American team seeks to reach compromise, LaHood says, by mid-year Journal of Commerce ...Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he expects to have an agreement to revive cross-border trucking between the U.S. and Mexico by the middle of the year...
ABF Freight System Appeals Dismissal of YRC Suit Kansas City Business Journal ...ABF Freight System Inc. is appealing a federal judge’s decision last month to dismiss its legal challenge of concessions negotiated between YRC Worldwide Inc. and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters...
U.S. Factories Buck Decline Wall Street Journal ...U.S. manufacturing ... has begun creating more jobs than it eliminates for the first time in more than a decade...
Berrien County board approves Teamster contract The Herald-Palladium ...the 32 employees represented by Teamsters Union Local 214 will not get pay raises in 2011 or 2012...
UC Berkeley: 150 Layoffs "a last resort" Bay City News ...The job cuts, which will mainly be administrative positions, are part of a three-year program that began in 2009 to save $75 million in university spending...
Teamsters Urge Casting Directors To Take Pilot Jobs, Assistant Issue Shelved Deadline Hollywood ...the standoff between casting directors and TV studios over salaries for casting assistants may be over but not in the way casting directors had hoped...
California high-speed rail sets aside $30 million to buy Union Station Los Angeles Times ...The historic rail hub is slated to be a major stop on the 800-mile statewide bullet train system...
Public-Worker Unions Battle U.S. Governors Over Benefits in Change of Role Bloomberg News ...Facing attacks from deficit-slashing officials on both ends of the political spectrum, government employees are fighting back...
Union Members Disrupt Mortgage Banksters Meeting in DC (VIDEO) firedoglake ... 200 of whom burst into a private meeting of mortgage bankers to protest layoffs by a homebuilding company that got a $900 million in federal funds intended for job creation...
China’s Economy Grew 10.3 Percent in 2010 New York Times ...Buoyed by ample lending and significant state investment projects, the Chinese economy powered ahead last year...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
Today's Teamster News 12.31.10
Unemployment claims drop unexpectedly Los Angeles Times ...signs are mounting that employers might at last be starting to hire new workers...
Storm hit NYC on eve of sanitation worker shake-up Associated Press ...Harry Nespoli, president of the Teamster's local that represents sanitation workers including plow drivers, also denied a city councilman's claims that sanitation workers' bosses encouraged a slowdown...
Continental Fleet Service Workers Ratify First Contract IBT ...Agreement provides for multiple job protections, significant sage increases...
Rattner settles pension kickback case for $10 million New York Times ... financier Steven L. Rattner has agreed to pay $10 million to settle civil charges that he engaged in a kickback scheme involving New York state’s pension fund...
NewPage union: 'No' (Local 486) Escanaba Daily News ...Union employees at NewPage overwhelmingly rejected the latest contract offer from the company...
Aspinwall labor talks for 4 come down to wire (Local 249) Valley News Dispactch ...Aspinwall officials are negotiating a new three-year contract with the borough's four full-time public works employees...
Saline employees agree to health-care concessions (Local 214) annarbor.com ...Saline's two police unions, members of Teamsters Local 214 and its nonunion employees recently agreed to concessions...
Storm hit NYC on eve of sanitation worker shake-up Associated Press ...Harry Nespoli, president of the Teamster's local that represents sanitation workers including plow drivers, also denied a city councilman's claims that sanitation workers' bosses encouraged a slowdown...
Continental Fleet Service Workers Ratify First Contract IBT ...Agreement provides for multiple job protections, significant sage increases...
Rattner settles pension kickback case for $10 million New York Times ... financier Steven L. Rattner has agreed to pay $10 million to settle civil charges that he engaged in a kickback scheme involving New York state’s pension fund...
NewPage union: 'No' (Local 486) Escanaba Daily News ...Union employees at NewPage overwhelmingly rejected the latest contract offer from the company...
Aspinwall labor talks for 4 come down to wire (Local 249) Valley News Dispactch ...Aspinwall officials are negotiating a new three-year contract with the borough's four full-time public works employees...
Saline employees agree to health-care concessions (Local 214) annarbor.com ...Saline's two police unions, members of Teamsters Local 214 and its nonunion employees recently agreed to concessions...
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Today's Teamster News 12.02.10
Horizon Air Pilots Approve Five-Year Agreement IBT ...The new contract includes dramatic improvements in work conditions where the pilots will be writing their own schedules and trips...
Teamsters Oppose Bill That Includes Retirement Age Increase IBT ...A new bill passed by the Illinois House of Representatives would bring sweeping changes to police and fire pension systems in Chicago...
Teamsters ratify new grocery contract with 97% vote West Seattle Herald ...Members of Teamsters Local 38 working for Albertsons, QFC, and Safeway in Snohomish County ratify a new 3-year contract...
Cities try to light up holidays in dim times The Detroit News ...Kathy Ritter, the steward of Teamsters Local 214, was off the clock, working on her own time to help ensure the downtown looks merry this year, even with a tight city budget...
FedEx to cut 172 jobs Charlotte Business Journal ...About 1700 jobs will be cut nationally...
County Recorder in Massachusetts Goes After MERS firedoglake ... A deed recorder in South Essex, Massachusetts, is basically taking on MERS...
Recovery gathers steam Wall Street Journal ...The U.S. economy is starting to fire on more cylinders, though the upturn remains too weak to bring down high unemployment...
Fed Data Shows Foreign Banks Huge Beneficiaries of Emergency Lending Programs, Hedge Funds, McDonald's, Harley-Davidson and Others Also Received Help naked capitalism Good summary of the Fed's data dump yesterday.
Too Big to Succeed (opinion) New York Times ...an absence of accountability and blatant inequities in treatment are why Americans remain angry...
A new political landscape, same old lies about labor (opinion) The Hill's Congress Blog ......Unions lift productivity on average by 19 percent to 24 percent in manufacturing, 16 percent in hospitals and up to 38 percent in the construction sector...
Teamsters Oppose Bill That Includes Retirement Age Increase IBT ...A new bill passed by the Illinois House of Representatives would bring sweeping changes to police and fire pension systems in Chicago...
Teamsters ratify new grocery contract with 97% vote West Seattle Herald ...Members of Teamsters Local 38 working for Albertsons, QFC, and Safeway in Snohomish County ratify a new 3-year contract...
Cities try to light up holidays in dim times The Detroit News ...Kathy Ritter, the steward of Teamsters Local 214, was off the clock, working on her own time to help ensure the downtown looks merry this year, even with a tight city budget...
FedEx to cut 172 jobs Charlotte Business Journal ...About 1700 jobs will be cut nationally...
County Recorder in Massachusetts Goes After MERS firedoglake ... A deed recorder in South Essex, Massachusetts, is basically taking on MERS...
Recovery gathers steam Wall Street Journal ...The U.S. economy is starting to fire on more cylinders, though the upturn remains too weak to bring down high unemployment...
Fed Data Shows Foreign Banks Huge Beneficiaries of Emergency Lending Programs, Hedge Funds, McDonald's, Harley-Davidson and Others Also Received Help naked capitalism Good summary of the Fed's data dump yesterday.
Too Big to Succeed (opinion) New York Times ...an absence of accountability and blatant inequities in treatment are why Americans remain angry...
A new political landscape, same old lies about labor (opinion) The Hill's Congress Blog ......Unions lift productivity on average by 19 percent to 24 percent in manufacturing, 16 percent in hospitals and up to 38 percent in the construction sector...
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