Teamster News
Bus Drivers May Go On Strike Thursday KVOA ...Sun Tran and Teamsters Local 104 are still working to avoid a bus strike. Saturday night, the union overwhelmingly voted down Sun Tran's contract offer. The current agreement expires at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday...
Charter School Teachers Turn To Union For Help Worcester Telegram & Gazette ...Eighty teachers and guidance counselors at the Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School in Marlboro recently made history when they joined a union — but not the one you might think. ...they joined Teamsters Local 170 in Worcester, a 4,000-member union of mostly truck and bus drivers and warehouse workers...
Motorcycle Run Raises Funds For Family Of Slain Gary Police Officer Chicago Post-Tribune ...Teamsters Local 142 showed Sunday that union solidarity knows no boundaries when it comes to helping family. At least 75 motorcycle enthusiasts brought out their bikes for the second annual Solidarity Run from its Clark Street hall. Last year, the ride, which brought out about 35 riders, brought in money for the union’s philanthropic works, such as Christmas baskets for needy families...
Trade
Walmart Is Giving Priority To U.S. Manufacturers Who Hire American Workers; CEO Bill Simon Says Reviving Industry Is Essential For Walmart’s Success Trade Reform ...Walmart is accelerating its program to purchase billions of dollars of more products from U.S.-based manufacturers. On July 8. Walmart held its first-ever Made in USA ‘Open Call’ Event” at its Arkansas headquarters. Five-hundred manufacturers pitched their products to Walmart buyers. The only requirement was that their products be manufactured or assembled in the United States...
State Battles
Kansas, Arizona Require Proof Of Citizenship For Voting Wall Street Journal ...Election rules in Kansas and Arizona are set to bar thousands of people in coming weeks from casting ballots in state primaries even as the federal government allows some of them to vote in congressional races...
War On Workers
The United States Needs Corporate 'Loyalty Oaths' Daily Beast ...2014 will be remembered for the plague of “corporate inversion,” which the news media should start routinely calling “corporate desertion.” So far, 47 American-based companies have renounced U.S. citizenship and bought foreign subsidiaries in order to dodge American taxes. Many more are preparing to flee...
Another Settlement – JP Morgan Receives Slap On The Wrist Despite Years Of Fraudulent CFTC Data zero hedge ...the CFTC will impose a meager $650,000 fine on JP Morgan, despite years of warnings about fraudulent data reports...
A Paper Mill Goes Quiet, and the Community It Built Gropes for a Way Forward New York Times ...It is something to do here, witnessing the disintegration of the Great Northern Paper mill, which conjured this town out of the backwoods and sustained it for a century. Once among the biggest mills of its kind, it pulled power from the river and made pulp from spruce, filling wallets and pantries for thousands of families and supporting a bustling main street...
1 Highway Worker Killed In Dallas-Area Wreck KSAT ...One highway worker has been killed and another hurt after a car plowed into a highway maintenance vehicle and trailer on a Dallas-area toll road...
S&P: Wealth gap is slowing US economic growth Associated Press ...The widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else has made the economy more prone to boom-bust cycles and slowed the 5-year-old recovery from the recession...
Pregnant Walmart Worker Ends Up Fired After Walmart Said It Would Help Pregnant Workers Think Progress ...Candis Riggins has a new baby. But, since she got fired from Walmart, she no longer has her job or her house...
Will Labor Solidarity Save the Post Office? Huffington Post ...A successful boycott to stop the further privatization of the post office could then move demand that the post office be restored to its former glory and effectiveness by reopening processing centers, extending local post office hours and rehiring experienced staff...
Miscellaneous
NLRB Gets The Case Of The Northwestern Football Player Union And The Wait Begins Chicago Business Journal ...The matter of whether Northwestern University scholarship football players can unionize is now in the hands of the full National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C...
Showing posts with label vote suppression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vote suppression. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Friday, July 26, 2013
Next Moral Monday protest could be biggest ever
The Moral Monday protests rocking North Carolina will likely
escalate next week as anger mounts over the Legislature's assault on voting
rights, public education and middle-class pocketbooks. Organizers of the Moral Monday rallies, which
have so far resulted in 925 arrests for civil disobedience, are preparing for a
huge turnout next week.
North Carolina Teamsters have been contacting elected
officials to voice their anger over bills that hinder voting by minorities, the
disabled and working-class and senior citizens. The
Legislature also raised taxes on middle-class families and slashed public
education funding. North Carolinians have been flocking to social media to express
their disgust at the anti-worker platform approved by the GOP-led Legislature. Some
sample tweets:
State lawmakers put the finishing touches on their
anti-worker agenda last night when they backed final passage of the worst voter suppression measure in the nation. During the now-ended session, legislators
closely followed the corporate-empowerment script prepared by ALEC
and promoted by the state’s billionaire budget director, Art Pope.
As Twitter user Kdog-WNC tweeted:Unfortunately the Pope has decreed that these things shall come to pass.
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| Residents will be out in force to protest voter repression bill. |
Education Votes @edvotes 24 Jul
NC educators, parents, students & others to attend mass #MoralMonday on 7/29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RYKiAB6liM&feature=youtu.be …. State lawmakers put on notice. #NCAE
Sad - a letter from an NC teacher who can no longer afford to teach. Why are we not ashamed? #NCLEG #ncgov http://bit.ly/1c91uxT
Edward @USMC_Liberal 1h
I was going to make a joke about #NCLEG inserting insane language into an unrelated bill but they've already used up all my material.
North Carolinians are not taking this lying down. They are
pissed and planning to take to the streets in Raleigh Monday. Moral Monday
organizers are calling out to all those against this anti-worker agenda to come to the Statehouse
grounds to be heard:
Join us at Halifax Mall for a Mass Moral Monday March & Interfaith Social Justice Service as we strengthen our faith for the battle ahead and send every attendee from every part of the state back home to be a trumpet of conscience and agent of change.
Stay tuned.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Today's Teamster News 12.05.12
(UPDATE: Adding news items about Florida prison privatization, wage theft, organizing low-wage workers, port strike)
Hoyer: Entitlement benefit cuts on the table in talks with GOP on 'fiscal cliff' The Hill ...A number of Democratic leaders ... said they would support some spending reductions in Medicare, but that cuts to direct benefits should not be a part of the negotiations. Along with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), they also maintain that Social Security reform has no place at all in the "fiscal cliff" talks. But Hoyer, the Democratic whip, warned that taking entitlement benefits off the table is a bad place to start the negotiations. Such entrenched positions are little different, he said, than the Republicans' refusal to consider hikes in tax rates — a central element of President Obama's deficit-reduction proposal...
Nearly Half Of Republicans Believe Defunct Organization Stole The Election For Obama ThinkProgress ...Forty nine percent of Republicans believe that President Obama won reelection thanks to the allegedly illegal work of a group that no longer exists, according to a Public Policy Polling survey...
47% Of People Think The Deficit Would INCREASE If We Go Over The Fiscal Cliff Business Insider ...for all the hype about the issue, very few people really understand what The Fiscal Cliff actually is...
Unionizing the Bottom of the Pay Scale New York Times ... either we build an economy in which most workers can earn enough to adequately support their families or we build a government with the wherewithal to subsidize the existence of a lower class that can’t survive on its own. We are doing neither...
The New iMac: Designed By Apple In California, Assembled In USA TechCrunch ...Your next Mac could be assembled in America. Apple is assembling at least some of the new, ultra-thin iMacs in the U.S...
Snyder puts right to work on agenda Detroit News ...Facing mounting pressure from conservative activists and business groups, Gov. Rick Snyder said Tuesday "right to work is on the agenda" but didn't say whether the Republican-controlled Legislature would pursue the controversial legislation this year...
Department vows to appeal ruling blocking privatization of prison health care Tallahassee Democrat ... Deputy Corrections Secretary Mike Crews said the state “disagrees with, and intends to appeal” today’s ruling blocking the privatization of health care services in North and Central Florida...
Palm Beach County scraps wage-theft law Sun Sentinel ...Palm Beach County commissioners sided with business interests Tuesday in opting for watered-down wage-theft help for local workers...
Deal brings end to L.A., Long Beach ports strike Los Angeles Times ...Clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will return to work Wednesday, ending a strike that crippled America's busiest shipping hub for more than a week...
Walker, Wis. GOP, Consolidate Power with ALEC’s Help The Progressive ...Every committee chair has the dubious distinction of having scored 96% or 100% on the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce legislative scorecard ... Most are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization funded by corporations, which writes model legislation to promote their interests...
Hoyer: Entitlement benefit cuts on the table in talks with GOP on 'fiscal cliff' The Hill ...A number of Democratic leaders ... said they would support some spending reductions in Medicare, but that cuts to direct benefits should not be a part of the negotiations. Along with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), they also maintain that Social Security reform has no place at all in the "fiscal cliff" talks. But Hoyer, the Democratic whip, warned that taking entitlement benefits off the table is a bad place to start the negotiations. Such entrenched positions are little different, he said, than the Republicans' refusal to consider hikes in tax rates — a central element of President Obama's deficit-reduction proposal...
Nearly Half Of Republicans Believe Defunct Organization Stole The Election For Obama ThinkProgress ...Forty nine percent of Republicans believe that President Obama won reelection thanks to the allegedly illegal work of a group that no longer exists, according to a Public Policy Polling survey...
47% Of People Think The Deficit Would INCREASE If We Go Over The Fiscal Cliff Business Insider ...for all the hype about the issue, very few people really understand what The Fiscal Cliff actually is...
Unionizing the Bottom of the Pay Scale New York Times ... either we build an economy in which most workers can earn enough to adequately support their families or we build a government with the wherewithal to subsidize the existence of a lower class that can’t survive on its own. We are doing neither...
The New iMac: Designed By Apple In California, Assembled In USA TechCrunch ...Your next Mac could be assembled in America. Apple is assembling at least some of the new, ultra-thin iMacs in the U.S...
Snyder puts right to work on agenda Detroit News ...Facing mounting pressure from conservative activists and business groups, Gov. Rick Snyder said Tuesday "right to work is on the agenda" but didn't say whether the Republican-controlled Legislature would pursue the controversial legislation this year...
Department vows to appeal ruling blocking privatization of prison health care Tallahassee Democrat ... Deputy Corrections Secretary Mike Crews said the state “disagrees with, and intends to appeal” today’s ruling blocking the privatization of health care services in North and Central Florida...
Palm Beach County scraps wage-theft law Sun Sentinel ...Palm Beach County commissioners sided with business interests Tuesday in opting for watered-down wage-theft help for local workers...
Deal brings end to L.A., Long Beach ports strike Los Angeles Times ...Clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will return to work Wednesday, ending a strike that crippled America's busiest shipping hub for more than a week...
Walker, Wis. GOP, Consolidate Power with ALEC’s Help The Progressive ...Every committee chair has the dubious distinction of having scored 96% or 100% on the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce legislative scorecard ... Most are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization funded by corporations, which writes model legislation to promote their interests...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Today's Teamster News 09.20.11
Stakes high for both sides in SB 5 battle Dayton Daily News ...Win or lose, the controversial bill’s impact will be huge...
Governor Walker's adversaries emboldened by Wisconsin FBI probe The Guardian ...The FBI raid has breathed new life into the hopes of Democratic organisers in Wisconsin as they decide whether to launch a recall campaign against Walker himself...
Did Gov. Scott’s cuts spur private job growth? The Palm Beach Post ...We think government layoffs are a reason Florida’s jobs picture has stagnated...
Detroit Span Owner Keeps Canada Crossing With Koch Aid Bloomberg ...Billionaire Manuel Moroun, who beat out Warren Buffett to buy the Ambassador Bridge more than three decades ago, is fighting a plan championed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to build a public competitor to the busiest U.S.- Canada border crossing...
Democrats and Republicans Clash Over Proposed Changes to PA Electoral Plan ABC Note ...Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania could drastically alter the political map ahead of next year’s presidential election, awarding their electoral votes by congressional district instead of as a state...
The theft of the American pension Salon ...In the last decade, the country's biggest companies have raided worker benefits for profit. An expert explains how...
Governor Walker's adversaries emboldened by Wisconsin FBI probe The Guardian ...The FBI raid has breathed new life into the hopes of Democratic organisers in Wisconsin as they decide whether to launch a recall campaign against Walker himself...
Did Gov. Scott’s cuts spur private job growth? The Palm Beach Post ...We think government layoffs are a reason Florida’s jobs picture has stagnated...
Detroit Span Owner Keeps Canada Crossing With Koch Aid Bloomberg ...Billionaire Manuel Moroun, who beat out Warren Buffett to buy the Ambassador Bridge more than three decades ago, is fighting a plan championed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to build a public competitor to the busiest U.S.- Canada border crossing...
Democrats and Republicans Clash Over Proposed Changes to PA Electoral Plan ABC Note ...Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania could drastically alter the political map ahead of next year’s presidential election, awarding their electoral votes by congressional district instead of as a state...
The theft of the American pension Salon ...In the last decade, the country's biggest companies have raided worker benefits for profit. An expert explains how...
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