Teamster News
For the First Time in North America, Teamsters Successfully Organize Workers at FedEx Freight teamster.org ...In a historic first, dock associates at FedEx Freight in Surrey, British Columbia have joined Teamsters Local 31. Read Teamsters Canada press release, here. It’s a North American first for these workers at FedEx. Before this victory, the only unionized FedEx employees were the company’s U.S.-based pilots...
Oxford schools reach contract with Teamsters Daily Local News ...The Oxford Area School District has reached a contract agreement with its service and support staff who are members of Teamsters’ Local 384...
Teamsters Endorse McClain For County Prosecutor Chinook Observer ...Teamsters Joint Council No. 28, representing local teamsters throughout Washington, Idaho and Alaska have endorsed Mark McClain for Pacific County prosecutor...
Coroner IDs Security Guard Killed On Set Of TNT’s ‘Falling Skies’ Deadline Hollywood ...The Teamsters security guard killed Monday in Vancouver on the set of the TNT sci-fi drama Falling Skies has been identified as Amrik Singh Gill, 59, of Delta, BC. Gill was crushed to death when an unattended five-ton truck rolled down a hill and pinned him against a tree...
Trade
U.S. launches antidumping, countervailing duty probe against China’s boltless steel shelving Trade Reform ...The investigations are in response to a request from Edsal Manufacturing Company based in the state of Illinois. The company alleged that the products from China were sold below the fair value of the products in the U.S. market with dumping margin of 40 percent to 211 percent, and Chinese producers and exporters also received improper government subsidies...
As President’s Export Council Meets, No Chance to Meet Obama’s Export Doubling Goal; Export Growth Falls Under Free Trade Agreements Public Citizen ...Obama’s efforts to push more-of-the-same trade policies has been sidelined by the dismal outcomes of his 2011 U.S.-Korea FTA, with the U.S. goods trade deficit with Korea up 50 percent and U.S. exports to Korea down 5 percent in the first two years of the pact...
Business groups keep passage of fast-track high on list of priorities The Hill ...Business Roundtable and the National Association of Manufacturers are among the slew of groups that are aggressively pushing for action on fast-track authority before this Congress closes up shop for the year...
State Battles
State says 25 voter applications of 85,000 “confirmed” forgeries Atlanta Journal Constitution ...The New Georgia Project brought bins holding copies of more than 51,000 unprocessed voter applications to the state Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. Secretary of State Brian Kemp has put the group under investigation for alleged voter registration fraud, but group leaders said it was a “witch hunt” to intimidate their efforts...
Why Rick Scott Is Facing a Tea Party Revolt in Florida Mother Jones ...Scott soon discovered that governing like a tea partier made him one of the nation's most unpopular governors...
A dark-money cloud obscures issues that matter in Michigan MLive.com ...through Labor Day, the campaigns for governor and U.S. Senate had spent a total of nearly $30 million on advertising, mostly TV. In both cases, much of the spending is “dark money,” money for so-called issue-based advertising, in which the identity of those paying for the ads can legally be unreported and therefore effectively secret...
Portland Mayor Won’t Push For Higher Minimum Wage For Tipped Workers; Council Could See Proposal Next Month Bangor Daily News ...Mayor Michael Brennan last week said a proposed ordinance to raise the minimum wage in the city might be vetted next week by a City Council committee, and could go before the full council for consideration next month...
Virginia Sues 13 Big Banks, Claiming Mortgage Securities Fraud Washington Post ...Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring on Tuesday announced a $1.15 billion lawsuit against 13 of the nation’s biggest banks, accusing them of misleading a state retirement fund about the quality of bonds made up of residential mortgages...
Absentee Ballot Mailings Halted In Push To Restart Voter ID Law Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Local clerks and state elections officials are putting their absentee ballot mailings on hold as they hustle to reinstate Wisconsin's photo ID requirement for voters in the wake of Friday's federal appeals court decision...
New Rules Coming For Uber, Lyft Memphis Flyer ...New rules for Lyft and Uber are on the way as the Memphis City Council began formalizing them Tuesday but taxi companies protested that the rules did not go far enough to level the playing field...
War On Workers
Five Years Of Recovery Haven’t Boosted The Median Household Income FiveThirtyEight ...The income of the median U.S. household was $51,900 in 2013, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. That’s essentially unchanged from 2012, after adjusting for inflation, and is 8 percent lower than in 2007, before the recession began...
Drowning In Debt, Younger Workers Feeling Disillusioned With American Dream CBS Detroit ...“Their unemployment levels are double that of the average, they’re drowning under debt whether it’s credit card debt – just to survive or the debt they accumulated trying to get a college degree and now can’t find a job to pay it off,” said Shuler...
Multinational Companies Court Lower-Income Consumers New York Times ...For years, multinational companies had little interest in lower-end consumers, figuring no money was to be made. Now, they are increasingly attractive to all types of industries, from consumer product makers to technology businesses...
Child Laborers. In America. In 2014. Politico Magazine ...Lax federal labor laws allow kids as young as 12 to work in tobacco fields, despite mounting evidence that they can contract acute nicotine poisoning from handling tobacco leaves. Even some tobacco growers and companies take the position that U.S. laws and regulations aren’t strong enough...
Worker Killed After Being Electrocuted Under NW OKC House Newson6.com ...One person was killed after being accidentally electrocuted while working under a home in northwest Oklahoma City, Wednesday morning...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Today's Teamster News 05.01.14
Teamster News
Day 2 Of Truckers Strike At Port Of Long Beach Belmont Shores-Naples Patch ...A 48-hour strike went into its second day at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach today, with contract truckers picketing as part of a Teamsters union backed effort to get hired as full-fledged employees...
Trade
Beijing Pushing For Trans-Pacific Trade Pact To Rival TPP Taipai Times ...China is pressing for a vast Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, a senior official said yesterday, as a rival US-led deal that excludes the Asian giant has yet to reach an agreement...
State Battles
Striking Down Wisconsin Voted ID Law, Judge Finds 'No Rational Person Could Be Worried' About Voter Fraud Think Progress ...A federal judge invalidated Wisconsin's photo ID requirement Tuesday, in at least the third court ruling to strike down the law...
2 high-speed train sets built for Wisconsin set to leave Milwaukee Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...In what appears to be the final chapter of an ill-fated venture in Milwaukee, Spanish train-maker Talgo is vacating its factory on the city's north side, and its two unused high-speed train sets may soon take to the tracks….Talgo was at the center of a roiling debate after Gov. Scott Walker made opposition to a high-speed rail line from Madison to Milwaukee a centerpiece of his 2010 campaign...
Hawaii lawmakers vote to increase hourly minimum wage to $10.10 Reuters ...Hawaii lawmakers voted late on Tuesday to raise the U.S. state's hourly minimum wage to $10.10 from the federal minimum $7.25 at a time of heated national debate over wages and rising income inequality.10.10...
New report exposes ALEC's influence in Kansas and Missouri Progress Missouri ...ALEC has lavished hundreds of thousands of dollars on Kansas and Missouri politicians and those trips have resulted in dozens of bills being introduced on behalf of ALEC’s corporate members...
More than 100 injured in Florida jail explosion USA Today ...An apparent gas explosion killed two and injured more than 100 people Wednesday night at the Escambia County Central Booking and Detention Facility in northwestern Florida...
War On Workers
Union: Don't Force Retroactive Retirement Payments From Federal Workers Washington Post ...A federal labor organization says the federal government should not force workers to make retroactive retirement contributions after the government failed to collect them at the time the payments were due...
Faith Leaders Join Call For A Higher Minimum Wage MSNBC ...One day before the Senate is scheduled to vote on a proposed minimum wage hike, a broad coalition of religious leaders urged Congress to approve the measure in an open letter...
Miscellaneous
White House opens door to tolls on interstate highways, removing long-standing prohibition Washington Post ...With pressure mounting to avert a transportation funding crisis this summer, the Obama administration Tuesday opened the door for states to collect tolls on interstate highways to raise revenue for roadway repairs...
There's One Thing Missing From The Plan To Prosecute Big Banks Huffington Post ...About five years too late, federal prosecutors are talking tough about cracking down on crimes by big banks. But their boasting so far leaves out one important thing: people...
Heath Care Spending Is On The Rise And That's A Good Thing Think Progress ...New federal health care data finds that health care spending increased by 9.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014, representing somewhat of a turnaround in the four-year slow down of health care spending...
Day 2 Of Truckers Strike At Port Of Long Beach Belmont Shores-Naples Patch ...A 48-hour strike went into its second day at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach today, with contract truckers picketing as part of a Teamsters union backed effort to get hired as full-fledged employees...
Trade
Beijing Pushing For Trans-Pacific Trade Pact To Rival TPP Taipai Times ...China is pressing for a vast Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, a senior official said yesterday, as a rival US-led deal that excludes the Asian giant has yet to reach an agreement...
State Battles
Striking Down Wisconsin Voted ID Law, Judge Finds 'No Rational Person Could Be Worried' About Voter Fraud Think Progress ...A federal judge invalidated Wisconsin's photo ID requirement Tuesday, in at least the third court ruling to strike down the law...
2 high-speed train sets built for Wisconsin set to leave Milwaukee Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...In what appears to be the final chapter of an ill-fated venture in Milwaukee, Spanish train-maker Talgo is vacating its factory on the city's north side, and its two unused high-speed train sets may soon take to the tracks….Talgo was at the center of a roiling debate after Gov. Scott Walker made opposition to a high-speed rail line from Madison to Milwaukee a centerpiece of his 2010 campaign...
Hawaii lawmakers vote to increase hourly minimum wage to $10.10 Reuters ...Hawaii lawmakers voted late on Tuesday to raise the U.S. state's hourly minimum wage to $10.10 from the federal minimum $7.25 at a time of heated national debate over wages and rising income inequality.10.10...
New report exposes ALEC's influence in Kansas and Missouri Progress Missouri ...ALEC has lavished hundreds of thousands of dollars on Kansas and Missouri politicians and those trips have resulted in dozens of bills being introduced on behalf of ALEC’s corporate members...
More than 100 injured in Florida jail explosion USA Today ...An apparent gas explosion killed two and injured more than 100 people Wednesday night at the Escambia County Central Booking and Detention Facility in northwestern Florida...
War On Workers
Union: Don't Force Retroactive Retirement Payments From Federal Workers Washington Post ...A federal labor organization says the federal government should not force workers to make retroactive retirement contributions after the government failed to collect them at the time the payments were due...
Faith Leaders Join Call For A Higher Minimum Wage MSNBC ...One day before the Senate is scheduled to vote on a proposed minimum wage hike, a broad coalition of religious leaders urged Congress to approve the measure in an open letter...
Miscellaneous
White House opens door to tolls on interstate highways, removing long-standing prohibition Washington Post ...With pressure mounting to avert a transportation funding crisis this summer, the Obama administration Tuesday opened the door for states to collect tolls on interstate highways to raise revenue for roadway repairs...
There's One Thing Missing From The Plan To Prosecute Big Banks Huffington Post ...About five years too late, federal prosecutors are talking tough about cracking down on crimes by big banks. But their boasting so far leaves out one important thing: people...
Heath Care Spending Is On The Rise And That's A Good Thing Think Progress ...New federal health care data finds that health care spending increased by 9.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014, representing somewhat of a turnaround in the four-year slow down of health care spending...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Today's Teamster News 04.30.14
Teamster News
Teamsters Applaud School Board Decision To Investigate Durham School Services Teamster.org ...Teamsters applaud the Charleston County School Board members for their unanimous (9-0) vote Monday night to conduct an investigation into unsafe practices by Durham School Services, the school bus transportation contractor for Charleston County schools...
Teamsters Protest Republic Services' Toxic Landfills at Waste Expo Teamster.org ...Today, Teamsters and community members protested Republic Services, Inc. [NYSE: RSG] at WASTE EXPO 2014 at the Atlanta Convention Center...
Teamsters Lead Effort To Break CEO Moyes' Control at Swift Teamster.org ...ISS, the country’s largest proxy voting advisory firm, recommends that shareholders of Swift Transportation [NYSE: SWFT] vote ‘FOR’ Item #4 on the company’s proxy – a Teamster proposal that seeks to address the company’s dual class stock structure which currently provides CEO Jerry Moyes with majority voting control of the company despite owning a minority of the outstanding shares...
Teamsters Call for Improved Oversight at National Express Teamster.org ...As shareholders of National Express Group PLC, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters General Fund, along with three major United Kingdom-based pension funds, are calling for a vote FOR Resolution 22 at the Annual General Meeting on May 14 in Birmingham, England...
Most City Council Members Undecided About Carriage Horse Ban New York Daily News ...Both sides of the raging debate over horse carriages have their work cut out for them: a majority of the City Council is undecided about banning the rides, a Daily News poll shows...
OCTA Approves New Contracts With Coach Operators, Maintenance Workers Orange County Breeze ...The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) Board of Directors today approved three-year collective bargaining agreements with its coach operators and maintenance employees. Both of the contracts with Teamsters Local 952 run through 2016...
Trade
Western Mass. Residents Demonstrate In Opposition To Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement Outside Rep. Richard Neal's Springfield Office Mass Live ...As President Barack Obama and his team left Springfield without a deal following negotiation work on terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, some in Western Massachusetts aren't shy about voicing their opposition to the new proposal...
The troops will finally wear American-made sneakers manufacturethis ...Late Friday afternoon, the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) received very exciting news from Rep. Michael Michaud regarding American-made shoes: the Department of Defense (DOD) will comply with the Berry Amendment to ensure that all service members purchase #MadeinUSA shoes with their footwear allowance...
State Battles
Wisconsin Voter ID Law Rejected By Federal Judge Huffington Post ...A federal judge in Milwaukee has struck down Wisconsin's voter identification law, saying it unfairly burdens poor and minority voters. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman issued his long awaited decision Tuesday. It invalidates Wisconsin's law...
Louisiana About To Make It Illegal For Homeless People To Beg For Money ThinkProgress ...If you are poor, live in Louisiana, and have the audacity ask someone else for help, be prepared to spend up to six months in jail...
War On Workers
Trucking Used To Be A Ticket To The Middle Class. Now It's Just Another Low-Wage Job Washington Post ...It’s the skewed economics of Tigre’s trade that prompted port truckers to go on strike in Los Angeles on Monday as part of a union-backed campaign to regain some of the pay, benefits and respect they say they’ve lost after three decades of decline...
Woman Loses Her Home For Owing $6 ThinkProgress ...Eileen Battisti owed $6.30 in interest on school district taxes. That was enough, a Pennsylvania court has ruled, for her to lose her house over...
Wall Street’s Pension Gamble Moyers & Company ...So what is happening to retirees’ money? ... more and more of it is going to pay the exorbitant fees charged by the Wall Street firms managing the pension money. “Fees have skyrocketed over 1,000 percent since 2000 and have almost doubled since (2008) from $217 million to $416 million...”
How Bank Watchdogs Killed Our Last Chance At Justice For Foreclosure Victims Huffington Post ...If the program hadn't been shut down, aggrieved homeowners could have received another $1.5 billion in cash, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office released Tuesday....
Bank of America Pleads “We’re Idiots, not Crooks!” firedoglake ...The acquisition of Merrill Lynch was in 2009, Bank of America only caught this mistake last week, and you’re happy they are handling it swiftly?...
What A Higher Minimum Wage Would Mean For Me Detroit Free Press ...I have worked as a tipped server for 15 years and, not counting tips, I still only make $2.65 an hour. I'm a divorced mother with three kids. I need to put food on the table...
U.S. Knew Sallie Mae Cheated Service Members On Student Loans, But Still Renewed Contract Huffington Post ...Federal investigators discovered evidence showing Sallie Mae cheated active duty service members on their federal student loans at least two months before the Department of Education told the company it planned to renew its lucrative contract to collect loan payments...
NFL Cheerleaders: We're Not Even Making Minimum Wage CNN Money ...Cheerleading isn't as glamorous as one might think. Several current and former cheerleaders are suing their NFL employers over pay. Three separate suits against the Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals describe contracts that don't guarantee the minimum wage and claim the cheerleaders are vastly underpaid...
Miscellaneous
Justices Back Rule Limiting Coal Pollution New York Times ...the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the smog from coal plants that drifts across state lines from 28 Midwestern and Appalachian states to the East Coast...
Teamsters Applaud School Board Decision To Investigate Durham School Services Teamster.org ...Teamsters applaud the Charleston County School Board members for their unanimous (9-0) vote Monday night to conduct an investigation into unsafe practices by Durham School Services, the school bus transportation contractor for Charleston County schools...
Teamsters Protest Republic Services' Toxic Landfills at Waste Expo Teamster.org ...Today, Teamsters and community members protested Republic Services, Inc. [NYSE: RSG] at WASTE EXPO 2014 at the Atlanta Convention Center...
Teamsters Lead Effort To Break CEO Moyes' Control at Swift Teamster.org ...ISS, the country’s largest proxy voting advisory firm, recommends that shareholders of Swift Transportation [NYSE: SWFT] vote ‘FOR’ Item #4 on the company’s proxy – a Teamster proposal that seeks to address the company’s dual class stock structure which currently provides CEO Jerry Moyes with majority voting control of the company despite owning a minority of the outstanding shares...
Teamsters Call for Improved Oversight at National Express Teamster.org ...As shareholders of National Express Group PLC, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters General Fund, along with three major United Kingdom-based pension funds, are calling for a vote FOR Resolution 22 at the Annual General Meeting on May 14 in Birmingham, England...
Most City Council Members Undecided About Carriage Horse Ban New York Daily News ...Both sides of the raging debate over horse carriages have their work cut out for them: a majority of the City Council is undecided about banning the rides, a Daily News poll shows...
OCTA Approves New Contracts With Coach Operators, Maintenance Workers Orange County Breeze ...The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) Board of Directors today approved three-year collective bargaining agreements with its coach operators and maintenance employees. Both of the contracts with Teamsters Local 952 run through 2016...
Trade
Western Mass. Residents Demonstrate In Opposition To Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement Outside Rep. Richard Neal's Springfield Office Mass Live ...As President Barack Obama and his team left Springfield without a deal following negotiation work on terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, some in Western Massachusetts aren't shy about voicing their opposition to the new proposal...
The troops will finally wear American-made sneakers manufacturethis ...Late Friday afternoon, the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) received very exciting news from Rep. Michael Michaud regarding American-made shoes: the Department of Defense (DOD) will comply with the Berry Amendment to ensure that all service members purchase #MadeinUSA shoes with their footwear allowance...
State Battles
Wisconsin Voter ID Law Rejected By Federal Judge Huffington Post ...A federal judge in Milwaukee has struck down Wisconsin's voter identification law, saying it unfairly burdens poor and minority voters. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman issued his long awaited decision Tuesday. It invalidates Wisconsin's law...
Louisiana About To Make It Illegal For Homeless People To Beg For Money ThinkProgress ...If you are poor, live in Louisiana, and have the audacity ask someone else for help, be prepared to spend up to six months in jail...
War On Workers
Trucking Used To Be A Ticket To The Middle Class. Now It's Just Another Low-Wage Job Washington Post ...It’s the skewed economics of Tigre’s trade that prompted port truckers to go on strike in Los Angeles on Monday as part of a union-backed campaign to regain some of the pay, benefits and respect they say they’ve lost after three decades of decline...
Woman Loses Her Home For Owing $6 ThinkProgress ...Eileen Battisti owed $6.30 in interest on school district taxes. That was enough, a Pennsylvania court has ruled, for her to lose her house over...
Wall Street’s Pension Gamble Moyers & Company ...So what is happening to retirees’ money? ... more and more of it is going to pay the exorbitant fees charged by the Wall Street firms managing the pension money. “Fees have skyrocketed over 1,000 percent since 2000 and have almost doubled since (2008) from $217 million to $416 million...”
How Bank Watchdogs Killed Our Last Chance At Justice For Foreclosure Victims Huffington Post ...If the program hadn't been shut down, aggrieved homeowners could have received another $1.5 billion in cash, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office released Tuesday....
Bank of America Pleads “We’re Idiots, not Crooks!” firedoglake ...The acquisition of Merrill Lynch was in 2009, Bank of America only caught this mistake last week, and you’re happy they are handling it swiftly?...
What A Higher Minimum Wage Would Mean For Me Detroit Free Press ...I have worked as a tipped server for 15 years and, not counting tips, I still only make $2.65 an hour. I'm a divorced mother with three kids. I need to put food on the table...
U.S. Knew Sallie Mae Cheated Service Members On Student Loans, But Still Renewed Contract Huffington Post ...Federal investigators discovered evidence showing Sallie Mae cheated active duty service members on their federal student loans at least two months before the Department of Education told the company it planned to renew its lucrative contract to collect loan payments...
NFL Cheerleaders: We're Not Even Making Minimum Wage CNN Money ...Cheerleading isn't as glamorous as one might think. Several current and former cheerleaders are suing their NFL employers over pay. Three separate suits against the Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals describe contracts that don't guarantee the minimum wage and claim the cheerleaders are vastly underpaid...
Miscellaneous
Justices Back Rule Limiting Coal Pollution New York Times ...the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the smog from coal plants that drifts across state lines from 28 Midwestern and Appalachian states to the East Coast...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Today's Teamster News 06.19.13
Fast-food workers echo 'Occupy' spirit Chicago Tribune ...Labor unions have been knocked back, knocked down and knocked out for so long that a new generation of organizers is beginning to try something new. Instead of unionizing and then protesting, they're protesting first...
Alan Grayson On Trans-Pacific Partnership: Obama Secrecy Hides 'Assault On Democratic Government' Huffington Post ...Progressive Democrats in Congress are ramping up pressure on the Obama administration to release the text of Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive free trade agreement with 10 other nations, amid intensifying controversy over the administration's transparency record and its treatment of classified information...
Brazil protests erupt over public services and World Cup costs The Guardian ...Some of country's biggest ever rallies sweep major cities as bus fare rise is last straw in spiral of high costs and poor services...
When the Government Asks, Tech Companies Usually Turn Over User Information AlterNet ...How often do technology companies hand over user information to the government? More answers to that question have come out in recent days...
Student loans: Government looks to make $50B profit WJLA TV ...Lauren Brice, who recently graduated with a law degree, has money on her mind. “My undergraduate loans and my graduate loans together are about $167,000,” she says. The notion that the government will make a record $50 billion profit on student loans this year has her unsettled...
Union ratchets up pressure on Amazon Germany Associated Press ...Union members at online retailer Amazon's German operations have begun a two-day strike to ratchet up pressure on the company over pay demands. The ver.di union says Amazon's roughly 5,300 workers receive lower wages than their peers in the online retail industry...
US Workers protest over low wages Press TV ...People in California are protesting against working longer hours for less pay and less protection...
Florida blocks cities, counties from voting on sick pay laws CNN News ...Florida's governor has signed a law that says cities and counties cannot make businesses offer paid sick leave...
Planned civil service changes irk N.J. state workers Philadelphia Inquirer ...New Jersey public employees are bracing for what their union leaders say is the latest anti-worker onslaught by the Christie administration...
Oklahoma voter registration law survives U.S. Supreme Court decision The Oklahoman ...The Supreme Court decision to strike down a voter registration law in Arizona will not affect the process in Oklahoma, which requires registrants to attest to U.S. citizenship but not provide documents proving their status...
Why Pennsylvania's voter ID law probably won't be affected by the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's election law Patriot-News ...A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court Monday striking down an Arizona voter identification law will likely have little consequence in another legal case - that of the Pennsylvania voter identification law, legal experts said...
Carnival operators sued over wage law Boston Globe ...Workers who set up carnivals around New England have sued a New Hampshire amusements company, alleging it violated minimum wage and overtime laws by requiring employees to work long hours at a low weekly salary...
Investigation Shows Politicians Profit off Foreclosure Sales WNYC News ...When New York State Senator John Sampson was arrested last month for allegedly embezzling $440,000 from foreclosure sales, the curtain pulled back on a little known corner of the state’s justice system – the job of foreclosure referee...
Teamsters want Hernando County to stop reclassifying jobs, adding pay Tampa Bay Times ...The Teamsters union has put Hernando County on notice this week to "cease and desist" from the practice of reclassifying some county jobs. The union, representing 400 county workers, said the practice is allowing management to circumvent the employees' contract with the county and give altered jobs with higher salaries to chosen employees...
City Of Oakland Considers Contract With Known Lawbreaker, Teamsters Joint Council 7 Says IBT ...Politically connected firm poised to get lease despite nearly $1 million judgment for violating California Labor laws and a $235,000 debt to the City...
Sign Up for the 2013 Teamster Women's Conference IBT ...The Teamster Women’s Conference will be held September 19-21, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Register now to join your Teamster Sisters and Brothers!...
Alan Grayson On Trans-Pacific Partnership: Obama Secrecy Hides 'Assault On Democratic Government' Huffington Post ...Progressive Democrats in Congress are ramping up pressure on the Obama administration to release the text of Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive free trade agreement with 10 other nations, amid intensifying controversy over the administration's transparency record and its treatment of classified information...
Brazil protests erupt over public services and World Cup costs The Guardian ...Some of country's biggest ever rallies sweep major cities as bus fare rise is last straw in spiral of high costs and poor services...
When the Government Asks, Tech Companies Usually Turn Over User Information AlterNet ...How often do technology companies hand over user information to the government? More answers to that question have come out in recent days...
Student loans: Government looks to make $50B profit WJLA TV ...Lauren Brice, who recently graduated with a law degree, has money on her mind. “My undergraduate loans and my graduate loans together are about $167,000,” she says. The notion that the government will make a record $50 billion profit on student loans this year has her unsettled...
Union ratchets up pressure on Amazon Germany Associated Press ...Union members at online retailer Amazon's German operations have begun a two-day strike to ratchet up pressure on the company over pay demands. The ver.di union says Amazon's roughly 5,300 workers receive lower wages than their peers in the online retail industry...
US Workers protest over low wages Press TV ...People in California are protesting against working longer hours for less pay and less protection...
Florida blocks cities, counties from voting on sick pay laws CNN News ...Florida's governor has signed a law that says cities and counties cannot make businesses offer paid sick leave...
Planned civil service changes irk N.J. state workers Philadelphia Inquirer ...New Jersey public employees are bracing for what their union leaders say is the latest anti-worker onslaught by the Christie administration...
Oklahoma voter registration law survives U.S. Supreme Court decision The Oklahoman ...The Supreme Court decision to strike down a voter registration law in Arizona will not affect the process in Oklahoma, which requires registrants to attest to U.S. citizenship but not provide documents proving their status...
Why Pennsylvania's voter ID law probably won't be affected by the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's election law Patriot-News ...A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court Monday striking down an Arizona voter identification law will likely have little consequence in another legal case - that of the Pennsylvania voter identification law, legal experts said...
Carnival operators sued over wage law Boston Globe ...Workers who set up carnivals around New England have sued a New Hampshire amusements company, alleging it violated minimum wage and overtime laws by requiring employees to work long hours at a low weekly salary...
Investigation Shows Politicians Profit off Foreclosure Sales WNYC News ...When New York State Senator John Sampson was arrested last month for allegedly embezzling $440,000 from foreclosure sales, the curtain pulled back on a little known corner of the state’s justice system – the job of foreclosure referee...
Teamsters want Hernando County to stop reclassifying jobs, adding pay Tampa Bay Times ...The Teamsters union has put Hernando County on notice this week to "cease and desist" from the practice of reclassifying some county jobs. The union, representing 400 county workers, said the practice is allowing management to circumvent the employees' contract with the county and give altered jobs with higher salaries to chosen employees...
City Of Oakland Considers Contract With Known Lawbreaker, Teamsters Joint Council 7 Says IBT ...Politically connected firm poised to get lease despite nearly $1 million judgment for violating California Labor laws and a $235,000 debt to the City...
Sign Up for the 2013 Teamster Women's Conference IBT ...The Teamster Women’s Conference will be held September 19-21, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Register now to join your Teamster Sisters and Brothers!...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Today's Teamster News 06.18.13
7-Eleven Stores Operated 'Modern Day Plantation System,' Feds Claim ABC News ...The owners of 7-Eleven franchises in New York and Virginia created a "modern day plantation system" in which undocumented workers were furnished with stolen identities and forced to work 100 hours a week for a fraction of their wages, according to a federal authorities...
McD's worker sues: Don't pay by debit card The Times Leader ...When she received her first paycheck, enclosed was a Chase Bank debit card with instructions on how to use it and the fees attached...
U.S. chief records officer details federal e-mail record-keeping programs Washington Post ...Cabinet officials have used (secret) alternative e-mail accounts in addition to government addresses to conduct federal business...
Apple releases information on data requests from NSA, other agencies Los Angeles Times ...Apple Inc., said it received 4,000 to 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. officials during the six months ending in May, as it became the latest high-tech company to provide some details on its involvement in the National Security Agency's Internet surveillance program...
Trade Agreements, Privacy, and the Cloud MacLean’s ...What does privacy have to do with trade agreements? As Canada, the U.S., and nine other countries negotiate a multilateral trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP, U.S. negotiators are pushing to include a provision that would commit members to allowing free-flow of data over their borders...
More Bangladesh Factories Dangerous Associated Press ...A separate inspection, by the garment industry, of 200 risky factories found that 10 percent of them were so dangerous that they were ordered to shut. The textiles minister said a third inspection, conducted by the government, could show that as many as 300 factories were unsafe...
Turkey unrest: Unions call strike over crackdown BBC News ...Turkish unions have called a strike to protest against the police crackdown on demonstrators...
Biggest protests in 20 years sweep Brazil Reuters ...As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption...
Bank Of America Paid Foreclosure Bonuses While Lying To Homeowners Think Progress ...One of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers intentionally, knowingly, and routinely falsifies paperwork and lies to homeowners in order to boot them from their homes, according to bank insiders...
Why Let a Bank Write U.S. Financial Reform Legislation? (opinion) Huffington Post ...Reasonable people would agree that a bank having a history of involvement with fraud and mismanagement (and a recipient of one of the largest bank bailouts) shouldn't be writing bank legislation. Unless, of course, you are the U.S. Congress doing business as usual...
Justices: Arizona voter registration rules go too far USA Today ...The Supreme Court ruled handily Monday that Arizona cannot add to federal voter registration requirements by demanding proof of citizenship...
California Gov. Brown targets enterprise zone tax credits Appeal Democrat ...A battle is raging over a California program that grants businesses tax breaks for creating jobs but prevents the public from knowing who got them and why…
Michigan foreclosure bills would give banks the upper hand (opinion) Detroit Free Press ...On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed a package of foreclosure bills that will set Michigan back decades in its efforts to prevent foreclosures and the damage they cause to families, neighborhoods, communities and our still fragile economy...
RI could be 3rd US state to OK paid leave for workers caring for children, spouses or parents Associated Press ...People ... who care for a new child or sick loved one could continue receiving pay for up to eight weeks under a proposal pending in Rhode Island's General Assembly...
Scott blocks paid sick-time vote in Orange, statewide Sun Sentinel ...Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill Friday that would block local governments from enacting mandatory paid-sick-time measures. Scott sided with Walt Disney World, Darden Restaurants, the Florida Chamber of Commerce and a broad array of powerful business interests that argued the ban was needed to avoid a patchwork of local employment rules for companies...
Iowa cities bypass state to halt payday lenders Associated Press ...Efforts to limit payday lenders in Iowa have repeatedly failed in the Legislature, but more cities are approving zoning changes that make it harder to open the businesses...
Christine Quinn Snags Teamsters Unions’ Endorsement Politicker ...City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has snagged the endorsement of the 120,000-member strong Teamsters Joint Council 16 in New York for mayor...
Seattle Teamsters Support Even Playing Field for Taxis Teamsters Local 117 ...Ride sharing and other flat rate taxis in Seattle are undercutting unionized taxi drivers...
McD's worker sues: Don't pay by debit card The Times Leader ...When she received her first paycheck, enclosed was a Chase Bank debit card with instructions on how to use it and the fees attached...
U.S. chief records officer details federal e-mail record-keeping programs Washington Post ...Cabinet officials have used (secret) alternative e-mail accounts in addition to government addresses to conduct federal business...
Apple releases information on data requests from NSA, other agencies Los Angeles Times ...Apple Inc., said it received 4,000 to 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. officials during the six months ending in May, as it became the latest high-tech company to provide some details on its involvement in the National Security Agency's Internet surveillance program...
Trade Agreements, Privacy, and the Cloud MacLean’s ...What does privacy have to do with trade agreements? As Canada, the U.S., and nine other countries negotiate a multilateral trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP, U.S. negotiators are pushing to include a provision that would commit members to allowing free-flow of data over their borders...
More Bangladesh Factories Dangerous Associated Press ...A separate inspection, by the garment industry, of 200 risky factories found that 10 percent of them were so dangerous that they were ordered to shut. The textiles minister said a third inspection, conducted by the government, could show that as many as 300 factories were unsafe...
Turkey unrest: Unions call strike over crackdown BBC News ...Turkish unions have called a strike to protest against the police crackdown on demonstrators...
Biggest protests in 20 years sweep Brazil Reuters ...As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption...
Bank Of America Paid Foreclosure Bonuses While Lying To Homeowners Think Progress ...One of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers intentionally, knowingly, and routinely falsifies paperwork and lies to homeowners in order to boot them from their homes, according to bank insiders...
Why Let a Bank Write U.S. Financial Reform Legislation? (opinion) Huffington Post ...Reasonable people would agree that a bank having a history of involvement with fraud and mismanagement (and a recipient of one of the largest bank bailouts) shouldn't be writing bank legislation. Unless, of course, you are the U.S. Congress doing business as usual...
Justices: Arizona voter registration rules go too far USA Today ...The Supreme Court ruled handily Monday that Arizona cannot add to federal voter registration requirements by demanding proof of citizenship...
California Gov. Brown targets enterprise zone tax credits Appeal Democrat ...A battle is raging over a California program that grants businesses tax breaks for creating jobs but prevents the public from knowing who got them and why…
Michigan foreclosure bills would give banks the upper hand (opinion) Detroit Free Press ...On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed a package of foreclosure bills that will set Michigan back decades in its efforts to prevent foreclosures and the damage they cause to families, neighborhoods, communities and our still fragile economy...
RI could be 3rd US state to OK paid leave for workers caring for children, spouses or parents Associated Press ...People ... who care for a new child or sick loved one could continue receiving pay for up to eight weeks under a proposal pending in Rhode Island's General Assembly...
Scott blocks paid sick-time vote in Orange, statewide Sun Sentinel ...Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill Friday that would block local governments from enacting mandatory paid-sick-time measures. Scott sided with Walt Disney World, Darden Restaurants, the Florida Chamber of Commerce and a broad array of powerful business interests that argued the ban was needed to avoid a patchwork of local employment rules for companies...
Iowa cities bypass state to halt payday lenders Associated Press ...Efforts to limit payday lenders in Iowa have repeatedly failed in the Legislature, but more cities are approving zoning changes that make it harder to open the businesses...
Christine Quinn Snags Teamsters Unions’ Endorsement Politicker ...City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has snagged the endorsement of the 120,000-member strong Teamsters Joint Council 16 in New York for mayor...
Seattle Teamsters Support Even Playing Field for Taxis Teamsters Local 117 ...Ride sharing and other flat rate taxis in Seattle are undercutting unionized taxi drivers...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Today's Teamster News 06.12.13
NSA Leaker's Six-Figure Pay Should Spark Debate: Why Are Federal Workers Being Replaced With Pricier Contractors? Forbes ...Why is a 29-year-old high school drop-out making more as a low-level contractor than any senior manager in the federal government short of the President himself, and a very few other special category employees?...
Edward Snowden: Exhibit A for How Washington Blows Money on Contractors The Atlantic ...the government has outsourced huge chunks of its operations wholesale to private contractors like Booz Allen, particularly in the realm of intelligence gathering. And it's costing Washington untold billions every year...
Obama Hosts Peru’s Humala in Push for Pacific Trade Deal Bloomberg ...President Barack Obama called Peru one of the most reliable partners of the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere and said a Pacific region trade pact being negotiated will enhance the economic relationship...
Overdrafts accounted for 61% of bank fees in 2011, report finds New York Times ...Overdrafts accounted for 61 percent of the fees banking customers paid in 2011, according to a report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The bureau conservatively estimates that the banking industry made $12.6 billion in such fees...
Banks Seen as Aid in Fraud Against Older Consumers New York Times ...The pitch arrived, as so many do, with a friendly cold call. Bruno Koch, 83, told the telemarketer on the line that, yes, of course he would like to update his health insurance card. Then Mr. Koch, of Newport News, Va., slipped up: he divulged his bank account information. What happened next is all too familiar...
Federal agencies turning to UPS, Fed Ex instead of USPS for delivery needs Washington Free Beacon ...The U.S. Postal Service’s bottom line has been hit as the federal government has increased its contracts with publicly traded companies, and spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year for these services. The lion’s share of contracts has gone to the United Parcel Service (UPS)...
Employers: Pay your interns. Labor Department: Bust them if they don’t! Economic Policy Institute ...At a time when the real value of the minimum wage is well below the levels of the 1960’s (making entry-level workers quite affordable), when the weak labor market is forcing college graduates in record numbers to take jobs that don’t require a college degree and entry level wages for college grads are already substantially below the levels of 10 years ago, the exploitation involved in not paying employees anything at all is shameful and economically dangerous...
When it comes to open records, ALEC needs to be put in its place Cap Times ...Communications with Wisconsin legislators are open records under the state's long-standing openness laws and for good reason. Citizens have a right to know who is influencing the conduct and actions of their elected representatives...
Walmart CEO Mike Duke, Other Execs Face Dissent In Shareholder Vote Huffington Post ...Wal-Mart's final shareholder vote for its board of directors showed another year of dissent against key executives and directors, including its CEO Mike Duke, as the company deals with the fallout from overseas bribery allegations...
Residents shut out of packed Detroit emergency manager meeting; Reporters tossed out Michigan Live ...(Emergency Manager Kevyn) Orr ... spoke in the meeting about making full use of either his broad powers under the state emergency manager law or Chapter 9 bankruptcy to address the city’s finances...
Bill would give Michigan college grads tax credits for student loans Central Michigan Life ...A new bill working its way through the state Legislature in Lansing would give college graduates an income tax credit if they continue to live in Michigan...
OSHA targets industrial truck safety FleetOwner ...OSHA is launching a new program in Idaho that will emphasize safety when working with industrial trucks like forklifts and lift trucks. Investigations will begin this month identifying and evaluating hazards associated with using these trucks...
Foreclosure abuse victims in Virginia to get checks Associated Press ...Checks are going out this week to more than 22,500 Virginians participating in the national mortgage foreclosure settlement, said Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli...
Davidson County judge blocks Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam's plan to lay off state workers Chattanooga Times Free Press ...Gov. Bill Haslam's plan to lay off more than 200 state workers this month struck a pothole late Monday afternoon when a Davidson County judge issued a temporary restraining order after state employees filed suit...
Record Temperatures Bring Reminders of Heat-Related Illness from Cal/OSHA EHS Today ...With parts of California experiencing record-breaking temperatures, with some highs in in the triple digits, California’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is reminding employers and employees of ways to beat the heat...
Teamsters Lead The Charge On Behalf Of Women Teamsters Canada ...The Teamsters Union has decided to lead the charge on behalf of pregnant women whose jobs are governed by the Canada Labour Code. The union wants to ensure that these women continue to be paid if they have to take a preventive withdrawal...
Edward Snowden: Exhibit A for How Washington Blows Money on Contractors The Atlantic ...the government has outsourced huge chunks of its operations wholesale to private contractors like Booz Allen, particularly in the realm of intelligence gathering. And it's costing Washington untold billions every year...
Obama Hosts Peru’s Humala in Push for Pacific Trade Deal Bloomberg ...President Barack Obama called Peru one of the most reliable partners of the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere and said a Pacific region trade pact being negotiated will enhance the economic relationship...
Overdrafts accounted for 61% of bank fees in 2011, report finds New York Times ...Overdrafts accounted for 61 percent of the fees banking customers paid in 2011, according to a report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The bureau conservatively estimates that the banking industry made $12.6 billion in such fees...
Banks Seen as Aid in Fraud Against Older Consumers New York Times ...The pitch arrived, as so many do, with a friendly cold call. Bruno Koch, 83, told the telemarketer on the line that, yes, of course he would like to update his health insurance card. Then Mr. Koch, of Newport News, Va., slipped up: he divulged his bank account information. What happened next is all too familiar...
Federal agencies turning to UPS, Fed Ex instead of USPS for delivery needs Washington Free Beacon ...The U.S. Postal Service’s bottom line has been hit as the federal government has increased its contracts with publicly traded companies, and spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year for these services. The lion’s share of contracts has gone to the United Parcel Service (UPS)...
Employers: Pay your interns. Labor Department: Bust them if they don’t! Economic Policy Institute ...At a time when the real value of the minimum wage is well below the levels of the 1960’s (making entry-level workers quite affordable), when the weak labor market is forcing college graduates in record numbers to take jobs that don’t require a college degree and entry level wages for college grads are already substantially below the levels of 10 years ago, the exploitation involved in not paying employees anything at all is shameful and economically dangerous...
When it comes to open records, ALEC needs to be put in its place Cap Times ...Communications with Wisconsin legislators are open records under the state's long-standing openness laws and for good reason. Citizens have a right to know who is influencing the conduct and actions of their elected representatives...
Walmart CEO Mike Duke, Other Execs Face Dissent In Shareholder Vote Huffington Post ...Wal-Mart's final shareholder vote for its board of directors showed another year of dissent against key executives and directors, including its CEO Mike Duke, as the company deals with the fallout from overseas bribery allegations...
Residents shut out of packed Detroit emergency manager meeting; Reporters tossed out Michigan Live ...(Emergency Manager Kevyn) Orr ... spoke in the meeting about making full use of either his broad powers under the state emergency manager law or Chapter 9 bankruptcy to address the city’s finances...
Bill would give Michigan college grads tax credits for student loans Central Michigan Life ...A new bill working its way through the state Legislature in Lansing would give college graduates an income tax credit if they continue to live in Michigan...
OSHA targets industrial truck safety FleetOwner ...OSHA is launching a new program in Idaho that will emphasize safety when working with industrial trucks like forklifts and lift trucks. Investigations will begin this month identifying and evaluating hazards associated with using these trucks...
Foreclosure abuse victims in Virginia to get checks Associated Press ...Checks are going out this week to more than 22,500 Virginians participating in the national mortgage foreclosure settlement, said Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli...
Davidson County judge blocks Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam's plan to lay off state workers Chattanooga Times Free Press ...Gov. Bill Haslam's plan to lay off more than 200 state workers this month struck a pothole late Monday afternoon when a Davidson County judge issued a temporary restraining order after state employees filed suit...
Record Temperatures Bring Reminders of Heat-Related Illness from Cal/OSHA EHS Today ...With parts of California experiencing record-breaking temperatures, with some highs in in the triple digits, California’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is reminding employers and employees of ways to beat the heat...
Teamsters Lead The Charge On Behalf Of Women Teamsters Canada ...The Teamsters Union has decided to lead the charge on behalf of pregnant women whose jobs are governed by the Canada Labour Code. The union wants to ensure that these women continue to be paid if they have to take a preventive withdrawal...
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Today's Teamster News 06.08.13
Bulk of U.S. Payroll Gain in Jobs Paying Less-Than-Average Wages Bloomberg ...Occupations paying below-average wages accounted for more than half of last month’s U.S. payroll increase, a dynamic that may restrain consumer spending and the economic recovery...
Austerity hampered job growth (opinion) MarketWatch ...Sharp cuts in government spending implemented March 1 as part of the sequester are slowing the recovery...
Under Korea FTA, U.S. Trade Deficit Surges to Highest Point in History (Again) Public Citizen ...The monthly U.S. trade deficit with Korea soared to its highest point in history, topping $2.5 billion for the month of April alone...the unprecedented deficit surge implies 13,500 U.S. jobs lost to trade with Korea in just thirty days...
Walmart Activism Is Effecting Change At World's Largest Retailer, Organizers Say Huffington Post ...“On the store level, people have won all kinds of victories,” said Dan Schlademan, a campaign director for the United Food and Commercial Workers…
More Dissent Is Expected Over a Wal-Mart Scandal New York Times ...A year after a shareholder meeting with strong opposition to Wal-Mart board members after a bribery scandal in Mexico, many investors are asking why more change has not occurred...
NLRB judges give scrutiny to employer confidentiality policies Thomson Reuters ...Confidentiality clauses in the code of conduct and employee handbook used by an American Red Cross unit in Toledo, Ohio, were so broad that they cannot be enforced and must be rescinded, an administrative law judge has found...
Intelligence chief declassifies details of phone-records program after uproar over snooping Associated Press ...Moving to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of two secret surveillance programs, the nation’s top intelligence official is declassifying key details about one of the programs while insisting the efforts to collect America’s phone records and the U.S. internet use of foreign nationals overseas were legal, limited in scope and necessary to detect terrorist threats...
Could Right-to-Work be overturned? (opinion) Michigan Radio ...The ACLU has filed a lawsuit, claiming that the way in which right to work was passed violated the state’s Open Meetings Act...
Koch Brothers Admit They're Interested in Buying Sun-Sentinel Broward Palm Beach New Times ...After months of hot and sweaty speculation, we're finally getting some answers out of the Koch Brothers about their interest in the media game...
Majority of women, blacks and Latino seniors on cusp of poverty Los Angeles Times ...A new report on the senior population found a majority of elderly women, blacks and Latinos are precariously close to poverty, according to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute report released Thursday...
15K Alabama consumers to get a check in foreclosure settlement Birmingham Business Journal ...Approximately 15,000 Alabama consumers will receive payments this month, totaling $21.8 million, as a result of the state’s participation in the National Mortgage Settlement...
Feds to pay OSHA whistle-blower $820,000 settlement Charlotte Observer ...U.S. Department of Labor will pay former OSHA official Bob Whitmore $820,000 - one of the largest federal whistle-blower settlements ever approved-under a deal that will end his four-year fight against the government. Whitmore says he was fired because he publicly criticized his agency for allowing companies to underreport workplace injuries...
US Airways Election Dates Announced! IBT ...Telephone electronic voting and Internet voting will take place from July 8 through August 12 for US Airways mechanics and related workers to decide on Teamster representation...
Carson officials support union organizing by port truckers Daily Breeze ...A Teamster Union-organizing campaign by truck drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach won the support of the Carson City Council this week...
Negotiations Spur Multi-Year Contracts for Anne Arundel’s Unions Business Monthly ...Twelve out of 13 unions have ratified contracts or have reached tentative agreements with Anne Arundel County, Maryland...
Teamsters Local Awards $36,000 in President's scholarships Teamsters Local 743 ...Thirty-six sons and daughters of Teamsters Local 743 members were awarded the President’s Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement during the local’s general membership meeting on June 3...
Austerity hampered job growth (opinion) MarketWatch ...Sharp cuts in government spending implemented March 1 as part of the sequester are slowing the recovery...
Under Korea FTA, U.S. Trade Deficit Surges to Highest Point in History (Again) Public Citizen ...The monthly U.S. trade deficit with Korea soared to its highest point in history, topping $2.5 billion for the month of April alone...the unprecedented deficit surge implies 13,500 U.S. jobs lost to trade with Korea in just thirty days...
Walmart Activism Is Effecting Change At World's Largest Retailer, Organizers Say Huffington Post ...“On the store level, people have won all kinds of victories,” said Dan Schlademan, a campaign director for the United Food and Commercial Workers…
More Dissent Is Expected Over a Wal-Mart Scandal New York Times ...A year after a shareholder meeting with strong opposition to Wal-Mart board members after a bribery scandal in Mexico, many investors are asking why more change has not occurred...
NLRB judges give scrutiny to employer confidentiality policies Thomson Reuters ...Confidentiality clauses in the code of conduct and employee handbook used by an American Red Cross unit in Toledo, Ohio, were so broad that they cannot be enforced and must be rescinded, an administrative law judge has found...
Intelligence chief declassifies details of phone-records program after uproar over snooping Associated Press ...Moving to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of two secret surveillance programs, the nation’s top intelligence official is declassifying key details about one of the programs while insisting the efforts to collect America’s phone records and the U.S. internet use of foreign nationals overseas were legal, limited in scope and necessary to detect terrorist threats...
Could Right-to-Work be overturned? (opinion) Michigan Radio ...The ACLU has filed a lawsuit, claiming that the way in which right to work was passed violated the state’s Open Meetings Act...
Koch Brothers Admit They're Interested in Buying Sun-Sentinel Broward Palm Beach New Times ...After months of hot and sweaty speculation, we're finally getting some answers out of the Koch Brothers about their interest in the media game...
Majority of women, blacks and Latino seniors on cusp of poverty Los Angeles Times ...A new report on the senior population found a majority of elderly women, blacks and Latinos are precariously close to poverty, according to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute report released Thursday...
15K Alabama consumers to get a check in foreclosure settlement Birmingham Business Journal ...Approximately 15,000 Alabama consumers will receive payments this month, totaling $21.8 million, as a result of the state’s participation in the National Mortgage Settlement...
Feds to pay OSHA whistle-blower $820,000 settlement Charlotte Observer ...U.S. Department of Labor will pay former OSHA official Bob Whitmore $820,000 - one of the largest federal whistle-blower settlements ever approved-under a deal that will end his four-year fight against the government. Whitmore says he was fired because he publicly criticized his agency for allowing companies to underreport workplace injuries...
US Airways Election Dates Announced! IBT ...Telephone electronic voting and Internet voting will take place from July 8 through August 12 for US Airways mechanics and related workers to decide on Teamster representation...
Carson officials support union organizing by port truckers Daily Breeze ...A Teamster Union-organizing campaign by truck drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach won the support of the Carson City Council this week...
Negotiations Spur Multi-Year Contracts for Anne Arundel’s Unions Business Monthly ...Twelve out of 13 unions have ratified contracts or have reached tentative agreements with Anne Arundel County, Maryland...
Teamsters Local Awards $36,000 in President's scholarships Teamsters Local 743 ...Thirty-six sons and daughters of Teamsters Local 743 members were awarded the President’s Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement during the local’s general membership meeting on June 3...
Monday, April 15, 2013
Today's Teamster News 04.15.13
Foreclosure Settlement Shows 4.2 Million Borrowers Shafted in 2009-2010 Economic Populist ...Close to 1.2 million borrowers, or about 30 percent of the more than 3.9 million households whose properties were foreclosed on by 11 leading financial institutions in 2009 and 2010, had to battle potentially wrongful efforts to seize their homes despite not having defaulted on their loans, being protected under a host of federal laws, or having been in good standing under bank-approved plans to either restructure their mortgages or temporarily delay required payments...
Is the Fed Handing Out Valuable Tips to Insiders? Washington Blog ...Congressman Grayson Asks for an Investigation into Federal Reserve’s FOMC leak...
The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment The Atlantic ...It's an awful catch-22: employers won't hire you if you've been out of work for more than six months...
U.S., Guatemala reach deal to resolve labor dispute Reuters ...The new 18-point labor enforcement plan "reflects Guatemala's commitment to constructive engagement to meet its labor obligations under our trade agreement," Acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis said in a statement...
Margaret Thatcher the tax snatcher? Mystery of her £6m house with links to THREE tax havens Mirror ...“How can a former prime minister spend more than two decades living in a house in London that has been owned for many years by a company based in the British Virgin Islands? ... We all have a duty to pay our taxes, and that includes former politicians...
Portugal's fed-up youth pack and go as their nation slides into reverse The Guardian ...Job prospects are grim, health and education are in crisis and, with more austerity to come, emigration is increasingly the only solution...
U.S. grants Michigan permit to build 2nd Detroit-Canada bridge Detroit Free Press ...The U.S. State Department announced its issuance of a presidential permit to the state of Michigan for the New International Trade Crossing between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, moving the project an important step closer to completion...
After Courts Block GOP Laws, Wisconsin GOP Pushes Bill To Strip Most State Courts’ Power To Block Laws ThinkProgress ...Last November, Wisconsin was able to run a fair election unmarred by one of the Republican Party’s favorite voter suppression tactics because two lower courts struck down the state’s unconstitutional voter ID law, and the conservative state supreme court repeatedly refused requests to take up the case before it winds its way through the normal appeals process. Now, a group of Wisconsin Republicans are pushing legislation to ensure that something like this never happens again:...
Flaws Seen in Protection of Animals on the Set New York Times ...Trainers, who are already heavily regulated by state and federal officials, are particularly incensed by the idea that the (American Humane) association might seek to extend its authority beyond film sets, to include certification of those who house and supply animals — something they see as an attempt to bolster funds by tapping them for fees...
Is the Fed Handing Out Valuable Tips to Insiders? Washington Blog ...Congressman Grayson Asks for an Investigation into Federal Reserve’s FOMC leak...
The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment The Atlantic ...It's an awful catch-22: employers won't hire you if you've been out of work for more than six months...
U.S., Guatemala reach deal to resolve labor dispute Reuters ...The new 18-point labor enforcement plan "reflects Guatemala's commitment to constructive engagement to meet its labor obligations under our trade agreement," Acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis said in a statement...
Margaret Thatcher the tax snatcher? Mystery of her £6m house with links to THREE tax havens Mirror ...“How can a former prime minister spend more than two decades living in a house in London that has been owned for many years by a company based in the British Virgin Islands? ... We all have a duty to pay our taxes, and that includes former politicians...
Portugal's fed-up youth pack and go as their nation slides into reverse The Guardian ...Job prospects are grim, health and education are in crisis and, with more austerity to come, emigration is increasingly the only solution...
U.S. grants Michigan permit to build 2nd Detroit-Canada bridge Detroit Free Press ...The U.S. State Department announced its issuance of a presidential permit to the state of Michigan for the New International Trade Crossing between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, moving the project an important step closer to completion...
After Courts Block GOP Laws, Wisconsin GOP Pushes Bill To Strip Most State Courts’ Power To Block Laws ThinkProgress ...Last November, Wisconsin was able to run a fair election unmarred by one of the Republican Party’s favorite voter suppression tactics because two lower courts struck down the state’s unconstitutional voter ID law, and the conservative state supreme court repeatedly refused requests to take up the case before it winds its way through the normal appeals process. Now, a group of Wisconsin Republicans are pushing legislation to ensure that something like this never happens again:...
Flaws Seen in Protection of Animals on the Set New York Times ...Trainers, who are already heavily regulated by state and federal officials, are particularly incensed by the idea that the (American Humane) association might seek to extend its authority beyond film sets, to include certification of those who house and supply animals — something they see as an attempt to bolster funds by tapping them for fees...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Today's Teamster News 03.05.13
Vulnerable U.S. Dairy Industry Could Be Harmed By TPP Trade Deal IBT ...Congress should not approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal without carefully considering the impact on vulnerable U.S. dairy farms and workers. ... the Teamsters would not support any trade deal that provides lesser protections to workers than to corporations...
Regulators Crack Down on Classifying Workers as Contractors Wall Street Journal ...State and federal regulators have cracked down on companies in recent months by filing lawsuits against companies that classify workers as independent contractors...Targeted companies span the labor spectrum from construction and package delivery to trucking and exotic dance...
Obama taps Walmart Foundation head as budget chief NBC Politics ...President Barack Obama will nominate Walmart Foundation Sylvia Mathews Burwell to direct the Office of Management and Budget ... one of the most important jobs in the administration...
Banks Find More Wrongful Foreclosures Among Military Members New York Times ...The nation’s biggest banks wrongfully foreclosed on more than 700 military members during the housing crisis and seized homes from roughly two dozen other borrowers who were current on their mortgage payments...
Despite Colombia's measures, labor union officials' lives at risk Los Angeles Times ...Last year, about 20 union leaders were killed in Colombia, with few if any of the slayings resulting in arrests. In addition, 90 labor leaders were kidnapped and 431 labor leaders were threatened, according to CUT, the nation's labor umbrella organization...
Union contracts could be in crosshairs as Gov. Snyder intervenes in Detroit Fox News ...Michigan lawmakers tired of failed efforts to save Detroit from its long, slow decline are poised to appoint an emergency manager who will assume control of virtually all aspects of city government. And union contracts could be in the crosshairs...
GOP may punish Mich. schools that sign long labor contracts before right-to-work deadline The Republic ...Michigan public universities and K-12 districts that consider signing unusually long new contracts before the contentious right-to-work law goes into effect March 28 may have to think twice. Some Republican lawmakers with the power of the purse are threatening to limit their state aid and call them into the Capitol for an explanation...
Mo. Senate stalled on 'paycheck protection' bill Associated Press ...An effort to ban public employee unions from automatically deducting dues from a member's paycheck has been gaining momentum across the country, but Missouri Democrats were able to stall it — at least for now...
Critics assail reform plans for Arizona elections Arizona Republic ...One bill would pare down early-voting lists; another would make it more difficult to deliver other people’s ballots to polling places; and other bills would make it more difficult to place citizen initiatives on the ballot...
Walker Walks Away from "John Doe" Investigation, Pushes Budget Deal Only ALEC Could Love Center for Media and Democracy ...There is no doubt that Walker emerges from the scandal in a stronger position to advance his extreme legislative agenda and his plans for higher office...
Regulators Crack Down on Classifying Workers as Contractors Wall Street Journal ...State and federal regulators have cracked down on companies in recent months by filing lawsuits against companies that classify workers as independent contractors...Targeted companies span the labor spectrum from construction and package delivery to trucking and exotic dance...
Obama taps Walmart Foundation head as budget chief NBC Politics ...President Barack Obama will nominate Walmart Foundation Sylvia Mathews Burwell to direct the Office of Management and Budget ... one of the most important jobs in the administration...
Banks Find More Wrongful Foreclosures Among Military Members New York Times ...The nation’s biggest banks wrongfully foreclosed on more than 700 military members during the housing crisis and seized homes from roughly two dozen other borrowers who were current on their mortgage payments...
Despite Colombia's measures, labor union officials' lives at risk Los Angeles Times ...Last year, about 20 union leaders were killed in Colombia, with few if any of the slayings resulting in arrests. In addition, 90 labor leaders were kidnapped and 431 labor leaders were threatened, according to CUT, the nation's labor umbrella organization...
Union contracts could be in crosshairs as Gov. Snyder intervenes in Detroit Fox News ...Michigan lawmakers tired of failed efforts to save Detroit from its long, slow decline are poised to appoint an emergency manager who will assume control of virtually all aspects of city government. And union contracts could be in the crosshairs...
GOP may punish Mich. schools that sign long labor contracts before right-to-work deadline The Republic ...Michigan public universities and K-12 districts that consider signing unusually long new contracts before the contentious right-to-work law goes into effect March 28 may have to think twice. Some Republican lawmakers with the power of the purse are threatening to limit their state aid and call them into the Capitol for an explanation...
Mo. Senate stalled on 'paycheck protection' bill Associated Press ...An effort to ban public employee unions from automatically deducting dues from a member's paycheck has been gaining momentum across the country, but Missouri Democrats were able to stall it — at least for now...
Critics assail reform plans for Arizona elections Arizona Republic ...One bill would pare down early-voting lists; another would make it more difficult to deliver other people’s ballots to polling places; and other bills would make it more difficult to place citizen initiatives on the ballot...
Walker Walks Away from "John Doe" Investigation, Pushes Budget Deal Only ALEC Could Love Center for Media and Democracy ...There is no doubt that Walker emerges from the scandal in a stronger position to advance his extreme legislative agenda and his plans for higher office...
ABF Freight, Teamsters talks look to get in gear Kansas City Business Journal ...In the latest round of talks, which concluded last week, the two sides moved closer to an agreement, a Friday release from the Teamsters said. The statement said that ABF has withdrawn its initial proposal and now is negotiating based on the existing labor agreement...
CitationAir Forces Pilots to Work a Month for Free IBT ...CitationAir, the Greenwich, Conn.-based provider of luxury business jet and charter aircraft services, radically altered the work schedules of the company's nearly 230 pilots...Management's new schedule pattern now requires pilots to be available for duty eight consecutive workdays during each two-week period for an increase of 26 more workdays per year...
Teamsters issue strike notice to sanitary district Northwest Indiana Times ...The district announced in a news release Monday that the Teamsters Local 705 bargaining unit has submitted a notice that it intends to strike as soon as Wednesday...The district and union have been negotiating a four-year contract for the past 2-1/2 years...
CitationAir Forces Pilots to Work a Month for Free IBT ...CitationAir, the Greenwich, Conn.-based provider of luxury business jet and charter aircraft services, radically altered the work schedules of the company's nearly 230 pilots...Management's new schedule pattern now requires pilots to be available for duty eight consecutive workdays during each two-week period for an increase of 26 more workdays per year...
Teamsters issue strike notice to sanitary district Northwest Indiana Times ...The district announced in a news release Monday that the Teamsters Local 705 bargaining unit has submitted a notice that it intends to strike as soon as Wednesday...The district and union have been negotiating a four-year contract for the past 2-1/2 years...
Friday, January 18, 2013
Today's Teamster News 01.18.13
As manufacturing bounces back from recession, unions are left behind Washington Post
...American factories are hiring again, but
they’re not hiring union members...
Relief as Greece secures IMF cash Guardian ...The IMF agreed to pay the next tranche of bailout aid to the Greek government last night, averting a catastrophic default and securing the country's survival in the eurozone...
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley to pay $557M over shoddy foreclosure practice The Hill ...Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will pay a combined $557 million to mortgage borrowers over shoddy foreclosure practices...
What The Consumer Protection Bureau's New Mortgage Rules Will And Won't Do Think Progress ...The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rolled out new rules today to clean up the mortgage servicing industry...The new rules will provide important protections for homeowners, no longer leaving them subject to the most pernicious mortgage servicing practices...
Public option for health care back on the table People's World ...A group of Democratic lawmakers moved quickly yesterday and filed a bill that would give the people of the nation the right to choose a publicly run health insurance plan...
Unions look ahead on fight over right-to-work AP ...Union leaders looking for an olive branch from Gov. Rick Snyder in his third State of the State address say he left them empty-handed, but they vow to keep fighting to bring down right-to-work legislation enacted last month...
New York City School Bus Strike Enters 3rd Day AP ...Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union wants the new contracts to include job protections for current drivers...
Teamsters say there’s progress in UPS talks The Press-Enterprise ...In talks with UPS’ Freight division, Teamsters have been making progress on seniority and work week issues. For the UPS negotiations, they have come to some understandings on issues that include military leave and stewards’ rights...
Teamsters Denounce Florida High Court Ruling on Pension IBT ...Teamsters Joint Council 75 President Ken Wood today said he is disappointed that Florida’s Supreme Court overturned years of precedent in the way the state’s pensions are funded…
Will Dorchester Two School Bus Drivers Strike? Summerville Patch …Charleston school bus drivers who work for Durham School Services have voted unanimously to authorize a strike if negotiations will not move forward, according to a statement by Teamsters Local 509...
Relief as Greece secures IMF cash Guardian ...The IMF agreed to pay the next tranche of bailout aid to the Greek government last night, averting a catastrophic default and securing the country's survival in the eurozone...
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley to pay $557M over shoddy foreclosure practice The Hill ...Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will pay a combined $557 million to mortgage borrowers over shoddy foreclosure practices...
What The Consumer Protection Bureau's New Mortgage Rules Will And Won't Do Think Progress ...The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rolled out new rules today to clean up the mortgage servicing industry...The new rules will provide important protections for homeowners, no longer leaving them subject to the most pernicious mortgage servicing practices...
Public option for health care back on the table People's World ...A group of Democratic lawmakers moved quickly yesterday and filed a bill that would give the people of the nation the right to choose a publicly run health insurance plan...
Unions look ahead on fight over right-to-work AP ...Union leaders looking for an olive branch from Gov. Rick Snyder in his third State of the State address say he left them empty-handed, but they vow to keep fighting to bring down right-to-work legislation enacted last month...
New York City School Bus Strike Enters 3rd Day AP ...Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union wants the new contracts to include job protections for current drivers...
Teamsters say there’s progress in UPS talks The Press-Enterprise ...In talks with UPS’ Freight division, Teamsters have been making progress on seniority and work week issues. For the UPS negotiations, they have come to some understandings on issues that include military leave and stewards’ rights...
Teamsters Denounce Florida High Court Ruling on Pension IBT ...Teamsters Joint Council 75 President Ken Wood today said he is disappointed that Florida’s Supreme Court overturned years of precedent in the way the state’s pensions are funded…
Will Dorchester Two School Bus Drivers Strike? Summerville Patch …Charleston school bus drivers who work for Durham School Services have voted unanimously to authorize a strike if negotiations will not move forward, according to a statement by Teamsters Local 509...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Today's Teamster News 01.08.12
US 'seriously' considering $1 trillion coin to pay off debt The Telegraph ...The US is "seriously" considering creating a $1 trillion platinum coin to write down part of its debt to stop the world's largest economy defaulting as early as next month...
US Foreclosure Settlement Angers Wall Street Critics RIA Navosti ...A multibillion-dollar settlement announced Monday between US financial regulators and major banks over alleged abuses related to home foreclosures is the latest example of the financial industry running roughshod over the rule-of-law without repercussions, Wall Street critics said. “The bottom line is: Fraud pays...
Just 8% Now Say They Are Tea Party Members Rasmussen Reports ...Views of the Tea Party movement are at their lowest point ever, with voters for the first time evenly divided when asked to match the views of the average Tea Party member against those of the average member of Congress. Only eight percent (8%) now say they are members of the Tea Party, down from a high of 24% in April 2010 just after passage of the national health care law...
Behind the Made-In-America Label manufacture this ...Given the choice between an American-made product and one made abroad, 78 percent of respondents would buy American...
Tax Avoidance On the Rise: It’s Twice the Amount of Social Security and Medicare The Cagle Post ...The wealthiest Americans save $3 trillion dollars a year through a system of subsidies and tax avoidance schemes, which totals three times more than our annual deficit. That’s enough for a full-time job for every middle-class household in America...
Wendy’s Franchise Cuts Employee Hours To Part-Time To Avoid Obamacare ThinkProgress ...this strategy may backfire on the Omaha Wendy’s operations. This fall, Denny’s quickly distanced itself from a franchisee’s similar ploy, while Darden Restaurants saw a sharp 37 percent drop in profit after threatening to cut workers to part-time...
Arkansas to Study Possibility of High-Speed Rail Connecting Memphis, Little Rock and Texarkana We party Patriots ...State transportation officials anticipate spending between $1 million and $1.25 million in federal and state funds to study two long-range railroad transportation plans...
Scott Remains Polarizing Figure as He Faces Re-election Miami Herald ...polls show he remains unpopular with no hint of improvement, a red flag that the public’s negative view is unyielding. If Scott is going to improve his standing with Floridians, it’s now or never...
Michigan Legislature Walk of Shame Facebook ...Legislators will be sworn-in at a ceremony at the State Capitol on Wednesday, January 9, where they will be welcomed with a ‘Walk of Shame’ highlighting their votes during the lame duck session...
US Foreclosure Settlement Angers Wall Street Critics RIA Navosti ...A multibillion-dollar settlement announced Monday between US financial regulators and major banks over alleged abuses related to home foreclosures is the latest example of the financial industry running roughshod over the rule-of-law without repercussions, Wall Street critics said. “The bottom line is: Fraud pays...
Just 8% Now Say They Are Tea Party Members Rasmussen Reports ...Views of the Tea Party movement are at their lowest point ever, with voters for the first time evenly divided when asked to match the views of the average Tea Party member against those of the average member of Congress. Only eight percent (8%) now say they are members of the Tea Party, down from a high of 24% in April 2010 just after passage of the national health care law...
Behind the Made-In-America Label manufacture this ...Given the choice between an American-made product and one made abroad, 78 percent of respondents would buy American...
Tax Avoidance On the Rise: It’s Twice the Amount of Social Security and Medicare The Cagle Post ...The wealthiest Americans save $3 trillion dollars a year through a system of subsidies and tax avoidance schemes, which totals three times more than our annual deficit. That’s enough for a full-time job for every middle-class household in America...
Wendy’s Franchise Cuts Employee Hours To Part-Time To Avoid Obamacare ThinkProgress ...this strategy may backfire on the Omaha Wendy’s operations. This fall, Denny’s quickly distanced itself from a franchisee’s similar ploy, while Darden Restaurants saw a sharp 37 percent drop in profit after threatening to cut workers to part-time...
Arkansas to Study Possibility of High-Speed Rail Connecting Memphis, Little Rock and Texarkana We party Patriots ...State transportation officials anticipate spending between $1 million and $1.25 million in federal and state funds to study two long-range railroad transportation plans...
Scott Remains Polarizing Figure as He Faces Re-election Miami Herald ...polls show he remains unpopular with no hint of improvement, a red flag that the public’s negative view is unyielding. If Scott is going to improve his standing with Floridians, it’s now or never...
Michigan Legislature Walk of Shame Facebook ...Legislators will be sworn-in at a ceremony at the State Capitol on Wednesday, January 9, where they will be welcomed with a ‘Walk of Shame’ highlighting their votes during the lame duck session...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Today's Teamster News 03.17.12
Ex-CBO Staffer’s Warnings About Foreclosures Ignored firedoglake ...Dr. Lan Pham, a former senior staffer financial economist for the Congressional Budget Office, was fired from the organization for her attempts to quantify the economic implications of foreclosures and foreclosure fraud ... The release of this information should cause grave concern as to the legitimacy of CBO reports, and highlight the conspiracy of silence about foreclosure fraud issues, which official Washington simply does not want to deal with...
When Do Humans Want to Share the Wealth? Angry Bear ...If there’s a problem with the ultra-rich, it’s not that they have too much wealth, it’s that they bought laws that made it easy for them to gain and keep so much more wealth in recent decades...
Complaint filed against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser in choking case Appleton Post Crescent ...Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser violated the court's ethics code when he allegedly choked a rival justice (Ann Walsh Bradley) and should be disciplined, according to a complaint the state Judicial Commission filed with the high court Friday ... Tensions ... reached a head last June as the court dealt with a legal challenge to Republican Gov. Scott Walker's law that took away union powers from most public workers...
Saturday rally at Gold Dome to fight against Ga. anti-protest bill GA Voice ...In essence, SB 469 is an anti-union bill that wants to make it, among other things, illegal for a bunch of people protest at, say, a CEO's house or a bank or another public building. Saturday, March 17, 40 groups are gathering at the state Capitol from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. to send a message that the right to protest is not something to be denied...
James Murdoch gives up another directorship The Guardian ...Rupert Murdoch's youngest son was a Sotheby's director for two years. His move follows demands for Murdoch's resignation from some Sotheby's shareholders in the wake of the phone hacking scandal...
Teamsters Local 580 Issues Intent to Strike Notice WLNS ...The American Red Cross Great Lakes Blood Services Region received notices of intent to strike by staff members represented by Teamsters Local 580. This is the fourth time they've received a notification like this in the past two years and it would be the third time Teamsters Local 580 has gone on strike...
AC Transit Chooses Teamster Employer to Manufacture Buses Joint Council 7 ...The Alameda-Contra Costa (AC) Transit District Board of Directors has voted to purchase its buses from Gillig, LLC, a local company that employs 450 Teamster members who produce heavy-duty transit buses...
When Do Humans Want to Share the Wealth? Angry Bear ...If there’s a problem with the ultra-rich, it’s not that they have too much wealth, it’s that they bought laws that made it easy for them to gain and keep so much more wealth in recent decades...
Complaint filed against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser in choking case Appleton Post Crescent ...Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser violated the court's ethics code when he allegedly choked a rival justice (Ann Walsh Bradley) and should be disciplined, according to a complaint the state Judicial Commission filed with the high court Friday ... Tensions ... reached a head last June as the court dealt with a legal challenge to Republican Gov. Scott Walker's law that took away union powers from most public workers...
Saturday rally at Gold Dome to fight against Ga. anti-protest bill GA Voice ...In essence, SB 469 is an anti-union bill that wants to make it, among other things, illegal for a bunch of people protest at, say, a CEO's house or a bank or another public building. Saturday, March 17, 40 groups are gathering at the state Capitol from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. to send a message that the right to protest is not something to be denied...
James Murdoch gives up another directorship The Guardian ...Rupert Murdoch's youngest son was a Sotheby's director for two years. His move follows demands for Murdoch's resignation from some Sotheby's shareholders in the wake of the phone hacking scandal...
Teamsters Local 580 Issues Intent to Strike Notice WLNS ...The American Red Cross Great Lakes Blood Services Region received notices of intent to strike by staff members represented by Teamsters Local 580. This is the fourth time they've received a notification like this in the past two years and it would be the third time Teamsters Local 580 has gone on strike...
AC Transit Chooses Teamster Employer to Manufacture Buses Joint Council 7 ...The Alameda-Contra Costa (AC) Transit District Board of Directors has voted to purchase its buses from Gillig, LLC, a local company that employs 450 Teamster members who produce heavy-duty transit buses...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Foreclosure auction disrupted in Cleveland
If you've been following the vast swindle perpetrated by America's too-big-too-fail banks, you understand how they've cheated investors, insurers, homeowners, shareholders, depositors, and the government. You agree with the peerless Matt Taibbi about one perp, Bank of America:
It is a giant, raging hurricane of theft and fraud, spinning its way through America and leaving a massive trail of wiped-out retirees and foreclosed-upon families in its wake...
...all of us, as taxpayers, are keeping that hurricane raging. Bank of America is not just a private company that systematically steals from American citizens: it’s a de facto ward of the state that depends heavily upon public support to stay in business.An overstatement? Consider this: The government today released a report (no, not an indictment) about bank criminality. The report found that banks hired people off the street, calling them "vice presidents" and telling them to rush foreclosure documents through the system -- even if they had the loan amount wrong. (That's illegal.) One Wells Fargo "vice president of loan documentation" had just previously worked at a pizzaria.
An earlier audit in San Francisco found that banks were taking homes from people who allegedly defaulted on loans they'd never agreed to. Nearly half of all foreclosure sales between January 2009 to November 2011 were sold to financial companies that didn't actually own the loans they claimed to own, the audit also found.
On Monday, the federal government filed a court settlement with the banks that requires them to give $2,000 to each of 750,000 homeowners who were foreclosued upon improperly. Yup, three-quarters of a million people that we know of were victims of banks' sloppiness -- at best -- and criminality at worst.
Which brings us to the video. As the Plain Dealer explains,
Several dozen Occupy Cleveland protesters marched from Public Square to the Justice Center. Their purpose was to demonstrate and disrupt the sheriff's auction of foreclosed homes.The PD further reports:
"We are calling on the judicial system to institute an immediate moratorium on all foreclosures until a fair system of home loans is put into place," said Peter Schanz of Cleveland, an organizer of the group's foreclosure committee.
Before protesters could finish a prepared statement, sheriff's deputies carted them away and charged them with disorderly conduct, a minor misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $100 fine.Unfortunately for the protesters, they don't get the same system of justice that the banks get.
Today's Teamster News 03.13.12
Scott Walker’s Wisconsin Voter ID Law Violates Constitution, Judge Rules Bloomberg ...Texas and Wisconsin officials were barred from enforcing laws requiring voters to produce a government-issued photo identification before casting ballots...
Fla. Legal Bill: $475 per Hour per Lawyer (opinion) The Ledger ...Here's what is simply wrong: The state paid the Atlanta law firm Alston & Bird $500,000 to defend against the state workers' (pension) lawsuit in circuit court...
Pennsylvania's voter ID bill faces final vote Republican Herald ...The Republican-controlled House Rules Committee voted for the bill Monday along party lines after defeating amendments by Democratic lawmakers to address concerns about senior citizens not bringing proper ID to the polls...
Foes of Ohio right-to-work effort target new proposal Associated Press ...We Are Ohio, the organization behind a 2011 campaign against Ohio's law limiting collective bargaining, says it's ready to unleash volunteers and hundreds of thousands of email and social media followers against an emerging right-to-work initiative in the state...
Late Night FDL: Pensions Are Good for You firedoglake ...Good for business, good for the economy, even good for the 1 percent...
Government asks judge to approve landmark settlement over banks’ foreclosure practices Bloomberg ...as many as 750,000 borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure since 2008 would be eligible for payouts of about $2,000 each...
Fla. Legal Bill: $475 per Hour per Lawyer (opinion) The Ledger ...Here's what is simply wrong: The state paid the Atlanta law firm Alston & Bird $500,000 to defend against the state workers' (pension) lawsuit in circuit court...
Pennsylvania's voter ID bill faces final vote Republican Herald ...The Republican-controlled House Rules Committee voted for the bill Monday along party lines after defeating amendments by Democratic lawmakers to address concerns about senior citizens not bringing proper ID to the polls...
Foes of Ohio right-to-work effort target new proposal Associated Press ...We Are Ohio, the organization behind a 2011 campaign against Ohio's law limiting collective bargaining, says it's ready to unleash volunteers and hundreds of thousands of email and social media followers against an emerging right-to-work initiative in the state...
Late Night FDL: Pensions Are Good for You firedoglake ...Good for business, good for the economy, even good for the 1 percent...
Government asks judge to approve landmark settlement over banks’ foreclosure practices Bloomberg ...as many as 750,000 borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure since 2008 would be eligible for payouts of about $2,000 each...
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Today's Teamster News 03.11.12
IN lawmakers end RTW dominated session Associated Press ...Indiana lawmakers came roaring into their 2012 session with a battle over right-to-work legislation. Now they are leaving quietly with a new statewide smoking ban, more money for state fair victims, changes to the state's education system and rules giving homeowners the right to forcibly keep police from entering their homes...(No jobs bill?)
Madison, Wis.: Protests mark year since Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining law Associated Press ...Thousands of demonstrators descended on the Wisconsin Capitol on Saturday to voice their anger at Gov. Scott Walker, using the anniversary of the passage of his collective bargaining law to rally support for efforts to remove him and five other Republicans from office. About 35,000 people, including many members of public employee unions who lost nearly all their collective bargaining rights under the Republican-backed law, chanted, drummed and waved anti-Walker signs...
Employers Need Wind Power Technicians slashdot ...With a wind power rush underway, companies are competing to secure the windiest spots, while breathing life into small towns. The problem is, each turbine requires regular maintenance during its 20-year lifespan, with a requirement of one turbine technician for every 10 turbines on the ground. So even with a job that can pay a good starting salary (for technicians with a GED or high school diploma who complete a four-week turbine maintenance training program), there aren't enough qualified technicians to do the work..
Deficits Push NY Cities and Towns to Desperation New York Times ... The problems are spreading as municipalities face a toxic mix of stresses that has been brewing for years, including soaring pension, Medicaid and retiree health care costs. And many have exhausted creative accounting maneuvers and one-time spending cuts or revenue-raisers to bail themselves out...
HAWAII SENATE RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO INVESTIGATE CASES WHERE FRAUDULENT TRANSFERS AND ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE LOAN DOCUMENTS ARE ALLEGED Deadly Clear ...In an effort to get the Hawaii Attorney General’s focus on the fraudulent documents filed in the Hawaii Bureau of Conveyances, the Hawaii Senate drafted a Concurrent Resolution in cooperation with the House Representatives...
WV Senate OK’s Buy American Act as a study The State Journal ...The bill as the Senate passed it, would require the state purchasing division and Division of Labor to make a joint task force to study the use of American-constructed materials and manufactured goods. The bill would require the task force report back to the Legislature's joint committee on government and finance by Dec. 31, 2012...
Student Loan Debt Hits Home for Bernanke Wall Street Journal ...The most interesting anecdote to come out of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke‘s semiannual testimony to Congress: His son, who is in medical school in New York, is likely to rack up $400,000 of student loan debt in the process of getting his degree...
Madison, Wis.: Protests mark year since Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining law Associated Press ...Thousands of demonstrators descended on the Wisconsin Capitol on Saturday to voice their anger at Gov. Scott Walker, using the anniversary of the passage of his collective bargaining law to rally support for efforts to remove him and five other Republicans from office. About 35,000 people, including many members of public employee unions who lost nearly all their collective bargaining rights under the Republican-backed law, chanted, drummed and waved anti-Walker signs...
Employers Need Wind Power Technicians slashdot ...With a wind power rush underway, companies are competing to secure the windiest spots, while breathing life into small towns. The problem is, each turbine requires regular maintenance during its 20-year lifespan, with a requirement of one turbine technician for every 10 turbines on the ground. So even with a job that can pay a good starting salary (for technicians with a GED or high school diploma who complete a four-week turbine maintenance training program), there aren't enough qualified technicians to do the work..
Deficits Push NY Cities and Towns to Desperation New York Times ... The problems are spreading as municipalities face a toxic mix of stresses that has been brewing for years, including soaring pension, Medicaid and retiree health care costs. And many have exhausted creative accounting maneuvers and one-time spending cuts or revenue-raisers to bail themselves out...
HAWAII SENATE RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO INVESTIGATE CASES WHERE FRAUDULENT TRANSFERS AND ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE LOAN DOCUMENTS ARE ALLEGED Deadly Clear ...In an effort to get the Hawaii Attorney General’s focus on the fraudulent documents filed in the Hawaii Bureau of Conveyances, the Hawaii Senate drafted a Concurrent Resolution in cooperation with the House Representatives...
WV Senate OK’s Buy American Act as a study The State Journal ...The bill as the Senate passed it, would require the state purchasing division and Division of Labor to make a joint task force to study the use of American-constructed materials and manufactured goods. The bill would require the task force report back to the Legislature's joint committee on government and finance by Dec. 31, 2012...
Student Loan Debt Hits Home for Bernanke Wall Street Journal ...The most interesting anecdote to come out of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke‘s semiannual testimony to Congress: His son, who is in medical school in New York, is likely to rack up $400,000 of student loan debt in the process of getting his degree...
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Today's Teamster News 03.08.12
Ga. Senate OKs bill banning some mass picketing Associated Press ...Senate Bill 469 bans mass picketing at private residences or at the site of labor disputes when such protests are blocking or threatening business entrances or certain public areas. People found guilty could be subject to a fine of $1,000 per day of the violation. Any union or organization assisting such efforts could be subject to a fine of $10,000 per day...
NH House postpones right-to-work vote Associated Press ...The House moved the vote on a controversial bill on union membership to next week because of legislative courtesy to missing key opponents...
Mark Wahlberg 'Teamsters' reality pilot coming to A&E zap2it ...Hometown hero Mark Wahlberg, star of "The Departed" and "The Fighter," has a new reality pilot in the works for A&E tentatively titled, "Teamsters," reports the network...
March on Capitol set for Saturday, one year after volatile bill was passed The Cap Times ...The bill that severely limited collective bargaining rights of public unions passed late in the night on March 9, so the AFL-CIO is ready to "reclaim" Wisconsin with a march and rally on March 10...
Pa. Senate passes voter ID bill Philadelphia Inquirer ...The state Senate, along nearly partisan lines, passed a bill Wednesday that would make Pennsylvania the 16th state to require its residents to show photo identification at the polls...
Houston’s County Joins Texas Suit Seeking $10 Billion From MERS, Banks Bloomberg News ...The counties accuse MERS, which runs an electronic registry of mortgages, and members of the mortgage banking industry including Bank of America of filing false lien claims in the real property records of Texas counties. The suit also alleges the defendants failed “to record subsequent assignments of mortgage loans and pay the attendant filing fees.”...
NH House postpones right-to-work vote Associated Press ...The House moved the vote on a controversial bill on union membership to next week because of legislative courtesy to missing key opponents...
Mark Wahlberg 'Teamsters' reality pilot coming to A&E zap2it ...Hometown hero Mark Wahlberg, star of "The Departed" and "The Fighter," has a new reality pilot in the works for A&E tentatively titled, "Teamsters," reports the network...
March on Capitol set for Saturday, one year after volatile bill was passed The Cap Times ...The bill that severely limited collective bargaining rights of public unions passed late in the night on March 9, so the AFL-CIO is ready to "reclaim" Wisconsin with a march and rally on March 10...
Pa. Senate passes voter ID bill Philadelphia Inquirer ...The state Senate, along nearly partisan lines, passed a bill Wednesday that would make Pennsylvania the 16th state to require its residents to show photo identification at the polls...
Houston’s County Joins Texas Suit Seeking $10 Billion From MERS, Banks Bloomberg News ...The counties accuse MERS, which runs an electronic registry of mortgages, and members of the mortgage banking industry including Bank of America of filing false lien claims in the real property records of Texas counties. The suit also alleges the defendants failed “to record subsequent assignments of mortgage loans and pay the attendant filing fees.”...
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Did deadbeats cause the foreclosure crisis?
I hope BoA keeps kicking out the deadbeats and minorities that refuse to pay their bills. Because of you low lifes 30,000 of my coworkers are being laid off. Long live BoACharming, right? Well, "Anonymous Drive-by" got a boatload of responses from people who'd lost their homes due to BoA's fraud and incompetence. Here are a few horror stories:
We received a approval for short sale program 9/2/11 and were getting ready to sign the paperwork and send back to BOA when we found out that our home was foreclosed on 9/6/11!!!!! BOA quickly responded in letter saying that we actually did not qualify for the program. We have spent over three years trying to get loan mod, that was denied. Then short sale, which according to them was approved, but foreclosed on us anyway. We currently have a lawyer trying to help us with this mess.
I found out one day before my auction sale that I was not approved for a loan modification. Therefore, I had no time to do a short sale. The response from B/A was that I should liquidate but there was not time for me to do that since the sale was the next day. The house did not sell, B/A took the house back and I have until next month to find another place to live.
I and my wife are victims as well. Got our home in 2007 and had trouble with BoA from day one. Our payments were somehow always magically "late" and we would have to pay some fee to make the problem go away. We both had to change jobs and did get a couple of payments behind but they said "no problem, we will do a loan remodification!" Sent us a couple of letters saying we got it and a new payment schedule with the lowered payments. Went along as if there was no problem for 2 years. Then, in January of 2011, they send us a letter telling us we were 9 payments behind when we were current. We tried to solve the problem, to no avail. Over and over, for months. Then, in September, we get a letter from an attorney in St. Louis that the home had been sold at a foreclosure auction in August! In Missouri, you have to notify the homeowner that their home has gone into foreclosure. You have to notify them of an impending foreclosure sale. You have to place an ad in the local paper of a foreclosure sale. BoA skipped every one of these steps and foreclosed on the home without notifying us at all, except when they served us in September of 2011 that we would have to be out of the house by October 12th. We lost our home through no fault of our own.
I am now in a position where BofA is ready to do me in. I to was trying to obtain a MHA package always being told that the investor would not allow a modification. I was stuck in a securitized sub-prime mortgage loan package and sold off to an investor. BofA does not know who the owner of my mortgage is and if they do, they will not tell me. I sent them a 'QWR' for any and all documents that pertained to my loanand they will not and did not comply.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Today's Teamster News 02.19.20
Vaughan-Bassett Furniture still making it in America Richmond-Times Dispatch ...The official had no idea Bassett was on a mission to gather proof that Chinese manufacturers were not playing by the rules, threatening to put a permanent chill on the smokestacks that bore his family's name...
Foxconn Plans to Lift Pay Sharply at Factories in China New York Times ...Foxconn said that salaries for many workers would immediately jump by 16 to 25 percent, to about $400 a month, before overtime...
Foreclosure abuse rampant across U.S., experts say Reuters ...One of the major problems that has emerged in the foreclosure crisis is that it is far from clear that many lenders foreclosing on properties actually own the loans and have the right to take action against them...
Kill prison privatization? Not so fast, Scott says Jacksonville.com ...Gov. Rick Scott ... last week ... told a group of reporters that he is going to explore ways he can privatize prisons unilaterally...
Occupy Our Hearts: Potluck Social and Port of Seattle Truckers Food Drive Facebook ...We are also collecting non-perishables for the Teamsters who have risked their livelihoods in order to fight the good fight...
Teamsters' Drive Up Standards Bus Campaign Reaches Milestone 300th Win IBT ...The Teamsters' Drive Up Standards campaign to organize private school bus and transit workers nationwide has reached a major milestone, with 300 organizing wins for more than 32,500 workers since the campaign began in 2006...
Foxconn Plans to Lift Pay Sharply at Factories in China New York Times ...Foxconn said that salaries for many workers would immediately jump by 16 to 25 percent, to about $400 a month, before overtime...
Foreclosure abuse rampant across U.S., experts say Reuters ...One of the major problems that has emerged in the foreclosure crisis is that it is far from clear that many lenders foreclosing on properties actually own the loans and have the right to take action against them...
Kill prison privatization? Not so fast, Scott says Jacksonville.com ...Gov. Rick Scott ... last week ... told a group of reporters that he is going to explore ways he can privatize prisons unilaterally...
Occupy Our Hearts: Potluck Social and Port of Seattle Truckers Food Drive Facebook ...We are also collecting non-perishables for the Teamsters who have risked their livelihoods in order to fight the good fight...
Teamsters' Drive Up Standards Bus Campaign Reaches Milestone 300th Win IBT ...The Teamsters' Drive Up Standards campaign to organize private school bus and transit workers nationwide has reached a major milestone, with 300 organizing wins for more than 32,500 workers since the campaign began in 2006...
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Today's Teamster News 02.16.12
Audit Uncovers Extensive Flaws in Foreclosures New York Times ...An audit by San Francisco county officials of about 400 recent foreclosures there determined that almost all involved either legal violations or suspicious documentation...
Rising Gas Prices: Not Demand Driven Bloomberg Business Week ...much of the increase is due to speculative money that’s flowed into gasoline futures contracts since the beginning of the year, mostly from hedge funds and large money managers...
Austerity Policy Destroying Greek Society naked capitalism ...whether in a city or a village, all you see strolling the streets is a succession of empty storefronts with rent signs and often a deluge of unopened mail just inside the door. The few businesses that have managed to stay open have gigantic banners proclaiming 50-70% reductions, hoping to catch the eye of the few potential customers out there. Walking through what used to be crowded and bustling markets now feel like a Sunday stroll through deserted urban centers....
Gov. Scott Walker's corruption scandal brings shame to Wisconsin (opinion) The Isthmus ...So far, six of his closest allies have been arrested and charged with felonies...
Teamsters Local 332 union leader says she is 'insulted and offended' by Genesys letter MLive.com ...in coming months there may be unpleasant messaging about Genesys as we enter bargaining with the union representing our registered nurses,” the letter states...
Akron Red Cross impacted by Teamster strike Akron Beacon Journal ...The union maintains its members must work long hours without breaks because too few workers are scheduled...
Rising Gas Prices: Not Demand Driven Bloomberg Business Week ...much of the increase is due to speculative money that’s flowed into gasoline futures contracts since the beginning of the year, mostly from hedge funds and large money managers...
Austerity Policy Destroying Greek Society naked capitalism ...whether in a city or a village, all you see strolling the streets is a succession of empty storefronts with rent signs and often a deluge of unopened mail just inside the door. The few businesses that have managed to stay open have gigantic banners proclaiming 50-70% reductions, hoping to catch the eye of the few potential customers out there. Walking through what used to be crowded and bustling markets now feel like a Sunday stroll through deserted urban centers....
Gov. Scott Walker's corruption scandal brings shame to Wisconsin (opinion) The Isthmus ...So far, six of his closest allies have been arrested and charged with felonies...
Teamsters Local 332 union leader says she is 'insulted and offended' by Genesys letter MLive.com ...in coming months there may be unpleasant messaging about Genesys as we enter bargaining with the union representing our registered nurses,” the letter states...
Akron Red Cross impacted by Teamster strike Akron Beacon Journal ...The union maintains its members must work long hours without breaks because too few workers are scheduled...
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Today's Teamster News 02.11.12
Letter: Let me try to figure out why politicians want to privatize prisons TCPalm ...Employees earning $30,000 to $40,000 a year are not Florida's biggest problem yet the governor has put this on the front burner...
12 Indiana House Democrats call it quits Associated Press ...More than quarter of the Indiana House Democrats who unsuccessfully fought passage of the state’s new right-to-work law won’t try for re-election this year, further boosting the chances of Republicans strengthening their hold on the chamber...
Strike at the Seattle Port: Truckers Buck an Unfair System Demos ...The Port of Seattle has been shut down for more than a week. And it is the so-called independent contractor drivers who have stood together to stop the flow of goods. In doing so, the drivers are taking a powerful stand against the deregulated model of port trucking that takes a toll, not only on their own livelihoods and safety but on the environment and public as well...
Dayton's veto of four 'tort reform' bills comes with stinging GOP criticism MinnPost.com ...The changes, Dayton said, would not create a single job, would not help Minnesotans and would only "pad the bottom lines of mostly out-of-state insurance companies..."
Teamsters Oppose Court Approval of Hostess CEO's Contract IBT ...“We struggle to understand how Hostess’ management team, its board and its advisers think that filing this motion to guarantee CEO Brian Driscoll’s employment conditions, at a time when Hostess is seeking to dramatically modify the working conditions of its employees, is a good idea" (said Ken Hall, Teamsters International Vice President...
Anti-worker bills must be rejected (LTE) Concord Monitor ...Currently the New Hampshire House has a long list of anti-public worker legislation filed. The goal is to weaken New Hampshire public worker rights and local influence. What is really troubling is that a national special interest group called ALEC (the American Leadership Exchange Council) has been giving our GOP legislators trips to its seminars where they are encouraged and coached on how to write and pursue anti-union legislation...
Missing Settlement Document Raises Doubts on $25B Deal American Banker ...a fully authorized, legally binding deal has not been inked yet...
The big banks win again Salon ...Foreclosure victims get little help in a mortgage-settlement plan that only benefits the banks' bottom line...
Red Cross Cancels Blood Drive In Anticipation Of Teamsters Strike Mentor Patch ...Albert Mixon, the chapter's Secretary-Treasurer (said) "We are operating blood drives at high schools, community centers and hospitals every day. But now Red Cross’ blood services division wants to cut staffing levels to the point where donors should be concerned for their safety..."
12 Indiana House Democrats call it quits Associated Press ...More than quarter of the Indiana House Democrats who unsuccessfully fought passage of the state’s new right-to-work law won’t try for re-election this year, further boosting the chances of Republicans strengthening their hold on the chamber...
Strike at the Seattle Port: Truckers Buck an Unfair System Demos ...The Port of Seattle has been shut down for more than a week. And it is the so-called independent contractor drivers who have stood together to stop the flow of goods. In doing so, the drivers are taking a powerful stand against the deregulated model of port trucking that takes a toll, not only on their own livelihoods and safety but on the environment and public as well...
Dayton's veto of four 'tort reform' bills comes with stinging GOP criticism MinnPost.com ...The changes, Dayton said, would not create a single job, would not help Minnesotans and would only "pad the bottom lines of mostly out-of-state insurance companies..."
Teamsters Oppose Court Approval of Hostess CEO's Contract IBT ...“We struggle to understand how Hostess’ management team, its board and its advisers think that filing this motion to guarantee CEO Brian Driscoll’s employment conditions, at a time when Hostess is seeking to dramatically modify the working conditions of its employees, is a good idea" (said Ken Hall, Teamsters International Vice President...
Anti-worker bills must be rejected (LTE) Concord Monitor ...Currently the New Hampshire House has a long list of anti-public worker legislation filed. The goal is to weaken New Hampshire public worker rights and local influence. What is really troubling is that a national special interest group called ALEC (the American Leadership Exchange Council) has been giving our GOP legislators trips to its seminars where they are encouraged and coached on how to write and pursue anti-union legislation...
Missing Settlement Document Raises Doubts on $25B Deal American Banker ...a fully authorized, legally binding deal has not been inked yet...
The big banks win again Salon ...Foreclosure victims get little help in a mortgage-settlement plan that only benefits the banks' bottom line...
Red Cross Cancels Blood Drive In Anticipation Of Teamsters Strike Mentor Patch ...Albert Mixon, the chapter's Secretary-Treasurer (said) "We are operating blood drives at high schools, community centers and hospitals every day. But now Red Cross’ blood services division wants to cut staffing levels to the point where donors should be concerned for their safety..."
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