TEAMSTERS
Union Leader: Don’t Remove Metal Detectors From NYC Schools WLNY ...Gregory Floyd of Teamsters Local 237 said that metal detectors used in schools serve as an effective deterrent for children seeking to bring weapons into the classroom, 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa reported...
Canada Council Of Teamsters Ratifies Five-Year Agreement With UPS Stockhouse ...UPS Canada (NYSE:UPS) is pleased to announce that a tentative agreement with the Canada Council of Teamsters has been ratified. This results in a new five-year agreement covering approximately 7,000 employees throughout Canada...
On Eve Of Strike Vote, UPS Pilots Get Teamsters Support Logistics Management ...What’s more, leadership at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said today that General President James Hoffa and General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall told the IPA’s President Captain Robert Travis in a letter that “if a strike is necessary, we will not cross your lines, but will stand with you on them.”...
Maine AFL-CIO Talks Minimum Wage Hikes At Biennial Convention WCSH ..."When we bring the bottom up that benefits everyone," explained Traci Place, a delegate for the Teamsters Local 340. "They spend that money in the community, the municipalities have more money the businesses have more money and that brings everybody up and how can that be bad."...
Agreement Ratified At UPS Teamsters Canada ...Eighty-one percent of the UPS workers who voted were in favour of ratifying the tentative agreement negotiated between Teamsters Canada and company management on September 24...
Parking Members To Receive Additional Sick/Personal Day Teamsters Local 727 ...Teamsters Local 727-represented parking members soon will receive an additional sick/personal day, per the collective bargaining agreement...
GLOBAL LABOR & TRADE
TPP Would Allow Milk From Cows Receiving Hormones Into Canada CBC ...As dairy imports from the United States appear set to increase under the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, Canadian consumers concerned about drinking milk from cows receiving hormones will need to read their labels more carefully...
Meet CETA, TTIP’s Dangerous Cousin Left Foot Forward ...One year ago Canada and the EU finalized a trade deal known as CETA (the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement). If you haven’t heard of CETA, what you need to know is simple – it’s like TTIP but coming sooner...
TTIP: EU negotiators appear to break environmental pledge in leaked draft The Guardian ...The EU appears to have broken a promise to reinforce environmental protections in a leaked draft negotiating text submitted in the latest round of TTIP talks in Miami.. In January, the bloc promised to safeguard green laws, defend international standards and protect the EU’s right to set high levels of environmental protection...
'Mass Struggle Works': South African Student Uprising Wins Tuition Freeze Common Dreams ...Facing the largest student uprisings since South Africans toppled apartheid, President Jacob Zuma pledged Friday to freeze tuition fees in the year 2016—prompting declarations of victory, as well as calls to continue the mass mobilizations until full racial and economic equality is won...
Spaniards protest against austerity policies World Bulletin ...Students, health workers and members of trade unions took part in a demonstration dubbed as “Marches for Dignity” on Thursday, shouting for “bread, employment, roof and dignity.” according to a report in PressTV. Education Minister José Ignacio Wert Ortega resigned in July following massive student demonstrations held across the country. But his policy, known as the 3+2 Decree, is still in place...
Obama Administration Softens Criticism of China’s Currency Policy Wall Street Journal ...The U.S. Treasury Department, in its semiannual report on currencies Monday, said the yuan is “below its appropriate medium-term valuation.” In the previous report it said the currency was “significantly undervalued.”...
STATE & LIVING WAGE BATTLES
Right To Work Proposal Introduced In Ohio Bucyrus Telegraph Forum ...A Cincinnati lawmaker introduced his plan to bring a right-to-work law to Ohio despite opposition from fellow Republicans...
Even The Most Elite Women Are Subject To The Gender Pay Gap Huffington Post ...A business degree, even from one from a top school in the country, won't be enough to protect women from the gender gap in compensation...
Massachusetts Coffee Chain Fined $47,000 For Breaking Child Labor Laws, Stealing Tips Boston Globe ...The Massachusetts coffee shop chain Dippin’ Donuts has been fined $47,000 for violating state child labor laws and stealing tips from hourly workers, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Thursday...
Kansas City Council Repeals Minimum Wage Hike But Urges Statewide Increase Kansas City Star ...Blocked by state lawmakers from raising the minimum wage within city limits, the Kansas City Council on Thursday repealed legislation it passed last summer that would have done just that...
Proposal Would Raise Minimum-Wage To $12 An Hour Columbus Dispatch ...Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today certified the language for a proposed constitutional amendment to provide automatic annual increases in the state minimum wage through 2021...
U.S. LABOR
UAW files petition to organize VW's maintenance workers Nooga ...United Auto Workers Local 42 has filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking an election in hopes of representing maintenance employees at Volkswagen Chattanooga, and ultimately gaining collective bargaining powers...
SEIU, IBEW Locals in New Hampshire Announce Bernie Sanders Endorsement In These Times ...A pair of union locals in New Hampshire, home to the first primary of the 2016 election cycle, endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders as their candidate for president this week. On Wednesday, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local Union 490 endorsed Sanders, with local executive Denis Beaudoin saying that members at meetings spoke overwhelmingly in favor of the endorsement...
Clinton Scores Key Endorsement From Public-Employee Union NPR ...The nation's largest public-employee union is backing Hillary Clinton for president. The board of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees voted to endorse the former senator and secretary of State on Friday. Clinton said in a statement of her own that she was "honored" to get AFSCME's endorsement...
From Construction To Exotic Dancing, Worker Misclassification Is Everywhere Washington City Paper ...If a company hires a person to stand near a construction site and direct traffic, is the worker in business for himself? If a company can fire a consultant without warning, is the worker really an independent contractor? Is a strip club still a strip club without exotic dancers? D.C.-area workers are asking these questions—and many more—as they allege the companies they consider their employers have misclassified them as independent contractors...
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND OTHER NEWS
ACLU Accuses Biloxi Of Running Debtors' Prison In Lawsuit Seeking To 'Dismantle Two-Tiered System Of Justice' Common Dreams ...The American Civil Liberties Union has accused Biloxi, Miss. of operating "a modern day debtors' prison," filing a lawsuit on Wednesday charging that the city, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, jails impoverished people for unpaid fines and fees they are unable to pay...
Iceland Just Jailed Dozens Of Corrupt Bankers For 74 Years, The Opposite Of What America Does AlterNet ...In stark contrast to the record low number of prosecutions of CEO’s and high-level financial executives in the U.S., Iceland has just sentenced 26 bankers to a combined 74 years in prison...
Pharma Bro Gets Taught A Necessary Lesson By The Free Market Think Progress ...A drug company plans on introducing the first competitor to Daraprim, the parasitic-fighting drug that’s met national controversy for its skyrocketing price tag. The company, Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, says its new drug will be available for only $1 a tablet — a stark difference from Daraprim’s $750...
Texas Officials Raid Several Planned Parenthood Offices, Demand Addresses Of Employees AlterNet ...Texas sent agents to Planned Parenthood facilities on Thursday seeking documents, the group said, calling it a "politically motivated" move that comes on the heels of the state's Republican leaders barring it from receiving Medicaid money...
Revised Swaps Rule To Spare Big Banks Billions In Collateral Bloomberg Business ...Wall Street banks will escape billions of dollars in additional collateral costs after U.S. regulators softened a rule that would have made their derivatives activities much more expensive...
Tennessee County Overwhelmingly Votes Down Plan To Raise Confederate Flag NBC News ...A Tennessee county voted overwhelmingly Monday night against a plan by one commissioner to raise the Confederate flag above the county's courthouse...
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Friday, October 23, 2015
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Today's Teamster News 04.17.14
Teamster News
Chicago Art Handlers Vote To Become Teamsters, 4/25 Art World News ...Art handlers with Mana-Terry Dowd LLC may set an industry precedent by being the first employees of a major art transportation company in Chicago to unionize...
Teamsters drop grievance against inmates doing pothole patching Youngstown Vindicator ...Sheriff Jerry Greene said today that county Engineer Patrick Ginnetti received a letter from the Teamsters’ union on Tuesday, saying the union was withdrawing the grievance because of the extreme winter weather the county has recently experienced and in the interest of public safety...
Trade
U.S. Allows Japan To Exclude Rice In Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations Oryza ...The U.S. has allowed Japan to exclude rice in Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, but has asked the Japanese government to increase imports of U.S. rice, according to local sources...
State Battles
State GAB vote approved probe into Scott Walker recall Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Former judges on the state Government Accountability Board voted unanimously last year to authorize the investigation of fundraising and spending by Gov. Scott Walker's campaign and his allies during the recent recall elections, according to a Tuesday court filing...
U.S. States Revive Debtors’ Prisons firedoglake ...More and more states have revived the debtors prison, albeit in a specific form, locking people up for failure to pay court costs and fees...
Missouri Supreme Court Expands Legal Rights For Injured Workers Kansas City Star ...The Missouri Supreme Court overturned 30 years of precedent with a ruling Tuesday that gives greater legal protections to injured workers who are fired from their jobs...
One Democratic Congressman Escalates The Fight Over ALEC Washington Post ...A federal lawmaker from Arizona wants the Interior Department to investigate an active conservative group for what he alleges is unregistered lobbying...
Koch Brothers Are Killing Rapid Bus Transit In Tennessee Auto Blog Green ...Last week, the Tennessee Senate voted 27-4 against the very idea of rapid bus transit in the state. The vote, which is oddly specific about its target--the Amp Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project in Nashville--was supported by the wealthy Koch brothers, Charles and David, and their group Americans for Prosperity...
War on Workers
When Did Men's Income Peak? Demo Memo ...The median income of men aged 25 to 34 has plunged since 1973, falling from $46,598 to $34,113 after adjusting for inflation—a loss of $12,485...
Income Inequality Institute Will Pay Paul Krugman $25,000 Per Month Gawker ...According to a formal offer letter obtained under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, CUNY intends to pay Krugman $225,000, or $25,000 per month (over two semesters), to “play a modest role in our public events” and “contribute to the build-up” of a new “inequality initiative...”
Gap Between Executive Pay And Worker Wages Continues To Grow Al-Jazeera America ...In 2013 the average American CEO was paid 331 times what the average worker in the United States earned and 774 times what full-time minimum wage workers made, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by the AFL-CIO...
Clemson Studying Impact Of Sports Labor Ruling Greenville News ...Clemson University President James P. Clements said Tuesday he and other major college presidents are examining a stunning labor ruling that could revolutionize college sports...
Chicago Art Handlers Vote To Become Teamsters, 4/25 Art World News ...Art handlers with Mana-Terry Dowd LLC may set an industry precedent by being the first employees of a major art transportation company in Chicago to unionize...
Teamsters drop grievance against inmates doing pothole patching Youngstown Vindicator ...Sheriff Jerry Greene said today that county Engineer Patrick Ginnetti received a letter from the Teamsters’ union on Tuesday, saying the union was withdrawing the grievance because of the extreme winter weather the county has recently experienced and in the interest of public safety...
Trade
U.S. Allows Japan To Exclude Rice In Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations Oryza ...The U.S. has allowed Japan to exclude rice in Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, but has asked the Japanese government to increase imports of U.S. rice, according to local sources...
State Battles
State GAB vote approved probe into Scott Walker recall Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Former judges on the state Government Accountability Board voted unanimously last year to authorize the investigation of fundraising and spending by Gov. Scott Walker's campaign and his allies during the recent recall elections, according to a Tuesday court filing...
U.S. States Revive Debtors’ Prisons firedoglake ...More and more states have revived the debtors prison, albeit in a specific form, locking people up for failure to pay court costs and fees...
Missouri Supreme Court Expands Legal Rights For Injured Workers Kansas City Star ...The Missouri Supreme Court overturned 30 years of precedent with a ruling Tuesday that gives greater legal protections to injured workers who are fired from their jobs...
One Democratic Congressman Escalates The Fight Over ALEC Washington Post ...A federal lawmaker from Arizona wants the Interior Department to investigate an active conservative group for what he alleges is unregistered lobbying...
Koch Brothers Are Killing Rapid Bus Transit In Tennessee Auto Blog Green ...Last week, the Tennessee Senate voted 27-4 against the very idea of rapid bus transit in the state. The vote, which is oddly specific about its target--the Amp Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project in Nashville--was supported by the wealthy Koch brothers, Charles and David, and their group Americans for Prosperity...
War on Workers
When Did Men's Income Peak? Demo Memo ...The median income of men aged 25 to 34 has plunged since 1973, falling from $46,598 to $34,113 after adjusting for inflation—a loss of $12,485...
Income Inequality Institute Will Pay Paul Krugman $25,000 Per Month Gawker ...According to a formal offer letter obtained under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, CUNY intends to pay Krugman $225,000, or $25,000 per month (over two semesters), to “play a modest role in our public events” and “contribute to the build-up” of a new “inequality initiative...”
Gap Between Executive Pay And Worker Wages Continues To Grow Al-Jazeera America ...In 2013 the average American CEO was paid 331 times what the average worker in the United States earned and 774 times what full-time minimum wage workers made, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by the AFL-CIO...
Clemson Studying Impact Of Sports Labor Ruling Greenville News ...Clemson University President James P. Clements said Tuesday he and other major college presidents are examining a stunning labor ruling that could revolutionize college sports...
Monday, February 10, 2014
Today's Teamster News 02.10.14
Vt. lawmakers balk at no-media trade talks Associated Press ...Vermont lawmakers are refusing to meet a demand from the office of the U.S. trade representative that they conduct secret talks over the impacts of a proposed international trade agreement...
Obama signs farm bill that trims food stamps Associated Press ...President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law an agriculture spending bill that will spread benefits to farmers in every region of the country, while trimming the food stamp program that inspired a two-year battle over the legislation...
If You Thought You Couldn't Go To Jail For Debt Anymore, You're Wrong Business Insider ...n Ohio, the practice has been dealt a major blow ... The Ohio Supreme Court released a "bench card" to every state and municipal court judge in Ohio explaining how they must avoid sending people to jail who are too poor to pay their court fines. This bench card is the first of its kind in the nation...
Chinese Official Made Job Plea to JPMorgan Chase Chief New York Times ...Federal authorities are now investigating whether the hiring at JPMorgan — and at least six other big banks — was done explicitly to win business from Chinese companies. The authorities could decide to bring charges against individuals or a bank if they find such activity to be in violation of anti-bribery laws...
Suspicious Death of JPMorgan Vice President, Gabriel Magee, Under Investigation in London Wall Street on Parade ...No solid evidence exists currently to suggest that the death was a suicide. In fact, there is a strong piece of evidence pointing in the opposite direction...
Tapering of Quantitative Easing Is Throwing Emerging Markets into Chaos - And Big Banks Are Getting Richer The Real News ...the economy is growing, but it's growing in a very dysfunctional way... it is growing out of proportion. It is not growing in areas that affect Main Street, small businesses, wages...
Decades of Greed: Behind the Scenes With An Angry Walmart Manager Gawker ...How come in 1999 Walmart could pay me over $10 an hour but in 2014 I hire people in at $8.00 an hour?...
Crybabies of the 1 Percent: The Rich Complain While Getting Away With Everything Alternet ...Consider the case of a Texas teenager who killed four people and severely injured two others while drunk-driving in his father’s pickup truck. Prosecutors wanted to send him to prison for 20 years, but a judge decided to give him no jail time at all after an expert witness for the defense testified that the defendant was suffering from “affluenza.” This affliction, the psychologist testified, was a product of the defendant having spent his life in the lap of luxury...
Group: Bangladesh Workers Threatened Over Union Associated Press ...dozens of workers who said they were beaten, lost their jobs or forced to resign after trying to organize unions...
Author: When It Comes To High-Speed Internet, U.S. 'Falling Way Behind' NPR ...American Internet service is falling behind other nations because cable companies have such dominance in many markets, and that will undermine our ability to compete in a global economy...
Subway Takes Chemical Out of Sandwich Bread After Protest ABC News ...Subway said today it is removing a chemical used in yoga mats and shoe soles from the bread of it its popular sandwiches after a food blogger got more than 50,000 signatures in a petition drive...
Right-to-work push (LTE) Kansas City Star ...Right to work is really the right to work for less. Sen. Ed Emery confirmed this when he said, “One of the things that will be advocated by the unions is look at all these right-to-work states, average wages all go down. Sure they go down.”...
Obama signs farm bill that trims food stamps Associated Press ...President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law an agriculture spending bill that will spread benefits to farmers in every region of the country, while trimming the food stamp program that inspired a two-year battle over the legislation...
If You Thought You Couldn't Go To Jail For Debt Anymore, You're Wrong Business Insider ...n Ohio, the practice has been dealt a major blow ... The Ohio Supreme Court released a "bench card" to every state and municipal court judge in Ohio explaining how they must avoid sending people to jail who are too poor to pay their court fines. This bench card is the first of its kind in the nation...
Chinese Official Made Job Plea to JPMorgan Chase Chief New York Times ...Federal authorities are now investigating whether the hiring at JPMorgan — and at least six other big banks — was done explicitly to win business from Chinese companies. The authorities could decide to bring charges against individuals or a bank if they find such activity to be in violation of anti-bribery laws...
Suspicious Death of JPMorgan Vice President, Gabriel Magee, Under Investigation in London Wall Street on Parade ...No solid evidence exists currently to suggest that the death was a suicide. In fact, there is a strong piece of evidence pointing in the opposite direction...
Tapering of Quantitative Easing Is Throwing Emerging Markets into Chaos - And Big Banks Are Getting Richer The Real News ...the economy is growing, but it's growing in a very dysfunctional way... it is growing out of proportion. It is not growing in areas that affect Main Street, small businesses, wages...
Decades of Greed: Behind the Scenes With An Angry Walmart Manager Gawker ...How come in 1999 Walmart could pay me over $10 an hour but in 2014 I hire people in at $8.00 an hour?...
Crybabies of the 1 Percent: The Rich Complain While Getting Away With Everything Alternet ...Consider the case of a Texas teenager who killed four people and severely injured two others while drunk-driving in his father’s pickup truck. Prosecutors wanted to send him to prison for 20 years, but a judge decided to give him no jail time at all after an expert witness for the defense testified that the defendant was suffering from “affluenza.” This affliction, the psychologist testified, was a product of the defendant having spent his life in the lap of luxury...
Group: Bangladesh Workers Threatened Over Union Associated Press ...dozens of workers who said they were beaten, lost their jobs or forced to resign after trying to organize unions...
Author: When It Comes To High-Speed Internet, U.S. 'Falling Way Behind' NPR ...American Internet service is falling behind other nations because cable companies have such dominance in many markets, and that will undermine our ability to compete in a global economy...
Subway Takes Chemical Out of Sandwich Bread After Protest ABC News ...Subway said today it is removing a chemical used in yoga mats and shoe soles from the bread of it its popular sandwiches after a food blogger got more than 50,000 signatures in a petition drive...
Right-to-work push (LTE) Kansas City Star ...Right to work is really the right to work for less. Sen. Ed Emery confirmed this when he said, “One of the things that will be advocated by the unions is look at all these right-to-work states, average wages all go down. Sure they go down.”...
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Today's Teamster News 11.03.13
Canada's CN Rail reaches tentative deal with Teamsters union Reuters ...Canadian National Railway Co , the country's largest rail operator, agreed to a new labor contract for some 3,300 conductors, trainmen, yardmen and traffic coordinators represented by the Teamsters union, the railway said Thursday...
Arkansas Best, teamsters ok five-year contract Log Cabin Democrat ... The contract will take effect on Nov. 3, 2013 and run through March 31, 2018...
Portrait of the NSA: no detail too small in quest for total surveillance The Guardian ... It is indiscriminate in the information it is collecting. Nothing appears to be too small for the NSA. Nothing too trivial. Rivals, enemies, allies and friends – US citizens and 'non-Americans' – are all scooped up...
10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy — This Chart Shows How PolicyMic ...It's not just the products you buy and consume, either. In recent decades, the very news and information that you get has bundled together: 90% of the media is now controlled by just six companies...
One Thing Major Media Hid From You During the Debate on Syria PolicyMic ...at least 22 of the commentators and seven of the think tanks that advocated for military action in Syria had ties to companies that would profit from such a strike...
More on secrets in trade…TPP Angry Bear ...“This really is a deal that’s being negotiated by corporations for corporations and any benefit it provides to the bulk of the population of this country will be purely incidental.” ... “There would be no reason to keep it so secret if it was in the interest of the public...
The Global Corporatocracy Is Almost Fully Operational naked capitalism ..."...we are witnessing the advancement of a new and unprecedented global project of transatlantic corporate colonization.“... as a recent leak of part of the TPP document has shown, the new rules would limit how governments regulate such public services as utilities, transportation, healthcare and education, including restricting policies meant to ensure broad or universal access to those essential needs...
Now Is Time To End Trade Deal Job Growth Lie teamster.org ...The recently implemented U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement was supposed to create 70,000 new jobs, yet in the 18 months it’s been in place it has cost this country 40,000...
You Can Go To Jail For An Overdue Library Book Consumerist ...A Texas man was arrested this week for failing to return a GED study guide he simply spent too long studying — three years — and was sent to jail to mull over his actions, or lack thereof...
Daily Meme: Congress Hits America's Poorest While They're Down American Prospect ...Nearly 1 million military vets use food stamps and will see cuts...
GOP 'extremist movement' prompts NC candidate to switch to Democrat Charlotte Observer ..."The government shutdown was simply the straw that broke the camels back. I guess being an American just isn’t good enough anymore and I refuse to be part of an extremist movement in the GOP that only appears to thrive on fear and hate mongering of anyone and everyone who doesn’t walk their line.”
Arkansas Best, teamsters ok five-year contract Log Cabin Democrat ... The contract will take effect on Nov. 3, 2013 and run through March 31, 2018...
Portrait of the NSA: no detail too small in quest for total surveillance The Guardian ... It is indiscriminate in the information it is collecting. Nothing appears to be too small for the NSA. Nothing too trivial. Rivals, enemies, allies and friends – US citizens and 'non-Americans' – are all scooped up...
10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy — This Chart Shows How PolicyMic ...It's not just the products you buy and consume, either. In recent decades, the very news and information that you get has bundled together: 90% of the media is now controlled by just six companies...
One Thing Major Media Hid From You During the Debate on Syria PolicyMic ...at least 22 of the commentators and seven of the think tanks that advocated for military action in Syria had ties to companies that would profit from such a strike...
More on secrets in trade…TPP Angry Bear ...“This really is a deal that’s being negotiated by corporations for corporations and any benefit it provides to the bulk of the population of this country will be purely incidental.” ... “There would be no reason to keep it so secret if it was in the interest of the public...
The Global Corporatocracy Is Almost Fully Operational naked capitalism ..."...we are witnessing the advancement of a new and unprecedented global project of transatlantic corporate colonization.“... as a recent leak of part of the TPP document has shown, the new rules would limit how governments regulate such public services as utilities, transportation, healthcare and education, including restricting policies meant to ensure broad or universal access to those essential needs...
Now Is Time To End Trade Deal Job Growth Lie teamster.org ...The recently implemented U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement was supposed to create 70,000 new jobs, yet in the 18 months it’s been in place it has cost this country 40,000...
You Can Go To Jail For An Overdue Library Book Consumerist ...A Texas man was arrested this week for failing to return a GED study guide he simply spent too long studying — three years — and was sent to jail to mull over his actions, or lack thereof...
Daily Meme: Congress Hits America's Poorest While They're Down American Prospect ...Nearly 1 million military vets use food stamps and will see cuts...
GOP 'extremist movement' prompts NC candidate to switch to Democrat Charlotte Observer ..."The government shutdown was simply the straw that broke the camels back. I guess being an American just isn’t good enough anymore and I refuse to be part of an extremist movement in the GOP that only appears to thrive on fear and hate mongering of anyone and everyone who doesn’t walk their line.”
Friday, April 5, 2013
Today's Teamster News 04.05.13
Obama Budget Reviving Offer of Compromise With Cuts New York Times ...President Obama next week will take the political risk of formally proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare in his annual budget in an effort to demonstrate his willingness to compromise with Republicans and revive prospects for a long-term deficit-reduction deal...
Seattle Times columnist: "Uncle Sam wearing a 'kick me' sign." manufacture this ..."The decline of American manufacturing was not an act of God or even a result of that murky word “globalization.” It has followed bad trade deals and Uncle Sam wearing a “kick me” sign while nations from China to Japan and Germany protected their manufacturing sectors..."
Banks are not complying with mortgage settlement, survey finds Los Angeles Times ...Banks aren't living up to pledges they made in last year's landmark government settlement of mortgage servicing and foreclosure abuses, according to an advocacy group's survey of California housing counselors and lawyers...
Efforts to Deliver 'Kill Shot' to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC Huffington Post ...Corporate-backed bills have passed at the state level in Wisconsin, Louisiana, and Mississippi that would preempt (or as one GOP operative put it, "deliver the kill shot" to) local paid sick leave laws. Similar bills are on the legislative docket in Florida, Arizona, Indiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Washington...
Judicial Amendments And The Attack On Worker Rights Truthout ...Labor activists regularly bemoan the weak state of the NLRA - the National Labor Relations Act. Many of them think that Congress enacted the NLRA with remedies and rights that, from the beginning, were too weak to protect employees who tried to organize unions and bargain collectively. However, that is not the case...
State to Pay Millions in Denied Jobless Benefits Atlanta Journal-Constitution ...Georgia will pay more than $8 million in unemployment benefits to more than 4,000 seasonally jobless workers who were denied payments last year by the commissioner of labor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned...
Judge chides Republican legislators for right-to-work laws Detroit Free Press ...Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette took a verbal shot Wednesday at the Legislature over Michigan's new right-to-work laws, saying he was "amazed" legislators would create laws "to avoid me..."
Detroit union contracts will be honored under emergency manager Detroit Free Press ...Bing's labor relations director, Lamont Satchel, told the Free Press that earlier reports saying Detroit would no longer honor labor contracts with police and fire unions were incorrect...
The Outskirts of Hope: How Ohio’s Debtors’ Prisons Are Ruining Lives and Costing Communities ACLU ...The stark reality is that, in 2013, Ohioans are being repeatedly jailed
simply for being too poor to pay fines...
N.H. Drops Effort to Privatize Prisons Concord Monitor ...The state announced yesterday that it has dropped its bid to privatize the state’s prisons because none of the four companies that wanted the job showed they could meet court-ordered requirements for inmate care. The private prison companies also proposed wages and benefits that are half what security staff at the prisons earn now...
Fact Check Shows Self Serving Scott Walker Editorial Ignores Reality Green Bay Progressive ...Presidential candidate Scott Walker published a self-serving editorial today about his budget in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that was constituted of evasions, misrepresentations and outright fibs...
Teamsters At Republic Services/Allied Waste Extend Picket Lines To California IBT ...Workers on strike at Republic Services/Allied Waste extended picket lines to five Northern California locations today, on the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who was killed in Memphis supporting striking waste workers...
BLET Official Gives Rail Perspective On Sequester IBT ...John Tolman, BLET Vice President and National Legislative Representative, spoke recently with America’s Workforce Radio about the effects of the sequester on rail employees...
Cincinnati Coca Cola Workers Join Teamsters IBT ...Employees of Coca Cola in the greater Cincinnati area working in the Vending Service Department recently joined Teamsters Local 1199...
Seattle Times columnist: "Uncle Sam wearing a 'kick me' sign." manufacture this ..."The decline of American manufacturing was not an act of God or even a result of that murky word “globalization.” It has followed bad trade deals and Uncle Sam wearing a “kick me” sign while nations from China to Japan and Germany protected their manufacturing sectors..."
Banks are not complying with mortgage settlement, survey finds Los Angeles Times ...Banks aren't living up to pledges they made in last year's landmark government settlement of mortgage servicing and foreclosure abuses, according to an advocacy group's survey of California housing counselors and lawyers...
Efforts to Deliver 'Kill Shot' to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC Huffington Post ...Corporate-backed bills have passed at the state level in Wisconsin, Louisiana, and Mississippi that would preempt (or as one GOP operative put it, "deliver the kill shot" to) local paid sick leave laws. Similar bills are on the legislative docket in Florida, Arizona, Indiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Washington...
Judicial Amendments And The Attack On Worker Rights Truthout ...Labor activists regularly bemoan the weak state of the NLRA - the National Labor Relations Act. Many of them think that Congress enacted the NLRA with remedies and rights that, from the beginning, were too weak to protect employees who tried to organize unions and bargain collectively. However, that is not the case...
State to Pay Millions in Denied Jobless Benefits Atlanta Journal-Constitution ...Georgia will pay more than $8 million in unemployment benefits to more than 4,000 seasonally jobless workers who were denied payments last year by the commissioner of labor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned...
Judge chides Republican legislators for right-to-work laws Detroit Free Press ...Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette took a verbal shot Wednesday at the Legislature over Michigan's new right-to-work laws, saying he was "amazed" legislators would create laws "to avoid me..."
Detroit union contracts will be honored under emergency manager Detroit Free Press ...Bing's labor relations director, Lamont Satchel, told the Free Press that earlier reports saying Detroit would no longer honor labor contracts with police and fire unions were incorrect...
The Outskirts of Hope: How Ohio’s Debtors’ Prisons Are Ruining Lives and Costing Communities ACLU ...The stark reality is that, in 2013, Ohioans are being repeatedly jailed
simply for being too poor to pay fines...
N.H. Drops Effort to Privatize Prisons Concord Monitor ...The state announced yesterday that it has dropped its bid to privatize the state’s prisons because none of the four companies that wanted the job showed they could meet court-ordered requirements for inmate care. The private prison companies also proposed wages and benefits that are half what security staff at the prisons earn now...
Fact Check Shows Self Serving Scott Walker Editorial Ignores Reality Green Bay Progressive ...Presidential candidate Scott Walker published a self-serving editorial today about his budget in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that was constituted of evasions, misrepresentations and outright fibs...
Teamsters At Republic Services/Allied Waste Extend Picket Lines To California IBT ...Workers on strike at Republic Services/Allied Waste extended picket lines to five Northern California locations today, on the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who was killed in Memphis supporting striking waste workers...
BLET Official Gives Rail Perspective On Sequester IBT ...John Tolman, BLET Vice President and National Legislative Representative, spoke recently with America’s Workforce Radio about the effects of the sequester on rail employees...
Cincinnati Coca Cola Workers Join Teamsters IBT ...Employees of Coca Cola in the greater Cincinnati area working in the Vending Service Department recently joined Teamsters Local 1199...
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