Teamster News
Anheuser-Busch, Teamsters Reach Deal Wall Street Journal ...Anheuser-Busch InBev NV's union workers Wednesday ratified a five-year contract that called for wage increases and no plant closings, officials from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said in a statement posted on the union's website...
Abbotsford Teamsters And School District Reach Tentative Agreement BC Local News ...A tentative agreement has been reached between the Abbotsford school district and its support staff represented by Teamsters Local 31. Negotiators from both sides met today in Abbotsford and worked out the agreement...
Port Truck Drivers Alleging Wage Theft End Two-Day Picket Los Angeles Times ...A two-day protest by truck drivers who haul freight in and out of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach ended Wednesday, organizers said...
AGY Plant Members On Strike WJBY ...Members of a local Teamsters union are on strike after a failure in contract negotiations. The workers are picketing in front of the AGY Plant in Aiken. AGY makes fiberglass, and is located at 2556 Wagener Road...
Teamsters propose shareholder moves to limit Moyes' power at Swift Land Line ...The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has set its sights on trucking giant Swift Transportation and Chief Executive Officer Jerry Moyes...
Trade
Froman Takes Heat from Senators for a TPP that Does Not Promote "Our Values" Public Citizen ...If the TPP promotes our values, what does that say about our values? Do we value the ability of pharmaceutical corporations to reap monopoly profits during extended patent periods over the ability of cancer and HIV patients to access affordable medicines? Do we value the ability of banks to engage in high-risk trading over the financial stability of a nation?...
Open Letter To Obama Against The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement MrZine (Monthly Review Foundation) ...Dear President Obama, a part of me wants to say "Welcome to Malaysia" as we Malaysians are generally a hospitable people, and many of us were thrilled when you became the 44th President of the United States...
State Battles
Joan Banks, guest columnist: Right-to-work isn’t what’s right for Missouri The Joplin Globe ...“Right-to-work” is a deliberately misleading phrase intended to appeal to two basic American values: rights and work. Here’s what it’s actually about: The law would make it optional for workers to pay dues to a union in a company in which the workers are protected by a union contract while allowing those who don’t belong to the union to reap the benefits of the contract...
Seattle Mayor Details Plan for $15 Minimum Wage New York Times ...Mayor Ed Murray presented on Thursday what he described as an imperfect but workable plan to increase the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, more than twice the federal minimum wage and one of the highest anywhere in the nation, through a series of complex and phased-in stages...
Wisconsin Growth Forecasted to Decline; Kansas Flat Econbrowser ...Wisconsin growth is forecasted to decelerate from March growth rates, while Kansas forecasted growth is near zero since the beginning of the year...
War On Workers
Economy nearly stalls out Associated Press ...The U.S. economy slowed to a crawl in the first three months of the year as a harsh winter exacted a toll on business activity. The slowdown, while worse than expected, is likely to be temporary as growth rebounds with warmer weather...
My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal Time ...Once those companies have that personal data, users don’t have any control over where it goes or who might have access to it in the future. And unlike the early days of the Internet, in which digital interactions were ephemeral, today’s Internet services have considerable economic incentives to track and remember—indefinitely...
Astonishing video of a street collapsing in Baltimore Washington Post ...May 1, 2014 6:31 PM EDT — Dramatic footage shows a landslide swallowing part of a street and at least 10 cars in Baltimore on Wednesday...
SEC Chair Says Markets Are Not Rigged Versus SEC Diagram Showing How the Market Is Rigged Wall Street on Parade ...A few years ago Supreme Court made a ruling that corporations are people and they can spend money any where they want…many of us asked the SEC to address that issue — to simply require corporations who make political donations to simply publicize them — and the SEC has now taken a walk on that request after several years of being asked...
Miscellaneous
This Island Is The First In The World To Be Fully Powered By Wind And Water Think Progress ...The smallest and southernmost of Spain's Canary Islands is about to make an outsized mark on the path towards a more renewable energy powered future...
Showing posts with label corporate governance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corporate governance. Show all posts
Friday, May 2, 2014
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Today's Teamster News 02.18.14
Trade
Here's Why Foreign Investors Are Trying to Buy American Farmland Take Part ...wealthy international investors and corporations are buying up much of America’s usable land at astronomical prices per acre, turning the farmers into their tenants or repurposing the land altogether...
State Battles
After Historic UAW Defeat at Tennessee Volkswagen Plant, Theories Abound In These Times ...interviews with both pro-union and anti-union workers—as well as low-level Volkswagen supervisors, top UAW officials and community activists—point to a confluence of factors, including outside interference by GOP politicians and unsanctioned anti-union activity by low-level supervisors. Some questioned, too, whether missteps by the UAW and concerns about its prior bargaining agreements played a role...
'Joe the Plumber' Wurzelbacher gets union job with Chrysler Group Toledo Blade ...Mr. Wurzelbacher, 40, of Springfield Township, who once was vilified as an "unlicensed plumber," said he was on his fourth day today and taking a smoke break at the time, when he was accosted by a co-worker as a “teabagger,” a derogatory term used for Tea Party members...
The War on Workers
Businesses Going Into “All Surveillance All the Time” Mode in Pursuit of More Productivity Naked Capitalism ...Another pioneering outfit is Sociometric Solutions, which puts sensors in name badges to discover social dynamics at work. The badges monitor how employees move around the workplace, who they talk to and in what tone of voice...
Making Retirements Less Secure (opinion) New York Times ...It is easy to see why companies are switching to lump-sum contributions: It saves them money...
What can unite liberals and tea partyers? The NSA Associated Press ...By exposing the NSA's vast surveillance web, Snowden created a link between tea partyers and liberals รข€” two tribes camped on opposite sides of the nation's political chasm...
Corporate Cronyism: The Secret to Overpaid CEOs truthout ...we have people like Erskine Bowles who had the distinction of sitting on the boards of both Morgan Stanley and General Motors in the years they were bailed out by the government. And we have Martin Feldstein, the country's most prominent conservative economist, who sat on the board of insurance giant AIG when it nearly tanked the world's financial system. Both Bowles and Feldstein were well-compensated for their "work."...
Miscellaneous
Obama to take next step in fuel efficiency for trucks CNN Politics ...Obama will direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Transportation Department to propose a new standards for post-2018 model years...
EXCLUSIVE: National clown shortage may be approaching, trade organizations fear New York Daily News ...As the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus returns to Brooklyn Thursday, membership at the country's largest clown organizations has plunged over the past decade amid declining interest, old age and higher standards for the jokesters...
Here's Why Foreign Investors Are Trying to Buy American Farmland Take Part ...wealthy international investors and corporations are buying up much of America’s usable land at astronomical prices per acre, turning the farmers into their tenants or repurposing the land altogether...
State Battles
After Historic UAW Defeat at Tennessee Volkswagen Plant, Theories Abound In These Times ...interviews with both pro-union and anti-union workers—as well as low-level Volkswagen supervisors, top UAW officials and community activists—point to a confluence of factors, including outside interference by GOP politicians and unsanctioned anti-union activity by low-level supervisors. Some questioned, too, whether missteps by the UAW and concerns about its prior bargaining agreements played a role...
'Joe the Plumber' Wurzelbacher gets union job with Chrysler Group Toledo Blade ...Mr. Wurzelbacher, 40, of Springfield Township, who once was vilified as an "unlicensed plumber," said he was on his fourth day today and taking a smoke break at the time, when he was accosted by a co-worker as a “teabagger,” a derogatory term used for Tea Party members...
The War on Workers
Businesses Going Into “All Surveillance All the Time” Mode in Pursuit of More Productivity Naked Capitalism ...Another pioneering outfit is Sociometric Solutions, which puts sensors in name badges to discover social dynamics at work. The badges monitor how employees move around the workplace, who they talk to and in what tone of voice...
Making Retirements Less Secure (opinion) New York Times ...It is easy to see why companies are switching to lump-sum contributions: It saves them money...
What can unite liberals and tea partyers? The NSA Associated Press ...By exposing the NSA's vast surveillance web, Snowden created a link between tea partyers and liberals รข€” two tribes camped on opposite sides of the nation's political chasm...
Corporate Cronyism: The Secret to Overpaid CEOs truthout ...we have people like Erskine Bowles who had the distinction of sitting on the boards of both Morgan Stanley and General Motors in the years they were bailed out by the government. And we have Martin Feldstein, the country's most prominent conservative economist, who sat on the board of insurance giant AIG when it nearly tanked the world's financial system. Both Bowles and Feldstein were well-compensated for their "work."...
Miscellaneous
Obama to take next step in fuel efficiency for trucks CNN Politics ...Obama will direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Transportation Department to propose a new standards for post-2018 model years...
EXCLUSIVE: National clown shortage may be approaching, trade organizations fear New York Daily News ...As the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus returns to Brooklyn Thursday, membership at the country's largest clown organizations has plunged over the past decade amid declining interest, old age and higher standards for the jokesters...
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Today's Teamster News 07.26.12
Senate passes bill to keep tax cuts for the middle class Washington Post ...The Senate on Wednesday narrowly approved a plan to preserve tax cuts for the middle class while letting them expire for the wealthy, a powerful if largely symbolic victory for Democrats who have been pushing to raise taxes on the rich for more than a decade...
Reliance on imports leaves U.S. vulnerable to disasters, report says Washington Post ...The report, which (former homeland security secretary Tom) Ridge shared with homeland security officials Tuesday morning, warns that the offshoring of U.S. factories means that rebounding from a catastrophe will be more difficult because so many critical supplies would have to come from overseas...
Public pension funds to face calls to set realistic targets Reuters ...At least three of the nation's largest U.S. public pension funds have already announced returns of between 1 percent and 1.8 percent, far below the 8 percent that large funds have typically targeted...
Wisconsin second worst in construction job losses Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...the employment is likely to remain flat or shrink if federal and state officials continue to pull back on large infrastructure projects, Simonson said...
Waste Management drivers strike; trash, recycling collection halted Seattle TImes ...Garbage, recycling and yard-waste pickup for most of Waste Management's 220,000 customers in King and South Snohomish counties stopped Wednesday when Teamsters went on strike against the region's largest refuse service over wage and benefits issues...
McKesson Shareholders Back Teamsters' Call For Independent Chairman - Quick Fact Nasdaq ...McKesson investors have been concerned with board oversight since 1999, when the company was the center of an accounting fraud that resulted in a single day loss of $9 billion of shareholder value and paid out nearly $1 billion in shareholder lawsuit settlements...
Reliance on imports leaves U.S. vulnerable to disasters, report says Washington Post ...The report, which (former homeland security secretary Tom) Ridge shared with homeland security officials Tuesday morning, warns that the offshoring of U.S. factories means that rebounding from a catastrophe will be more difficult because so many critical supplies would have to come from overseas...
Public pension funds to face calls to set realistic targets Reuters ...At least three of the nation's largest U.S. public pension funds have already announced returns of between 1 percent and 1.8 percent, far below the 8 percent that large funds have typically targeted...
Wisconsin second worst in construction job losses Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...the employment is likely to remain flat or shrink if federal and state officials continue to pull back on large infrastructure projects, Simonson said...
Waste Management drivers strike; trash, recycling collection halted Seattle TImes ...Garbage, recycling and yard-waste pickup for most of Waste Management's 220,000 customers in King and South Snohomish counties stopped Wednesday when Teamsters went on strike against the region's largest refuse service over wage and benefits issues...
McKesson Shareholders Back Teamsters' Call For Independent Chairman - Quick Fact Nasdaq ...McKesson investors have been concerned with board oversight since 1999, when the company was the center of an accounting fraud that resulted in a single day loss of $9 billion of shareholder value and paid out nearly $1 billion in shareholder lawsuit settlements...
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