Boston’s parking attendants unionizing Boston Globe ...Now, Teamsters Local 25 is working to organize the roughly 1,600 parking workers in Greater Boston, aiming to improve their working conditions and increase union membership...
Centerplate and Teamsters Reach Agreement for Employees at AT&T Park, Other SF Venues: New Pressure on Local 2 UNITE HERE to Bargain in Good Faith San Francisco Sentinel ...Centerplate, one of the largest hospitality and concession companies in North America, and San Francisco’s Teamsters Local 853 recently announced the ratification of a collective bargaining agreement for 200 retail and food service employees working at AT&T Park, Candlestick, and the Cow Palace...
Teamsters Union Accuses Dart Caring More About Protecting Inmates Than Officer Safety CBS Chicago ...One of the nation’s largest local unions is berating Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart in a full page ad in the Chicago Sun Times on Sunday...
Trade
US rules out TPP trade deal at APEC meeting Middle East North America Financial Network ...There will be no "major announcement" on a Washington-backed Asia-Pacific free trade deal during a meeting of leaders from the region in Beijing this week, US Trade Representative Michael Froman said yesterday...
State Battles
Scott Walker victory opens doors for a new wave of conservative bills — and a presidential run Wisconsin State Journal ...Walker says he hopes to fast-track the state budget process, expand the taxpayer-funded school voucher program, require drug tests for those seeking food stamps and unemployment benefits, and continue income and property tax cuts...
Link Shows How Lobby Firm Cultivates Influence New York Times ...Attorney General Pam Bondi of Florida, after taking a free ride on a chartered jet last year to a resort island far from her home state, made an unusual offer to one of the corporate lawyers from Washington who helped foot the bill: an invitation to stay at her Tampa home while recuperating from surgery...
War on Workers
October's Payroll Gains Are Primarily in Low Paying Jobs Economic Populist ... The job gains this month sound great until one realizes 52,000 of those jobs were in notoriously low paying Leisure and Hospitality and yet another 27,100 of those jobs were in loaded with low paying jobs retail trade sector...
Household Wealth Falls Considerably for Majority of Americans Center for Economic and Policy Research ...The net wealth for the middle quintile (ages 35-44) of mid-career workers averaged $50,100, less than half the net wealth of the same quintile ($103,800) in 1989...
The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare Rolling Stone ...Back in 2006, as a deal manager at the gigantic bank, Fleischmann first witnessed, then tried to stop, what she describes as "massive criminal securities fraud" in the bank's mortgage operations...
Dark Money Helped Win the Senate (opinion) New York Times ...The next Senate was just elected on the greatest wave of secret, special-interest money ever raised in a congressional election...
EMTA worker dies days after being hurt on the job Go Erie ...Erie County Deputy Coroner Dennis Suscheck said Jacob Schwab died at 4:34 a.m. Sunday at UPMC Hamot. Schwab was hurt Tuesday while repairing a bus when something in his work area exploded and struck him in the head...
Oil worker injured in rig fire dies KSAT.com ...A rig worker burned in an oil well fire two weeks ago has died...
Miscellaneous
Republicans Are Only Sometimes the Party of Uber New York Times ...On Monday, R Street and Engine, a group advocating policies that support start-ups, will release a report card rating the 50 largest cities on their friendliness to ride sharing. The eight cities receiving failing grades include ones in blue areas (Philadelphia and Portland, Ore.) and red ones (Omaha, Phoenix and San Antonio)...
