Centerplate and Teamsters Reach Agreement for Employees at AT&T Park, Other SF Venues: New Pressure on Local 2 UNITE HERE to Bargain in Good Faith San Francisco Sentinel ...Centerplate, one of the largest hospitality and concession companies in North America, and San Francisco’s Teamsters Local 853 recently announced the ratification of a collective bargaining agreement for 200 retail and food service employees working at AT&T Park, Candlestick, and the Cow Palace...
Who’s dependent on food stamps? Cheapskate corporations MSNBC ... A majority of food-stamp families with an able-bodied adult do work, and more than 60% of such families work when they have children. They just don’t get paid enough to feed their families...
Denny’s restaurants settles foreign workers’ suit for $1.4 million The Star ...A group of temporary workers from the Philippines who worked as cooks and servers at Denny’s restaurants in B.C. have won a settlement worth $1.425 million that is the first of its kind in Canada...
Americans favor action on China's cheating, including "currency manipulation." manufacture this ...64% of voters think China's currency manipulation has "cost American jobs..."
Legal battle brews over Detroit bankruptcy USA Today ...Friday's legal wrangling marks the beginning of what is expected to be a lengthy bankruptcy process that will involve more than 100,000 creditors, which include the Police and Fire Retirement System and the General Retirement System and its 20,000 retirees...
Big Media’s push for extreme new Internet censorship rules stalls secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership talks straight.com ...Big Media lobbyists and unelected bureaucrats are holding closed-door meetings in Malaysia this week, as they continue secret talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
Amid Greek austerity, plunder of priceless treasures BBC News ...The financial crisis in Greece has already had far-reaching consequences for many people, but now it is claiming a new casualty as some of the country's ancient treasures become a target for thieves...
Detroit’s Creditors Eye Its Art Collection New York Times ...As Detroit files for bankruptcy — the largest American city ever to do so — the impressive collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts has become a political bargaining chip in a fight that could drag on for years between the city and its army of creditors, who have said in no uncertain terms that the artworks must be considered a salable asset...
G-20 backs new tax rules for big firms CNN Money ...For the first time in decades, the world's biggest powers look ready to close loopholes that big companies exploit to pay little or no tax...
The Latest Census of Global Fortunes: Mo' Money for the 1% Alternet ...The surveys of wealth-management groups show that the super-rich are gobbling up an ever greater share of the world’s bounty...
New Oxfam Poll: Most Americans Believe We Should Help Working Poor Huffington Post ...America's poverty rate is now at its highest level in two generations, and many Americans are in jobs that do not pay a living wage. 100 million of us have a hard time putting food on the table, and almost half of America's children live in poverty or near poverty...
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Today's Teamster News 05.26.13
Millions march against GM crops The Guardian ...Organisers say that two million people marched in protest against seed giant Monsanto in hundreds of rallies across the US and in more than 50 other countries on Saturday. "March Against Monsanto" protesters say they wanted to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food...
France seizes a million doses of fake Chinese aspirin Raw Story ...French customs officers have seized 1.2 million doses of counterfeit aspirin from China, the biggest haul of fake medicines ever in France and the EU, the economy ministry announced Saturday...
France seizes a million doses of fake Chinese aspirin Raw Story ...French customs officers have seized 1.2 million doses of counterfeit aspirin from China, the biggest haul of fake medicines ever in France and the EU, the economy ministry announced Saturday...
Stockholm riots spread west on sixth night The Local ...Nearly a week of unrest, which spread briefly Friday night to the medium-sized city of Örebro 160 kilometres west of Stockholm, have put Sweden's reputation as an oasis of peace and harmony at risk...
Unrest may spread across Europe, warns Red Cross chief The Independent ...Rocketing unemployment and poverty in some areas of Europe could lead to rising civil unrest, unless governments take measures to address the humanitarian consequences of austerity measures, the secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has warned...
Sequester guts wildfire prevention, sets up bigger blazes Grist ...the sequester took a 7.5 percent bite out of the Forest Service’s budget, nearly half of which is spent fighting wildfires. That means there will be 500 fewer pairs of boots on the ground and 200,000 fewer acres treated to prevent fires; the agency’s next proposed budget cuts preventative spending by a further 24 percent...
Why are our Bridges Falling? The Economics of the Infrastructure Deficit Economonitor ...We are not spending enough to stay even with our infrastructure deficit. Our bridges, roads, dams, electric grid, sewers, and water treatment plants are wearing out faster than we are replacing them. And that is happening, in large part, because of our misguided obsession with the federal fiscal deficit...
Banner Week for Politicians Trying to Keep Poor People Hungry and Sick Gawker ...Louisiana Senator David Vitter, sad little boy and lover of prostitutes, proposed an amendment to the long-delayed farm bill that would make certain ex-cons ineligible from food stamps for life...
The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR Truthout ...“Citizen Koch” is a documentary about money and politics, focusing heavily on the uprising that took place in Wisconsin in 2011 and 2012 ... the documentary was originally supposed to air on PBS stations nationwide, but its funding was abruptly cut off when, it appears, David Koch was offended...
Koch Media’s Megaphone and the IRS “Scandal” Wall Street ...For decades, billionaires Charles and David Koch had secretly owned shares giving them 50 percent ownership of the Cato Institute – a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization subsidized by the taxpayer – while pushing a deregulatory agenda for big business. Today, Cato is functioning as a megaphone to spin the current flap over the IRS to advance its agenda...
How exactly would Mike Bloomberg “fucking destroy” the taxi industry? Quartz ...New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg told the head of a taxicab fleet that he plans to “fucking destroy” the city’s taxi industry when he leaves office on January 1...
Fear of art sale sparked by Detroit emergency manager asking for appraisal Reuters ...As part of his efforts to solve Detroit's financial crisis, the city's emergency manager Kevyn Orr has asked for an appraisal of the collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts, sparking fears in artistic and philanthropic circles that he means to auction off the city's artistic jewels...
Wisconsin jobs agency names 4th CFO in 2 years Associated Press ...Gov. Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature created WEDC in 2011 to help the governor meet his campaign promise to create 250,000 private-sector jobs. But the agency has been beset by problems, including persistent turnover...
Unrest may spread across Europe, warns Red Cross chief The Independent ...Rocketing unemployment and poverty in some areas of Europe could lead to rising civil unrest, unless governments take measures to address the humanitarian consequences of austerity measures, the secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has warned...
Sequester guts wildfire prevention, sets up bigger blazes Grist ...the sequester took a 7.5 percent bite out of the Forest Service’s budget, nearly half of which is spent fighting wildfires. That means there will be 500 fewer pairs of boots on the ground and 200,000 fewer acres treated to prevent fires; the agency’s next proposed budget cuts preventative spending by a further 24 percent...
Why are our Bridges Falling? The Economics of the Infrastructure Deficit Economonitor ...We are not spending enough to stay even with our infrastructure deficit. Our bridges, roads, dams, electric grid, sewers, and water treatment plants are wearing out faster than we are replacing them. And that is happening, in large part, because of our misguided obsession with the federal fiscal deficit...
Banner Week for Politicians Trying to Keep Poor People Hungry and Sick Gawker ...Louisiana Senator David Vitter, sad little boy and lover of prostitutes, proposed an amendment to the long-delayed farm bill that would make certain ex-cons ineligible from food stamps for life...
The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR Truthout ...“Citizen Koch” is a documentary about money and politics, focusing heavily on the uprising that took place in Wisconsin in 2011 and 2012 ... the documentary was originally supposed to air on PBS stations nationwide, but its funding was abruptly cut off when, it appears, David Koch was offended...
Koch Media’s Megaphone and the IRS “Scandal” Wall Street ...For decades, billionaires Charles and David Koch had secretly owned shares giving them 50 percent ownership of the Cato Institute – a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization subsidized by the taxpayer – while pushing a deregulatory agenda for big business. Today, Cato is functioning as a megaphone to spin the current flap over the IRS to advance its agenda...
How exactly would Mike Bloomberg “fucking destroy” the taxi industry? Quartz ...New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg told the head of a taxicab fleet that he plans to “fucking destroy” the city’s taxi industry when he leaves office on January 1...
Fear of art sale sparked by Detroit emergency manager asking for appraisal Reuters ...As part of his efforts to solve Detroit's financial crisis, the city's emergency manager Kevyn Orr has asked for an appraisal of the collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts, sparking fears in artistic and philanthropic circles that he means to auction off the city's artistic jewels...
Wisconsin jobs agency names 4th CFO in 2 years Associated Press ...Gov. Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature created WEDC in 2011 to help the governor meet his campaign promise to create 250,000 private-sector jobs. But the agency has been beset by problems, including persistent turnover...
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Today's Teamster News 04.07.13
Number of the Week: Youth Unemployment at 22.9%? Wall Street Journal ...many graduates are carrying hefty debt burdens, and those who can find work are often being forced to low-skill jobs...
Shocking study reveals mortality rates for women are increasing in over 43% of U.S. counties compared to just 3.4% for men Daily Mail ...1,334 counties in the U.S. had increased mortality rates for women in the 14 year period while only 108 counties had increased rates for men...
Corporate evil creeps up unobserved PressTV ...if you thought the World Trade Organization (which forced the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act) and the North American Free Trade Agreement are bad then the TPP is awful!...
Obama Administration Takes Aim at TPP Countries' Public Interest Policies in New Report Public Citizen ...The 406-page USTR report indicts a wide array of public health policies, financial regulations, politically sensitive manufacturing and agricultural policies and even religious standards as “trade barriers” that should be dismantled...
Task force will aim to ease farmers’ TPP worries The Japan Times ...Farmers say they fear their livelihoods will be devastated by an influx of cheap imported produce if Japan joins the TPP...
Money-Laundering Banks Still Get a Pass From U.S. Bloomberg ... the largest financial companies are unlikely to face criminal actions or meaningful sanctions. The Department of Justice has decided that these banks are too big to prosecute to the full extent of the law, though why this also gets employees and executives off the hook remains a mystery. And the Federal Reserve refuses to rescind bank licenses, undermining the credibility, legitimacy and stability of the financial system...
Scientists angry about budget cuts come out of the lab and onto the streets McClatchy ...Thousands of prominent cancer and other medical researchers will rally in the nation’s capital Monday to protest federal funding cuts that began several years ago and were accelerated by additional forced reductions beginning to take effect under the congressionally mandated process of sequestration...
China, Destroyer-of-Worlds Forbes ...the Chinese government is aware of this, yet is willing to lose money on its capital investments in order to provide jobs for people moving to the city...
Union members opposed to "Right to Work" legislation in Missouri campaign against the measure KY3 News ...Members of "We Are Missouri" canvassed several Springfield neighborhoods on Saturday--all in Representative Burlison's district,--to campaign against the legislation...
Emergency Manager Protest Jams Up Traffic On I-75 CBS Detroit ...For more than an hour Friday morning, a section of southbound I-75 looked pretty much like a parking lot. Motorists were riding the brakes along the freeway near Mack Avenue in protest of the state’s financial takeover of Detroit...
Job slump is Walker's fault (opinion) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...in the first year of Walker's budget - July 2011 through June 2012 - public employees gave back over $850 million in take-home pay. This contracted the economy in every corner of the state, anywhere there's a public school teacher, garbage collector, county jail or public park...
Shocking study reveals mortality rates for women are increasing in over 43% of U.S. counties compared to just 3.4% for men Daily Mail ...1,334 counties in the U.S. had increased mortality rates for women in the 14 year period while only 108 counties had increased rates for men...
Corporate evil creeps up unobserved PressTV ...if you thought the World Trade Organization (which forced the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act) and the North American Free Trade Agreement are bad then the TPP is awful!...
Obama Administration Takes Aim at TPP Countries' Public Interest Policies in New Report Public Citizen ...The 406-page USTR report indicts a wide array of public health policies, financial regulations, politically sensitive manufacturing and agricultural policies and even religious standards as “trade barriers” that should be dismantled...
Task force will aim to ease farmers’ TPP worries The Japan Times ...Farmers say they fear their livelihoods will be devastated by an influx of cheap imported produce if Japan joins the TPP...
Money-Laundering Banks Still Get a Pass From U.S. Bloomberg ... the largest financial companies are unlikely to face criminal actions or meaningful sanctions. The Department of Justice has decided that these banks are too big to prosecute to the full extent of the law, though why this also gets employees and executives off the hook remains a mystery. And the Federal Reserve refuses to rescind bank licenses, undermining the credibility, legitimacy and stability of the financial system...
Scientists angry about budget cuts come out of the lab and onto the streets McClatchy ...Thousands of prominent cancer and other medical researchers will rally in the nation’s capital Monday to protest federal funding cuts that began several years ago and were accelerated by additional forced reductions beginning to take effect under the congressionally mandated process of sequestration...
China, Destroyer-of-Worlds Forbes ...the Chinese government is aware of this, yet is willing to lose money on its capital investments in order to provide jobs for people moving to the city...
Union members opposed to "Right to Work" legislation in Missouri campaign against the measure KY3 News ...Members of "We Are Missouri" canvassed several Springfield neighborhoods on Saturday--all in Representative Burlison's district,--to campaign against the legislation...
Emergency Manager Protest Jams Up Traffic On I-75 CBS Detroit ...For more than an hour Friday morning, a section of southbound I-75 looked pretty much like a parking lot. Motorists were riding the brakes along the freeway near Mack Avenue in protest of the state’s financial takeover of Detroit...
Job slump is Walker's fault (opinion) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...in the first year of Walker's budget - July 2011 through June 2012 - public employees gave back over $850 million in take-home pay. This contracted the economy in every corner of the state, anywhere there's a public school teacher, garbage collector, county jail or public park...
Monday, March 25, 2013
Today's Teamster News 03.25.13
UNFIT FOR WORK: The startling rise of disability in America NPR ...There used to be a lot of jobs that you could do with just a high school degree, and that paid enough to be considered middle class. ... people who lost those jobs ... (have) been going on disability...
Corporate-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Shrouded in Secrecy truthout ...legislators around the world are being kept in the dark about what they're voting on until the deal is hammered out; it's expected to be completed this year. When it's finished, if the experience of Congress here is any indication, legislators will be feeling extraordinary pressure from corporate lobbyists and their heads of state to accept the deal without a fuss...
Cyprus reaches last-minute deal on 10 billion euro bailout Reuters ...Cyprus clinched a last-ditch deal with international lenders to shut down its second-largest bank and inflict heavy losses on uninsured depositors, including wealthy Russians, in return for a 10 billion euro ($13 billion) bailout...
Pro-Democracy Movement Rises Against 'Disaster Capitalism' in Detroit Common Dreams ...Community and pro-democracy activists in Detroit have no intention of rolling over and playing dead for Kevyn Orr, the city's new 'emergency manager' appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, who will begin his contract to run the city as a one-person government on Monday...
Right-to-work goes into effect March 28 Associated Press ...When Michigan's right-to-work law takes effect Thursday it will signal the latest sign of turmoil in the union movement that has seen nationwide membership shrink to its lowest levels since at least the 1930s...
Real mess: Public works employees forced to bring toilet paper to work KCTV ...It's a real stink in one central Missouri town after male public works employees were forced to bring their own toilet paper to work...
Wisconsin: Hundreds of pardon apps sitting on gov's desk Associated Press ... Gov. Scott Walker has refused to consider any of at least 1,400 pardon applications since he's taken office...
Ohio lawmakers take up wind, solar energy rule Fuel Fix ...The American Legislative Exchange Council, a policy advisory group dominated by Republicans and targeted by liberals, is a leading force behind the push against the renewable energy targets...
Corporate-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Shrouded in Secrecy truthout ...legislators around the world are being kept in the dark about what they're voting on until the deal is hammered out; it's expected to be completed this year. When it's finished, if the experience of Congress here is any indication, legislators will be feeling extraordinary pressure from corporate lobbyists and their heads of state to accept the deal without a fuss...
Cyprus reaches last-minute deal on 10 billion euro bailout Reuters ...Cyprus clinched a last-ditch deal with international lenders to shut down its second-largest bank and inflict heavy losses on uninsured depositors, including wealthy Russians, in return for a 10 billion euro ($13 billion) bailout...
Pro-Democracy Movement Rises Against 'Disaster Capitalism' in Detroit Common Dreams ...Community and pro-democracy activists in Detroit have no intention of rolling over and playing dead for Kevyn Orr, the city's new 'emergency manager' appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, who will begin his contract to run the city as a one-person government on Monday...
Right-to-work goes into effect March 28 Associated Press ...When Michigan's right-to-work law takes effect Thursday it will signal the latest sign of turmoil in the union movement that has seen nationwide membership shrink to its lowest levels since at least the 1930s...
Real mess: Public works employees forced to bring toilet paper to work KCTV ...It's a real stink in one central Missouri town after male public works employees were forced to bring their own toilet paper to work...
Wisconsin: Hundreds of pardon apps sitting on gov's desk Associated Press ... Gov. Scott Walker has refused to consider any of at least 1,400 pardon applications since he's taken office...
Ohio lawmakers take up wind, solar energy rule Fuel Fix ...The American Legislative Exchange Council, a policy advisory group dominated by Republicans and targeted by liberals, is a leading force behind the push against the renewable energy targets...
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