Saturday, December 10, 2011

Today's Teamster News 12.10.11

Republicans And Business Groups Unable To Find One ‘Job Creator’ Who Opposes A Tax On Millionaires  ThinkProgress   ...Yesterday, Republicans again shot down an extension of a payroll tax break for middle-class families due to their objection to a 1.9 percent tax increase on the top 0.2 percent of income earners...
Europe’s Latest Try  New York Times   ...a pact that binds all members to more austerity in a time of recession is exactly what Europe does not need right now...
The Shriveling Middle Class In California  Testoserone Pit   ...In 1980, 60% of Californians lived in middle-income families. By 2010, only 47.9% did, according to a study by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), a non-partisan research organization...Main culprits: declining incomes and disappearing jobs...
Union Seeks to Dismiss Complaint Against Boeing  Bloomberg News   ...The machinists’ union at Boeing asked the National Labor Relations Board to drop a complaint against the company after union members approved a new four-year contract that increases production in Seattle and averts the risk of a third consecutive strike...
Right-to-Work Fight to Resume in Jefferson City  Ozarks First   ...As the 2012 state legislative session begins to take shape, a familiar labor fight is heading to the floor of the Senate...
New collective agreement for 8,800 Purolator workers  Canadian Labour Reporter   ...Workers will receive a 16 per cent wage increase over five years ...