Thursday, January 6, 2011

Today's Teamster News 1.6.11

Sanitationmen tell their side of Christmas blizzard  (Local 831)  New York Daily News  ..."We were short 400 men and we had crappy equipment"...
IPhone -Eye Phone Group, Zing Launch iTRUCKit Delivery Assistant  (Local 804)  TMCnet     ...In collaboration with UPS package delivery drivers...Eye Phone Group together with Zing launched a new delivery assistant iPhone  application called iTRUCKit (which) allows simplified recording of day-to-day activity along with enhanced tracking...
At brewery, cost-cutting was the priority  The Virginia Gazette  ...Around 50 layoffs were anticipated at the brewery as more local cuts were imposed by InBev...
Las Vegas Convention Business Up From Last Year  8NewsNow  ...The convention center's recovering business is giving local workers some job security...
Fedex Adds China-India Air-Cargo Flights on `Dramatic' Growth  Bloomberg News  ...The company expects “dramatic growth in trade” between China and India...
Canadian oilsands pipeline 'crucial' to American economy: U.S. oil industry  The Vancouver Sun   ...American Petroleum Institute president Jack Gerard hailed Calgary-based TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline as vital to the recovery of the nation's economy...
Port of Seattle says emissions enforcement going smoothly  Land Line Magazine   ...the first few days of enforcement of the port’s new Clean Truck Program have resulted in few delays...
China to open Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail in June-Xinhua  Reuters   ...The ...819-mile... railway, which has cost ...$33.45 billion ...began construction in April 2008 and was originally planned to open in 2012...