Teamster News
Food contracts cycle underway again for Southern Calif. Teamsters, UFCW People's World ...A historic core industry of the two major unions in Southern California, retail food, has begun its every-five-years-or-so cycle of bare-knuckle contract negotiations. First up, and going on right now, is the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) negotiations. Next, in September 2015, the Teamsters' own food employers agreement for drivers and warehouse workers expires...
Trade
U.S.-Korea Trade Deal Resulted in Growing Trade Deficits and Nearly 60,000 Lost Jobs Economic Policy Institute ...Overall, the U.S. trade deficit with Korea has increased $8.7 billion, or 59.6%, costing nearly 60,000 U.S. jobs. Most of the nearly 60,000 jobs lost were in manufacturing...
Foreign textile firms invest in Vietnam to take advantage of TPP Thanh Nien ...Many large foreign firms have entered Vietnam's garment and textile sector with an eye on export opportunities the Trans-Pacific Partnership is expected to bring...
How Big Pharma (and others) began lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Partnership before you ever heard of it Sunlight Foundation ...In 2009, four years before the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was a widely-debated trade deal, few would have noticed a new issue popping up in a handful of lobbying reports. That year, 28 organizations filed 59 lobbying reports mentioning the then far-off trade agreement. Almost half of those organizations were pharmaceutical companies or associations...
The War on Workers
Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? The Guardian ...A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution...
The “Paid-What-You’re-Worth” Myth Robert Reich ...Fifty years ago, when General Motors was the largest employer in America, the typical GM worker got paid $35 an hour in today’s dollars. Today, America’s largest employer is Walmart, and the typical Walmart workers earns $8.80 an hour...
National Coalition To Broadcast Networks: Viewers "Deserve To Know What's At Stake" If Minimum Wage Stays Low Media Matters ...A recently released Media Matters report found that over the past year, evening news programs on ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS have been largely silent about the burden that low minimum wages place on the financial security of public safety net programs...
Harry Reid says Kochs blocking Ukraine aid Politico ...Democratic leaders alleged on Thursday that GOP House and Senate leaders want to trade a delay in IRS rules changes affecting the political activities of nonprofits for passage of a broad Ukraine aid package including controversial International Monetary Fund reforms. Those IRS rules could affect the Koch-backed Super PAC Americans for Prosperity, which is running millions of dollars of attack ads against incumbent Democratic senators...
Miscellaneous
5 Compelling Reasons Never to Retire Daily Finance ...retirees were 51 percent more likely to die than those of their same age who continued to work...
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Sunday, March 16, 2014
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Today's Teamster News 05.05.12
Alternative Unemployment Rate is 16.6% and Other Scary Unemployment Statistics Economic Populist ...People unemployed for 27 weeks or more is now 41.3% of the total unemployed, or 5,101,000 million and a seasonally adjusted drop of -207,000 from last month...
Social security is not going broke Reuters ...Which federal program took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans of all ages out of poverty?...
More Americans stashing cash in home safes MarketWatch ...Have Americans lost trust in banks? Interest in home safes grows...
Scott Walker Blames Protesters for Wisconsin’s Highest in Nation Job Losses Politicususa ...Walker says the political uproar that has continued in the state has contributed to employers being afraid to add jobs...
Why the Rich Are Sending Pets on a Diamond-Studded Trip to the Afterlife Alternet ...You can fly dear Fido in high style on a specially outfitted pet airline. Whiskers can relax in gold-plated splendor at Disney's recently launched Best Friends Pet Care luxury dog and cat resort...
Teamsters, Bay City settle last outstanding union contract MLive ...Teamsters Local No. 214 Non-Supervisory Unit, which represents 13 members, ratified a tentative collective bargaining agreement on Monday...
Westchester’s Teamsters ratify contract Fairfield County Business Journal ...After working without a contract since 2009, Westchester County government employees belonging to Teamsters Local 456 recently ratified a seven-year deal that includes, for the first time, health care contributions by union members...
Social security is not going broke Reuters ...Which federal program took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans of all ages out of poverty?...
More Americans stashing cash in home safes MarketWatch ...Have Americans lost trust in banks? Interest in home safes grows...
Scott Walker Blames Protesters for Wisconsin’s Highest in Nation Job Losses Politicususa ...Walker says the political uproar that has continued in the state has contributed to employers being afraid to add jobs...
Why the Rich Are Sending Pets on a Diamond-Studded Trip to the Afterlife Alternet ...You can fly dear Fido in high style on a specially outfitted pet airline. Whiskers can relax in gold-plated splendor at Disney's recently launched Best Friends Pet Care luxury dog and cat resort...
Teamsters, Bay City settle last outstanding union contract MLive ...Teamsters Local No. 214 Non-Supervisory Unit, which represents 13 members, ratified a tentative collective bargaining agreement on Monday...
Westchester’s Teamsters ratify contract Fairfield County Business Journal ...After working without a contract since 2009, Westchester County government employees belonging to Teamsters Local 456 recently ratified a seven-year deal that includes, for the first time, health care contributions by union members...
Monday, March 26, 2012
Today's Teamster News 03.26.12
On the Meaninglessness of Contracts and the New Optionality nakd capitalism ...the evidence is growing that when there is a meaningful power disparity between two parties to an agreement, the odds are high that the bigger player will elect to behave badly. This blog is rife with examples: pervasive contractual and regulatory violations in securitizations and foreclosures, banks exploiting not just ordinary consumers with “tricks and traps” but even billionaire clients; debt collection abuses; routine raiding of employee pensions while CEO pay and perquisites remain sacrosanct; and, of course, the pilfering of customer accounts at MF Global...
Student-Loan Debt Tops $1 Trillion Wall Street Journal ...The amount Americans owe on student loans is far higher than earlier estimates and could lead some consumers to postpone buying homes, potentially slowing the housing recovery, U.S. officials said...
John Doe investigation documents name sheriff’s comm. director FOX 6 Now ...Another name has surfaced in the ongoing John Doe investigation that has led to criminal charges against several aides to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker...
What stinks? Bizarre trash collects near oil patch Associated Press ...North Dakota has leapfrogged past a half-dozen states since 2006 to become the nation's No. 3 oil producer, and ... The number of trucking companies operating in North Dakota increased by 600 last year to about 6,000, with most working in the oil patch...
Teamsters strike at local waste company over contract dispute AL.com ...While the strike primarily affects operations in Mobile, Teamsters at Republic operations in Columbus, Ohio, and Buffalo, N.Y. have also manned picket lines in support of Mobile's workers...
Teamsters ready for TV Boston Herald ...“We want to focus on how we stand up for people and provide for our members,” O’Brien said, “What we do in the community, how we stand up to Wall Street, our battles in the Legislature to keep people working, and the individuals who work hard every day trying to make a better life for themselves and their families. These are stories that need to be told.”...
Student-Loan Debt Tops $1 Trillion Wall Street Journal ...The amount Americans owe on student loans is far higher than earlier estimates and could lead some consumers to postpone buying homes, potentially slowing the housing recovery, U.S. officials said...
John Doe investigation documents name sheriff’s comm. director FOX 6 Now ...Another name has surfaced in the ongoing John Doe investigation that has led to criminal charges against several aides to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker...
What stinks? Bizarre trash collects near oil patch Associated Press ...North Dakota has leapfrogged past a half-dozen states since 2006 to become the nation's No. 3 oil producer, and ... The number of trucking companies operating in North Dakota increased by 600 last year to about 6,000, with most working in the oil patch...
Teamsters strike at local waste company over contract dispute AL.com ...While the strike primarily affects operations in Mobile, Teamsters at Republic operations in Columbus, Ohio, and Buffalo, N.Y. have also manned picket lines in support of Mobile's workers...
Teamsters ready for TV Boston Herald ...“We want to focus on how we stand up for people and provide for our members,” O’Brien said, “What we do in the community, how we stand up to Wall Street, our battles in the Legislature to keep people working, and the individuals who work hard every day trying to make a better life for themselves and their families. These are stories that need to be told.”...
Friday, March 23, 2012
Today's Teamster News 03.23.12
More than 1 million manufacturing jobs could be created in U.S. if Americans bought more U.S.-made goods, economist says Cleveland Plain Dealer ...if Americans spent just $100 billion on U.S. goods instead of foreign goods - a gap that has widened the last few years - then that would create more than 1 million jobs in manufacturing in the United States...
'The American Economic Model Is Broken' Financial Armageddon ...A staggering 63% of respondents across the political spectrum feel that the American economic model is broken. Individuals surveyed do not agree that the prevailing paradigm facilitates equal opportunity, or that hard work and skill are rewarded...
The Wall Street Surcharge On Your Gas Tank Economic Populist ...A new, very timely St. Louis Federal Reserve research paper, Speculation in the Oil Market finds 15% of oil price increases are due to speculation and is the second most powerful mover of prices beyond actual physical demand...
Senate Passes JOBS Act, STOCK Act firedoglake ...the JOBS Act, a bill that promises an impossible solution to an unrelated problem, which is a mask for its true agenda, to weaken investor protection rules to the benefit of Wall Street firms and corporations...
The GOP’s assault on labor rights: What is happening in the states? The Hill ...not one new job has been created by this tsunami of anti-union legislation...
Marietta, Teamsters contract ratified News and Sentinel ...A three-year contract with Teamsters Local 637 was ratified ... Terms of the agreement include a 15 percent per pay period contribution by employees toward their health insurance premiums and annual pay increases...
'The American Economic Model Is Broken' Financial Armageddon ...A staggering 63% of respondents across the political spectrum feel that the American economic model is broken. Individuals surveyed do not agree that the prevailing paradigm facilitates equal opportunity, or that hard work and skill are rewarded...
The Wall Street Surcharge On Your Gas Tank Economic Populist ...A new, very timely St. Louis Federal Reserve research paper, Speculation in the Oil Market finds 15% of oil price increases are due to speculation and is the second most powerful mover of prices beyond actual physical demand...
Senate Passes JOBS Act, STOCK Act firedoglake ...the JOBS Act, a bill that promises an impossible solution to an unrelated problem, which is a mask for its true agenda, to weaken investor protection rules to the benefit of Wall Street firms and corporations...
The GOP’s assault on labor rights: What is happening in the states? The Hill ...not one new job has been created by this tsunami of anti-union legislation...
Marietta, Teamsters contract ratified News and Sentinel ...A three-year contract with Teamsters Local 637 was ratified ... Terms of the agreement include a 15 percent per pay period contribution by employees toward their health insurance premiums and annual pay increases...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Today's Teamster News 03.14.12
Trucking Sector Gains Momentum -- YRC Worldwide and Arkansas Best Looking Strong Marketwatch ..."Our emphasis on core LTL services has resulted in significant increases in on-time service and our customers are responding very favorably," said James Welch, chief executive officer of YRC Worldwide...
Feds Promise Action On Wall Street Speculation Blamed For High Gasoline Prices nasdaq.com ...Bart Chilton, commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures and Trading Commission, wrote independent Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont that he has drafted regulations to curtail "excessive speculative trading," which would go into effect within 60 days of announcement...
Snyder signs bill to bar U-M union Detroit Free Press ...Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation Tuesday that bars the unionization of graduate assistants at Michigan's public universities, a move prompted by an attempt to form a union by grad assistants at the University of Michigan...
Scott Walker: Economic Failure for Wisconsin United Wisconsin ...Data released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals that Wisconsin lost 12,500 jobs in 2011. This statistic puts Wisconsin dead last in job creation in the country...
'Right to work' battle pitched in Minnesota Minneapolis Star-Tribune ...More than 1,000 sign-wielding union workers and supporters poured into the Capitol on Monday, urging legislators to reject a proposed "right to work" constitutional amendment that is turning Minnesota into the latest Midwestern flashpoint in what has become a grinding clash between powerful unions and groups trying to break their grip on workplaces...
Revamped right-to-work bill returns to NH House among host of collective bargaining bills Associated Press ...The sponsor, Republican Rep. Will Smith, believes new additions repealing public unions' exclusive bargaining rights will bolster support...
Erie, Teamsters trade counterproposals in contract talks Erie Times-News ...Union members voted to grant strike authorization in January...
Feds Promise Action On Wall Street Speculation Blamed For High Gasoline Prices nasdaq.com ...Bart Chilton, commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures and Trading Commission, wrote independent Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont that he has drafted regulations to curtail "excessive speculative trading," which would go into effect within 60 days of announcement...
Snyder signs bill to bar U-M union Detroit Free Press ...Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation Tuesday that bars the unionization of graduate assistants at Michigan's public universities, a move prompted by an attempt to form a union by grad assistants at the University of Michigan...
Scott Walker: Economic Failure for Wisconsin United Wisconsin ...Data released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals that Wisconsin lost 12,500 jobs in 2011. This statistic puts Wisconsin dead last in job creation in the country...
'Right to work' battle pitched in Minnesota Minneapolis Star-Tribune ...More than 1,000 sign-wielding union workers and supporters poured into the Capitol on Monday, urging legislators to reject a proposed "right to work" constitutional amendment that is turning Minnesota into the latest Midwestern flashpoint in what has become a grinding clash between powerful unions and groups trying to break their grip on workplaces...
Revamped right-to-work bill returns to NH House among host of collective bargaining bills Associated Press ...The sponsor, Republican Rep. Will Smith, believes new additions repealing public unions' exclusive bargaining rights will bolster support...
Erie, Teamsters trade counterproposals in contract talks Erie Times-News ...Union members voted to grant strike authorization in January...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Today's Teamster News 02.21.12
America’s last hope: A strong labor movement Salon ...Americans give up their individual freedom and democratic voice every single day they walk into work. The workplace is an authoritarian dictatorship, and we accept this as legitimate...
U.S. oil gusher blows out projections Houston Chronicle ...many say the booming shale oil fields in Texas and North Dakota and the growth of deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico will allow the nation to cut its reliance on oil imports significantly over the next couple of decades...
Some Doubt a Settlement Will End Mortgage Ills New York Times ...Even as government officials prepare to unveil new standards this week for how banks treat millions of Americans facing foreclosure, housing advocates and homeowners are skeptical the rules will be able to do something past efforts have not: provide a beleaguered borrower with one individual to help them navigate the mortgage maze...
Massachusetts Home Seizures Threatened in Loan Case: Mortgages Bloomberg Business Week ...The highest court in Massachusetts is poised to rule as soon as this month on a foreclosure case that could lead to a surge in claims from home owners seeking to overturn seizures...
Cooper Tire, drivers of fleet trucks reach deal Toledo Blade ...Cooper said the drivers, represented by Teamsters Local 20, gave final approval Saturday. The new contract is a three-year agreement, though terms weren't revealed...
Teamsters union may soon represent employees at Production Engineering MLive.com ...Alan Sprague, president of the Teamsters Local 164, confirmed Monday the union has put out a petition to hold an election March 16 at Production Engineering...
U.S. oil gusher blows out projections Houston Chronicle ...many say the booming shale oil fields in Texas and North Dakota and the growth of deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico will allow the nation to cut its reliance on oil imports significantly over the next couple of decades...
Some Doubt a Settlement Will End Mortgage Ills New York Times ...Even as government officials prepare to unveil new standards this week for how banks treat millions of Americans facing foreclosure, housing advocates and homeowners are skeptical the rules will be able to do something past efforts have not: provide a beleaguered borrower with one individual to help them navigate the mortgage maze...
Massachusetts Home Seizures Threatened in Loan Case: Mortgages Bloomberg Business Week ...The highest court in Massachusetts is poised to rule as soon as this month on a foreclosure case that could lead to a surge in claims from home owners seeking to overturn seizures...
Cooper Tire, drivers of fleet trucks reach deal Toledo Blade ...Cooper said the drivers, represented by Teamsters Local 20, gave final approval Saturday. The new contract is a three-year agreement, though terms weren't revealed...
Teamsters union may soon represent employees at Production Engineering MLive.com ...Alan Sprague, president of the Teamsters Local 164, confirmed Monday the union has put out a petition to hold an election March 16 at Production Engineering...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Today's Teamster News 02.15.12
Florida Prison Privatization Dies on Senate Floor The Bradenton Herald ...As more and more Senators from both sides of the aisle began to question whether it was a good idea to displace more middle-class Floridians from their jobs, especially when there seemed to be little to no evidence that it would have the budget-solving impacts that its proponents promised, a critical mass began to build, leading to Tuesday's negative vote...
Payroll-tax cut, unemployment benefits: Tentative deal reached Politico ...A tentative deal reached by senior House and Senate leaders, which appears poised to pass absent a last-minute snag, would prolong a payroll tax cut that benefits 160 million Americans, extend unemployment benefits and forestall rate cuts to doctors who treat Medicare patients...
Greece and the return of the economic 'death spiral' The Guardian ...The lesson of 2008 was that stimulus prevented a new Great Depression. Without similar drastic help, Greece will now default...
Teamsters union eyes Hostess strike if judge cuts pensions Associated Press ...The Teamsters union said Monday that its members at Wonder Bread and Twinkies maker Hostess Brands have voted to authorize a strike if a bankruptcy judge approves the company's request to cut their health care and pension benefits...
Teamsters strike Red Cross of Northern Ohio WTAM1100 ...Dozens of blood collection workers and mobile unit assistants for the American Red Cross in Northern Ohio are in front of the Red Cross building on Euclid Avenue holding signs that say "Red Cross Unfair. Tainted with Greed."...
Teamsters ratify contract at Memphis Kroger distribution center Memphis Commercial Appeal ...Kroger said the new agreement includes high-quality, affordable health care, company-funded pensions and wage increases, determined by local supplemental agreements, over three years...
Teamsters protest meddling by papers' ownership Philadelphia Daily News ...About 50 Teamsters protested in front of the Daily News and Inquirer building yesterday, complaining that company managers imperiled "journalistic integrity" - and therefore Teamster jobs - by meddling last week with news stories about the sale of Philadelphia Media Network.
Payroll-tax cut, unemployment benefits: Tentative deal reached Politico ...A tentative deal reached by senior House and Senate leaders, which appears poised to pass absent a last-minute snag, would prolong a payroll tax cut that benefits 160 million Americans, extend unemployment benefits and forestall rate cuts to doctors who treat Medicare patients...
Greece and the return of the economic 'death spiral' The Guardian ...The lesson of 2008 was that stimulus prevented a new Great Depression. Without similar drastic help, Greece will now default...
Teamsters union eyes Hostess strike if judge cuts pensions Associated Press ...The Teamsters union said Monday that its members at Wonder Bread and Twinkies maker Hostess Brands have voted to authorize a strike if a bankruptcy judge approves the company's request to cut their health care and pension benefits...
Teamsters strike Red Cross of Northern Ohio WTAM1100 ...Dozens of blood collection workers and mobile unit assistants for the American Red Cross in Northern Ohio are in front of the Red Cross building on Euclid Avenue holding signs that say "Red Cross Unfair. Tainted with Greed."...
Teamsters ratify contract at Memphis Kroger distribution center Memphis Commercial Appeal ...Kroger said the new agreement includes high-quality, affordable health care, company-funded pensions and wage increases, determined by local supplemental agreements, over three years...
Teamsters protest meddling by papers' ownership Philadelphia Daily News ...About 50 Teamsters protested in front of the Daily News and Inquirer building yesterday, complaining that company managers imperiled "journalistic integrity" - and therefore Teamster jobs - by meddling last week with news stories about the sale of Philadelphia Media Network.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Today's Teamster News 02.13.12
Senate Takes Up Prison Privatization NorthEscambia.com ...Today, the Florida Senate will take up or down votes on pending amendments, and try to get a bill on privatizing prisons in most of South of Florida ready for a floor vote...
David Koch's Non-Profit Flouts Law And Spends $700,000 Against Wisconsin Recall Alternet ...The Koch-founded Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit "charity" prohibited from intervening in political campaigns, is spending $700,000 on ads and holding events around Wisconsin that look like appeals to re-elect Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who is facing a recall election...
Trader Joe's Signs Fair Food Agreement On Tomatoes With Immokalee Workers Huffington Post ...The agreement requires the grocery store to pay a penny more per pound of tomatoes and to ensure better working conditions for tomato workers...
Greece MPs pass austerity plan amid violent protests BBC ...Greek MPs have approved a controversial package of austerity measures, demanded by the eurozone and IMF in return for a 130bn euro ($170bn; £110bn) bailout...
Break Up the Banks? Here’s an Alternative (opinion) New York Times ...If a shareholder invests a dollar in a big bank, why not make that shareholder liable for the first $1.50 — or more — of losses as insolvency approaches?...
Teamsters file improper practice against SCCC for asbestos removal Mid-Hudson News ...Union business agent Sandra Shaddock said 10 union employees may have been subject to asbestos while removing floor tiles from buildings at the Loch Sheldrake school...
David Koch's Non-Profit Flouts Law And Spends $700,000 Against Wisconsin Recall Alternet ...The Koch-founded Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit "charity" prohibited from intervening in political campaigns, is spending $700,000 on ads and holding events around Wisconsin that look like appeals to re-elect Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who is facing a recall election...
Trader Joe's Signs Fair Food Agreement On Tomatoes With Immokalee Workers Huffington Post ...The agreement requires the grocery store to pay a penny more per pound of tomatoes and to ensure better working conditions for tomato workers...
Greece MPs pass austerity plan amid violent protests BBC ...Greek MPs have approved a controversial package of austerity measures, demanded by the eurozone and IMF in return for a 130bn euro ($170bn; £110bn) bailout...
Break Up the Banks? Here’s an Alternative (opinion) New York Times ...If a shareholder invests a dollar in a big bank, why not make that shareholder liable for the first $1.50 — or more — of losses as insolvency approaches?...
Teamsters file improper practice against SCCC for asbestos removal Mid-Hudson News ...Union business agent Sandra Shaddock said 10 union employees may have been subject to asbestos while removing floor tiles from buildings at the Loch Sheldrake school...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Today's Teamster News 02.07.12
Gov. Walker says DA requested talks on John Doe probe Associated Press ...Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he voluntarily agreed to the Milwaukee County district attorney's request to meet with him about a secret investigation that so far has led to charges against five of Walker's former close aides and associates...
Critics right: No evidence to support privatizing state prisons (opinion) Palm Beach Post ...This plan, believed to be the largest prison privatization in U.S. history, is being rushed through without nearly the amount of study an overhaul of this magnitude merits...
Company Faces Forgery Charges in Mo. Foreclosures New York Times ...One of the largest companies that provided home foreclosure services to lenders across the nation, DocX, has been indicted on forgery charges by a Missouri grand jury — one of the few criminal actions to follow reports of widespread improprieties against homeowners...
For Sale: AIG's Subprime Bonds Wall Street Journal ...Five Wall Street banks have been invited to bid this week for another multibillion-dollar bundle of risky mortgage bonds held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a result of its 2008 rescue of American International Group Inc....
Greek protesters, police clash outside Parliament Associated Press ...Riot police fired tear gas to repel hundreds of anti-austerity protesters trying to break a cordon outside Parliament, but no arrests or injuries were reported and the clashes quickly subsided...
Danbury Moves Away from Traditional Pension Plans Danbury Patch ...The city's Teamster Union agreed to take raises of 0 percent, 2.25 percent, 2.75 percent and 2.75 percent for the contract it radified through July 1, 2015...
Critics right: No evidence to support privatizing state prisons (opinion) Palm Beach Post ...This plan, believed to be the largest prison privatization in U.S. history, is being rushed through without nearly the amount of study an overhaul of this magnitude merits...
Company Faces Forgery Charges in Mo. Foreclosures New York Times ...One of the largest companies that provided home foreclosure services to lenders across the nation, DocX, has been indicted on forgery charges by a Missouri grand jury — one of the few criminal actions to follow reports of widespread improprieties against homeowners...
For Sale: AIG's Subprime Bonds Wall Street Journal ...Five Wall Street banks have been invited to bid this week for another multibillion-dollar bundle of risky mortgage bonds held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a result of its 2008 rescue of American International Group Inc....
Greek protesters, police clash outside Parliament Associated Press ...Riot police fired tear gas to repel hundreds of anti-austerity protesters trying to break a cordon outside Parliament, but no arrests or injuries were reported and the clashes quickly subsided...
Danbury Moves Away from Traditional Pension Plans Danbury Patch ...The city's Teamster Union agreed to take raises of 0 percent, 2.25 percent, 2.75 percent and 2.75 percent for the contract it radified through July 1, 2015...
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Today's Teamster News 02.05.12
Legislature nears midpoint as houses divided SunSentinel.com ...Senate President Mike Haridopolos, by insisting on driving through the prison plan, risks losing his grip on his chamber...
Indiana's new law turns up the volume on 'right to work' debate in Michigan Legislature Associated Press ...The debate over whether Michigan should become a right-to-work state has intensified because of actions in a neighboring state...
Gov. Scott Walker to meet with DA about John Doe investigation Wisconsin Rapids Tribune ...Gov. Scott Walker said Friday evening that he will be "voluntarily meeting" with the prosecutor leading the secret John Doe investigation that already has brought charges against some of his top aides...
Occupy CPAC Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO ...With workshops like “Return of Big Labor: What Can We Learn from Wisconsin & Ohio,” and “Taking back Wall Street: The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street,” the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) descends on the nation’s capital February 9-11 and local labor activists are planning a DC lesson to ensure that the voice of the 99% are heard at this elite conservative gathering...
Agribusiness Fights to Allow Children to Work in Manure Pits Republic Report ...lobbying is just gross...
Snow plow drivers still negotiating with state KXLH.com ...The Teamsters are asking for more pay, a different work schedule, and a better reimbursement for health insurance. The employees haven't received a raise in 4 years. In December, the Teamsters voted to strike if they didn't get a deal...
Indiana's new law turns up the volume on 'right to work' debate in Michigan Legislature Associated Press ...The debate over whether Michigan should become a right-to-work state has intensified because of actions in a neighboring state...
Gov. Scott Walker to meet with DA about John Doe investigation Wisconsin Rapids Tribune ...Gov. Scott Walker said Friday evening that he will be "voluntarily meeting" with the prosecutor leading the secret John Doe investigation that already has brought charges against some of his top aides...
Occupy CPAC Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO ...With workshops like “Return of Big Labor: What Can We Learn from Wisconsin & Ohio,” and “Taking back Wall Street: The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street,” the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) descends on the nation’s capital February 9-11 and local labor activists are planning a DC lesson to ensure that the voice of the 99% are heard at this elite conservative gathering...
Agribusiness Fights to Allow Children to Work in Manure Pits Republic Report ...lobbying is just gross...
Snow plow drivers still negotiating with state KXLH.com ...The Teamsters are asking for more pay, a different work schedule, and a better reimbursement for health insurance. The employees haven't received a raise in 4 years. In December, the Teamsters voted to strike if they didn't get a deal...
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Today's Teamster News 02.04.12
Dockery to Senate bosses: Just the prison privatization facts, please Orlando Sentinel ...I have seen no convincing evidence that the state’s current private prisons are saving tax dollars...
How to fight Indiana’s “Right to Work” law Salon ...To survive after losing the fight in the statehouse, Indiana labor needs to win the fight in a thousand break rooms and living rooms – not just over whether it’s worth paying dues, but whether it’s worth joining the struggle...
Jan Brewer Recall Possible As Arizona Collective Bargaining Has Democrats, Unions Planning Protests Huffington Post ...State Democrats and union leaders said that plans are in place to launch Wisconsin-style measures in an effort to block the collective bargaining ban measures currently headed to a vote in the Republican-dominated Senate...
How Scott Walker and ALEC Plotted the Attack on Arizona's Unions The Nation ...Two days after Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected Governor John Kasich’s anti-labor agenda by a sixty-one to thirty-nine margin in a statewide referendum, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker jetted to Arizona to launch the next front in the national campaign to attack union rights...
Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama Huffington Post ...Charles Koch pledged $40 million and David pledged $20 million...
Teamsters reach agreement with Fieldbrook Foods Observer ...Some 350 production and maintenance workers at Fieldbrook Foods in Dunkirk will be working under a new contract ... (that) ...provides significant increases to wages and benefits...
How to fight Indiana’s “Right to Work” law Salon ...To survive after losing the fight in the statehouse, Indiana labor needs to win the fight in a thousand break rooms and living rooms – not just over whether it’s worth paying dues, but whether it’s worth joining the struggle...
Jan Brewer Recall Possible As Arizona Collective Bargaining Has Democrats, Unions Planning Protests Huffington Post ...State Democrats and union leaders said that plans are in place to launch Wisconsin-style measures in an effort to block the collective bargaining ban measures currently headed to a vote in the Republican-dominated Senate...
How Scott Walker and ALEC Plotted the Attack on Arizona's Unions The Nation ...Two days after Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected Governor John Kasich’s anti-labor agenda by a sixty-one to thirty-nine margin in a statewide referendum, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker jetted to Arizona to launch the next front in the national campaign to attack union rights...
Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama Huffington Post ...Charles Koch pledged $40 million and David pledged $20 million...
Teamsters reach agreement with Fieldbrook Foods Observer ...Some 350 production and maintenance workers at Fieldbrook Foods in Dunkirk will be working under a new contract ... (that) ...provides significant increases to wages and benefits...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Today's Teamster News 01.22.12
Indiana House Democrats could end boycott Monday Associated Press ...The Indiana House’s Democratic leader said Friday his boycotting members are willing to return at “high noon” Monday to begin debating a contentious right-to-work bill, although the ongoing dispute over whether a statewide referendum on the issue is constitutional could prevent legislative action...
Our view: Protect the public's money (opinion) St. Augustine.com ...While privatization may be a good idea, it is a bad idea when it is cloaked in so much secrecy that it smacks of backroom deals...
Tonette Walker, GOP leaders rally governor's supporters Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...For about three hours, a large crowd stood on packed snow and ice to show they were standing with the governor during the first large Republican rally of the recall season...
How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work New York Times ...Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products...
Did Mitt Romney really create jobs at Bain Capital? Christian Science Monitor ...Bain made $2.5 billion in profits on $1.1 billion invested in 77 separate deals. Of those 77 transactions, 22 percent ended with the firms in bankruptcy after the eighth year of the Bain investment...
Hunts Point produce workers vote for new contract Crain's New York Business ...Market employees vote yes by a 95% margin to a contract offering wage, pension and health care gains covering 1,300 people...
Our view: Protect the public's money (opinion) St. Augustine.com ...While privatization may be a good idea, it is a bad idea when it is cloaked in so much secrecy that it smacks of backroom deals...
Tonette Walker, GOP leaders rally governor's supporters Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...For about three hours, a large crowd stood on packed snow and ice to show they were standing with the governor during the first large Republican rally of the recall season...
How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work New York Times ...Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products...
Did Mitt Romney really create jobs at Bain Capital? Christian Science Monitor ...Bain made $2.5 billion in profits on $1.1 billion invested in 77 separate deals. Of those 77 transactions, 22 percent ended with the firms in bankruptcy after the eighth year of the Bain investment...
Hunts Point produce workers vote for new contract Crain's New York Business ...Market employees vote yes by a 95% margin to a contract offering wage, pension and health care gains covering 1,300 people...
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Today's Teamster News 01.19.12
Indiana Democrats show no sign of ending boycott Associated Press ...Most Indiana House Democrats aren’t showing signs of ending their boycott over the right-to-work bill despite threats of $1,000-a-day fines...
Prison privatization moves ahead tallahassee.com ..."I'm not here to argue about how I haven't had a pay raise since I started," Reshea Cherry, a six-year officer at Charlotte Correctional Institution, told the Senate Rules Committee. "I'm not here to argue about the rising cost of health insurance, or argue about how my brothers and sisters and myself have been assaulted on numerous occasions because of severe short-staffing...
Keystone XL Pipeline Seen Moving Ahead on Alternative Route Bloomberg ...TransCanada Corp.’s $7 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline still will move ahead with an alternate route after President Barack Obama’s decision to deny a permit, investors, public officials and analysts say...
U.S. High-tech Jobs Lost as Technological Lead Shrinks Trade Reform ...The United States lost 28 percent of its high-technology manufacturing jobs over the last decade, as the nation’s rapidly shrinking lead in science and technology in the global marketplace was accompanied by a toll on U.S. high-tech jobs, according to a new study released today by the National Science Board (NSB), the policy making body for the National Science Foundation...
Eurocrisis is a Global Crisis Real News Network ...People need to build their own political organizations that push for public banking and serious capital controls...
Teamsters Union Reaches Tentative Deal With Hunts Point Market NY1 News ...The Hunts Point Produce Trade Association and Teamsters Local 202, which represents about 1,300 members, have agreed on a contract that provides increased wages and health care benefits...
Prison privatization moves ahead tallahassee.com ..."I'm not here to argue about how I haven't had a pay raise since I started," Reshea Cherry, a six-year officer at Charlotte Correctional Institution, told the Senate Rules Committee. "I'm not here to argue about the rising cost of health insurance, or argue about how my brothers and sisters and myself have been assaulted on numerous occasions because of severe short-staffing...
Keystone XL Pipeline Seen Moving Ahead on Alternative Route Bloomberg ...TransCanada Corp.’s $7 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline still will move ahead with an alternate route after President Barack Obama’s decision to deny a permit, investors, public officials and analysts say...
U.S. High-tech Jobs Lost as Technological Lead Shrinks Trade Reform ...The United States lost 28 percent of its high-technology manufacturing jobs over the last decade, as the nation’s rapidly shrinking lead in science and technology in the global marketplace was accompanied by a toll on U.S. high-tech jobs, according to a new study released today by the National Science Board (NSB), the policy making body for the National Science Foundation...
Eurocrisis is a Global Crisis Real News Network ...People need to build their own political organizations that push for public banking and serious capital controls...
Teamsters Union Reaches Tentative Deal With Hunts Point Market NY1 News ...The Hunts Point Produce Trade Association and Teamsters Local 202, which represents about 1,300 members, have agreed on a contract that provides increased wages and health care benefits...
Monday, January 9, 2012
Today's Teamster News 01.09.11
Men have scored 97 percent of new jobs since mid-2009 New York Post ...Males in the workforce, who occupied 70 percent of the jobs cut during the recent economic downturn — prompting economists to dub it the “Mancession” — are now staging a monster comeback...
Should unemployment benefits come with strings attached? Washington Post ...In December, for instance, the payroll tax cut bill passed by the GOP House would have denied unemployment insurance to laid-off workers who didn’t have a high school diploma — unless those workers agreed to enroll in a GED program...
How Wall Street Turned a Crisis Into a Cartel Bloomberg ...The renewed power of the Wall Street cartel may be the worst consequence of the 2008 decision to rescue Wall Street rather than let it collapse under the weight of its broken business model...
Rally in opposition to Right-to-Work legislation draws crowd at C.K. Newsome Center Evansville Courier & Press ...Fiery speeches and exhortations to action by labor union supporters dominated a Sunday afternoon rally intended to help put a cork in fast-moving right-to-work legislation...
Walker recall signatures 'rolling in by the thousands' FDL Reporter ...they are on track to get 720,000 signatures for Walker...
Herald, Globe press ahead with printing deal Boston Herald ...Teamsters voted unanimously yesterday in favor of a plan that would further consolidate print and distribution operations at the competing papers, which already share some delivery services, and save 30 jobs...
Should unemployment benefits come with strings attached? Washington Post ...In December, for instance, the payroll tax cut bill passed by the GOP House would have denied unemployment insurance to laid-off workers who didn’t have a high school diploma — unless those workers agreed to enroll in a GED program...
How Wall Street Turned a Crisis Into a Cartel Bloomberg ...The renewed power of the Wall Street cartel may be the worst consequence of the 2008 decision to rescue Wall Street rather than let it collapse under the weight of its broken business model...
Rally in opposition to Right-to-Work legislation draws crowd at C.K. Newsome Center Evansville Courier & Press ...Fiery speeches and exhortations to action by labor union supporters dominated a Sunday afternoon rally intended to help put a cork in fast-moving right-to-work legislation...
Walker recall signatures 'rolling in by the thousands' FDL Reporter ...they are on track to get 720,000 signatures for Walker...
Herald, Globe press ahead with printing deal Boston Herald ...Teamsters voted unanimously yesterday in favor of a plan that would further consolidate print and distribution operations at the competing papers, which already share some delivery services, and save 30 jobs...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Today's Teamster News 01.03.12
The penny finally drops. Pay people properly and you will get better results The Independent ...A decade of hard graft by Living Wage campaigners has forced employers to recognise that higher salaries boost productivity...
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: 2012 could be the year Germany lets the euro die (opinion) The Telegraph ...All policy levers are set on deep recession, and deep recession is what Europe will get...
Prayer group gets waiver on Statehouse access Associated Press ...(Indiana) AFL-CIO Spokesman Jeff Harris said the special access is part of an effort to limit public debate at the Statehouse. "I think it's just incredible that the state is now in the position to pick and choose who gets access to the Statehouse,"...
Montana High Court Says 'Citizens United' Does Not Apply In Big Sky State Move To Amend ...Montana’s Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional rights to directly spend money on ‘independent expenditures’ in campaigns...
Governor Walker Is Not Actually a Good Person Esquire ...It's going to be hilarious watching this guy flounder through the next several months. He may wind up signing one of his own recall petitions before it's through...
Hampton reaches contract deal with Teamsters Seacoast Online ... the agreement for the Teamsters ... calls for a 2.5 percent increase in wages over a two-year period.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: 2012 could be the year Germany lets the euro die (opinion) The Telegraph ...All policy levers are set on deep recession, and deep recession is what Europe will get...
Prayer group gets waiver on Statehouse access Associated Press ...(Indiana) AFL-CIO Spokesman Jeff Harris said the special access is part of an effort to limit public debate at the Statehouse. "I think it's just incredible that the state is now in the position to pick and choose who gets access to the Statehouse,"...
Montana High Court Says 'Citizens United' Does Not Apply In Big Sky State Move To Amend ...Montana’s Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional rights to directly spend money on ‘independent expenditures’ in campaigns...
Governor Walker Is Not Actually a Good Person Esquire ...It's going to be hilarious watching this guy flounder through the next several months. He may wind up signing one of his own recall petitions before it's through...
Hampton reaches contract deal with Teamsters Seacoast Online ... the agreement for the Teamsters ... calls for a 2.5 percent increase in wages over a two-year period.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Today's Teamster News 12.28.11
Homeowner wins $21MILLION payout from mortgage firm in dispute over credit rating Daily Mail ...U.S. Army sergeant David Brash has won more than $21million in damages from PHH Mortgage after it falsely claimed he defaulted on his loan...
House prices fell to new post-bubble lows in October Calculated Risk ...these indexes will hit new lows in the next few months since prices are falling again...
Jed S. Rakoff: Federal District Judge Of New York's Southern District (The Inspirationals) Huffington Post ...it is a measure of how timid our politics have become that this federal judge is widely viewed as the only man in government with the cojones to take on the banking corporations that nearly destroyed the American economy in 2008 and that seem, for the most part, unrepentant...
LETTER: Poverty rises in right-to-work states The Republic ...seven of the 10 states with the highest unemployment rate are right-to-work states...
Four inmates escape cell, stab man, officials say Merced Sun-Star ...Several Norteño gang members broke free of their cell and attacked an inmate worker Monday night at the Merced County Jail, officials said, an ordeal that some think is a result of lowered staffing at the jail...
Oscar Makers in Chicago Ratify New Contract Local 743 ...Fifty Teamsters with R.S. Owens & Company in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first new contract in four years. The three-year agreement includes the workers' first new wage increases since 2006...
House prices fell to new post-bubble lows in October Calculated Risk ...these indexes will hit new lows in the next few months since prices are falling again...
Jed S. Rakoff: Federal District Judge Of New York's Southern District (The Inspirationals) Huffington Post ...it is a measure of how timid our politics have become that this federal judge is widely viewed as the only man in government with the cojones to take on the banking corporations that nearly destroyed the American economy in 2008 and that seem, for the most part, unrepentant...
LETTER: Poverty rises in right-to-work states The Republic ...seven of the 10 states with the highest unemployment rate are right-to-work states...
Four inmates escape cell, stab man, officials say Merced Sun-Star ...Several Norteño gang members broke free of their cell and attacked an inmate worker Monday night at the Merced County Jail, officials said, an ordeal that some think is a result of lowered staffing at the jail...
Oscar Makers in Chicago Ratify New Contract Local 743 ...Fifty Teamsters with R.S. Owens & Company in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first new contract in four years. The three-year agreement includes the workers' first new wage increases since 2006...
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Today's Teamster News 12.24.11
The Big Lie Grows (explainer) informingthe99percent ...Fannie and Freddie got into the game at some point -- but it was a game that had been invented by Wall Street years earlier...
Chart of the Day: International Manufacturing Compensation Costs Compared Credit Writedowns ...Great data from the BLS comparing hourly compensation for manufacturing...
Voters leaving Republican, Democratic parties in droves USA Today ...Registered Democrats still dominate the political playing field with more than 42 million voters, compared to 30 million Republicans and 24 million independents. But Democrats have lost the most — 1.7 million, or 3.9%, from 2008...
Justice Department blocks South Carolina's voter identification law The Hill ...Eight states have passed similar laws in recent months: Wisconsin, Mississippi, Texas, Kansas, Alabama, Rhode Island, and Tennessee...
'Right to work' will hurt every Hoosier in the workplace (opinion) South Bend Tribune ...there is nothing simple or innocent about a proposal with a documented history of cutting pay for workers, reducing the benefits they earn to support their families and reducing safety in the places where they work...
Teamsters’ 3-year pact has 3% hikes Buffalo News ...Elma town employees who belong to the Teamsters will get a 3 percent salary increase in each of the next three years and an increased clothing allowance, under a contract ratified this week by the Town Board...
Chart of the Day: International Manufacturing Compensation Costs Compared Credit Writedowns ...Great data from the BLS comparing hourly compensation for manufacturing...
Voters leaving Republican, Democratic parties in droves USA Today ...Registered Democrats still dominate the political playing field with more than 42 million voters, compared to 30 million Republicans and 24 million independents. But Democrats have lost the most — 1.7 million, or 3.9%, from 2008...
Justice Department blocks South Carolina's voter identification law The Hill ...Eight states have passed similar laws in recent months: Wisconsin, Mississippi, Texas, Kansas, Alabama, Rhode Island, and Tennessee...
'Right to work' will hurt every Hoosier in the workplace (opinion) South Bend Tribune ...there is nothing simple or innocent about a proposal with a documented history of cutting pay for workers, reducing the benefits they earn to support their families and reducing safety in the places where they work...
Teamsters’ 3-year pact has 3% hikes Buffalo News ...Elma town employees who belong to the Teamsters will get a 3 percent salary increase in each of the next three years and an increased clothing allowance, under a contract ratified this week by the Town Board...
Friday, December 23, 2011
Today's Teamster News 12.23.11
Boehner Signs On to U.S. Payroll Tax Deal Bloomberg ...The deal also averts an end to emergency unemployment benefits set to expire on Dec. 31 and assures doctors their Medicare reimbursement rates won’t be reduced starting in January...
Retailers Are Slashing Prices Ahead of Holiday New York Times ...While scattered markdowns are standard every year, discounts across entire stores — which analysts say are more widespread than last year — suggest merchants are stuck with too much merchandise...
Occupy Fort Lauderdales Saves Bein-Aime Family From Eviction Huffington Post ...The Bien-Aime family of seven have been fighting with Wells Fargo bank, who they say are refusing to accept payments. Occupy Fort Lauderdale protestors set up a protest outside family's Coconut Creek home on Monday and received confirmation later that day that the eviction had been postponed...
Cities that broke up Occupy camps now face lawsuits over free speech, use of force Associated Press ...Most major Occupy encampments have been dispersed, but they live on in a flurry of lawsuits in which protesters are asserting their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly and challenging authorities’ mass arrests and use of force to break up tent cities...
Gov. Walker dominates the air waves early in push to burnish his image Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...At the outset of Wisconsin’s historic recall fight, GOP Gov. Scott Walker and his allies are outspending the other side on television by a margin of roughly 4-to-1, an advantage he’s expected to maintain in the weeks ahead...
Greensburg holds taxes steady, OKs union pacts Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ...The Teamsters' contract calls for annual average raises of 3 percent for the first, fourth and fifth years of the agreement, and 2.5 percent for the second and third years...
Retailers Are Slashing Prices Ahead of Holiday New York Times ...While scattered markdowns are standard every year, discounts across entire stores — which analysts say are more widespread than last year — suggest merchants are stuck with too much merchandise...
Occupy Fort Lauderdales Saves Bein-Aime Family From Eviction Huffington Post ...The Bien-Aime family of seven have been fighting with Wells Fargo bank, who they say are refusing to accept payments. Occupy Fort Lauderdale protestors set up a protest outside family's Coconut Creek home on Monday and received confirmation later that day that the eviction had been postponed...
Cities that broke up Occupy camps now face lawsuits over free speech, use of force Associated Press ...Most major Occupy encampments have been dispersed, but they live on in a flurry of lawsuits in which protesters are asserting their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly and challenging authorities’ mass arrests and use of force to break up tent cities...
Gov. Walker dominates the air waves early in push to burnish his image Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...At the outset of Wisconsin’s historic recall fight, GOP Gov. Scott Walker and his allies are outspending the other side on television by a margin of roughly 4-to-1, an advantage he’s expected to maintain in the weeks ahead...
Greensburg holds taxes steady, OKs union pacts Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ...The Teamsters' contract calls for annual average raises of 3 percent for the first, fourth and fifth years of the agreement, and 2.5 percent for the second and third years...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Today's Teamster News 12.22.11
“We Own Wall Street” Slate ...How small shareholders, pension funds, and mutual funds can stop corporate America’s worst behavior and ignite a political movement...
The eurozone crisis is not about market discipline al-Jazeera ...The crisis should be recognised for what it really is: a class war waged on workers in Europe...
At Wal-Mart a Microcosm of U.S. Inequalities: Jeffrey Goldberg Bloomberg ...I’ve never heard even the faintest suggestion that she has taken an interest in the lives of the people who work at her father’s stores...
Union: Show proof of missed jobs NWI Times ...The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 is calling for Indiana Republican leaders who support right-to-work to show and prove claims that the state is missing job opportunities as a result of not having the law...
‘Recall The KochSucker Now’ – Walker, A Motel And Free Speech Addicting Info ...“There have been some vocal critics (of the sign), but also, there has been overwhelming support,” said Marcie Dachik, co-owner of the Four Winds Motel...
Teamster's pension fund sues HRH Construction, others The Real Deal New York ...The trustees of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 282 pension fund filed a complaint Dec. 10 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in White Plains claiming HRH used shell corporations to avoid making payments they say are required through industry-wide collective bargaining agreements...
Hostess filing in mix? Ch. 11 filing seen? New York Post ...The tipping point: Hostess maintains it cannot afford to stay current on its $700 million in outstanding loans and keep contributing to the unions’ pension plans, sources said...
The eurozone crisis is not about market discipline al-Jazeera ...The crisis should be recognised for what it really is: a class war waged on workers in Europe...
At Wal-Mart a Microcosm of U.S. Inequalities: Jeffrey Goldberg Bloomberg ...I’ve never heard even the faintest suggestion that she has taken an interest in the lives of the people who work at her father’s stores...
Union: Show proof of missed jobs NWI Times ...The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 is calling for Indiana Republican leaders who support right-to-work to show and prove claims that the state is missing job opportunities as a result of not having the law...
‘Recall The KochSucker Now’ – Walker, A Motel And Free Speech Addicting Info ...“There have been some vocal critics (of the sign), but also, there has been overwhelming support,” said Marcie Dachik, co-owner of the Four Winds Motel...
Teamster's pension fund sues HRH Construction, others The Real Deal New York ...The trustees of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 282 pension fund filed a complaint Dec. 10 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in White Plains claiming HRH used shell corporations to avoid making payments they say are required through industry-wide collective bargaining agreements...
Hostess filing in mix? Ch. 11 filing seen? New York Post ...The tipping point: Hostess maintains it cannot afford to stay current on its $700 million in outstanding loans and keep contributing to the unions’ pension plans, sources said...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Today's Teamster News 12.21.11
3 Million Could Lose Jobless Pay in Impasse New York Times ...Jobless benefits have been overshadowed by debate on a payroll tax cut, but have become a huge sticking point in negotiations on a bill that deals with both issues...
BofA Shares Fall Below $5 for First Time Since March 2009 Bloomberg ...Bank of America Corp. (BAC), the second- biggest U.S. lender, fell below $5 in New York trading for the first time since March 2009 amid concern that Europe’s debt crisis will be a drag on the world’s financial system...
Mass March by Cairo Women in Protest Over Abuse by Soldiers New York Times ...Several thousand women demanding the end of military rule marched through downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening in an extraordinary expression of anger over images of soldiers beating, stripping and kicking female demonstrators in Tahrir Square...
People’s Convention of Florida drafts proposals for 2012 session The Florida Independent ...Occupy Wall Street-inspired groups from around the state have begun to draft proposals to be handed to House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, on the first day of the Florida legislative session, Jan. 10...
Frustration over recall Walker signatures causing problems WTMJ ...With less than 30 days to go before the deadline to collect recall signatures one thing both sides can agree on is that it's getting down right nasty and dangerous out on the streets...
Alta Dena Dairy Workers Ratify Strong First Contract Locals 630 and 166 ...Drivers, production workers and equipment and maintenance mechanics at Alta Dena Dairy in City of Industry, Calif. ratified their first contract since joining Teamsters Locals 630 & 166 in Southern California in September 2011 through card recognition...
BofA Shares Fall Below $5 for First Time Since March 2009 Bloomberg ...Bank of America Corp. (BAC), the second- biggest U.S. lender, fell below $5 in New York trading for the first time since March 2009 amid concern that Europe’s debt crisis will be a drag on the world’s financial system...
Mass March by Cairo Women in Protest Over Abuse by Soldiers New York Times ...Several thousand women demanding the end of military rule marched through downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening in an extraordinary expression of anger over images of soldiers beating, stripping and kicking female demonstrators in Tahrir Square...
People’s Convention of Florida drafts proposals for 2012 session The Florida Independent ...Occupy Wall Street-inspired groups from around the state have begun to draft proposals to be handed to House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, on the first day of the Florida legislative session, Jan. 10...
Frustration over recall Walker signatures causing problems WTMJ ...With less than 30 days to go before the deadline to collect recall signatures one thing both sides can agree on is that it's getting down right nasty and dangerous out on the streets...
Alta Dena Dairy Workers Ratify Strong First Contract Locals 630 and 166 ...Drivers, production workers and equipment and maintenance mechanics at Alta Dena Dairy in City of Industry, Calif. ratified their first contract since joining Teamsters Locals 630 & 166 in Southern California in September 2011 through card recognition...
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