Showing posts with label Local 443. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Local 443. Show all posts

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Today's Teamster News 05.01.11

Pink slips are United Nation's gift to staffers  New York Daily News   ...Sunday is International Workers' Day - also known as May Day - and people around the world are rallying to protest attacks on workers' and immigrants' rights...
Panel OKs a petition to recall Gov. Rick Snyder  Detroit Free Press   ...clearing the way for the group Michigan Citizens United to begin collecting signatures. The group must get signatures from 807,000 registered voters within a 90-day period to force a recall election...
Walker, Ryan and 'shock and awe' politics  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel   ...Scott Walker and Paul Ryan have upended state and national politics this year, offering deeply controversial ideas that drew little discussion in the last campaign but threaten to reshape the next one...
New contract ends Dichello, Teamsters labor dispute  WTNH.com   ...The agreement between Dichello Distributors, Inc. of Orange and Teamsters Local 443 ends a strike/lockout that began in March...
Doomed workers kept in the dark  Kennebec Journal   ...About 70 workers, mostly members of the Teamsters Union Local 340, listened as they were told the latest information about the company's status and instructed how to apply for unemployment benefits...
SB5 foes look for big turnout  Chillicothe Gazette   ...Organizers hope Ross County's second protest against Senate Bill 5 on Sunday will be bigger than their last one...
No ordinary year in the Statehouse  South Bend Tribune   ...legislation will bar state workers from collective bargaining, allow the governor to authorize new toll roads, lower the corporate income tax rate from 8.5 percent to 6.5 percent over four years, and balance the state's unemployment insurance fund by raising premiums and cutting benefits...
LePage vetting process under scrutiny  Kennebec Journal   ...The resignations of three officials in two weeks is raising questions about LePage's management abilities... 
Rick Scott to leadership: Get my tax cuts done  Florida Times-Union   ...Scott wants nearly $2 billion in tax and fee cuts this year. Legislative leaders have said that will be a tough pull considering the state is dealing with a $3.8 billion budget gap...

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Today's Teamster News 04.17.11

UNION BLUES: Organized labor’s influence slipping away as tough economy erodes power  The Middletown Press   ...Dave Molster, who has worked eight years as a delivery driver for Dichello Distributors Inc. in Orange and is a member of Teamsters Local 443, said public, private and international labor groups have shown an outpouring of support since nearly 100 union members were locked out...
Sarah Palin Bombs In Wisconsin As Only 6,500 Attend Tea Party Rally  PoliticusUSA   ...Sarah Palin rolled into Madison, Wisconsin today using a Tea Party rally as an excuse to attack union members, but the wheels promptly fell off of her bandwagon as only 6,500 people showed up for the rally, and reports on the scene say that many of those in attendance were there to protest Palin...
Turnout is key to SB 5 vote  Youngstown Vindicator   ...unless the public employee unions and the Ohio Democratic Party are able to trigger much more interest in this election than there was last November, SB 5 will be upheld...
Rick Snyder’s Democracy-Busting Army on The March in Michigan  Death And Taxes   ...Benton Harbor...faced perhaps the most draconian crackdown this week, when their manager, Joseph Harris, stripped the local government of its power with an edict reading, “No City Board, Commission or Authority has authority or power to act on behalf of the City...”
Gov. Scott's decisions a disaster (opinion)  floridatoday.com   ...Never in my nearly 50 years of calling Florida home have I witnessed a governor as focused in tearing down the state as Rick Scott...
Governor's spokesman resigning from post  Maine Sunday Telegram   ...Dan Demeritt, Gov. Paul LePage's director of communications and legislative affairs, resigned Saturday following revelations that five properties he owns in the Augusta area are in foreclosure...