Saturday, February 4, 2012

Today's Teamster News 02.04.12

Dockery to Senate bosses: Just the prison privatization facts, please  Orlando Sentinel   ...I have seen no convincing evidence that the state’s current private prisons are saving tax dollars...
How to fight Indiana’s “Right to Work” law  Salon   ...To survive after losing the fight in the statehouse, Indiana labor needs to win the fight in a thousand break rooms and living rooms – not just over whether it’s worth paying dues, but whether it’s worth joining the struggle...
Jan Brewer Recall Possible As Arizona Collective Bargaining Has Democrats, Unions Planning Protests  Huffington Post   ...State Democrats and union leaders said that plans are in place to launch Wisconsin-style measures in an effort to block the collective bargaining ban measures currently headed to a vote in the Republican-dominated Senate...
How Scott Walker and ALEC Plotted the Attack on Arizona's Unions  The Nation   ...Two days after Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected Governor John Kasich’s anti-labor agenda by a sixty-one to thirty-nine margin in a statewide referendum, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker jetted to Arizona to launch the next front in the national campaign to attack union rights...
Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama  Huffington Post   ...Charles Koch pledged $40 million and David pledged $20 million...
Teamsters reach agreement with Fieldbrook Foods  Observer   ...Some 350 production and maintenance workers at Fieldbrook Foods in Dunkirk will be working under a new contract ... (that) ...provides significant increases to wages and benefits...