Rochester Library employees get two-year agreement Foster's Daily Democrat ...The agreement was negotiated by the library trustees and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union representing library employees...
Trade
YES – it really DOES matter that you turn out this Saturday for the International Day of Action against the TPPA! The Daily Blog ...It is a hell of a lot easier to stop the TPPA being concluded than trying to prevent it coming into force after the deal has been signed...
Japan will contribute to early TPP trade deal: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Reuters ...Japan will make efforts to break a deadlock in a proposed Asia-Pacific regional trade deal ahead of a key weekend meeting of trade ministers, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday...
"Trade" Deals Have Little to Do With Trade Center for Economic and Policy Research ...the TTIP and TPP (the two main deals currently being negotiated) will do almost nothing to increase trade and quite possibly could reduce it…Both deals are primarily about imposing a business-friendly regulatory structure on the signatories to the agreements...
State Battles
ALEC Pols Moving Up in 2014 Midterms Center for Media and Democracy ...At least twenty American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) member state legislators and alumni ran for higher office in Tuesday's election, in races from U.S. House and Senate to governor and other executive branch state positions. How did they fare? The short answer is that most won their elections with the support of Koch-tied groups...
Direct Democracy Brings Economic Justice Wins, But Watch Out for ALEC Center for Media and Democracy ...Despite big Republican wins in many states, voters in four states approved minimum wage increases, and voters in three states enacted paid sick day laws on Tuesday, giving a boost to progressive policy initiatives even in conservative parts of the country...
War on Workers
The Democrats' Catastrophe and the Need For a New Agenda (opinion) The American Prospect ...A defeat of this magnitude suggests that the Democrats are in the same fix as most of the center-left parties of Europe—parties that purport to be the economic advocates of the middle and working classes, but preside over abysmal economies with no clear sense of how to make them better...
Newest Oxfam Report: The richest make $500,000-per-minute Economic Populist ...the world’s 85 richest billionaires hold as much wealth as 3.5 billion of humanity’s poorest half...
Luxembourg tax files: how tiny state rubber-stamped tax avoidance on an industrial scale Guardian ...some 340 companies from around the world arranged specially-designed corporate structures with the Luxembourg authorities. The businesses include corporations such as Pepsi, Ikea, Accenture, Burberry, Procter & Gamble, Heinz, JP Morgan and FedEx. Leaked papers relating to the Coach handbag firm, drugs group Abbott Laboratories, Amazon, Deutsche Bank and Australian financial group Macquarie are also included....
Hillshire Brands hit with fine for May death of worker caught, killed in machine Michigan Live ...Hillshire Brands, a meat processing plant north of Zeeland, has been fined $12,600 after a worker died in a May accident. Ricardo Ramos-Burmudez, 49, a married father of three girls, died May 10 when some of his clothing became caught in machinery...
Worker Run Over and Killed by Dump Truck Identified New England Cable News ...Maine State Police have identified a construction worker who was killed when he was run over by a dump truck on the Maine Turnpike in the town of York...
The Democrats' Catastrophe and the Need For a New Agenda (opinion) The American Prospect ...A defeat of this magnitude suggests that the Democrats are in the same fix as most of the center-left parties of Europe—parties that purport to be the economic advocates of the middle and working classes, but preside over abysmal economies with no clear sense of how to make them better...
Newest Oxfam Report: The richest make $500,000-per-minute Economic Populist ...the world’s 85 richest billionaires hold as much wealth as 3.5 billion of humanity’s poorest half...
Luxembourg tax files: how tiny state rubber-stamped tax avoidance on an industrial scale Guardian ...some 340 companies from around the world arranged specially-designed corporate structures with the Luxembourg authorities. The businesses include corporations such as Pepsi, Ikea, Accenture, Burberry, Procter & Gamble, Heinz, JP Morgan and FedEx. Leaked papers relating to the Coach handbag firm, drugs group Abbott Laboratories, Amazon, Deutsche Bank and Australian financial group Macquarie are also included....
Hillshire Brands hit with fine for May death of worker caught, killed in machine Michigan Live ...Hillshire Brands, a meat processing plant north of Zeeland, has been fined $12,600 after a worker died in a May accident. Ricardo Ramos-Burmudez, 49, a married father of three girls, died May 10 when some of his clothing became caught in machinery...
Worker Run Over and Killed by Dump Truck Identified New England Cable News ...Maine State Police have identified a construction worker who was killed when he was run over by a dump truck on the Maine Turnpike in the town of York...
