Teamsters at Sunsweet Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract teamster.org ...Teamsters who work at the world’s largest dried fruit processing plant are now at work, under a strong contract that resulted from their solidarity...
Teamsters General President: Is Michigan Next In Expressing Outrage Over Trade? Teamster.org ...Michigan in the last month has seen its fair share of low-wage workers walk off the job to protest pay and working conditions. But those demonstrations pale in comparison to what is going on a continent away in Colombia. And U.S. policymakers should take notice...
Township Council Talks Teamster Contract Brick Patch ...The Township Council of Brick, New Jersey, has introduced an ordinance related to Teamsters Local 469 salaries, after months of negotiations...
Rick Smith Show: NJ Governor Turns Back On Workers Rick Smith Show ...Labor radio host Rick Smith interviews Fred Potter, International Vice President and Director of the Teamsters Port Division, about New Jersey Governor Christie’s veto of pro-worker legislation...
Commercial Drivers: Pipeline CSA Training To Be Held In Atlanta, Sept. 29 teamster.org ...The Teamsters National Pipeline Training Fund in collaboration with Teamsters Local 528 and 728 will sponsor a Compliance, Safety and Accountability training program on September 29 for all commercial drivers...
Detroit trash-hauling gets 10 bidders; city to review proposals Detroit Free Press ...Detroit city officials will begin reviewing proposals this week to privatize trash collection, an initiative emergency manager Kevyn Orr says will save about $15 million annually and improve services to residents...
Gleason to Lead Legal Team at Teamsters Local 1224 Teamsters Local 1224 …The Airline Professionals Association (APA), Teamsters Local 1224 announced the addition of a new member to lead its legal team at Teamsters Local 1224. Edward Gleason joins Teamsters Local 1224 as Chief Counsel...
Pay Gap Between 1 Percent And Everybody Else Reaches Widest Point Since 1920s Associated Press ...The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it's been since the Roaring '20s...
Government Policy Gave Us Inequality, not the Market Center for Economic and Policy Research ... we have a totally corrupt system of corporate governance in which CEOs select and pay off directors to look the other way as they pilfer the company by taking outlandish pay packages. Governments write the rules of corporate governance, not markets...
How the 1 percent won the recovery, in one table Washington Post ...While only 49 percent of the decline in incomes during the recession was born by the top 1 percent (whose income share fell to 18.1 percent due to the recession), 95 percent of income gains since the recovery started have gone to them...
Exclusive: The Koch brothers' secret bank Politico ...It raised $256 million in the year after its creation in November 2011, the document shows. And it made grants of $236 million — meaning a totally unknown group was the largest sugar daddy for conservative groups in the last election, second in total spending only to Karl Rove’s American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, which together spent about $300 million...
Polish unionists march to demand labor security Associated Press ...Thousands of Polish labor union members marched through Warsaw in the rain Wednesday, sounding sirens, throwing smoke grenades and blowing whistles in a protest against government labor policy and pension system reform and to demand higher pay...
How Cigarette Companies Use Free Trade Deals To Sell To Women And Kids Quartz ...Global trade negotiations in Washington this week will determine how cigarette companies will be able to market their products in developing nations—and potentially, overturn smoking restrictions around the world...
Walmart’s sales are down: What does that say about the economy? Salon ...For the first time in quite a long time, things may not be looking too great for our favorite mega retailer, Walmart. NBC News reports that Walmart has experienced a decrease in sales as well as a “cautious outlook for the rest of the year.” Wal-Mart blamed this drop on essentially everything under the sun except people not wanting to shop at their stores...
Sallie Mae Becomes 50th Corporation To Dump ALEC Think Progress ...After months of protests by student groups, SLM Corporation (the student loan company commonly known as Sallie Mae) acknowledged Saturday that it has dropped its membership in the conservative, corporate-backed American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)...
Deval Patrick backtracks on tech tax Boston Globe ...Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick abruptly changed course Tuesday and said he no longer supports a controversial new tax on computer software services that has triggered a fierce backlash from the state’s technology community and spawned numerous attempts to repeal it...
Biz Journal Ranks Govs by Job Growth in Office: Walker 40th / Would Have 51K More Jobs if WI Kept Pace with US Average Uppity Wisconsin ...every Democratic governor in the country ranks ahead of Walker in job growth...
WI Senate Fast-Tracks Bill to Close Forest to Benefit Out-of-State Mining Firm Center for Media and Democracy ...A controversial out-of-state mining company is closer to gaining control over a 3,600-acre swath of publicly available forest near where it is planning a massive open-pit iron ore mine in Northern Wisconsin...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
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Today's Teamster News 06.11.13
Class of 2013: All Dressed Up and No Place to Work Alternet ...the past four years of high unemployment numbers represent the worst economy the country has suffered in 70 years, and young adults are shouldering a hefty part of the burden...
Why a Romney economic adviser wants the government to just hire people Washington Post ..."Direct hiring, or a direct subsidy for hiring, could save taxpayers a fortune. And it could save a life"...
The Great Gerrymander of 2012 (opinion) New York Times ...Democrats received 1.4 million more votes for the House of Representatives, yet Republicans won control of the House by a 234 to 201 margin...
Shining a Light on the Wage Gap Huffington Post ...When the Equal Pay Act (EPA) was passed 50 years ago, discrimination was, in many ways, openly accepted in the workplace and women were expected to earn less than men in the same jobs. The EPA signed by President John F. Kennedy on June 10, 1963, helped to reduce this type of blatant employment discrimination, but it is still present and the wage gap persists...
If the NSA Trusted Edward Snowden With Our Data, Why Should We Trust the NSA? Slate ...he’s the IT guy, and not a very accomplished, experienced one at that...But he was given access way beyond what even a supergeek should have gotten...
‘Buy American’ campaign would save U.S. jobs (opinion) Portland Press Herald ...If the federal government required soldiers and airmen to wear American-made athletic shoes, jobs would be created in Maine...
Understaffed police ask East Bay garbage collectors, postal workers to keep eye out for crime Mercury News ...Garbage truck driver Juan Gallo sees his share of trouble in the course of his work on Antioch's streets. But he was surprised to learn how few police officers are patrolling the city at any one time, which has prompted Antioch Police Department to reach out to the city's garbage disposal provider, Republic Services Inc., as well as the U.S. Postal Service...
More 'Moral Monday' arrests at General Assembly ABC WTVD-TV ...Moral Monday drew another large crowd in the thousands and also some attention from Washington. Close to 100 were arrested including Charlotte Observer reporter Tim Funk, who was hauled off to jail despite press identification around his neck...
72,000 Michigan homeowners may receive payout after deceptive mortgage settlement Detroit Free Press ...Nearly 72,000 Michigan residents who lost a home to foreclosure in recent years will soon find a check in the mail for about $1,480 as a result of last year’s $25-billion landmark settlement between 49 state attorneys general and the country’s five largest mortgage-servicing companies...
Mass. lawmakers to weigh hike in minimum wage Associated Press ...A large turnout is expected for a Statehouse hearing that will consider legislation to raise the minimum wage, which has been at $8 an hour since 2008 and is not adjusted automatically for inflation...
Dems speak out against proposed ‘right-to-work’ measures Athens News ...State Rep. Debbie Phillips, a Democrat from Albany, has joined others in her party in slamming so-called "right to work" legislation that Ohio Republicans want to bring to the ballot box...
Sunsweet Workers Unite For A Fair Contract IBT ...Jeff Fry recently rallied outside the Sunsweet Growers facility in Yuba City, Calif., along with hundreds of his co-workers in a powerful showing of unity...
BLET Safety Task Force Dispatched To Major Accidents During May BLET ...In May, the BLET National Division dispatched members of its Safety Task Force to the scene of three major incidents throughout the United States...
Why a Romney economic adviser wants the government to just hire people Washington Post ..."Direct hiring, or a direct subsidy for hiring, could save taxpayers a fortune. And it could save a life"...
The Great Gerrymander of 2012 (opinion) New York Times ...Democrats received 1.4 million more votes for the House of Representatives, yet Republicans won control of the House by a 234 to 201 margin...
Shining a Light on the Wage Gap Huffington Post ...When the Equal Pay Act (EPA) was passed 50 years ago, discrimination was, in many ways, openly accepted in the workplace and women were expected to earn less than men in the same jobs. The EPA signed by President John F. Kennedy on June 10, 1963, helped to reduce this type of blatant employment discrimination, but it is still present and the wage gap persists...
If the NSA Trusted Edward Snowden With Our Data, Why Should We Trust the NSA? Slate ...he’s the IT guy, and not a very accomplished, experienced one at that...But he was given access way beyond what even a supergeek should have gotten...
‘Buy American’ campaign would save U.S. jobs (opinion) Portland Press Herald ...If the federal government required soldiers and airmen to wear American-made athletic shoes, jobs would be created in Maine...
Understaffed police ask East Bay garbage collectors, postal workers to keep eye out for crime Mercury News ...Garbage truck driver Juan Gallo sees his share of trouble in the course of his work on Antioch's streets. But he was surprised to learn how few police officers are patrolling the city at any one time, which has prompted Antioch Police Department to reach out to the city's garbage disposal provider, Republic Services Inc., as well as the U.S. Postal Service...
More 'Moral Monday' arrests at General Assembly ABC WTVD-TV ...Moral Monday drew another large crowd in the thousands and also some attention from Washington. Close to 100 were arrested including Charlotte Observer reporter Tim Funk, who was hauled off to jail despite press identification around his neck...
72,000 Michigan homeowners may receive payout after deceptive mortgage settlement Detroit Free Press ...Nearly 72,000 Michigan residents who lost a home to foreclosure in recent years will soon find a check in the mail for about $1,480 as a result of last year’s $25-billion landmark settlement between 49 state attorneys general and the country’s five largest mortgage-servicing companies...
Mass. lawmakers to weigh hike in minimum wage Associated Press ...A large turnout is expected for a Statehouse hearing that will consider legislation to raise the minimum wage, which has been at $8 an hour since 2008 and is not adjusted automatically for inflation...
Dems speak out against proposed ‘right-to-work’ measures Athens News ...State Rep. Debbie Phillips, a Democrat from Albany, has joined others in her party in slamming so-called "right to work" legislation that Ohio Republicans want to bring to the ballot box...
Sunsweet Workers Unite For A Fair Contract IBT ...Jeff Fry recently rallied outside the Sunsweet Growers facility in Yuba City, Calif., along with hundreds of his co-workers in a powerful showing of unity...
BLET Safety Task Force Dispatched To Major Accidents During May BLET ...In May, the BLET National Division dispatched members of its Safety Task Force to the scene of three major incidents throughout the United States...
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