UPS Freight Teamsters Approve 5-Year Pact Transport Topics ...UPS Freight employees in the Teamsters union approved a five-year agreement that gives workers a total $2.50 per hour wage boost...
Three county union contracts nearing vote Times Leader ...Luzerne County Council in Pennsylvania is expected to vote this month on three new collective bargaining agreements with unionized workers, including members of Teamsters Local 401 in Wilkes-Barre...
After 2 strikes and 18 months, school bus drivers approve contract Poughkeepsie Journal ...After 18 months, two strikes and multiple charges filed, school bus drivers and monitors with Teamsters Local 445 approved a contract with Poughkeepsie-based Durham School Services that will improve working conditions and safety…
WV: Freedom Industries Has Ties to Koch Brothers DailyKos ...If news reports have left you with the impression that Freedom Industries - the company that has contaminated the water supply serving 300,000 people (and who knows how much wildlife) in nine West Virginia counties - is a rinky-dink Charleston operation, that might be because the media isn't mentioning its influential ties...
Lack of oversight questioned in West Virginia chemical spill Salon ...Reports question why state and company officials were so slow to respond to the leak...
Boeing Goes to Pieces The American Conservative ...Aerospace execs sell their industry to Japan—one part at a time...
GOP lawmakers propose allowing 7-day work week in Wisconsin Associated Press ...Wisconsin manufacturing and retail workers could volunteer to work seven days straight without a day off under a bill two Republican lawmakers are circulating on behalf of the state's largest business group...
Per Capita Income: Wisconsin vs. Minnesota Econbrowser ...Real per capita income in Wisconsin has lagged Minnesota a cumulative 2.2% (log terms) since 2011...
Florida House panel votes to ban new red-light cameras Daytona Beach News-Journal ...Installation of new red-light cameras would be banned across the state under a bill that passed a key committee in the Florida House Thursday, signaling a renewed debate over the devices’ use to catch traffic light violations...
EU report reveals massive scope of secret NSA surveillance DW ...Moraes and his fellow rapporteurs showed themselves unconvinced that the NSA's only goal is the fight against terrorism, as the US government has claimed. In their draft report, European politicians suspect that there are instead "other power motives," such as "political and economic espionage."...
An Investment Manager's 2014 Update on the Top 1% Who Rules America? ...Wealth and income are streaming to the very top of the system and, particularly, to those who are direct or indirect beneficiaries of the financial industry. Professionals and workers have slipped further behind...
New report says millions of women at risk of falling into poverty, economic ruin NBC News ...a staggering number of women across the country are still teetering on the verge of poverty and economic disaster...
A Farewell to Retirement Security In These Times ...Here’s what the loss of pensions at Boeing means for U.S. workers...
BP loses bid over Gulf oil payouts
BBC News ...BP has lost an appeal to cancel the terms of its multi-billion-dollar
settlement with businesses over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. A US federal appeals court upheld the terms of the original 2012 settlement...
Now Neiman Marcus appears to have been hacked, too Washington Post ...Hours after we learned that the hack against Target was much worse than initially feared, the retailer Neiman Marcus has also admitted it was compromised during the holiday season...
Now We Know: JPMorgan Chase Is Worse Than Enron Truthout ...It's beginning to look as if JPMorgan Chase has had a hand in every major banking scandal of the last decade...
Feds investigating Christie’s use of money intended for Sandy relief Salon ...According to a CNN report, federal investigators are now looking into whether New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie steered Sandy relief funds to a firm that promised to feature him and his family in its ads to promote tourism at the Jersey Shore...
Unseasonably harsh weather kept a quarter of a million Americans home from work last month Salon ...And that was before the polar vortex...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Today's Teamster News 02.12.13
Corrupt Consumer Credit Scoring Exposed Economic Populist ...a new study ... shows 1 in 5 credit reports is chock full of errors. That's 20% of Americans with gross errors on their credit report with 10% of Americans having their credit score lowered as a result.
Home Prices Rise in 88% of U.S. Cities as Recovery Gains Bloomberg ...An improving job market and low interest rates are driving up prices by fueling demand for a tightening supply of listings. The national median price for an existing single-family home was $178,900 in the fourth quarter, up 10 percent from the same period last year...
China asks US to lift sanctions against defence firm The Economic Times ... The US today imposed sanctions on a Chinese defence firm, prompting a strong reaction from China which sought immediate lifting of the punitive action...
Bill to Limit Too-Big-to-Fail Risk Is Readied in U.S. House Bloomberg ...U.S. Representative John Campbell said he plans to offer legislation intended to shrink too-big- to-fail banks by requiring them to hold more capital including long-term debt...
Firefighters, teachers face smaller retirement safety net CNN Money ...While some of the changes and cutbacks impact current state workers and retirees, the most significant ones affect new hires....
Study Confirms Tea Party Created by Big Tobacco and Koch Brothers Huffington Post ...The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health, traces the roots of the Tea Party's anti-tax movement back to the early 1980s when tobacco companies began to invest in third party groups to fight excise taxes on cigarettes...
Seniors and Vets to Crash ‘Fix the Debt’ Party Hosted by Honeywell CEO The Nation ...They will demand that Cote, a spokesperson for Fix the Debt, answer the question: Why are you demanding that we reduce the deficit by cutting critical social programs, when your own company practices tax-dodging that has contributed millions to the national debt?...
Public money for private schools? ALEC strikes again Anchorage Daily News ...The notion of "school choice" isn't some brainstorm from Rep. Keller or his like-minded buddies in Juneau. This is another bit of robo-legislating brought to us by the Koch-brothers-funded American Legislative Exchange Council...
Ex-Florida GOP leader Jim Greer pleads guilty to grand theft TampaBayOnline ...The plea deal avoids would could have been an embarrassing trial for the state GOP. Some of Florida's most powerful politicians were scheduled as witnesses, including former Gov. Charlie Crist...
Michigan AFL-CIO files federal lawsuit seeking to stop right-to-work law Michigan Live ...The 8-count complaint alleges that Michigan's right-to-work law violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution by allowing the state to levy civil and criminal penalties for behaviors regulated by the federal National Labor Relations Act and by purporting to apply to areas under federal jurisdiction, such as dock-yards and forts...
Right-to-work legislation offers freedom to freeload (opinion) St. Louis Post-Dispatch ...the freedom to freeload — that is, gain increased wages and other benefits negotiated by the union without paying for them...
Minimum wage inches closer to New Jersey 2013 ballot with Senate approval ballotnews.org ...On February 7, the New Jersey State Senate voted to approve a measure that would raise the minimum wage in the state by $1, sending it to the General Assembly. The General Assembly must approve the measure before it can be sent to the ballot. There, it will face the voters of the state...
Pension plan has Pa. state workers worried philly.com ...The pension reform package Gov. Corbett proposed last week to address the state's $41 billion pension debt leaves 386,000 state employees and teachers wondering how it would change their retirement income...
ACLU sues state over Capitol protest rules Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin sued Gov. Scott Walker's administration in federal court Monday to stop arrests of the daily protest singers in the state Capitol...
State lawmakers propose paid sick leave mandate SoMdNews.com ...Citing risks to public health and economic growth, Maryland lawmakers are proposing a mandatory standard by which workers can earn paid sick days...
Teamsters Alert Investors To TPG Capital's Risky Practices IBT ...Teamster members distributed educational materials to investors at the conference. Investors learned that since TPG took over NEXEO, several facilities – and the communities surrounding those facilities – have been endangered...
Home Prices Rise in 88% of U.S. Cities as Recovery Gains Bloomberg ...An improving job market and low interest rates are driving up prices by fueling demand for a tightening supply of listings. The national median price for an existing single-family home was $178,900 in the fourth quarter, up 10 percent from the same period last year...
China asks US to lift sanctions against defence firm The Economic Times ... The US today imposed sanctions on a Chinese defence firm, prompting a strong reaction from China which sought immediate lifting of the punitive action...
Bill to Limit Too-Big-to-Fail Risk Is Readied in U.S. House Bloomberg ...U.S. Representative John Campbell said he plans to offer legislation intended to shrink too-big- to-fail banks by requiring them to hold more capital including long-term debt...
Firefighters, teachers face smaller retirement safety net CNN Money ...While some of the changes and cutbacks impact current state workers and retirees, the most significant ones affect new hires....
Study Confirms Tea Party Created by Big Tobacco and Koch Brothers Huffington Post ...The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health, traces the roots of the Tea Party's anti-tax movement back to the early 1980s when tobacco companies began to invest in third party groups to fight excise taxes on cigarettes...
Seniors and Vets to Crash ‘Fix the Debt’ Party Hosted by Honeywell CEO The Nation ...They will demand that Cote, a spokesperson for Fix the Debt, answer the question: Why are you demanding that we reduce the deficit by cutting critical social programs, when your own company practices tax-dodging that has contributed millions to the national debt?...
Public money for private schools? ALEC strikes again Anchorage Daily News ...The notion of "school choice" isn't some brainstorm from Rep. Keller or his like-minded buddies in Juneau. This is another bit of robo-legislating brought to us by the Koch-brothers-funded American Legislative Exchange Council...
Ex-Florida GOP leader Jim Greer pleads guilty to grand theft TampaBayOnline ...The plea deal avoids would could have been an embarrassing trial for the state GOP. Some of Florida's most powerful politicians were scheduled as witnesses, including former Gov. Charlie Crist...
Michigan AFL-CIO files federal lawsuit seeking to stop right-to-work law Michigan Live ...The 8-count complaint alleges that Michigan's right-to-work law violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution by allowing the state to levy civil and criminal penalties for behaviors regulated by the federal National Labor Relations Act and by purporting to apply to areas under federal jurisdiction, such as dock-yards and forts...
Right-to-work legislation offers freedom to freeload (opinion) St. Louis Post-Dispatch ...the freedom to freeload — that is, gain increased wages and other benefits negotiated by the union without paying for them...
Minimum wage inches closer to New Jersey 2013 ballot with Senate approval ballotnews.org ...On February 7, the New Jersey State Senate voted to approve a measure that would raise the minimum wage in the state by $1, sending it to the General Assembly. The General Assembly must approve the measure before it can be sent to the ballot. There, it will face the voters of the state...
Pension plan has Pa. state workers worried philly.com ...The pension reform package Gov. Corbett proposed last week to address the state's $41 billion pension debt leaves 386,000 state employees and teachers wondering how it would change their retirement income...
ACLU sues state over Capitol protest rules Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin sued Gov. Scott Walker's administration in federal court Monday to stop arrests of the daily protest singers in the state Capitol...
State lawmakers propose paid sick leave mandate SoMdNews.com ...Citing risks to public health and economic growth, Maryland lawmakers are proposing a mandatory standard by which workers can earn paid sick days...
Teamsters Alert Investors To TPG Capital's Risky Practices IBT ...Teamster members distributed educational materials to investors at the conference. Investors learned that since TPG took over NEXEO, several facilities – and the communities surrounding those facilities – have been endangered...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Woot! Honeywell Teamsters save jobs, approve 7.5% wage hike
On February 2, our brothers and sisters at Honeywell voted on a four-year contract that includes a 7.5 percent wage increase over the term of the agreement and a $5.50 pension increase. The new contract, which was ratified by 61 percent of the bargaining unit, affects 1,050 Honeywell workers who are members of Teamsters Local 1145.
Joseph Witzmann, secretary-treasurer of Local 1145, said:
This was a tough round of negotiations. The company proposed cutting 135 jobs, which we were able to save in negotiations. The new agreement represents improvements in wages, pensions and shift differentials.The contract also requires the company to pay out up to 160 hours of unused vacation time, reimbursements that it had originally insisted it would hold until workers’ retirement.
Witzmann said it was the best agreement they could hope for:
Negotiations took place over four weeks and we bargained to the very last deadline in order to win the best contract for the hardworking Teamsters that have made Honeywell the successful company that it is.Local 1145 President Nancy Sims said the International provided invaluable support and credited Joint Council 32 for helping during negotiations:
Given the difficult economic times we’re in, we are happy with the improvements we were able to negotiate in this new contract.
I thank International Trustee Joe Dwyer, the Strategic Research Department and Economics and Contracts for their support in this effort.
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