First Coast Gears: Pontiac muscle comes on strong at Teamsters show Florida Times Union ...Harris and Boito brought their Pontiacs to the annual Labor Day weekend car show at Teamsters Local 512 on Lane Avenue last Saturday...
Privacy Scandal: NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data Der Spiegel ...The United States' National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers...
Naked tax protest in front of German Chancellor's office Tax Justice Network ...a naked tax protest by Attac-Germany, with calls for unitary taxation and country by country reporting...
Low-Wage Employers Have Fought Hard to Keep Their Workers Poor — Now Workers are Fighting Back Moyers & Co. ...After decades of seeing their incomes shrink, those at the bottom of the economic ladder are starting to band together and fight back — and it’s one of the most important economic stories of our time...
Free Markets are Fraudulent Markets (opinion) Economic Populist ...Historically, competitive market economies are a relatively new economic system, and while very productive, they are not self-sustaining, are unstable and require significant state support and regulation to function properly...
The Political Calculations behind Growing Inequality truthout ...In the 1980s, campaign contributions from the top 0.01 percent roughly equaled the campaign contributions from all of organized labor. In 2012, America’s top 0.01 percent all by themselves outspent labor by more than four-to-one...
Want to Move Kids Out of Poverty? Then Protect the Middle Class The Atlantic ...in parts of the country that are more heavily middle class, there also tends to be more upward mobility for the poor...
An American Bridge Made of Chinese Steel Demonstrates the Need for a Rational Trade Policy Economy In Crisis ...The prices for Chinese-made steel are about 25% lower than for domestic steel, but this does not represent a victory won on an open and level playing field...
Detroit, Labor Day and a Hard Day’s Night (opinion) The Hill ...A competitive nation needs a strong safety net for its citizens, one that neither depends on fickle global employers nor burdens workers’ democratic institutions with a redistributive role best played by the government. In addition, the U.S. should take a cue from the European Union and allocate more funds to help hard hit areas transition their economies...
Burlesque performers, occupiers protest possible sale of Portland park Bangor Daily News ...Tension over whether a large section of Portland’s Congress Square Park should be sold to private developers escalated late Friday night, as burlesque performers and members of the occupy movement demonstrated at the site, attracting police warnings...
Occupy Sandy builds worker power in Far Rockaway Co-operative News ...One of those bigger projects is a worker-run cooperative initiative, organized by Occupy Sandy and supported by the Working World, an organization that specializes in incubating collectively owned businesses...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Today's Teamster News 12.19.12
Chained CPI Will Reduce Your Social Security Benefits Economic Populist ...There is a war on social security and America is losing the battle. One constant in the fiscal cliff negotiations is the agenda to cut your retirement benefits by a ruse, a lowering of the inflation adjustment...
A Bipartisan Nation of Beneficiaries Pew Research Center ...a majority of Americans (55%) have received government benefits from at least one of the six best-known federal entitlement programs...
Poor records hurt jobs agency Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Missing safeguards, staff turnover and shoddy bookkeeping within the state's flagship jobs agency led to delinquent loans going uncollected, financial deals being misstated or unrecorded, and credit card and other transactions getting no checks for fraud or errors, outside auditors have found...
Video shows girl, 15, battered in Florida juvenile prison Miami Herald ...A guard at a (private) Northwest Florida juvenile prison was jailed after a tape showed the abuse of a teen. Now she is back on the job...
Private prisons not saving us money – so why do we still have them? Tucson Citizen ... recent investigations by the Arizona Republic, the Associated Press and prison watchdog groups, the American Friends Service Committee and The Sentencing Project, have shown private prisons are actually costing taxpayers more money than if the government ran the prisons...
Teamsters Strongly Oppose Cuts To Social Security IBT ...Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa urged President Obama and Congress to reject any proposal to cut Social Security benefits by adopting the chained consumer price index ("chained CPI") to calculate cost-of-living adjustments...
Flight Dispatchers at Allegiant Air Vote to Join Teamsters IBT ...Flight dispatchers at Allegiant Air have voted to join Teamsters Local 986, the Teamsters Airline Division announced today. There are 21 dispatchers in the bargaining unit and the vote was 15 to 5...
Greenburgh Approves Budget, Settles Teamsters Contract Greenburgh Daily Voice ...the Town Board finally settled a contract with the Teamsters Union, which represents Greenburgh's Department of Public Works employees, who have been without a contract for several years...
Teamsters Overwhelmingly Approve Illinois Central Master Agreement IBT ...Teamsters Local 777 and Teamsters Local 179 members in Illinois have overwhelmingly approved the first-ever master agreement with Illinois Central School Bus, the fifth-largest provider of school bus transportation in the United States...
OLG and Teamsters make agreement Blackburn News ...An agreement has been reached in the labour dispute at Pt Edward Casino. Ontario Lottery and Gaming and the teamsters union have come to terms on a tentative contract agreement to end the lockout of 38 security officers...
A Bipartisan Nation of Beneficiaries Pew Research Center ...a majority of Americans (55%) have received government benefits from at least one of the six best-known federal entitlement programs...
Poor records hurt jobs agency Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Missing safeguards, staff turnover and shoddy bookkeeping within the state's flagship jobs agency led to delinquent loans going uncollected, financial deals being misstated or unrecorded, and credit card and other transactions getting no checks for fraud or errors, outside auditors have found...
Video shows girl, 15, battered in Florida juvenile prison Miami Herald ...A guard at a (private) Northwest Florida juvenile prison was jailed after a tape showed the abuse of a teen. Now she is back on the job...
Private prisons not saving us money – so why do we still have them? Tucson Citizen ... recent investigations by the Arizona Republic, the Associated Press and prison watchdog groups, the American Friends Service Committee and The Sentencing Project, have shown private prisons are actually costing taxpayers more money than if the government ran the prisons...
Teamsters Strongly Oppose Cuts To Social Security IBT ...Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa urged President Obama and Congress to reject any proposal to cut Social Security benefits by adopting the chained consumer price index ("chained CPI") to calculate cost-of-living adjustments...
Flight Dispatchers at Allegiant Air Vote to Join Teamsters IBT ...Flight dispatchers at Allegiant Air have voted to join Teamsters Local 986, the Teamsters Airline Division announced today. There are 21 dispatchers in the bargaining unit and the vote was 15 to 5...
Greenburgh Approves Budget, Settles Teamsters Contract Greenburgh Daily Voice ...the Town Board finally settled a contract with the Teamsters Union, which represents Greenburgh's Department of Public Works employees, who have been without a contract for several years...
Teamsters Overwhelmingly Approve Illinois Central Master Agreement IBT ...Teamsters Local 777 and Teamsters Local 179 members in Illinois have overwhelmingly approved the first-ever master agreement with Illinois Central School Bus, the fifth-largest provider of school bus transportation in the United States...
OLG and Teamsters make agreement Blackburn News ...An agreement has been reached in the labour dispute at Pt Edward Casino. Ontario Lottery and Gaming and the teamsters union have come to terms on a tentative contract agreement to end the lockout of 38 security officers...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Today's Teamster News 12.18.12
Obama makes a substantial counteroffer on fiscal deadline Los Angeles Times ...Obama is now offering twice as much in cuts as he initially put on the table. His proposal includes shaving $400 billion from healthcare programs and ... would trim the annual cost-of-living adjustment for those receiving government assistance, probably including Social Security...
The media discover the 'chained CPI' - And the more they dig, the rougher it looks Columbia Journalism Revew ...Social Security Works estimates that a person age 75 in the future will get a yearly benefit that’s $653 lower after ten years of chained CPI than that person would get under the current formula. An 85-year-old will have $1,139 less to live on...
Millions live on $2 a day in America. The problem isn't just the safety net, it's the whole economy. DailyKos ...nearly 1 in 5 low-income American households has been living in extreme povery; since 1996, the number of households in that category had increased by about 130 percent...
The racist roots of 'right to work' laws Facing South ...As Dartmouth sociologist Marc Dixon notes in his fascinating history of the period [pdf], "The Christian American Association was the first in the nation to champion the 'Right-to-Work' as a full-blown political slogan..."
Right-to-work's race to poverty (opinion) Philadelphia Inquirer ...it is also a blow against fairness and common sense...
Senate Filibuster Reform Closing In On Majority Huffington Post ...Advocates of what's come to be called the "talking filibuster" are closing in on the majority needed to reform the rules, according to a whip count compiled by The Huffington Post, based on interviews with Democratic senators and with reform advocates who have spoken with senators...
Walmart vs. Union-Backed OUR Walmart Bloomberg Businessweek ...These days, “we have human resources teams all over the country who are available to talk to associates, and we will get questions about joining a union,” says David Tovar, a spokesman for the company. “We would say: ‘Let us remind you of all that Walmart offers, and of what might go away. Quarterly bonuses might go away, vacation time might go away...’ ”
Teamsters forced out on strike at Blue Linx Trucking Teamsters Local 769 ...Due to mistreatment by executives at Blue Linx Trucking, Teamsters Local 769 in Miami has filed unfair labor practice charges against the company...
Minister Raitt Commends Garda Security Screening Inc. and the Teamsters on Entering Into an Agreement at Regina International Airport MarketWire ...Today, the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Canada's Labour Minister, congratulated Garda Security Screening Inc. and Teamsters Local Union No. 395 on entering into their first collective agreement...
The media discover the 'chained CPI' - And the more they dig, the rougher it looks Columbia Journalism Revew ...Social Security Works estimates that a person age 75 in the future will get a yearly benefit that’s $653 lower after ten years of chained CPI than that person would get under the current formula. An 85-year-old will have $1,139 less to live on...
Millions live on $2 a day in America. The problem isn't just the safety net, it's the whole economy. DailyKos ...nearly 1 in 5 low-income American households has been living in extreme povery; since 1996, the number of households in that category had increased by about 130 percent...
The racist roots of 'right to work' laws Facing South ...As Dartmouth sociologist Marc Dixon notes in his fascinating history of the period [pdf], "The Christian American Association was the first in the nation to champion the 'Right-to-Work' as a full-blown political slogan..."
Right-to-work's race to poverty (opinion) Philadelphia Inquirer ...it is also a blow against fairness and common sense...
Senate Filibuster Reform Closing In On Majority Huffington Post ...Advocates of what's come to be called the "talking filibuster" are closing in on the majority needed to reform the rules, according to a whip count compiled by The Huffington Post, based on interviews with Democratic senators and with reform advocates who have spoken with senators...
Walmart vs. Union-Backed OUR Walmart Bloomberg Businessweek ...These days, “we have human resources teams all over the country who are available to talk to associates, and we will get questions about joining a union,” says David Tovar, a spokesman for the company. “We would say: ‘Let us remind you of all that Walmart offers, and of what might go away. Quarterly bonuses might go away, vacation time might go away...’ ”
Teamsters forced out on strike at Blue Linx Trucking Teamsters Local 769 ...Due to mistreatment by executives at Blue Linx Trucking, Teamsters Local 769 in Miami has filed unfair labor practice charges against the company...
Minister Raitt Commends Garda Security Screening Inc. and the Teamsters on Entering Into an Agreement at Regina International Airport MarketWire ...Today, the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Canada's Labour Minister, congratulated Garda Security Screening Inc. and Teamsters Local Union No. 395 on entering into their first collective agreement...
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