Teamster News
Teamsters To Remember Former President Killed In Crash WLWT ...Members of one union will gather to remember their former President after he was killed in a crash. Troy Stapleton was a member of the Teamsters for 40 years and served as President from 2005 to 2011...
Park Ridge patrol officers join Teamsters union Park Ridge Herald-Advocate ...Park Ridge police officers have changed their labor union representation as negotiations of a new contract with the city begin...
Workers At Rite-Aid's Poca Facility OK Contract Charleston Daily Mail ...Rite Aid's distribution center in Poca will remain open until 2017 under a new contract approved by union workers. Rite Aid had planned to close the facility in 2016...
Trade
U.S. Dairy Biz In A Churn Over TPP The Register ...Farmers, rather than economics or 'net freedom activists are once again putting pressure on Trans Pacific Partnership negotiators, with the U.S. dairy sector uniting against the proposed treaty...
US trade deficit at two-year high in April Associated Press ...The U.S. trade deficit jumped to a two-year high in April, as exports declined and imports surged to a record high...
China Angry About U.S. Tariff Hike On Solar Panels Oil Price ...China’s Ministry of Commerce on June 4 sharply criticized as protectionist a U.S. decision to raise tariffs on imports of Chinese-made solar panels by 35.2 percent...
State Battles
Michigan Senate Passes Plan To Ease Detroit Pension Cuts New York Times ...The Michigan Senate on Tuesday agreed to Gov. Rick Snyder's call for spending millions in state funds to spare the pensions of Detroit retirees from deeper cuts and to avoid the sale of artwork from the city's museum...
Wage Theft Bill Unanimously Passes First Vote DCist ...A bill that aims to increase the penalties for wage theft--when a company illegally withholds an employee's wages, or denies benefits--unanimously passed the first vote and reading by the D.C. Council today...
Vermont Passes Call for Convention to Overturn Citizens United! RootStrikers ...Vermont just became the first state to call for a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to reverse Citizen's United and get money out of politics...
German Official Vows Fight To Unionize Chattanooga VW Plant Is Not Over Nashville Business Journal ...The fight to unionize Volkswagen's factory in Chattanooga is far from over despite the United Auto Workers narrow defeat in a February election in which workers declined to organize...
War On Workers
Wal-Mart workers strike in major cities CNN ...Union organizers said employees were set to walk picket lines through out the day in Tampa, Miami, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and San Francisco...
Walmart Pours Billions Into Share Buybacks Rather Than Investing In Its Workers Daily Kos ...As Walmart's shareholder meeting approaches, there's a slew of news on the effect the retail giant has on the American economy--and protests against how it treats its workers...
City Council members rip Walmart’s charity of ‘dangerous dollars’ New York Post ...More than half the members of the City Council have fired off a letter to Walmart demanding that it stop making millions in charitable contributions to local groups here. Twenty-six of the 51 members of the Council charged in the letter that the world’s biggest retailer’s support of local causes is a cynical ploy to enter the market here...
How Privatizing Government Hollowed Out The Middle Class MSNBC ...The federal government employs more than three times as many contract workers as government workers and state and local governments spent a combined $1.5 trillion on outsourcing. One result, according to Demos, a non-profit public policy organization, is that the federal government effectively pays $12 or less to nearly two million contract workers...
The ZIRP Economy Unmasked: Zero Growth In Private Labor Hours Since 1998 David Stockman's Corner ...in 2013—the year of 32% stock returns—the business sector of the US economy generated no more labor hours than it did way back in Bill Clinton’s blue dress period (1998) yet purportedly produced 42% more output in real terms...
$15 Minimum Wage Permits Few Luxuries In US Cities ABC News ...A $15 minimum wage like the one adopted in Seattle doesn't buy many luxuries in most American cities...
Luxury Housing for the Top One Percent Booms While the Rest of the Housing Market Stagnates Counterpunch ...Now the housing market appears to be stalling out, except for luxury purchases by the elite whose wealth was protected by virtually every economic policy advanced through the financial crisis...
Miscellaneous
America Still Needs Strong Unions Detroit News ...In the United States the middle class and working families keep getting less and less of the economic pie that they play such a critical role in creating. Why are workers in Western Europe, Scandinavia and Australia doing so much better? A key factor is a much higher percentage of these countries who belong to unions...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Today's Teamster News 06.04.14
Teamster News
Union Workers Approve Close Out Agreement With Rite-Aid West Virginia Metro News ...The Rite-Aid distribution center in Poca is going to stay open about 18 months longer than originally announced following a new deal between the company and Teamsters union...
Teamsters push to oust Rob Walton as Walmart board chairman, support Walmart strikers TeamsterNation ...The Teamsters Union is calling for an independent board chairmanat Walmart because of the company's labor violations and theongoing investigation into corruption and bribery in Mexico, China, Brazil and India...
Nearly 99 percent of BLET members authorize strike Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen ...An overwhelming 98.84 percent majority of BLET members working for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) have voted to authorize a strike when a mandatory 30-day cooling off period under the Railway Labor Act comes to an end in less than two weeks...
UPS In Wyoming Valley To Add Jobs, Convert Vehicles To Natural Gas Wilkes-Barre Times Leader ...Cartwright was at the facility off Armstrong Road to meet with UPS officials and employees to talk about several issues, including the company's "labor friendly" relationship with the Teamsters Union. More than 400,000 UPS workers nationwide are union members...
OnTrac Line Haul Drivers Ratify First-Ever Teamster Contract teamster.org ...line haul drivers ratified the first-ever Teamster contract at OnTrac, the largest regional package delivery company in America. The drivers are members of Teamsters Local Union 63 in Covina, Calif. and had been negotiating a first contract for more than a year...
Trade
NMPF, USDEC Threaten To Withdraw Support For Trans-Pacific Partnership Ag Web ...The majority of U.S. dairy farmer cooperatives and dairy processing companies, all of which are members of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) or the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC), today threatened to withdraw support from the pending Trans-Pacific trade agreement...
Walmart's 'Made in USA' push exposes strains of manufacturing rebirth Reuters ...When Walmart pledged last year to buy an extra $250 billion in U.S.-made goods over the next decade, it appeared to be just what was needed to help move America's putative manufacturing renaissance from rhetoric to reality. But suppliers trying to reshore production as part of the initiative by the world's largest retailer are running into practical problems as they try to restart long-idled corners of U.S. manufacturing...
State Battles
Seattle To Enact $15 Minimum Wage Washington Post ...The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Monday to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, equaling the highest minimum wage in the nation...
Scott Walker's Dark Money Troubles The Progressive ...The week after Governor Scott Walker's opponent Mary Burke pulled even with Walker in the polls, the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity dumped $900,000 into a major TV ad buy in Wisconsin, aimed at persuading Wisconsinites that things are going better in the state than they may think...
War On Workers
After Crash Killing 47, Oil-by-Rail on Trial in Canada, Maine truthout ...The explosive growth of oil by rail traffic in the United States and Canada and the failure to do anything about safety except tinker around the edges of the matter all but guarantee that the string of oil train crashes that followed the Lac Mégantic tragedy will continue...
Allure of Homeownership Slumps Amid Worries of Continued Crisis Wall Street Journal ...While home prices have stopped falling, the vast majority of Americans still believe the housing crisis isn’t over, according to a wide-ranging survey on housing attitudes released Tuesday...
Walmart Workers Are Going On Strike To Speak Out. Why Walmart Should Listen Christian Science Monitor ...The current struggle of low-wage workers across America echoes the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. Today, as then, a group of Americans is denied the dignity of decent wages and working conditions...
1 in 5 Children Live in Poverty in U.S. CNS News ...One in five children under age 18, or 21.3%, are living in poverty in the United States, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau...
Low Retail Wages Disproportionately Hurt Women MSNBC ...Women earn disproportionately low wages across the entire retail industry, according to a new report from the left-leaning think tank Demos...
D.C. Council To Vote On Wage Theft Bill Tuesday ABC News ...The D.C. Council is set to vote on a bill that would enhance penalties for employers who pay their employees illegal wages or less than what they've agreed to pay...
Miscellaneous
Income From Work Is Shrinking. Here Is Where Most Americans Are Getting More Of Their Income Now Vox ...Americans' income from work is substantially smaller than it used to be. The Washington Post's Lydia DePillis today highlights a Wells Fargo report that Americans' non-labor income is growing while their income from jobs is diminishing...
Could A 6-Cent Tax Sour Us On Soda And Sugary Drinks? PBS ...A new study published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics concludes that a tax on sodas and other sugary beverages could be the way to go. Specifically, the authors argue that taxing by the calorie would prompt consumers to cut back...
Union Workers Approve Close Out Agreement With Rite-Aid West Virginia Metro News ...The Rite-Aid distribution center in Poca is going to stay open about 18 months longer than originally announced following a new deal between the company and Teamsters union...
Teamsters push to oust Rob Walton as Walmart board chairman, support Walmart strikers TeamsterNation ...The Teamsters Union is calling for an independent board chairmanat Walmart because of the company's labor violations and theongoing investigation into corruption and bribery in Mexico, China, Brazil and India...
Nearly 99 percent of BLET members authorize strike Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen ...An overwhelming 98.84 percent majority of BLET members working for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) have voted to authorize a strike when a mandatory 30-day cooling off period under the Railway Labor Act comes to an end in less than two weeks...
UPS In Wyoming Valley To Add Jobs, Convert Vehicles To Natural Gas Wilkes-Barre Times Leader ...Cartwright was at the facility off Armstrong Road to meet with UPS officials and employees to talk about several issues, including the company's "labor friendly" relationship with the Teamsters Union. More than 400,000 UPS workers nationwide are union members...
OnTrac Line Haul Drivers Ratify First-Ever Teamster Contract teamster.org ...line haul drivers ratified the first-ever Teamster contract at OnTrac, the largest regional package delivery company in America. The drivers are members of Teamsters Local Union 63 in Covina, Calif. and had been negotiating a first contract for more than a year...
Trade
NMPF, USDEC Threaten To Withdraw Support For Trans-Pacific Partnership Ag Web ...The majority of U.S. dairy farmer cooperatives and dairy processing companies, all of which are members of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) or the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC), today threatened to withdraw support from the pending Trans-Pacific trade agreement...
Walmart's 'Made in USA' push exposes strains of manufacturing rebirth Reuters ...When Walmart pledged last year to buy an extra $250 billion in U.S.-made goods over the next decade, it appeared to be just what was needed to help move America's putative manufacturing renaissance from rhetoric to reality. But suppliers trying to reshore production as part of the initiative by the world's largest retailer are running into practical problems as they try to restart long-idled corners of U.S. manufacturing...
State Battles
Seattle To Enact $15 Minimum Wage Washington Post ...The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Monday to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, equaling the highest minimum wage in the nation...
Scott Walker's Dark Money Troubles The Progressive ...The week after Governor Scott Walker's opponent Mary Burke pulled even with Walker in the polls, the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity dumped $900,000 into a major TV ad buy in Wisconsin, aimed at persuading Wisconsinites that things are going better in the state than they may think...
War On Workers
After Crash Killing 47, Oil-by-Rail on Trial in Canada, Maine truthout ...The explosive growth of oil by rail traffic in the United States and Canada and the failure to do anything about safety except tinker around the edges of the matter all but guarantee that the string of oil train crashes that followed the Lac Mégantic tragedy will continue...
Allure of Homeownership Slumps Amid Worries of Continued Crisis Wall Street Journal ...While home prices have stopped falling, the vast majority of Americans still believe the housing crisis isn’t over, according to a wide-ranging survey on housing attitudes released Tuesday...
Walmart Workers Are Going On Strike To Speak Out. Why Walmart Should Listen Christian Science Monitor ...The current struggle of low-wage workers across America echoes the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. Today, as then, a group of Americans is denied the dignity of decent wages and working conditions...
1 in 5 Children Live in Poverty in U.S. CNS News ...One in five children under age 18, or 21.3%, are living in poverty in the United States, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau...
Low Retail Wages Disproportionately Hurt Women MSNBC ...Women earn disproportionately low wages across the entire retail industry, according to a new report from the left-leaning think tank Demos...
D.C. Council To Vote On Wage Theft Bill Tuesday ABC News ...The D.C. Council is set to vote on a bill that would enhance penalties for employers who pay their employees illegal wages or less than what they've agreed to pay...
Miscellaneous
Income From Work Is Shrinking. Here Is Where Most Americans Are Getting More Of Their Income Now Vox ...Americans' income from work is substantially smaller than it used to be. The Washington Post's Lydia DePillis today highlights a Wells Fargo report that Americans' non-labor income is growing while their income from jobs is diminishing...
Could A 6-Cent Tax Sour Us On Soda And Sugary Drinks? PBS ...A new study published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics concludes that a tax on sodas and other sugary beverages could be the way to go. Specifically, the authors argue that taxing by the calorie would prompt consumers to cut back...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Today's Teamster News 10/12/10
Supermarkets, Teamsters have five-year deal The Press-Enterprise ...Warehouse workers and drivers overwhelmingly ratified a ... contract with Southern California's major grocery chains ... giving workers pay increases and holding the line on their medical costs...
Union attacks Rite-Aid for delaying severance talks Observer-Dispatch ...Rite Aid has repeatedly refused to provide financial documents supporting their decision to close the facility and move some workers to a non-unionized Liverpool distribution center as a cost-saving measure...
Ohio Attorney General Fights Against Wall Street New York Times ...Richard Cordray in two years in office has ... sue(d) early and often, filing lawsuits against global financial houses, rating agencies, subprime lenders and foreclosure scammers...
Wall Street Pay: A Record $144 Billion Wall Street Journal ...Pay on Wall Street is on pace to break a record high for a second consecutive year...
Unemployed find old jobs now require more skills Associated Press ...some of the jobless no longer even qualify for their old positions...
Union attacks Rite-Aid for delaying severance talks Observer-Dispatch ...Rite Aid has repeatedly refused to provide financial documents supporting their decision to close the facility and move some workers to a non-unionized Liverpool distribution center as a cost-saving measure...
Ohio Attorney General Fights Against Wall Street New York Times ...Richard Cordray in two years in office has ... sue(d) early and often, filing lawsuits against global financial houses, rating agencies, subprime lenders and foreclosure scammers...
Wall Street Pay: A Record $144 Billion Wall Street Journal ...Pay on Wall Street is on pace to break a record high for a second consecutive year...
Unemployed find old jobs now require more skills Associated Press ...some of the jobless no longer even qualify for their old positions...
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