobs...
IBM employee axe cuts away 1,300 staff ZD Net ...While 1,300 IBM employees have received lay-off notices in the US, they are hiring in India...
Supreme Court Bans Protests On Its Grounds Huffington Post ...The Supreme Court has come up with a new regulation banning demonstrations on its grounds, two days after a broader anti-demonstration law was declared unconstitutional...
ERT closure: Greek unions stage 24-hour protest strike BBC News ...A general strike, in protest at the Greek government's surprise move to shut down state broadcaster ERT with nearly 2,700 jobs being lost, has brought many public services to a halt...
Walmart Accepted Clothing from Banned Bangladesh Factories ProPublica ...Walmart said it had list 200 factories it said it had barred from producing its merchandise because of serious or repeated safety problems, labor violations or unauthorized subcontracting.” Two of the factories on the list continued to “send massive shipments” to Walmart anyway...
Ohio right to work legislation continues public, clandestine march forward PR News Channel ..."as Michigan proved, we can’t afford to let our guard down for an instant...”
'Witness Wednesday' Organized By North Carolina NAACP As Followup To 'Moral Monday' Protests Huffington Post ...Seeking to build off a string of highly successful "Moral Monday" demonstrations at the North Carolina General Assembly in Raleigh, N.C., members of the state's NAACP gathered on the premises again for what they're calling the first "Witness Wednesday."...
California Governor Jerry Brown, Business Leaders and Workers Call for Action on Economic Development Plan Sierra Sun Times ...Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. joined business leaders and workers to call for action on his plan to revamp the state’s economic development program and help put Californians back to work. “California’s 35-year-old Enterprise Zone program is not enterprising, it’s wasteful,” Brown said...
Exclusive: Walker Will Withdraw Regent Nomination of Student who Signed Recall Petition Right Wisconsin ...A day after RightWisconsin.com reported that a Walker appointee to the UW Board of Regents had signed a recall petition, sources say the administration will be asking the State Senate to withdraw the nomination...
Veterans protest GOP limits on veterans tax credits, and Walker isn't happy Wisconsin State Journal ...Veterans groups are rising up against what they consider a “shameful” move by Republican state lawmakers to strap limits on a popular tax credit for 100 percent disabled veterans and surviving spouses. A spokesman for Gov. Scott Walker said he wants the Legislature to “fix the issue...
Brother Rick Smith Takes Radio Show on the Road IBT ...Teamster and radio show host Rick Smith is in the midst of a cross-country tour that is taking him from his home in Pennsylvania to the West Coast and back before finishing July 5. On the way, he is meeting with union leaders and workers about the state of the American labor movement and the challenges facing the middle class. You can follow his journey by listening to his podcasts at the Teamster website...
Radiological Transportation Training for Rail Members National Labor College ...The National Labor College will be conducting courses for rail members where they will learn the basics about radioactive materials, what they are, how they can be affected by them, and how to they can protect themselves. The U.S. Department of Transportation has funded this program...
White-collar Workers Turning to Labor Unions Los Angeles Times ...The next wave of union protesters isn't blue collar. It's lawyers, paralegals, secretaries, helicopter pilots, judges, insurance agents and podiatrists...
U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms Bloomberg ...Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said...
Secret Trade Agreements Threaten to Undo Our Last Shreds of Food Safety Alternet ...You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don’t meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could be powerless to shut down imports of unsafe food or food ingredients...
Conflicting Goals Complicate an Effort to Forge a Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal New York Times ...The leaders of the European Union, mired in recession and battered by increasing opposition from voters, are desperate for political success to promote economic growth. They are pushing for a rapid negotiation of a trade agreement with the United States aimed at expanding commerce and creating jobs...
IBM employee axe cuts away 1,300 staff ZD Net ...While 1,300 IBM employees have received lay-off notices in the US, they are hiring in India...
Supreme Court Bans Protests On Its Grounds Huffington Post ...The Supreme Court has come up with a new regulation banning demonstrations on its grounds, two days after a broader anti-demonstration law was declared unconstitutional...
ERT closure: Greek unions stage 24-hour protest strike BBC News ...A general strike, in protest at the Greek government's surprise move to shut down state broadcaster ERT with nearly 2,700 jobs being lost, has brought many public services to a halt...
Walmart Accepted Clothing from Banned Bangladesh Factories ProPublica ...Walmart said it had list 200 factories it said it had barred from producing its merchandise because of serious or repeated safety problems, labor violations or unauthorized subcontracting.” Two of the factories on the list continued to “send massive shipments” to Walmart anyway...
Ohio right to work legislation continues public, clandestine march forward PR News Channel ..."as Michigan proved, we can’t afford to let our guard down for an instant...”
'Witness Wednesday' Organized By North Carolina NAACP As Followup To 'Moral Monday' Protests Huffington Post ...Seeking to build off a string of highly successful "Moral Monday" demonstrations at the North Carolina General Assembly in Raleigh, N.C., members of the state's NAACP gathered on the premises again for what they're calling the first "Witness Wednesday."...
California Governor Jerry Brown, Business Leaders and Workers Call for Action on Economic Development Plan Sierra Sun Times ...Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. joined business leaders and workers to call for action on his plan to revamp the state’s economic development program and help put Californians back to work. “California’s 35-year-old Enterprise Zone program is not enterprising, it’s wasteful,” Brown said...
Exclusive: Walker Will Withdraw Regent Nomination of Student who Signed Recall Petition Right Wisconsin ...A day after RightWisconsin.com reported that a Walker appointee to the UW Board of Regents had signed a recall petition, sources say the administration will be asking the State Senate to withdraw the nomination...
Veterans protest GOP limits on veterans tax credits, and Walker isn't happy Wisconsin State Journal ...Veterans groups are rising up against what they consider a “shameful” move by Republican state lawmakers to strap limits on a popular tax credit for 100 percent disabled veterans and surviving spouses. A spokesman for Gov. Scott Walker said he wants the Legislature to “fix the issue...
Brother Rick Smith Takes Radio Show on the Road IBT ...Teamster and radio show host Rick Smith is in the midst of a cross-country tour that is taking him from his home in Pennsylvania to the West Coast and back before finishing July 5. On the way, he is meeting with union leaders and workers about the state of the American labor movement and the challenges facing the middle class. You can follow his journey by listening to his podcasts at the Teamster website...
Radiological Transportation Training for Rail Members National Labor College ...The National Labor College will be conducting courses for rail members where they will learn the basics about radioactive materials, what they are, how they can be affected by them, and how to they can protect themselves. The U.S. Department of Transportation has funded this program...
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