U.S. Companies Thrive as Workers Fall Behind New York Times ...AMERICAN companies are more profitable than ever — and more profitable than we thought they were before the government revised the national income accounts last week. Wage earners are making less than we thought...
Hidden Billionaire Cohen Hauls Fortune in Unmarked Trucks Bloomberg ...The 61-year-old -- who goes by “Rick” -- has transformed C&S into the world’s largest grocery wholesaler since taking the helm of the business in 1989, making him one of the 100 richest people in the world and the wealthiest man in New England...
My ALEC Diary The Progressive ...As keynote speaker Stephen Moore, founder of the Club for Growth and writer for the Wall Street Journal, stated, “What we really need is more rich people,” regardless of the cost to everyone else...
Walmart’s big lie: No, it doesn’t create jobs! Salon ...Research shows that destroying jobs is an essential component of the retail giant’s anti-worker business model...
Fast Food Wage War: Thousands of Protests Coming This Year, Says Movement Leader Yahoo Finance ...there's little doubt that there will be a fourth effort to get to $15 an hour, and probably a fifth and sixth attempt too, as Fast Food Forward pushes for better wages and benefits, as well as the right to organize...
Myth and Reality: The Low-Wage Job Machine Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta ... the growing wage disparity is a trend, not a unique feature of the postcrisis period...
America's Most Dangerous Bridges Travel and Leisure ...One thing these bridges have in common, whether in Oregon or Louisiana, is age. All are more than 45 years old, and they’ve got company nationwide. Many structures from the bridge-building boom of the 1950s were designed for a 50-year lifespan, Leshko says. “When you do the math, you can see why we are where we are...”
Why I changed my mind on weed CNN ...It doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works...
State finds ‘manipulation’ of school grading formula Post-Tribune ...State education officials have discovered “manipulation” in the state’s school grading formula as part of an ongoing review following the grade-changing scandal which cost education star Tony Bennett his job as Florida schools chief...
Fight For Paid Sick Leave Starts In Massachusetts ThinkProgress ...Raise Up Massachusetts, a coalition of labor, religious, and community groups, filed a proposed ballot question that would guarantee that the state’s workers have access to paid sick leave...
Tax cut’s job creation questioned Columbus Dispatch ...From June 2005 through June 2013, a span that included a 21 percent state income-tax cut, Ohio saw a 3.9 percent drop in jobs, ranking 47th nationally in job creation...
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Sunday, August 11, 2013
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Today's Teamster News 07.25.12
The U.S. Economic Policy Debate Is a Sham Bloomberg ...The debate in Washington has become completely unmoored from this consensus, and in a particular direction: Angry Republicans have pushed their representatives to adopt positions that are at odds with the best of modern economic thinking. That may be good politics, but it’s terrible policy...
White House warns of $1,600 tax hike on 114M middle-class families The Hill ...The Democrat-controlled Senate is expected to vote this week on legislation to extend tax rates only on those with annual income up to $250,000. Senate Republicans are pressing for a separate vote to extend all of the tax rates...
China Continues Push to Control North American Energy Economy in Crisis ...A Chinese oil company has purchased Canadian firm Nexen Inc. for $15.1 billion in cash, expanding China’s ever growing presence in the North American energy market. This deal, if approved, will give the Chinese firm CNOOC Ltd access to oil drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as shale oil reserves in British Columbia...
Ahead Of Voter ID Trial, Pennsylvania Admits There’s No In-Person Voter Fraud TPMMuckraker ...The state signed a stipulation agreement with lawyers for the plaintiffs which acknowledges there “have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other states...”
Marijuana Dispensaries Banned in L.A. Per City Council Vote LA Weekly ... No more weed retailers in the pot shop capital of the nation. Maybe...
Cronyism and Corruption Define Walker’s Reign The Progressive ... Start tugging at a thread in that story and the whole tapestry of corporate domination of state policy starts to unravel. It leads everywhere: From the recently awarded federal waiver of the No Child Left Behind law to the imposition of more and more standardized testing in schools; from the initiative to orient K-12 curriculum away from the needs of children and toward needs of employers to the practical elimination of teachers’ unions and catastrophic cuts to education budgets...
White House warns of $1,600 tax hike on 114M middle-class families The Hill ...The Democrat-controlled Senate is expected to vote this week on legislation to extend tax rates only on those with annual income up to $250,000. Senate Republicans are pressing for a separate vote to extend all of the tax rates...
China Continues Push to Control North American Energy Economy in Crisis ...A Chinese oil company has purchased Canadian firm Nexen Inc. for $15.1 billion in cash, expanding China’s ever growing presence in the North American energy market. This deal, if approved, will give the Chinese firm CNOOC Ltd access to oil drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as shale oil reserves in British Columbia...
Ahead Of Voter ID Trial, Pennsylvania Admits There’s No In-Person Voter Fraud TPMMuckraker ...The state signed a stipulation agreement with lawyers for the plaintiffs which acknowledges there “have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other states...”
Marijuana Dispensaries Banned in L.A. Per City Council Vote LA Weekly ... No more weed retailers in the pot shop capital of the nation. Maybe...
Cronyism and Corruption Define Walker’s Reign The Progressive ... Start tugging at a thread in that story and the whole tapestry of corporate domination of state policy starts to unravel. It leads everywhere: From the recently awarded federal waiver of the No Child Left Behind law to the imposition of more and more standardized testing in schools; from the initiative to orient K-12 curriculum away from the needs of children and toward needs of employers to the practical elimination of teachers’ unions and catastrophic cuts to education budgets...
Monday, September 20, 2010
Today's Teamster News 09/20/10
For the Unemployed Over 50, Fears of Never Working Again New York Times ...there are not enough jobs being created for the population as a whole, much less for those in the twilight of their careers...
Medical marijuana growers join Teamsters union Associated Press ...Their newly negotiated two-year contract provides them with a pension, paid vacation and health insurance...
Unions Find Members Slow to Rally Behind Democrats New York Times ...Mr. Obama and the Democrats have done good things for working people — the $787 billion stimulus package, the health care overhaul, Wall Street reform and the rescue package for Detroit automakers...
Worker Misclassification Bills Get Fresh Expression of Support From White House BNA Daily Labor Report ...Congressional efforts to bar employers from improperly classifying workers as independent contractors to avoid paying payroll taxes got a boost Sept. 15 ...
As Poverty Rate Jumps, Jobs With Justice, PDA, Highlight Jobs Emergency in 100 Cities Huffington Post ...progressive activists ... (organized) mostly small-scale protests in 100 cities Wednesday to prod political leaders to do more to respond to the jobs crisis...
Medical marijuana growers join Teamsters union Associated Press ...Their newly negotiated two-year contract provides them with a pension, paid vacation and health insurance...
Unions Find Members Slow to Rally Behind Democrats New York Times ...Mr. Obama and the Democrats have done good things for working people — the $787 billion stimulus package, the health care overhaul, Wall Street reform and the rescue package for Detroit automakers...
Worker Misclassification Bills Get Fresh Expression of Support From White House BNA Daily Labor Report ...Congressional efforts to bar employers from improperly classifying workers as independent contractors to avoid paying payroll taxes got a boost Sept. 15 ...
As Poverty Rate Jumps, Jobs With Justice, PDA, Highlight Jobs Emergency in 100 Cities Huffington Post ...progressive activists ... (organized) mostly small-scale protests in 100 cities Wednesday to prod political leaders to do more to respond to the jobs crisis...
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