Bangladesh Government Allows Workers To Form Unions ThinkProgress ...Bangladesh’s government approved a labor law on Monday that would make it easier for workers to form unions. The legislation also included provisions that create a fund to improve workers’ living standards and require companies to deposit 5 percent of profits into employee welfare funds...
License plate cameras track millions of Americans Washington Post ...The spread of cheap, powerful cameras capable of reading license plates has allowed police to build databases on the movements of millions of Americans over months or even years, according to an American Civil Liberties Union report released Wednesday...
The 1 Move That Could Suddenly Pull 300,000 Workers Out Of Poverty Huffington Post ...Legislation introduced in both the Senate and the House of Representatives could pull hundreds of thousands of the country's working poor out of poverty, according to a new study by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities...
Barclays fights US electricity price manipulation fine through the courts Guardian ...Barclays has pledged to fight a $470m (£300m) penalty for allegedly manipulating electricity prices in California by taking the case through the US judicial system...
Jack Lew: Delaying Dodd-Frank Rules Raises Threat Of More Bank Bailouts Associated Press ...U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says delays in writing rules to put the financial overhaul law into effect have raised the prospect that taxpayers might again have to bail out big banks that fail...
U.S. seeks new tactic in financial crisis prosecutions Reuters ... U.S. federal prosecutors are considering a new strategy for criminally charging Wall Street bankers who packaged and sold bad mortgage loans at the height of the housing bubble, according to a federal official familiar with the investigation...
IRS cancels one furlough day, cuts costs elsewhere Reuters ...The Internal Revenue Service said it was cancelling an agency shutdown that had been scheduled for Monday and required by federal budget cuts...
Big Money Makes State and Federal Politics Powerful (opinion) New York Times ...Art Pope invested heavily in local North Carolina elections, which ultimately resulted in the redistricting of 13 Congressional and 170 legislative districts...
Surplus celebrated as poverty grows (opinion) Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ...Around the same time state leaders were boasting that Indiana was closing its June books with $1.9 billion in reserves, a report from the Indiana Institute for Working Families was released showing poverty in Indiana is sharply increasing...
Statehouse gan throws Ohio in reverse (opinion) Toledo Blade ...The new state budget is equally regressive as economic and social policy...
Unions wage legal fight against Michigan’s right-to-work law Washington Times ...The legal battle over Michigan’s new right-to-work law shows no signs of flagging. Right-to-work proponents suffered a small setback when Michigan’s Supreme Court declined to weigh in on the legality of the law...
GOP Lawmaker In Utah Wants To End Compulsory Education In The State Talking Points Memo ...State Sen. Aaron Osmond (R) argued that certain "parents act as if the responsibility to educate, and even care for their child, is primarily the responsibility of the public school system..."
State Dept. approves ND-to-Alberta gas pipeline Associated Press ...The U.S. State Department has approved construction of the North Dakota portion of a gas pipeline from Tioga into the Canadian province of Alberta, Sen. John Hoeven said Tuesday...
CCA asks judge to bar media from joining lawsuit Associated Press ...Private prison company Corrections Corporation of America is asking a federal judge to deny a request from Idaho news organizations to keep documents open in a lawsuit over conditions at a CCA-run prison...
Teamsters Call For Quick Approval Of Administration Nominees IBT ...Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa today congratulated Senate Leader Harry Reid for forging a compromise that allows consideration of nominees for key administration posts...
Port Truck Drivers In New Jersey Reject Company’s Lies And Vote YES To Form A Union IBT ...Truck drivers employed by Australia-based Toll Group at the company’s New Jersey division voted overwhelmingly – by a margin of nearly 70 percent – to form a union and affiliate with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 469...
Buffalo EMTs, Paramedics’ Victory Spotlighted On Leslie Marshall Show Leslie Marshall Show ...Kevin Drysdale, president of Teamsters Local 375 in Buffalo spoke with radio show host Leslie Marshall about new, tentative agreement for EMTs and paramedics working for Rural/Metro. Download the audio here...
City, Teamsters Find Common Ground With Approval of Long-Awaited Collective Bargaining Agreement Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Patch ...Lake Forest Park City Council unanimously approved a long-awaited collective bargaining agreement with the Teamsters Local 117 representing maintenance workers at its recent meeting...
PolyOne plans to close Donora plant Pittsburgh-Tribune Review ...On Tuesday, the PolyOne’s plant supervisors announced that the company will close its facility in Donora, Pennsylvania by fall 2014. Teamsters Local 205 represents the roughly 100 employees at the plant...
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Today's Teamster News 04.16.13
Our Public Transportation System Is a Sweatshop on Wheels truthout ...The deterioration of the nation’s public transportation, like the deterioration of health care, education, social services, public utilities, bridges and roads, is part of the relentless seizing and harvesting of public resources and programs by corporations...
A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent (opinion) New York Times ...Leona Helmsley, the hotel chain executive who was convicted of federal tax evasion in 1989, was notorious for, among other things, reportedly having said that “only the little people pay taxes...”
Wal-Mart, Sears Refuse Compensation for Factory Victims Bloomberg ...Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) and Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD) have so far declined to join Li & Fung Ltd. and other companies in voluntarily compensating victims of a fire last year at a Bangladesh garment factory...
Obama Honors Thatcher with TVA “Privatization” Plan Naked Capitalism ...a bombshell buried in Obama’s budget: the proposed privatization of the Tennessee Valley Association...
Former Credit Suisse Executive Pleads Guilty to Inflating the Value of Mortgage Bonds New York Times ...A former senior trader at Credit Suisse Group pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he fraudulently inflated the value of mortgage bonds as the housing market collapsed, becoming one of the highest-ranking Wall Street executives to admit to crimes related to the 2008 financial crisis...
Wall Street Posts Worst Day Since November 7 on Gold's Drop, Boston Blasts Reuters ...Stocks posted their worst day since November 7 on Monday as big declines in the price of gold, oil and other commodities fed a broad selloff in equities. Selling accelerated late in the session as reports of explosions in Boston near the finish line of the Boston Marathon added to investors' nervousness...
Obama's Chained-CPI Social Security Cut is Smart Politics... For the GOP (opinion) The Nation ...The most misread—perhaps the proper word is “miscovered”—story of the current budget wrangling in Washington is that of Republican Congressman Greg Walden’s savage condemnation of President Obama’s proposal of the “chained-CPI” Social Security cut...
St. Louis NAACP Teams Up With Labor To Fight Right-To-Work Efforts KBIA ...Chapter President Adolphus Pruitt says African-Americans are more likely to be union members than any other ethnicities in the United States, so the partnership makes sense...
'Right-to-work’ petitioners seek November vote Youngstown Vindicator ...Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to make Ohio a “right to work” state have collected about a quarter of the signatures needed to place the issue before voters...
Ethics board fails to curb ALEC shell game The Cap Times ...The GAB agreed that some Wisconsin politicians had improperly attended corporate-sponsored events and failed to properly disclose receipt of ALEC “scholarships,” but failed to recognize that the corporate-funded “scholarships” themselves are improper and should be barred...
Alaska Senate approves Parnell's multibillion-dollar oil tax cut Alaska Dispatch ...The Alaska Senate has given final approval to an oil tax cut approved by the House of Representatives, handing Gov. Sean Parnell a big victory and the state's big oil producers billions in savings...
Michigan taxpayers take their anger out on Gov. Rick Snyder Detroit Free Press ...Gov. Rick Snyder is getting much of the blowback as tax changes he pushed through the Legislature in early 2011 -- such as taxes on pension income and reductions in the Homestead Property Tax Credit -- are affecting Michigan tax returns for the first time...
Republic, Teamsters strike spreads Youngstown Vindicator ...Heading into its third week, the strike among 23 sanitation workers at Republic Services/Allied Waste once again ballooned Monday to include all of the company’s Youngstown workers...
Teamsters at Republic Services Strike in McDonough, Georgia IBT ...Sanitation workers employed by Republic Services/Allied Waste [NYSE: RSG] are on an unfair labor practice strike in Georgia to protest the company’s violations of federal labor law. Workers at Republic/Allied Waste’s hauling yard in McDonough, Ga. raised a picket line early yesterday morning...
Striking Teamsters at Republic Services Extend Picket Lines to Five Ohio Cities IBT ...Picket lines were extended to six Republic Services/Allied Waste locations in five Ohio cities early yesterday morning by striking sanitation workers at Republic’s [NYSE: RSG] Carbon Limestone landfill outside of Youngstown, Ohio...
DMV Unveils News March of Dimes, Teamsters Plates KTVN-TV ...Specialty license plates for the March of Dimes and Teamsters Local Union No. 631 are now available for purchase at Nevada DMV offices. The specialty plates will cost an initial $61 and $30 for renewal...
A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent (opinion) New York Times ...Leona Helmsley, the hotel chain executive who was convicted of federal tax evasion in 1989, was notorious for, among other things, reportedly having said that “only the little people pay taxes...”
Wal-Mart, Sears Refuse Compensation for Factory Victims Bloomberg ...Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) and Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD) have so far declined to join Li & Fung Ltd. and other companies in voluntarily compensating victims of a fire last year at a Bangladesh garment factory...
Obama Honors Thatcher with TVA “Privatization” Plan Naked Capitalism ...a bombshell buried in Obama’s budget: the proposed privatization of the Tennessee Valley Association...
Former Credit Suisse Executive Pleads Guilty to Inflating the Value of Mortgage Bonds New York Times ...A former senior trader at Credit Suisse Group pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he fraudulently inflated the value of mortgage bonds as the housing market collapsed, becoming one of the highest-ranking Wall Street executives to admit to crimes related to the 2008 financial crisis...
Wall Street Posts Worst Day Since November 7 on Gold's Drop, Boston Blasts Reuters ...Stocks posted their worst day since November 7 on Monday as big declines in the price of gold, oil and other commodities fed a broad selloff in equities. Selling accelerated late in the session as reports of explosions in Boston near the finish line of the Boston Marathon added to investors' nervousness...
Obama's Chained-CPI Social Security Cut is Smart Politics... For the GOP (opinion) The Nation ...The most misread—perhaps the proper word is “miscovered”—story of the current budget wrangling in Washington is that of Republican Congressman Greg Walden’s savage condemnation of President Obama’s proposal of the “chained-CPI” Social Security cut...
St. Louis NAACP Teams Up With Labor To Fight Right-To-Work Efforts KBIA ...Chapter President Adolphus Pruitt says African-Americans are more likely to be union members than any other ethnicities in the United States, so the partnership makes sense...
'Right-to-work’ petitioners seek November vote Youngstown Vindicator ...Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to make Ohio a “right to work” state have collected about a quarter of the signatures needed to place the issue before voters...
Ethics board fails to curb ALEC shell game The Cap Times ...The GAB agreed that some Wisconsin politicians had improperly attended corporate-sponsored events and failed to properly disclose receipt of ALEC “scholarships,” but failed to recognize that the corporate-funded “scholarships” themselves are improper and should be barred...
Alaska Senate approves Parnell's multibillion-dollar oil tax cut Alaska Dispatch ...The Alaska Senate has given final approval to an oil tax cut approved by the House of Representatives, handing Gov. Sean Parnell a big victory and the state's big oil producers billions in savings...
Michigan taxpayers take their anger out on Gov. Rick Snyder Detroit Free Press ...Gov. Rick Snyder is getting much of the blowback as tax changes he pushed through the Legislature in early 2011 -- such as taxes on pension income and reductions in the Homestead Property Tax Credit -- are affecting Michigan tax returns for the first time...
Republic, Teamsters strike spreads Youngstown Vindicator ...Heading into its third week, the strike among 23 sanitation workers at Republic Services/Allied Waste once again ballooned Monday to include all of the company’s Youngstown workers...
Teamsters at Republic Services Strike in McDonough, Georgia IBT ...Sanitation workers employed by Republic Services/Allied Waste [NYSE: RSG] are on an unfair labor practice strike in Georgia to protest the company’s violations of federal labor law. Workers at Republic/Allied Waste’s hauling yard in McDonough, Ga. raised a picket line early yesterday morning...
Striking Teamsters at Republic Services Extend Picket Lines to Five Ohio Cities IBT ...Picket lines were extended to six Republic Services/Allied Waste locations in five Ohio cities early yesterday morning by striking sanitation workers at Republic’s [NYSE: RSG] Carbon Limestone landfill outside of Youngstown, Ohio...
DMV Unveils News March of Dimes, Teamsters Plates KTVN-TV ...Specialty license plates for the March of Dimes and Teamsters Local Union No. 631 are now available for purchase at Nevada DMV offices. The specialty plates will cost an initial $61 and $30 for renewal...
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