Teamster News
Judge Rules Against Sequim Labor Lawsuit Peninsula Daily News ...A Clallam County Superior Court judge has spiked — again — an attempt to change the city of Sequim’s process for labor negotiations with its employees. Judge Erik Rohrer on Thursday granted the city’s and Teamsters Local 589’s motions for summary judgment and denied an opposing motion by Susan Brautigam...
Bankruptcy Court Ruling Helps Anti-Union Grocer Slash Benefits And Pensions For 1,100 Workers In These Times ...Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey are angry over the loss and apprehensive about their futures, union leaders say. Their new employer, C&S Wholesale Grocers, has a reputation of buying up unionized companies, shifting the work of handling retail food products to non-union distribution centers and then getting rid of the union members altogether...
Council To Introduce Horse Ban Next Week Capital New York ...Council members Danny Dromm and Ydanis Rodriguez will officially introduce legislation on Monday to ban horse carriages in the city. According to a copy of the Council’s stated meeting agenda for December 8, the bill will be introduced “by the request of the mayor” through the Council’s transportation committee...
Trade
US Government Study Predicts TPP Trade Agreement Will Produce Practically No Extra Growth For Anyone TechDirt ...nearly a half of the increased trade that TTIP might bring according to this forecast would consist of swapping cars across the Atlantic...
It's Not a Free Trade Deal and Michael Froman Wants to Take Food Choices Away from Individuals Center for Economic and Policy Research ...the TTIP is not a "free trade" agreement as asserted in the article. The increased protections in the pact, in the form of stronger patent and copyright protections, are likely to do more to raise prices and block trade than any tariff reductions that are included...
Report: More Evidence Samsung Supplier Using Child Labor In China Tech In Asia ...American nonprofit group China Labor Watch announced yesterday that it has collected additional evidence that child and student workers were employed “under exploitative working conditions” at the factory of Samsung supplier HEG Technology. That evidence includes interviews with children below China’s legal working age who say they worked ten-hour days with a single day of rest each week for the Samsung supplier...
State Battles
Metro Council Panel Delays Minimum Wage Vote Louisville Courier Journal ...A vote on raising the minimum wage in Louisville was delayed Thursday by a Metro Council committee after a Republican request for a study of the possible effects, angering supporters...
War on Workers
Senate considering lowering truck safety standards for special interests TeamsterNation …Sen. Susan Collins of Maine wants the government to allow bigger, heavier trucks and to eliminate the mandatory two days rest for drivers. The Teamsters and allies are doing all they can to prevent that from happening...
DOT secretary against longer hours for truck drivers The Hill ...Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is urging Senate and House Appropriations committee members to reject an amendment that would allow semi-truck drivers to drive for longer hours...
Workers hit the streets across US in growing minimum wage fight AlJazeera America …Fast-food workers and other low-wage employees in nearly 200 cities across the country took part in a strike and protests Thursday, demanding a base wage of $15 per hour and the right to form unions in the latest in a series of day-long labor actions coordinated through a nationwide coalition of workers’ groups...
Hypereducated and on Welfare Elle ...a good education may not keep you from hovering near the poverty line. The number of people with graduate degrees receiving food assistance or other forms of federal aid nearly tripled between 2007 and 2010, according to the U.S. Census…
Temporary Work is Bad for Your Cognitive Health naked capitalism ...The findings of this study on the effects of temporary work on individuals’ skills has important ramifications for the US ... The first is that workers are harmed by this practice, and not just via stress or having uncertain income. But second is that employers over time also suffer by degrading the capabilities of the labor pool...
Does The Media Care About Labor Anymore? Politico ...With the middle class still down in the dumps, the beat’s more important than ever...
Uber launches in Portland, Oregon despite being completely illegal there The Verge ...Uber has a remarkably rich history of upsetting local city transportation officials by setting up shop before laws and regulations have been ironed out...
Michigan Road Worker, 21, Killed When Struck By Pickup, Flying 75 Feet MLive ...A 21-year-old road construction worker was killed when a pickup struck him and sent him flying more than 75 feet through the air, the Huron County Sheriff's Department reports...
Worker in Vehicle Collision at CNRL Site Canada Journal …A worker has been killed in a collision at the Horizon Oil Sands mine north of Fort McMurray early Friday morning, the third workplace fatality in northern Alberta this week...
Miscellaneous
China Just Passed U.S. as World's Largest Economy Economic Populist ..."For the first time since Ulysses S. Grant was president, America is not the leading economic power on the planet ...
How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide The Intercept …the NSA plans to secretly introduce new flaws into communication systems so that they can be tapped into—a controversial tactic that security experts say could be exposing the general population to criminal hackers...
U.S. Adds 321,000 Jobs In November; Unemployment Rate Remains At 5.8% Huffington Post ...U.S. employers added a whopping 321,000 jobs in November, the biggest burst of hiring in nearly three years and the latest sign that the United States is outperforming other economies throughout the developed world...
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Saturday, December 6, 2014
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Today's Teamster News 08.30.14
Teamster News
Teamsters Warn Of Anti-Trust Obstacles To Sysco-US Foods Merger IBT ...The union hosted today’s call to educate investors, analysts and members of the press about the potential imbalance the merger would create within the food service industry - an imbalance that could have widespread, negative effects on customers, providers and consumers and workers across the country...
Sysco-US Foods Merger Under Fire From Teamsters The Street ...A major union representing workers at Sysco Corp. (SYY_) and US Foods said Thursday the merger partners have underestimated the market share the combined company would have if their $8.2 billion combination is cleared by the Federal Trade Commission...
Uber Drivers Team Up With Teamsters Union LA Weekly ...A group of Los Angeles–area Uber drivers has teamed up with Teamsters Local 986. The affiliation doesn't mean the drivers are unionizing. At this point, they couldn't do so if they wanted to because they are not technically employees. But Joseph DeWolf Sandoval, a member of the California App-Based Drivers’ Association (CADA) leadership counsel, says that could change if future court challenges are successful...
Taylor Farms 'Poster Child' Bill Passes Senate Monterey Herald ...The bill's author, Assemblyman Roger Hernandez, D-West Covina, and the Teamsters union used Taylor Farms repeatedly to gather support. Part of their argument was that temporary workers at the company's Tracy processing facilities are kept in that status for years without benefits or job security...
Groups Vote To Remain With Teamsters Union WTVW ...Two members of Teamsters Local 215 vote to remain members. The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation reports school secretaries and bus drivers voted not to disband from the Teamsters and work on a new contract individually...
Drivers At Carl's Jr. Contractor MBM Corporation Win Teamster Representation Marketwatch ...The National Labor Relations Board recently announced the certification of Teamsters Local 63 as the bargaining representative for 72 drivers at MBM Corporation in Ontario, Calif...
Trade
Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning By Feds on US Border Judicial Watch ...Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED)...
Supplier For Samsung And Lenovo Accused Of Using Child Labor New York Times ...China Labor Watch said it had found more than 10 children working at the factory of a China-based supplier for the technology giants Samsung Electronics and the Lenovo Group in an investigation in July and August...
State Battles
Disappointing Jobs Report For Wisconsin In The 12-month Period Ending In March Cap Times ..."Wisconsin turned in another subpar job creation report Thursday with news that it gained 28,653 private-sector jobs in the 12 months from March 2013 to March 2014, according to data released late Thursday by the state Department of Workforce Development...
Wisconsin Forecasted to Lag Further Behind Minnesota Econbrowser ...the cumulative growth gap between Minnesota and Wisconsin (relative to 2011M01) is forecasted to grow — rather than shrink — over the next six months...
Legislature Approves New Insurance Requirements For Uber, Lyft, Sidecar San Jose Mercury News ...From the moment a driver turns on the company's smartphone app, the company will have to provide insurance amounting to $50,000 in liability coverage for death or injury to a single person; $100,000 in coverage for all damages in a single accident; and $30,000 for property damage, with excess coverage of $200,000. The company must then provide $1 million in coverage once the driver is matched with a passenger...
Top Official For GOP Governors Praised Their Strong Partnership With Koch Network Huffington Post ...One of the top officials responsible for electing Republican governors this November lauded the partnership between his organization and a leading arm of the Koch brothers' political network during a mid-summer conference...
Confusion Over Voter ID Law In Kansas Continues KWCH ...Gray says confusion over the state's Voter ID Law and problems with the DMV not accepting her paperwork kept her at home during the August primaries...
War On Workers
Public Higher Education: Another Casualty of the Great Recession Washington Monthly ...at some point in the last six years, 41 state legislatures in the United States slashed funding for their public universities and colleges...Only 14 states have re-invested in higher education at levels equal to or above their pre-recession levels. Last year, 20 states actually cut more funding from their public universities and colleges...
'Google-Like' Search Engine Puts NSA Snooping Back In The Spotlight Fox News ...The National Security Agency’s surveillance machinery is again in the spotlight after a media report claimed that it is secretly providing data to almost two dozen U.S. government agencies via a powerful “Google-like” search engine...
Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Insidious Negative Effects MIT Technology Review ...A study of 50,000 people in Italy concludes that online social networks have a significant negative impact on individual welfare...
Teamsters Warn Of Anti-Trust Obstacles To Sysco-US Foods Merger IBT ...The union hosted today’s call to educate investors, analysts and members of the press about the potential imbalance the merger would create within the food service industry - an imbalance that could have widespread, negative effects on customers, providers and consumers and workers across the country...
Sysco-US Foods Merger Under Fire From Teamsters The Street ...A major union representing workers at Sysco Corp. (SYY_) and US Foods said Thursday the merger partners have underestimated the market share the combined company would have if their $8.2 billion combination is cleared by the Federal Trade Commission...
Uber Drivers Team Up With Teamsters Union LA Weekly ...A group of Los Angeles–area Uber drivers has teamed up with Teamsters Local 986. The affiliation doesn't mean the drivers are unionizing. At this point, they couldn't do so if they wanted to because they are not technically employees. But Joseph DeWolf Sandoval, a member of the California App-Based Drivers’ Association (CADA) leadership counsel, says that could change if future court challenges are successful...
Taylor Farms 'Poster Child' Bill Passes Senate Monterey Herald ...The bill's author, Assemblyman Roger Hernandez, D-West Covina, and the Teamsters union used Taylor Farms repeatedly to gather support. Part of their argument was that temporary workers at the company's Tracy processing facilities are kept in that status for years without benefits or job security...
Groups Vote To Remain With Teamsters Union WTVW ...Two members of Teamsters Local 215 vote to remain members. The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation reports school secretaries and bus drivers voted not to disband from the Teamsters and work on a new contract individually...
Drivers At Carl's Jr. Contractor MBM Corporation Win Teamster Representation Marketwatch ...The National Labor Relations Board recently announced the certification of Teamsters Local 63 as the bargaining representative for 72 drivers at MBM Corporation in Ontario, Calif...
Trade
Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning By Feds on US Border Judicial Watch ...Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED)...
Supplier For Samsung And Lenovo Accused Of Using Child Labor New York Times ...China Labor Watch said it had found more than 10 children working at the factory of a China-based supplier for the technology giants Samsung Electronics and the Lenovo Group in an investigation in July and August...
State Battles
Disappointing Jobs Report For Wisconsin In The 12-month Period Ending In March Cap Times ..."Wisconsin turned in another subpar job creation report Thursday with news that it gained 28,653 private-sector jobs in the 12 months from March 2013 to March 2014, according to data released late Thursday by the state Department of Workforce Development...
Wisconsin Forecasted to Lag Further Behind Minnesota Econbrowser ...the cumulative growth gap between Minnesota and Wisconsin (relative to 2011M01) is forecasted to grow — rather than shrink — over the next six months...
Legislature Approves New Insurance Requirements For Uber, Lyft, Sidecar San Jose Mercury News ...From the moment a driver turns on the company's smartphone app, the company will have to provide insurance amounting to $50,000 in liability coverage for death or injury to a single person; $100,000 in coverage for all damages in a single accident; and $30,000 for property damage, with excess coverage of $200,000. The company must then provide $1 million in coverage once the driver is matched with a passenger...
Top Official For GOP Governors Praised Their Strong Partnership With Koch Network Huffington Post ...One of the top officials responsible for electing Republican governors this November lauded the partnership between his organization and a leading arm of the Koch brothers' political network during a mid-summer conference...
Confusion Over Voter ID Law In Kansas Continues KWCH ...Gray says confusion over the state's Voter ID Law and problems with the DMV not accepting her paperwork kept her at home during the August primaries...
War On Workers
Public Higher Education: Another Casualty of the Great Recession Washington Monthly ...at some point in the last six years, 41 state legislatures in the United States slashed funding for their public universities and colleges...Only 14 states have re-invested in higher education at levels equal to or above their pre-recession levels. Last year, 20 states actually cut more funding from their public universities and colleges...
Divisions Grow as a Downturn Rocks Europe New York Times ...Six years after being struck by economic crisis, Europe is facing a fresh downturn, with few new ideas on the table for reigniting growth and deepening political divisions over the austerity policies that many blame for worsening the malaise...
Miscellaneous'Google-Like' Search Engine Puts NSA Snooping Back In The Spotlight Fox News ...The National Security Agency’s surveillance machinery is again in the spotlight after a media report claimed that it is secretly providing data to almost two dozen U.S. government agencies via a powerful “Google-like” search engine...
Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Insidious Negative Effects MIT Technology Review ...A study of 50,000 people in Italy concludes that online social networks have a significant negative impact on individual welfare...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Today's Teamster News 08.06.14
Teamster News
Teamsters Back John Liu For NY Senate New York Daily News ...“John Liu is a true friend of New York workers who has time and again put himself on the line to be their voice in government,” said Teamsters Joint Council 16 President George Miranda in a campaign statement Monday...
UVM, Teamsters Reach Two-Year Settlement Insurance News Net ...The University of Vermont has successfully completed negotiations on a two-year contract with the Chauffeurs, Teamsters, Warehousemen and Helpers Union No. 597. The union represents full-time and regular part-time police officers, service officers, and dispatchers employed by the university...
Simplot Employees Vote To Strike Jamestown Sun ...After a day-long union meeting, employees of J.R. Simplot went on strike, picketing outside the potato processing plant in Grand Forks about 6 p.m. Monday...
Mediators Seek Deal In Philadelphia Transit Case Philadelphia Inquirer ...SEPTA has been in federally supervised mediation with that union as well as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers since 2010. Engineers are seeking raises of at least 14.5 percent over five years, about 3 percentage points more than SEPTA has offered...
Trade
Samsung Chops Order To China Supplier That Used Child Labor CNET ...Samsung will significantly reduce orders to one of its mobile parts suppliers after uncovering the use of child labor at a Chinese facility...
Congress Sends Obama Letter on TPP and Vietnam Human Rights Trade Reform ...Thirty five Congress men and women from both parties sent President Obama a letter last week expressing serious concerns about including Vietnam in Trans Pacific Partnership talks. Vietnam is a serial abuser of human rights...
TPP Talks In Ottawa: Brunei’s Brutal Sharia Law Raises Questions About Future Of Trade Deals Trade Reform ...One of the 12 countries involved in the talks is Brunei. The tiny petro-state of half a million people on the southeast Asian island of Borneo recently adopted harsh new Sharia laws, including the death penalty, by stoning, for adultery, gay sex and insulting the Koran. Other elements of the law include prison sentences for pregnancy outside of wedlock or failing to pray on Friday, and amputations or whipping for theft and drinking alcohol...
State Battles
Scott Walker Is Reeling As Wisconsin Governor’s Race Is A Dead Heat Politicus USA ...A new poll of Wisconsin brings more bad news for Gov. Scott Walker as the Wisconsin Republican is locked in tie with Democrat Mary Burke 47%-47%...
Mackinac Center offers teachers form to withdraw from MEA during 'August window' MLive ...The Mackinac Center, a vocal opponent of the Michigan Education Association, is giving disgruntled teachers a form letter to use in voicing their desire to leave the union during the "August window..."
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Cuts Schools, Pensions While Preserving Fund For Corporate Subsidies International Business Times ...Months after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said budget constraints forced him to push for pension cuts and mass school closures, an analysis of government documents reveals the city has $1.71 billion in special accounts often used to finance corporate subsidies...
Protests Greet Lawmakers, Corporate Officials Gathering In Dallas As New Arm of ALEC Is Announced Truthout ...More than 98 percent of the organization's funding comes from corporations and corporate foundations, with the infamous petrochemical billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, serving as some of the organization's largest donors...
ALEC's Jeffersonian Project Pushes to Amend the Constitution truthout ...ALEC is urging state legislators to pass state resolutions calling for a constitutional convention in order to pass a federal balanced budget amendment...
War On Workers
CEO exit pay under attack among Fortune 500 Forbes ...The latest example: McKesson shareholders narrowly failed to pass a resolution calling for the company to sharply reduce the massive exit pay package in store for its handsomely compensated CEO...
Poll Finds Widespread Economic Anxiety Wall Street Journal ...A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that despite the steady pace of hiring in recent months, 76% of adults lack confidence that their children's generation will have a better life than they do—an all-time high...
Mays Orders End To Kellogg Lock-Out Memphis Daily News ...U.S. District Judge Samuel “Hardy” Mays has ordered an end to the lock-out of union workers at the Memphis Kellogg plant....
Walgreen Decides Not to Pursue Overseas Tax Inversion Wall Street Journal ...Walgreen Co. has decided not to relocate its corporate headquarters, people familiar with the matter said, amid complications in pulling off the transaction and a backdrop of heavy political pressure from Washington to end the controversial tax-avoidance move...
After breaking labor laws, LinkedIn is ordered to pay $6 million in lost wages and damages Pando ...LinkedIn and the Department of Labor have reached a settlement that requires the professional social network to pay $6 million to 359 current and former employees in lost wages and damages. This comes after a DoL investigation found that LinkedIn failed to document and compensate workers for overtime hours, in a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act...
Miscellaneous
KSU President Gives Up Over $90,000 Of His Salary To Boost Lowest-Paid Campus Employees Lexington Herald-Ledger ...Raymond Burse, interim president of Kentucky State University, has given up more than $90,000 of his salary so university workers earning minimum wage could have their earnings increased to $10.25 an hour...
Teamsters Back John Liu For NY Senate New York Daily News ...“John Liu is a true friend of New York workers who has time and again put himself on the line to be their voice in government,” said Teamsters Joint Council 16 President George Miranda in a campaign statement Monday...
UVM, Teamsters Reach Two-Year Settlement Insurance News Net ...The University of Vermont has successfully completed negotiations on a two-year contract with the Chauffeurs, Teamsters, Warehousemen and Helpers Union No. 597. The union represents full-time and regular part-time police officers, service officers, and dispatchers employed by the university...
Simplot Employees Vote To Strike Jamestown Sun ...After a day-long union meeting, employees of J.R. Simplot went on strike, picketing outside the potato processing plant in Grand Forks about 6 p.m. Monday...
Mediators Seek Deal In Philadelphia Transit Case Philadelphia Inquirer ...SEPTA has been in federally supervised mediation with that union as well as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers since 2010. Engineers are seeking raises of at least 14.5 percent over five years, about 3 percentage points more than SEPTA has offered...
Trade
Samsung Chops Order To China Supplier That Used Child Labor CNET ...Samsung will significantly reduce orders to one of its mobile parts suppliers after uncovering the use of child labor at a Chinese facility...
Congress Sends Obama Letter on TPP and Vietnam Human Rights Trade Reform ...Thirty five Congress men and women from both parties sent President Obama a letter last week expressing serious concerns about including Vietnam in Trans Pacific Partnership talks. Vietnam is a serial abuser of human rights...
TPP Talks In Ottawa: Brunei’s Brutal Sharia Law Raises Questions About Future Of Trade Deals Trade Reform ...One of the 12 countries involved in the talks is Brunei. The tiny petro-state of half a million people on the southeast Asian island of Borneo recently adopted harsh new Sharia laws, including the death penalty, by stoning, for adultery, gay sex and insulting the Koran. Other elements of the law include prison sentences for pregnancy outside of wedlock or failing to pray on Friday, and amputations or whipping for theft and drinking alcohol...
State Battles
Scott Walker Is Reeling As Wisconsin Governor’s Race Is A Dead Heat Politicus USA ...A new poll of Wisconsin brings more bad news for Gov. Scott Walker as the Wisconsin Republican is locked in tie with Democrat Mary Burke 47%-47%...
Mackinac Center offers teachers form to withdraw from MEA during 'August window' MLive ...The Mackinac Center, a vocal opponent of the Michigan Education Association, is giving disgruntled teachers a form letter to use in voicing their desire to leave the union during the "August window..."
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Cuts Schools, Pensions While Preserving Fund For Corporate Subsidies International Business Times ...Months after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said budget constraints forced him to push for pension cuts and mass school closures, an analysis of government documents reveals the city has $1.71 billion in special accounts often used to finance corporate subsidies...
Protests Greet Lawmakers, Corporate Officials Gathering In Dallas As New Arm of ALEC Is Announced Truthout ...More than 98 percent of the organization's funding comes from corporations and corporate foundations, with the infamous petrochemical billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, serving as some of the organization's largest donors...
ALEC's Jeffersonian Project Pushes to Amend the Constitution truthout ...ALEC is urging state legislators to pass state resolutions calling for a constitutional convention in order to pass a federal balanced budget amendment...
War On Workers
CEO exit pay under attack among Fortune 500 Forbes ...The latest example: McKesson shareholders narrowly failed to pass a resolution calling for the company to sharply reduce the massive exit pay package in store for its handsomely compensated CEO...
Poll Finds Widespread Economic Anxiety Wall Street Journal ...A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that despite the steady pace of hiring in recent months, 76% of adults lack confidence that their children's generation will have a better life than they do—an all-time high...
Mays Orders End To Kellogg Lock-Out Memphis Daily News ...U.S. District Judge Samuel “Hardy” Mays has ordered an end to the lock-out of union workers at the Memphis Kellogg plant....
Walgreen Decides Not to Pursue Overseas Tax Inversion Wall Street Journal ...Walgreen Co. has decided not to relocate its corporate headquarters, people familiar with the matter said, amid complications in pulling off the transaction and a backdrop of heavy political pressure from Washington to end the controversial tax-avoidance move...
After breaking labor laws, LinkedIn is ordered to pay $6 million in lost wages and damages Pando ...LinkedIn and the Department of Labor have reached a settlement that requires the professional social network to pay $6 million to 359 current and former employees in lost wages and damages. This comes after a DoL investigation found that LinkedIn failed to document and compensate workers for overtime hours, in a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act...
Miscellaneous
KSU President Gives Up Over $90,000 Of His Salary To Boost Lowest-Paid Campus Employees Lexington Herald-Ledger ...Raymond Burse, interim president of Kentucky State University, has given up more than $90,000 of his salary so university workers earning minimum wage could have their earnings increased to $10.25 an hour...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Today's Teamster News 07.22.14
Teamster News
Rep. Ellison Statement On The 80th Anniversary Of The 1934 Minnesota Teamsters Strike Rep. Keith Ellison ...The rights and protections that we enjoy today, from the 40-hour workweek to the minimum wage, are all thanks to the men and women of organized labor who faced violent backlash for their organizing....
Teamsters move to restrict obscene payout to McKesson CEO teamsternation ...The Teamsters are more than a little annoyed that McKesson CEO John Hammergren stands to take home $616.5 million if the company were sold tomorrow...
McKesson CEO's $292 Million Golden Parachute Faces A Proxy Fight Bloomberg Businessweek ...Hammergren’s potential payout under a change in control would include equity awards worth $140.6 million that were set up to vest only over time. They’d be his right away, though, if he were terminated after a sale. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which calls that kind of pay “unearned compensation for top executives on their way out the door,” has proposed a ballot measure urging McKesson’s board to reduce the accelerated vesting...
Trade
Proposed U.S.-China Treaty Would Expose U.S. Laws to Extrajudicial Attacks by Chinese Corporations, Incentivize More U.S. Job Offshoring Public Citizen ...Chinese Acquisitions, Establishment of U.S. Subsidiaries Growing at 80 Percent Annual Rate with 820 Major Deals Totaling More Than $37 Billion Since 2000...
US loses multi-billion dollar court cases against China and India Reuters ...The World Trade Organization agreed on Monday this week to side with claims against the United States made by both China and India concerning US-imposed tariffs on products exported to America...
Production Halted At Samsung China Supplier Amid China Labor Probe Reuters ...Production has been indefinitely halted at a Chinese supplier to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd after the factory was suspected of using child workers...
No US-Japan TPP framework seen until fall Nikkei Asian Review ...The mood was strained at times during negotiations Tuesday in Washington, and differences remain, but both sides agreed to work toward an early agreement, fearing that delays could derail the wider talks...
State Battles
Private Prison CEO Will Host Governor At $10-K-A-Plate Fundraiser Think Progress ...Over the past few years, private prison firm GEO Group has become known for inmate abuse, workplace violence, and fraudulent reporting at its U.S. facilities. ... But on Monday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) will headline a $10,000-per-person VIP fundraiser at the home of GEO Group Chief Executive Officer George Zoley...
States That Raised Minimum Wage See Faster Job Growth, Report Says NPR ...New data released by the Department of Labor suggests that raising the minimum wage in some states might have spurred job growth, contrary to what critics said would happen...
Walker spent $320,000 from campaign on Doe defense attorneys Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...The latest legal expenses come on top of almost $650,000 that Walker's campaign paid to attorneys during an earlier John Doe investigation into his aides and associates during his time as Milwaukee County executive. That brings the total the governor has had to spend on John Doe investigations to nearly $1 million...
Gov. Walker's Cross Country Cash Grab Rolls On One Wisconsin Now ...Fully 52 percent of his money raised from individuals ($4 million) came from donations in excess of $1,000 and 106 individuals gave Walker the maximum allowable contribution of $10,000 in the last six months...
War On Workers
Is the Employment Situation Really Improving? Wall Street Cheat Sheet ...The labor participation rate peaked at a little over 67 percent in the year 2000, and it has been declining ever since. It is now 62.8 percent, which is the lowest level since 1978, and it has been declining especially rapidly since the financial crisis when it was about 66 percent...
1 Worker Killed, 2 Hospitalized In Fort Lauderdale Construction Site Accident NBC South Florida ...One worker was killed and two others were hospitalized following an accident at a construction site in Fort Lauderdale Monday morning...
New college grads hit by slow wage growth: Fed study Reuters ...The researchers found that the slow wage growth does not reflect any shift in the types of jobs college grads get, and argued it would be "misguided'' to conclude that going to college is a poor investment...
Is Your Job Becoming Obsolete? 10 Most Endangered Careers of 2014 Wall Street Cheat Sheet ...The jobs to be wary of? Anything paper related. The decrease in paper can be attributed to several factors, including people reading the news on their tablets and smartphones, in addition to using email and social media to stay in touch rather than writing letters, per Forbes...
Rep. Keith Ellison Wants To Make Union Organizing A Civil Right MSNBC ...Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison plans to unveil legislation that would make unionization into a legally protected civil right, the congressman said on Saturday. The bill, which he plans to formally introduce on July 30, would make it easier for workers to take legal action against companies that violate their right to organize...
Miscellaneous
Bad bet: Atlantic City's future looks bleak thanks to glut of casinos FOX News ...The rapid disintegration of Atlantic City's casino market might be an early indicator of what could happen in other parts of the country that have too many casinos and not enough gamblers...
Rep. Ellison Statement On The 80th Anniversary Of The 1934 Minnesota Teamsters Strike Rep. Keith Ellison ...The rights and protections that we enjoy today, from the 40-hour workweek to the minimum wage, are all thanks to the men and women of organized labor who faced violent backlash for their organizing....
Teamsters move to restrict obscene payout to McKesson CEO teamsternation ...The Teamsters are more than a little annoyed that McKesson CEO John Hammergren stands to take home $616.5 million if the company were sold tomorrow...
McKesson CEO's $292 Million Golden Parachute Faces A Proxy Fight Bloomberg Businessweek ...Hammergren’s potential payout under a change in control would include equity awards worth $140.6 million that were set up to vest only over time. They’d be his right away, though, if he were terminated after a sale. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which calls that kind of pay “unearned compensation for top executives on their way out the door,” has proposed a ballot measure urging McKesson’s board to reduce the accelerated vesting...
Trade
Proposed U.S.-China Treaty Would Expose U.S. Laws to Extrajudicial Attacks by Chinese Corporations, Incentivize More U.S. Job Offshoring Public Citizen ...Chinese Acquisitions, Establishment of U.S. Subsidiaries Growing at 80 Percent Annual Rate with 820 Major Deals Totaling More Than $37 Billion Since 2000...
US loses multi-billion dollar court cases against China and India Reuters ...The World Trade Organization agreed on Monday this week to side with claims against the United States made by both China and India concerning US-imposed tariffs on products exported to America...
Production Halted At Samsung China Supplier Amid China Labor Probe Reuters ...Production has been indefinitely halted at a Chinese supplier to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd after the factory was suspected of using child workers...
No US-Japan TPP framework seen until fall Nikkei Asian Review ...The mood was strained at times during negotiations Tuesday in Washington, and differences remain, but both sides agreed to work toward an early agreement, fearing that delays could derail the wider talks...
State Battles
Private Prison CEO Will Host Governor At $10-K-A-Plate Fundraiser Think Progress ...Over the past few years, private prison firm GEO Group has become known for inmate abuse, workplace violence, and fraudulent reporting at its U.S. facilities. ... But on Monday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) will headline a $10,000-per-person VIP fundraiser at the home of GEO Group Chief Executive Officer George Zoley...
States That Raised Minimum Wage See Faster Job Growth, Report Says NPR ...New data released by the Department of Labor suggests that raising the minimum wage in some states might have spurred job growth, contrary to what critics said would happen...
Walker spent $320,000 from campaign on Doe defense attorneys Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...The latest legal expenses come on top of almost $650,000 that Walker's campaign paid to attorneys during an earlier John Doe investigation into his aides and associates during his time as Milwaukee County executive. That brings the total the governor has had to spend on John Doe investigations to nearly $1 million...
Gov. Walker's Cross Country Cash Grab Rolls On One Wisconsin Now ...Fully 52 percent of his money raised from individuals ($4 million) came from donations in excess of $1,000 and 106 individuals gave Walker the maximum allowable contribution of $10,000 in the last six months...
War On Workers
Is the Employment Situation Really Improving? Wall Street Cheat Sheet ...The labor participation rate peaked at a little over 67 percent in the year 2000, and it has been declining ever since. It is now 62.8 percent, which is the lowest level since 1978, and it has been declining especially rapidly since the financial crisis when it was about 66 percent...
1 Worker Killed, 2 Hospitalized In Fort Lauderdale Construction Site Accident NBC South Florida ...One worker was killed and two others were hospitalized following an accident at a construction site in Fort Lauderdale Monday morning...
New college grads hit by slow wage growth: Fed study Reuters ...The researchers found that the slow wage growth does not reflect any shift in the types of jobs college grads get, and argued it would be "misguided'' to conclude that going to college is a poor investment...
Is Your Job Becoming Obsolete? 10 Most Endangered Careers of 2014 Wall Street Cheat Sheet ...The jobs to be wary of? Anything paper related. The decrease in paper can be attributed to several factors, including people reading the news on their tablets and smartphones, in addition to using email and social media to stay in touch rather than writing letters, per Forbes...
Rep. Keith Ellison Wants To Make Union Organizing A Civil Right MSNBC ...Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison plans to unveil legislation that would make unionization into a legally protected civil right, the congressman said on Saturday. The bill, which he plans to formally introduce on July 30, would make it easier for workers to take legal action against companies that violate their right to organize...
Miscellaneous
Bad bet: Atlantic City's future looks bleak thanks to glut of casinos FOX News ...The rapid disintegration of Atlantic City's casino market might be an early indicator of what could happen in other parts of the country that have too many casinos and not enough gamblers...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Today's Teamster News 10.09.13
SCI’s Actions Have Broken Bonds With Chicago, Funeral Directors Say teamster.org ...The lockout of 59 funeral directors and drivers by Service Corporation International (SCI) at 16 Chicago-area funeral homes has not only cost workers their livelihoods, it has removed them from doing what they do best -- serving the needs of their communities as many have done for decades...
Shutdown delays FSI union vote News-Messenger ...The government shutdown has delayed a local trash-hauling company’s latest efforts to unionize. Workers at FSI Disposal were scheduled to vote on Thursday whether to join the Teamsters Local 507 in Cleveland...
Marquez union vote delayed The Sentinel ...Teamsters is pressing on with its campaign during the government shutdown, meeting with workers and former workers before and after shifts to build support. The union is accusing Marquez of firing pro-union employers and harassing others until they quit...
In Honor of National Truck Drive Appreciation Week teamster.org ...We posted hundreds of Teamster photos on Facebook. Now we made a video...
'Local Union Communications: The Social Art of Educating Members' TLA to be Held December 3-4 teamster.org ...This two-day Teamsters Leadership Academy (TLA), hosted by Local 986 in Los Angeles, will explore effective ways Teamster affiliates can communicate with members through the use of social networking, fliers, newsletters, websites and media...
Exclusive Gyms For Members Of Congress Deemed ‘Essential,’ Remain Open During Shutdown ThinkProgress ...Head Start programs have been shuttered, small businesses can’t get loans and hundreds of thousands of federal government employees are furloughed. But the exclusive gyms available only to members of Congress have remained open throughout the shutdown...
12 Warning Signs You'll Get Overworked and Underpaid by an Employer Alternet ...Beware of companies that call their employees “associates” or “team members.” This is a cheap way of making them feel valued without paying them...
Carter: Middle Class Today Resembles Past's Poor Associated Press ...Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that the income gap in the United States has increased to the point where members of the middle class resemble the Americans who lived in poverty when he occupied the White House...
No Matter What Happens, Unions Get Blamed Counterpunch ...in response to Japan’s spectacular (albeit illegal) entry into the U.S. market, too many people drew the erroneous conclusion that American workers weren’t capable of producing a top-quality car, and, more specifically, that labor union members were inferior workers. You still hear people today parrot that ridiculous factoid...
China tells US to avoid debt crisis for sake of global economy BBC News ...A senior Chinese official has warned that the "clock is ticking" to avoid a US default that could hurt China's interests and the global economy...
5 Depressing Ways That 1%'s Huge Profits Have Broken the Back of America AlterNet ...The middle class, once the backbone of a strong American society, has been broken, beaten down, pushed further and further toward poverty levels. Here are five well-documented ways that this has happened...
Factory fire in Bangladesh kills garment workers The Guardian ...At least 10 die as fire services work to bring four-storey blaze under control in clothing industry zone of Gazipur, near Dhaka...
Class in the Classroom: Why Middle-Income Students Are Being Left in the Dust AlterNet ...It's well known that wealthy kids outperform poor kids in school, but now the rich are also pulling away from their middle-class peers. Why is that so?...
The Latest Voter Suppression Fad: Two Tiers Talking Points Memo ...Officials in Arizona and Kansas are making preparations for elections with two categories of voters. There will be those who provided proof of citizenship when they registered to vote, and will therefore be able to vote in all local, state, and federal elections. And then there will be those who did not provide proof of citizenship when they registered. Those people will only be able to vote in federal contests -- if at all...
Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach Has New Plan to Keep 17,500+ Legal Voters From Voting The BRAD BLOG ...That new proof-of-citizenship law took affect at the beginning of this year and has resulted in thousands of previously legal voters becoming "suspended" until such time as they present documentation to prove they are citizens...
U.S. ban on some Samsung products to go into effect Reuters ...The U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Tuesday that it would allow a U.S. ban to go into effect on products made by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd that infringe on Apple Inc. patents...
Profiting from the Poor: Outsourcing Social Services Puts Most Vulnerable at Risk Center for Media and Democracy ...Privatized foster care? What could possibly go wrong?...
Get Ready for Extra Helpings of Feces, Pus and Chlorine on Your Plate — America is Deregulating Its Meat Industry AlterNet ...Risks to food consumers will only increase as the government "washes its hands" of meat and poultry inspection...
How Do You Know Someone Is Doing Something Awful? If They Call You A Terrorist For Photographing It. Upworthy ...I don’t know what to find more horrifying — the idea that people still habitually abuse helpless animals, or that this is how parts of our country want to treat the people who try to stop it...
Boston School bus drivers stage wildcat strike, disrupting service to thousands of students Boston Globe ...A wildcat strike by the union representing Boston Public Schools bus drivers has halted service for tens of thousands of students, officials said...
Gov. Brown signs package of 18 business-friendly bills Los Angeles Times ...Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law legislation that was heavily lobbied by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and aimed at boosting sales of high-tech goods and services...
Ohio man remains legally dead despite his recent court plea RT ...Miller was ruled legally dead by a court in 1994, eight years after he disappeared from his home in Arcadia. His appeal Monday in Hancock County Probate Court to rescind his “death” didn’t earn a change of status in the view of the law...
Shutdown delays FSI union vote News-Messenger ...The government shutdown has delayed a local trash-hauling company’s latest efforts to unionize. Workers at FSI Disposal were scheduled to vote on Thursday whether to join the Teamsters Local 507 in Cleveland...
Marquez union vote delayed The Sentinel ...Teamsters is pressing on with its campaign during the government shutdown, meeting with workers and former workers before and after shifts to build support. The union is accusing Marquez of firing pro-union employers and harassing others until they quit...
In Honor of National Truck Drive Appreciation Week teamster.org ...We posted hundreds of Teamster photos on Facebook. Now we made a video...
'Local Union Communications: The Social Art of Educating Members' TLA to be Held December 3-4 teamster.org ...This two-day Teamsters Leadership Academy (TLA), hosted by Local 986 in Los Angeles, will explore effective ways Teamster affiliates can communicate with members through the use of social networking, fliers, newsletters, websites and media...
Exclusive Gyms For Members Of Congress Deemed ‘Essential,’ Remain Open During Shutdown ThinkProgress ...Head Start programs have been shuttered, small businesses can’t get loans and hundreds of thousands of federal government employees are furloughed. But the exclusive gyms available only to members of Congress have remained open throughout the shutdown...
12 Warning Signs You'll Get Overworked and Underpaid by an Employer Alternet ...Beware of companies that call their employees “associates” or “team members.” This is a cheap way of making them feel valued without paying them...
Carter: Middle Class Today Resembles Past's Poor Associated Press ...Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that the income gap in the United States has increased to the point where members of the middle class resemble the Americans who lived in poverty when he occupied the White House...
No Matter What Happens, Unions Get Blamed Counterpunch ...in response to Japan’s spectacular (albeit illegal) entry into the U.S. market, too many people drew the erroneous conclusion that American workers weren’t capable of producing a top-quality car, and, more specifically, that labor union members were inferior workers. You still hear people today parrot that ridiculous factoid...
China tells US to avoid debt crisis for sake of global economy BBC News ...A senior Chinese official has warned that the "clock is ticking" to avoid a US default that could hurt China's interests and the global economy...
5 Depressing Ways That 1%'s Huge Profits Have Broken the Back of America AlterNet ...The middle class, once the backbone of a strong American society, has been broken, beaten down, pushed further and further toward poverty levels. Here are five well-documented ways that this has happened...
Factory fire in Bangladesh kills garment workers The Guardian ...At least 10 die as fire services work to bring four-storey blaze under control in clothing industry zone of Gazipur, near Dhaka...
Class in the Classroom: Why Middle-Income Students Are Being Left in the Dust AlterNet ...It's well known that wealthy kids outperform poor kids in school, but now the rich are also pulling away from their middle-class peers. Why is that so?...
The Latest Voter Suppression Fad: Two Tiers Talking Points Memo ...Officials in Arizona and Kansas are making preparations for elections with two categories of voters. There will be those who provided proof of citizenship when they registered to vote, and will therefore be able to vote in all local, state, and federal elections. And then there will be those who did not provide proof of citizenship when they registered. Those people will only be able to vote in federal contests -- if at all...
Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach Has New Plan to Keep 17,500+ Legal Voters From Voting The BRAD BLOG ...That new proof-of-citizenship law took affect at the beginning of this year and has resulted in thousands of previously legal voters becoming "suspended" until such time as they present documentation to prove they are citizens...
U.S. ban on some Samsung products to go into effect Reuters ...The U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Tuesday that it would allow a U.S. ban to go into effect on products made by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd that infringe on Apple Inc. patents...
Profiting from the Poor: Outsourcing Social Services Puts Most Vulnerable at Risk Center for Media and Democracy ...Privatized foster care? What could possibly go wrong?...
Get Ready for Extra Helpings of Feces, Pus and Chlorine on Your Plate — America is Deregulating Its Meat Industry AlterNet ...Risks to food consumers will only increase as the government "washes its hands" of meat and poultry inspection...
How Do You Know Someone Is Doing Something Awful? If They Call You A Terrorist For Photographing It. Upworthy ...I don’t know what to find more horrifying — the idea that people still habitually abuse helpless animals, or that this is how parts of our country want to treat the people who try to stop it...
Boston School bus drivers stage wildcat strike, disrupting service to thousands of students Boston Globe ...A wildcat strike by the union representing Boston Public Schools bus drivers has halted service for tens of thousands of students, officials said...
Gov. Brown signs package of 18 business-friendly bills Los Angeles Times ...Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law legislation that was heavily lobbied by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and aimed at boosting sales of high-tech goods and services...
Ohio man remains legally dead despite his recent court plea RT ...Miller was ruled legally dead by a court in 1994, eight years after he disappeared from his home in Arcadia. His appeal Monday in Hancock County Probate Court to rescind his “death” didn’t earn a change of status in the view of the law...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Today's Teamster News 08.20.13
DeKalb County Workers Nearer to Union Atlanta Journal-Constitution ...DeKalb County took a huge step toward having its first union representing nonpublic safety workers...
Don’t Forget to Register for the Teamster Women’s Conference IBT ...The Teamster Women’s Conference will be held September 19-21, 2013 in New Orleans. Sign up to join your Teamster Sisters and Brothers in this dynamic event while space is still available!...
Shaheen: High Sugar Prices Not Sweet for Jobs Portsmouth Patch ...Speaking to union representatives at the Teamsters Bakery and Laundry Conference in Portsmouth Monday, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, said high sugar prices are killing manufacturing jobs across the country...
Rally for fair trade Tuesday in Minneapolis Workday Minnesota ...Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen will headline a rally Tuesday by union members, community groups and others to protest the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal...
Fast-food workers call for nationwide walkout Aug. 29 Washington Post ...Emboldened by an outpouring of support on social media, low-wage fast-food and retail workers from eight cities that staged walkouts earlier this year are calling for a national day of strikes on Aug. 29...
Moral Monday protesters rail against 'Mecklenburg trio' Charlotte Observer ...One of the city’s largest protests – police estimated about 2,000 demonstrators – packed into uptown’s Marshall Park...
Despite nearly 300 arrests, Capitol protest grows Wisconsin State Journal ...Participation in the noontime Capitol protest against Gov. Scott Walker continued to crescendo Monday despite nearly four weeks of almost daily arrests for gathering in the rotunda without a permit...
Americans Get Fewer Paid Sick Days Than Two Decades Ago Think Progress ...Compared to 1993, Americans now get fewer paid sick days from their employers on average, dropping from 10 days a year to eight for a worker who has been with a company for a year. The decrease becomes bigger the longer an employee stays on...
Bangladesh’s Workers Deserve Better New York Times ...Four months after a building collapse killed more than 1,100 factory workers in Bangladesh, their families are still waiting for adequate — and in some cases, any — compensation. This is a shocking lapse by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government...
Democrats push back on voting rights Washington Post ...After crying foul over Republican efforts to modify election laws in key states, Democrats are launching their own wide-ranging push to change the way Americans vote, kicking off the latest battles in a fight over voting rights that’s as old as the republic itself...
Congressman Brags About ‘Savings’ In Farm Bill, Ignoring Devastating Food Stamp Cuts Think Progress ...Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) flagrantly misrepresented what the House has done with the farm bill at a recent constituent breakfast in Turlock, California. Denham claimed the House farm bill cuts twice as much spending as it actually does, misled about the nature of those cuts, and ignored his party’s unprecedented decision to drop food stamps and other anti-hunger and anti-poverty spending from the bill...
The Incredible Con the Banksters Pulled on the FBI (opinion) OpEdNews ...criminal referrals have virtually vanished against the "accounting control frauds" that drive our recurrent, intensifying financial crises...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Said to Avoid Billions in Write-Offs Bloomberg News ...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have reported record profits after a taxpayer bailout, are ignoring billions of dollars in potential losses on delinquent loans as they take three years to adopt a new accounting system, a government auditor said in a letter made public today...
Samsung hit with lawsuit over labor conditions Washington Post ...Samsung has been named in a lawsuit filed by a Brazilian labor group, which said working conditions at the technology firm’s assembly lines were in violation of Brazilian law. The group is asking for at least $108 million in damages...
Obama goes to bat for Big Tobacco in TPP Action on Smoking and Health ...Legal analysts for the public health community, who were briefed Friday morning in a closed session by administration officials, agreed that the new proposal will do little to protect governments’ right to regulate tobacco...
1,800 Ohio jobs lost Dayton Daily News ...Offshoring continues to impact Ohio with companies cutting at least 1,800 jobs in the state since January, according to petitions for federal assistance from employees, labor groups, and company officials...
Support lacking for BART strike ban San Francisco Examiner ...BART remains the busiest public transit system in the U.S. that does not have a worker strike ban in place, and the route to blocking that right could be a long journey...
There's A New Push To Raise Seattle Minimum Wage To $15 Per Hour Associated Press ...Washington already has the nation's highest state minimum wage at $9.19 an hour. Now, there's a push in Seattle, at least, to make it $15...
Indiana customers due $32M from 6 utilities Indianapolis Business Journal ...Indiana's largest power companies are set to reimburse their customers $32 million after falling short on spending for energy efficiency last year...
Minnesota factories' output up, employment down Minnesota Public Radio ...Minnesota's factories are churning out lots of products like airplane parts and medical devices these days, but they're not exactly going on hiring sprees...
Don’t Forget to Register for the Teamster Women’s Conference IBT ...The Teamster Women’s Conference will be held September 19-21, 2013 in New Orleans. Sign up to join your Teamster Sisters and Brothers in this dynamic event while space is still available!...
Shaheen: High Sugar Prices Not Sweet for Jobs Portsmouth Patch ...Speaking to union representatives at the Teamsters Bakery and Laundry Conference in Portsmouth Monday, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, said high sugar prices are killing manufacturing jobs across the country...
Rally for fair trade Tuesday in Minneapolis Workday Minnesota ...Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen will headline a rally Tuesday by union members, community groups and others to protest the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal...
Fast-food workers call for nationwide walkout Aug. 29 Washington Post ...Emboldened by an outpouring of support on social media, low-wage fast-food and retail workers from eight cities that staged walkouts earlier this year are calling for a national day of strikes on Aug. 29...
Moral Monday protesters rail against 'Mecklenburg trio' Charlotte Observer ...One of the city’s largest protests – police estimated about 2,000 demonstrators – packed into uptown’s Marshall Park...
Despite nearly 300 arrests, Capitol protest grows Wisconsin State Journal ...Participation in the noontime Capitol protest against Gov. Scott Walker continued to crescendo Monday despite nearly four weeks of almost daily arrests for gathering in the rotunda without a permit...
Americans Get Fewer Paid Sick Days Than Two Decades Ago Think Progress ...Compared to 1993, Americans now get fewer paid sick days from their employers on average, dropping from 10 days a year to eight for a worker who has been with a company for a year. The decrease becomes bigger the longer an employee stays on...
Bangladesh’s Workers Deserve Better New York Times ...Four months after a building collapse killed more than 1,100 factory workers in Bangladesh, their families are still waiting for adequate — and in some cases, any — compensation. This is a shocking lapse by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government...
Democrats push back on voting rights Washington Post ...After crying foul over Republican efforts to modify election laws in key states, Democrats are launching their own wide-ranging push to change the way Americans vote, kicking off the latest battles in a fight over voting rights that’s as old as the republic itself...
Congressman Brags About ‘Savings’ In Farm Bill, Ignoring Devastating Food Stamp Cuts Think Progress ...Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) flagrantly misrepresented what the House has done with the farm bill at a recent constituent breakfast in Turlock, California. Denham claimed the House farm bill cuts twice as much spending as it actually does, misled about the nature of those cuts, and ignored his party’s unprecedented decision to drop food stamps and other anti-hunger and anti-poverty spending from the bill...
The Incredible Con the Banksters Pulled on the FBI (opinion) OpEdNews ...criminal referrals have virtually vanished against the "accounting control frauds" that drive our recurrent, intensifying financial crises...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Said to Avoid Billions in Write-Offs Bloomberg News ...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have reported record profits after a taxpayer bailout, are ignoring billions of dollars in potential losses on delinquent loans as they take three years to adopt a new accounting system, a government auditor said in a letter made public today...
Samsung hit with lawsuit over labor conditions Washington Post ...Samsung has been named in a lawsuit filed by a Brazilian labor group, which said working conditions at the technology firm’s assembly lines were in violation of Brazilian law. The group is asking for at least $108 million in damages...
Obama goes to bat for Big Tobacco in TPP Action on Smoking and Health ...Legal analysts for the public health community, who were briefed Friday morning in a closed session by administration officials, agreed that the new proposal will do little to protect governments’ right to regulate tobacco...
1,800 Ohio jobs lost Dayton Daily News ...Offshoring continues to impact Ohio with companies cutting at least 1,800 jobs in the state since January, according to petitions for federal assistance from employees, labor groups, and company officials...
Support lacking for BART strike ban San Francisco Examiner ...BART remains the busiest public transit system in the U.S. that does not have a worker strike ban in place, and the route to blocking that right could be a long journey...
There's A New Push To Raise Seattle Minimum Wage To $15 Per Hour Associated Press ...Washington already has the nation's highest state minimum wage at $9.19 an hour. Now, there's a push in Seattle, at least, to make it $15...
Indiana customers due $32M from 6 utilities Indianapolis Business Journal ...Indiana's largest power companies are set to reimburse their customers $32 million after falling short on spending for energy efficiency last year...
Minnesota factories' output up, employment down Minnesota Public Radio ...Minnesota's factories are churning out lots of products like airplane parts and medical devices these days, but they're not exactly going on hiring sprees...
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