Teamsters: We Did Not Raid American -- We Were Invited In Forbes ...The International Brotherhood of Teamsters says it did not raid mechanics and related workers at American Airlines, but rather was invited in by the incumbent union...
Teamsters Local 25 Endorses Boston City Council Candidates Charlestown Patch ...Endorsements for the at-large race went to incumbent Ayanna Pressley, former city councilor Michael Flaherty and newcomers Jack Kelly, a Charlestown resident, and Michelle Wu...
Teamsters union hall is first Los Angeles County Property Assessed Clean Energy-funded project Long Beach Press-Telegram ...Every month, Teamsters Local 848 pays an average of about $2,500 in energy bills to power its meeting hall on the 3800 block of Cherry Avenue. But when it's done with its energy-efficient project, the group representing some 7,000 delivery and bus drivers and warehouse workers can see that cost shrink to as low as $10 a month...
Teamsters, strikers call on community Record-Bee ... Teamsters, Paratransit employees and members of the community gathered Friday at noon in front of City Hall to picket, address the media and call on county leaders and Lake Transit to take action on the public transportation issue...
"We Are Slowly Dying": Fast-Food Workers Launch Strike for Living Wage and Right to Unionize Democracy Now ...A national strike for a living wage and the right to unionize in the fast-food and retail sectors has spread across seven cities...
Recession Forever? 10 Reasons American Workers Are Screwed Alternet ... real median wages fell by about 2.8% between 2009 and 2012...
GOP Pushing More Low-Paying Guestworker Visas Economic Populist ...The House will propose nearly 400,000 new H-2B visas for temporary foreign guest workers in non-agricultural work (for unskilled and semi-skilled labor.)...
U.S. Manufacturing Gains Only 6,000 jobs in July 2013. TradeReform ...Our trade deficit with China is rising. Public investment in construction and infrastructure is declining. Aggregate demand is weak...
U.S. Cuts Take Increasing Toll on Job Growth New York Times ...the economy continued to add jobs in July and that the unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent, from 7.6 percent. But the pace of job growth slowed somewhat from the first half of the year and remains modest enough that the economy is years away from a full recovery. Contributing to the hangover from the worst financial crisis in decades is a wave of cuts in domestic and military spending, known collectively as the sequester, which is causing government furloughs as well as job losses and curtailed hours among federal contractors...
How Vast Error-Prone Databases Are Trashing Our Economic Lives American Prospect ...more than a million low-income Americans have been denied the opportunity to open bank accounts because of little-known databases that penalize them for sometimes minor banking mistakes in their past, including bouncing checks, overdrawing bank accounts, and accumulating fees...
Scott Walker's Crackdown on Free Speech Backfires Huffington Post ...As the news of the mass arrests at the singalong attracts the attention of national cable news networks, Walker's approval rating has taken a plunge in the latest polls...
What's next for Moral Mondays? Facing South ...The first action planned outside Raleigh will take place in Asheville on Aug. 5 and is being billed as Mountain Moral Monday, with Rev. Barber as a featured speaker...
The Comments Detroit's Emergency Manager Will Wish To Take Back Forbes ...“For a long time the city was dumb, lazy, happy and rich,”...
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
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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