Bureaucratic Blunder helps over 100 Oil Companies Avoid Paying Royalties Oil Price.com ...Democratic lawmaker Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts ... claims that more than 100 oil and gas producers, including Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), BP Plc (NYSE: BP), Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM), Royal Dutch Shell Plc, (NYSE: RDS-A) and ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), have benefitted from bungled leases awarded by the federal government. The leases enabled the companies to drill for oil and gas in federal waters without paying, or at least paying at a much lower rate, any royalties...
Wal-Mart Struggles to Restock Store Shelves as U.S. Sales Slump Bloomberg ...Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT), already struggling to woo shoppers constrained by higher taxes, is “getting worse” at keeping shelves stocked, the retailer’s U.S. chief told executives...
Big Energy Firm Agrees to Replace Coal-Burning Plants with Wind and Solar Operations AllGov ...American Electric Power (AEP) will stop using coal by 2015 at power plants in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. It intends to replace the energy produced by the plants with new wind and solar investments in Indiana and Michigan...
Revised GDP: Economy grew 0.1 pct in fourth quarter CBS News ...The U.S. economy grew at a 0.1 percent annual rate from October through December, the weakest performance in nearly two years...
Spain falls further into recession as GDP plunges by 0.8% The Guardian ...Spain's recession worsened dramatically at the end of last year as the government made a final austerity push in order to meet deficit targets imposed by Brussels. GDP fell by 0.8% over the final quarter of 2012, as state spending was reduced and the public sector continued to shed jobs...
13 arrested as 200 march on Wells Fargo demanding fair banking practices Occupy Homes MN ...demanding turnover of vacant homes to community control and fair banking practices. The march, organized by Occupy Homes MN, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, and allies from faith and labor communities, began at the home of Gayle Lindsey, fighting her foreclosure...
Only 6% Rate News Media As Very Trustworthy Rasmussen Reports ...25% use the Internet as their main source of news, while only 10% still rely on print newspapers...
Governor to announce EFM decision tomorrow; State takeover of Detroit possible WXYZ ...Detroit Mayor Dave Bing says ... the governor will announce his decision regarding the possible appointment of an Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Detroit on Friday...
Proposed union law a bad idea, city workers tell Assembly Anchorage Daily News ...Hundreds of union workers jammed Assembly Chambers at Loussac Library, spilled out into the lobby, and filled another meeting room Wednesday night for an Assembly hearing on Mayor Dan Sullivan's plan to limit the power of city labor groups....
Maverick Maine Democrat signs on to public sector right-to-work bill Bangor Daily News ...Rep. Terry Hayes, D-Buckfield, will be the only Democratic co-sponsor of the bill...
Does Taylor teacher pact flout right-to-work law? Detroit Free Press ...The union agreed to a 10% wage cut over the first three years of the contract in exchange for the lengthy contract...
Carlson Takes Aim at ALEC, Seeks to Rein In Undeclared Lobbyists Burnsville Patch ...Carlson is one of several co-authors listed on a bill authored by District 61 Sen. Scott Dibble (DFL) that would define ALEC—and other organizations that propose "model legislation" for legislators as lobbyists. Such a move would require those groups to adhere to stricter financial reporting requirements under Minnesota campaign finance laws...
"Paycheck Protection" Bill Remains Stalled In Mo. Senate KBIA ...The Missouri Senate spent a few hours Wednesday debating legislation that would bar labor unions for public workers from withholding money from public employees’ paychecks....
The Tuesday Count: Effort underway to introduce “Right-to-Work” laws in Ohio Ballot News ...Chris Littleton, of the group Ohioans for Workplace Freedom, is sponsoring the initiative effort and believes he will be able to deliver the necessary 396,000 names by July in order to place the measure on the ballot this year...
Deal Reached for Dorchester 2 Bus Drivers, Durham SummervillePatch ...Durham School Services and Dorchester Two spokespersons released statements confirming Teamster Local 509 members have ratified an agreement with the private company that runs the bus system...
Charleston bus drivers to vote on new contract Associated Press ...The drivers plan to vote on a new contract Saturday. The president of Teamsters Local 509, L.D. Fletcher, says if union members reject the contract, a strike would begin Monday...
Council OKs contract for Transit employees The Leader Herald ...the Common Council unanimously passed a resolution establishing a new contract with the city's transit union...Teamsters 294 Business Agent Thomas Quackenbush said the union is pleased that an agreement finally has been reached between the transit employees and the city...
OSHA Finds Norfolk Southern Railway Violated Federal Railroad Safety Act BMWED ...OSHA, after a full investigation, concluded that NS fired Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED) members merely for seeking medical attention for on-the-job injuries...
City reaches agreements with employee unions The Beach Reporter ...The city and its Police Officer and Firefighter Associations, as well as California Teamsters Local 911, have successfully negotiated three-year Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) following several months of labor negotiations...
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Today's Teamster News 03.07.11
At TN Capitol, 3,000 rally for teachers' voices to be heard (Local 519 counted 6,000) The Tennessean ...More than 3,000 people packed downtown Saturday to protest legislative efforts to end collective bargaining by Tennessee teachers...
Recall efforts underway for 14 senators from both parties The Daily Cardinal ... six are Democrats and eight are Republicans...
Isthmus, Wisconsin Associated Press sue Gov. Scott Walker over access to emails The Isthmus ..."The governor said he had gotten more than 8,000 emails as of Feb. 17, with 'the majority' urging him to 'stay firm' on his budget repair bill," says Isthmus News Editor Bill Lueders...
Labor Organizing Jumps in the Wake of Wisconsin firedoglake
...Commentators from across the political spectrum have come to the conclusion that Walker is sunk...
OSU-Wisconsin game becomes SB5 rally point Columbus Dispatch ...A group of about 150 protesters rallied near the Schottenstein Center today, opposing the state's proposed collective-bargaining overhaul...
Harry Wilson Tapped By Teamsters To Rescue Ailing Trucking Company And Union Jobs City Hall News ...Teamsters recently invited Wilson to help restructure the ailing trucking and freight company, YRC Worldwide, in what they billed as an effort to help save thousands of unionized jobs and prevent the company from going under...
Strike shuts Aiken plant Aiken Standard ...The Owens-Corning plant in Aiken has shut down, following a strike by workers with the Teamsters Local 509 that began Friday...
Recall efforts underway for 14 senators from both parties The Daily Cardinal ... six are Democrats and eight are Republicans...
Isthmus, Wisconsin Associated Press sue Gov. Scott Walker over access to emails The Isthmus ..."The governor said he had gotten more than 8,000 emails as of Feb. 17, with 'the majority' urging him to 'stay firm' on his budget repair bill," says Isthmus News Editor Bill Lueders...
Labor Organizing Jumps in the Wake of Wisconsin firedoglake
...Commentators from across the political spectrum have come to the conclusion that Walker is sunk...
OSU-Wisconsin game becomes SB5 rally point Columbus Dispatch ...A group of about 150 protesters rallied near the Schottenstein Center today, opposing the state's proposed collective-bargaining overhaul...
Harry Wilson Tapped By Teamsters To Rescue Ailing Trucking Company And Union Jobs City Hall News ...Teamsters recently invited Wilson to help restructure the ailing trucking and freight company, YRC Worldwide, in what they billed as an effort to help save thousands of unionized jobs and prevent the company from going under...
Strike shuts Aiken plant Aiken Standard ...The Owens-Corning plant in Aiken has shut down, following a strike by workers with the Teamsters Local 509 that began Friday...
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Today's Teamster News 03.06.11
More Wisconsin protests after layoffs threatened Reuters ...The notices, sent on Friday to at least 13 unions, do not represent official layoff warnings for the state's 300,000 public employees...
Union Fight Sparks Recall Campaigns Wall Street Journal ...In Wisconsin, committees have registered to target the eight Republican state senators eligible for recall this year...
Fox News reporter appears to have lied about being ‘punched’ by protester Raw Story ...Tobin's reports have been widely cited across conservative blogs that seem eager to depict union workers as hateful and violent...
Session clock ticking at Indiana Statehouse Evansville Courier & Press ...This week will be lost if the minority Democrats, whose absence has frozen the Indiana House of Representatives without a quorum, are not back by Wednesday...
State House leaders promise 'extensive hearings' on SB 5 Stow Sentry ...Republicans in the Ohio House say they'll have "extensive hearings" on controversial legislation changing the state's collective bargaining laws -- despite rumors that final action on Senate Bill 5 could come as soon as next week...
The Next Union Battlefield In Ohio: The Ballot Box Talking Points Memo ...Union leaders and Democrats have already begun shifting their focus to a referendum fight, which would require union supporters to gather hundreds of thousands of signatures in the days following an expected signing of SB 5 by Gov. John Kasich (R)...
MERS? It May Have Swallowed Your Loan New York Times ...an obscure business, the MERS Corporation, claims to hold title to roughly half of all the home mortgages in the nation — an astonishing 60 million loans...
Union continues to picket over contract offers Augusta Chronicle ...outside the Owens Corning plant in Aiken...Members of Teamsters Local 509 were protesting a recent contract they say is an unreasonable treatment of loyal employees...
Union Fight Sparks Recall Campaigns Wall Street Journal ...In Wisconsin, committees have registered to target the eight Republican state senators eligible for recall this year...
Fox News reporter appears to have lied about being ‘punched’ by protester Raw Story ...Tobin's reports have been widely cited across conservative blogs that seem eager to depict union workers as hateful and violent...
Session clock ticking at Indiana Statehouse Evansville Courier & Press ...This week will be lost if the minority Democrats, whose absence has frozen the Indiana House of Representatives without a quorum, are not back by Wednesday...
State House leaders promise 'extensive hearings' on SB 5 Stow Sentry ...Republicans in the Ohio House say they'll have "extensive hearings" on controversial legislation changing the state's collective bargaining laws -- despite rumors that final action on Senate Bill 5 could come as soon as next week...
The Next Union Battlefield In Ohio: The Ballot Box Talking Points Memo ...Union leaders and Democrats have already begun shifting their focus to a referendum fight, which would require union supporters to gather hundreds of thousands of signatures in the days following an expected signing of SB 5 by Gov. John Kasich (R)...
MERS? It May Have Swallowed Your Loan New York Times ...an obscure business, the MERS Corporation, claims to hold title to roughly half of all the home mortgages in the nation — an astonishing 60 million loans...
Union continues to picket over contract offers Augusta Chronicle ...outside the Owens Corning plant in Aiken...Members of Teamsters Local 509 were protesting a recent contract they say is an unreasonable treatment of loyal employees...
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