Thursday, October 21, 2010

Today's Teamster News 10/21/10

California: Solar Plant Advances Associated Press ...a big solar energy plant in the Mojave Desert on Wednesday (was approved) ... making it the fifth such project on public land in the West to win federal authorization...

Teamsters Local 331 leaders vow better pay, dedicate hall in Egg Harbor City PressofAtlanticCity.com ... Teamsters Local 331 dedicated its new headquarters Wednesday with a promise of providing better-paying jobs for many of southern New Jersey's unemployed workers...

Jeffboat owner to be bought by private equity firm Louisville Courier-Journal ...A private equity firm has proposed to buy American Commercial Lines, owner of the Jeffboat shipyard in Jeffersonville, Ind....

Voters In Four States Facing Anti-Union Ballot Questions ThinkProgress ...they are an attempt at preempting the strengthening of unions through the Employee Free Choice Act...

Tribune Set to Name Caretaker Managers Wall Street Journal ...Tribune Co.'s board is preparing to replace Chief Executive Randy Michaels with a four-person caretaker management team to steer the company as it attempts to exit bankruptcy...

French Leader Vows to Punish Violent Protesters New York Times ...Sarkozy warned on Thursday that “troublemakers” using violence in the protests against his proposed pension changes would be pursued and punished...