Teamster News
Memo: Teamsters urge 'no' vote on YRC compensation package Kansas City Business Journal ...Leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are asking YRC shareholders to vote against a number of proposals concerning executive compensation at YRC Worldwide Inc...
Mayor Tom Coyne Seeks Cut In Brook Park's Workforce Cleveland.com ...Mayor Tom Coyne is trying to cut his staff's size and pay. Council has given him mixed support, approving a pay freeze on April 15 for non-union workers but rejecting a pact demoting several supervisors represented by the Teamsters...
Trade
Free Trade On Steroids: The Threat Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership Los Angeles Times ...Many supporters of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, trade agreement are arguing that its fate rests on President Obama's bilateral talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan this week...
State Battles
Wisconsin Bargaining Law Doesn't Breach Unions' Constitutional Rights, Court Affirms Bloomberg BNA ...A controversial law enacted in 2011 that provides that most public employee unions can bargain with state and local government employers over base wages only and eliminates payroll deductions for union dues doesn't violate the unions' First Amendment or 14th Amendment rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled April 18...
How The Koch Brothers' Greenback Influences Green Jobs, Clean Energy Debate Bangor Daily News ...Just last month the Maine Heritage Policy Center and the Beacon Hill Institute, housed at Suffolk University in Boston, released a new study attacking Maine's efforts to promote public health and mitigate climate change...
ALEC And The Koch Brothers Fight Solar Energy With Surcharges Digital Journal ...Citizens across the United States are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal governments are unwilling to do by installing solar panels...
UAW Withdraws Objections To Chattanooga VW Vote Nashville Business Journal ...The National Labor Relations Board was to hold its hearing today on February's unionization vote at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant, but the UAW has instead withdrawn its objections...
War On Workers
Who Are the Koch Brothers and What Do They Want? Huffington Post ...For the Koch brothers, spending more than Obama and Romney combined would be a drop in their bucket. They would hardly miss the few billion dollars...
For Many Americans, 'Temp' Work Becomes Permanent Way Of Life NBC News ...For Americans who can't find jobs, the booming demand for temp workers has been a path out of unemployment, but now many fear it's a dead-end route...
Union Target: For-Profits Inside Higher Ed ...A relatively small group of New York City teachers' announcement that they'd received a collective bargaining agreement with their school might have gone unnoticed last week, but for one significant detail: their employer is Kaplan, Inc, a major player in for-profit higher education...
The Decline Of Labor Unions And The Rise Of The Minimum Wage Seattle Times ...In February, a bitterly divided local Machinists union at Boeing, narrowly voted to accept the company's contract extension to build the 777X airplanes...
NCAA Faces Change, Legal Challenges In Months Ahead CNN ...When training camps for big-time college football teams open in August, behemoth linemen and other players will get their first taste of how much food Division I schools can provide their athletes. In short, as much as they want...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Today's Teamster News 04.15.14
Teamster News
Teamsters say Rite Aid dishonest West Virginia Metro News ...Teamsters Local 175 said Monday it is developing a strategy in response to Rite Aid’s announcement that it will close its longtime distribution center in Poca within two years eliminating 230 jobs...
Teamsters complain prison bonus plan is a popularity contest The Current ...The union representing correctional officers in Florida prisons is protesting the $600 bonus plan for rewarding top-performing state employees, claiming that thousands of guards whose work was not evaluated by supervisors will be shut out through no fault of their own...
NY Teamsters ratify historic 5-year contract with Phoenix/Lobo Beverages TeamsterNation ...Here's great news from our brothers at Teamsters Local 812: They ratified a terrific contract that solidifies job security, pay increases, pension and medical protection...
Pasco County Florida Employees Ratify Teamster Contract teamster.org ...Pasco County employees have ratified their first Teamster contract, ushering in strong on-the-job representation for more than 1,100 public sector workers across the county...
Carriages Belong in Central Park (opinion by Liam Neeson) New York Times ...It has been my experience, always, that horses, much like humans, are at their happiest and healthiest when working. Horses have been pulling from the beginning of time. It is what they have been bred to do...
Oxford County To Offer Deputies Contract Deal Oxford Hills Sun Journal ...Oxford County Commissioners are expected to present a contract to the labor union representing sheriff's deputies in a negotiation session planned for later this month...
BLET Fighting to Protect Worker, Public Safety in Rulemaking BLET ...From the day FRA placed crew size before its Railroad Safety Advisory Committee, the railroads have attempted to hold the issue hostage to the implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC) technology, a stance that was publicly confirmed by the Association of American Railroads earlier this week...
Trade
Are The Administration's Claims Of Progress On Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations In Japan Credible? EconoMonitor ...As readers may know, the mislabeled trade deal known as the Trans Pacific Partnership hasn't looked like it has great odds of being consummated. The WikiLeaks publication of two important draft chapters show considerable opposition...
State Battles
Missouri House Expected To Try Again To Collect Enough "Right To Work" Votes St. Louis Public Radio ...The Missouri House could vote as soon as Tuesday on a renewed attempt to garner enough votes to send to the state Senate a measure to put a “right to work” proposal on the August ballot...
Unions Attack Right-To-Work Workplace Choice ...The battle over right-to-work is heating up in Missouri, as proponents and opponents pour on the rhetoric. Advocates argue that right-to-work, approved by the Missouri House on Wednesday, would enhance individual freedom by giving workers the option to choose whether or not they become part of a union...
War on Workers
Labor Commissioner Cracks Down On Wage Theft; Orders Reparations To Maids Fired For Cooperating In Wage Theft Investigation Digital Journal ...California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su fined San Carles-based Sunflowers Maid Service for $394,944 in unpaid wages and premiums to be paid back to affected workers, plus civil penalties...
Social Security stops trying to collect on old debts by seizing tax refunds Washington Post ...In many cases, the people whose refunds were intercepted had never heard of any debt, and the debts dated as far back as the middle of the past century...
In Many Cities, Rent Is Rising Out of Reach of Middle Class New York Times ...An analysis for The New York Times by Zillow, the real estate website, found 90 cities where the median rent — not including utilities — was more than 30 percent of the median gross income...
The Hedge Fund Managers Tax Break: Because Wall Streeters Want Your Money truthout ...or all the sneaky and squirrelly ways that the rich use to escape their tax liability, none can beat the hedge fund managers' tax break...
Primer On Who Subverted The NLRB Election At Volkswagon The Hill ...On Wednesday, the UAW subpoenaed Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Tennessee Gov./Bill Haslam (R) and 18 other state officials to appear at the NRLB hearing into third party intervention in the union election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga...
Miscellaneous
Kain Colter's Unionization Effort Fueled By Compassion, Common Sense (opinion) The Washington Post ...Kain ...Colter spoke about ensuring that the next generation of athletes diagnosed with concussions and other medical ailments, suffered while giving their bodies to old State U., would be taken care of after they graduate...
Teamsters say Rite Aid dishonest West Virginia Metro News ...Teamsters Local 175 said Monday it is developing a strategy in response to Rite Aid’s announcement that it will close its longtime distribution center in Poca within two years eliminating 230 jobs...
Teamsters complain prison bonus plan is a popularity contest The Current ...The union representing correctional officers in Florida prisons is protesting the $600 bonus plan for rewarding top-performing state employees, claiming that thousands of guards whose work was not evaluated by supervisors will be shut out through no fault of their own...
NY Teamsters ratify historic 5-year contract with Phoenix/Lobo Beverages TeamsterNation ...Here's great news from our brothers at Teamsters Local 812: They ratified a terrific contract that solidifies job security, pay increases, pension and medical protection...
Pasco County Florida Employees Ratify Teamster Contract teamster.org ...Pasco County employees have ratified their first Teamster contract, ushering in strong on-the-job representation for more than 1,100 public sector workers across the county...
Carriages Belong in Central Park (opinion by Liam Neeson) New York Times ...It has been my experience, always, that horses, much like humans, are at their happiest and healthiest when working. Horses have been pulling from the beginning of time. It is what they have been bred to do...
Oxford County To Offer Deputies Contract Deal Oxford Hills Sun Journal ...Oxford County Commissioners are expected to present a contract to the labor union representing sheriff's deputies in a negotiation session planned for later this month...
BLET Fighting to Protect Worker, Public Safety in Rulemaking BLET ...From the day FRA placed crew size before its Railroad Safety Advisory Committee, the railroads have attempted to hold the issue hostage to the implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC) technology, a stance that was publicly confirmed by the Association of American Railroads earlier this week...
Trade
Are The Administration's Claims Of Progress On Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations In Japan Credible? EconoMonitor ...As readers may know, the mislabeled trade deal known as the Trans Pacific Partnership hasn't looked like it has great odds of being consummated. The WikiLeaks publication of two important draft chapters show considerable opposition...
State Battles
Missouri House Expected To Try Again To Collect Enough "Right To Work" Votes St. Louis Public Radio ...The Missouri House could vote as soon as Tuesday on a renewed attempt to garner enough votes to send to the state Senate a measure to put a “right to work” proposal on the August ballot...
Unions Attack Right-To-Work Workplace Choice ...The battle over right-to-work is heating up in Missouri, as proponents and opponents pour on the rhetoric. Advocates argue that right-to-work, approved by the Missouri House on Wednesday, would enhance individual freedom by giving workers the option to choose whether or not they become part of a union...
War on Workers
Labor Commissioner Cracks Down On Wage Theft; Orders Reparations To Maids Fired For Cooperating In Wage Theft Investigation Digital Journal ...California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su fined San Carles-based Sunflowers Maid Service for $394,944 in unpaid wages and premiums to be paid back to affected workers, plus civil penalties...
Social Security stops trying to collect on old debts by seizing tax refunds Washington Post ...In many cases, the people whose refunds were intercepted had never heard of any debt, and the debts dated as far back as the middle of the past century...
In Many Cities, Rent Is Rising Out of Reach of Middle Class New York Times ...An analysis for The New York Times by Zillow, the real estate website, found 90 cities where the median rent — not including utilities — was more than 30 percent of the median gross income...
The Hedge Fund Managers Tax Break: Because Wall Streeters Want Your Money truthout ...or all the sneaky and squirrelly ways that the rich use to escape their tax liability, none can beat the hedge fund managers' tax break...
Primer On Who Subverted The NLRB Election At Volkswagon The Hill ...On Wednesday, the UAW subpoenaed Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Tennessee Gov./Bill Haslam (R) and 18 other state officials to appear at the NRLB hearing into third party intervention in the union election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga...
Miscellaneous
Kain Colter's Unionization Effort Fueled By Compassion, Common Sense (opinion) The Washington Post ...Kain ...Colter spoke about ensuring that the next generation of athletes diagnosed with concussions and other medical ailments, suffered while giving their bodies to old State U., would be taken care of after they graduate...
Friday, April 11, 2014
Today's Teamster News 04.11.14
Teamster News
After Protests, Teamsters Take Over An Art Fair Crain's New York Business ...After facing protests last year, the Randall's Island Art Fair has agreed to employ Teamsters and theater union members to set up tents and temporary galleries for the show that begins May 9...
Greece School District Teamsters Approve Contract International Brotherhood of Teamsters ...Teamsters Local 118 in Rochester, N.Y. is pleased to announce the ratification of a new four-year agreement with Greece Central School District...
North Las Vegas Teamsters, firefighters OK settlements with struggling city Las Vegas Review-Journal ...officials had settled with half of the city’s union heads for exactly $3.35 million — the settlement figure City Council members offered city Teamsters and firefighters early this month...
Starving Artists Fed Up; Seek To Establish Industry Standards With Teamsters Local 705 Digital Journal ...Teamsters and artists may seem like an unlikely combination, but professional artists at Chicago's Mana Terry Dowd fine art packers and movers are organizing in an effort to establish income and benefit standards in their profession...
Polk Township Road Crew Workers Ratify Teamster Contract Gnomes ...Road crew workers employed by Polk Township, PA have recently voted for their first Teamster contract and to be represented by Teamsters Local 773 in Allentown...
Trade
H&M calls for faster factory inspections in Bangladesh Reuters ...Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), the world's second-biggest fashion retailer, said on Thursday Bangladesh needed to speed up inspections of its garment industry, almost a year after the collapse of a factory that killed more than 1,100 people...
U.S. Claims Country Building Its Own Network to Protect Against NSA Spying Violates Trade Laws Washington's Blog ...The U.S. is trying to not only protect U.S. businesses, but also keep the NSA’s hand in the cookie jar by arguing (wait for it…) that closing borders to the NSA would violate trade law...
State Battles
Corker, Haslam Subpoenaed By UAW For Volkswagon Appeal Talking Points Memo ...The United Auto Workers on Wednesday subpoenaed Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R), along with 18 other officials, for the union's challenge of the Chattanooga, Tenn. Volkswagon plant workers' vote to reject unionization, the Associated Press reported...
New Rule Prohibits Voters In Miami-Dade County From Using The Restroom, No Matter How Long The Line ThinkProgress ...Earlier this year, the Miami-Dade County Elections Department quietly implemented a policy to close the bathrooms at all polling facilities...
War on Workers
Getting Walmart Workers Off Food Stamps Would Cost Customers Barely Anything Huffington Post ...Would you be willing to spend one penny more for a box of macaroni and cheese if it meant that Walmart workers would no longer need food stamps to survive? Because that's all it would cost, according to an analysis by American Public Media’s Marketplace...
Koch Brothers Received Millions In Obamacare Subsidies ThinkProgress ...Charles and David Koch may have spent millions of dollars opposing President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, but that didn’t stop them from benefiting from the law to the tune of $1.4 million in subsidies...
Billionaires Score Big Win With McCutcheon Decision Truthout ...The Supreme Court’s McCutcheon ruling dealt another 5-4 body blow to our democracy...
The NCAA Makes Billions and Student Athletes Get None of It StudentNation ...Despite devoting forty to sixty hours per week to their sport most of the year, Division I football players lack basic economic rights under the NCAA’s cartel restrictions...
Do You Know Where Your Government Uniform Was Made? The Nation ...Despite some laudatory local and state efforts, taxpayer dollars are still being used to purchase clothes made in sweatshops...
The Worst Cash Rip-Off Since Bank Fees? Behold an Infuriating New Scheme to Sap Your Money AlterNet ...If prepaid debit cards sound too good to be true, it's because they're a scam. Here's the hidden truth behind them...
Family Dollar to cut jobs, shut 370 stores as sales fall Reuters ...The discount retailer, which caters to lower income shoppers--many of whom live from paycheck to paycheck, said it would it would cut jobs, shut hundreds of underperforming stores and slash prices...
Uninsured Greek patients with contagious diseases are being left untreated, voluntary health clinic warns EnetEnglish ...One health clinic in Greece warned that uninsured patients have contagious and serious diseases but are left untreated due to austerity...
Miscellaneous
Senator Durbin Asks For IG Investigation into Federal Agency's Oversight of Trucking Companies With a History of Violations eNews Park Forest ...U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) asked the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Inspector General (IG) to audit the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s investigative practices after a report that the FMCSA ordered, but never actually launched, an investigation into an Illinois motor carrier with a long history of violating safety rules...
After Protests, Teamsters Take Over An Art Fair Crain's New York Business ...After facing protests last year, the Randall's Island Art Fair has agreed to employ Teamsters and theater union members to set up tents and temporary galleries for the show that begins May 9...
Greece School District Teamsters Approve Contract International Brotherhood of Teamsters ...Teamsters Local 118 in Rochester, N.Y. is pleased to announce the ratification of a new four-year agreement with Greece Central School District...
North Las Vegas Teamsters, firefighters OK settlements with struggling city Las Vegas Review-Journal ...officials had settled with half of the city’s union heads for exactly $3.35 million — the settlement figure City Council members offered city Teamsters and firefighters early this month...
Starving Artists Fed Up; Seek To Establish Industry Standards With Teamsters Local 705 Digital Journal ...Teamsters and artists may seem like an unlikely combination, but professional artists at Chicago's Mana Terry Dowd fine art packers and movers are organizing in an effort to establish income and benefit standards in their profession...
Polk Township Road Crew Workers Ratify Teamster Contract Gnomes ...Road crew workers employed by Polk Township, PA have recently voted for their first Teamster contract and to be represented by Teamsters Local 773 in Allentown...
Trade
H&M calls for faster factory inspections in Bangladesh Reuters ...Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), the world's second-biggest fashion retailer, said on Thursday Bangladesh needed to speed up inspections of its garment industry, almost a year after the collapse of a factory that killed more than 1,100 people...
U.S. Claims Country Building Its Own Network to Protect Against NSA Spying Violates Trade Laws Washington's Blog ...The U.S. is trying to not only protect U.S. businesses, but also keep the NSA’s hand in the cookie jar by arguing (wait for it…) that closing borders to the NSA would violate trade law...
State Battles
Corker, Haslam Subpoenaed By UAW For Volkswagon Appeal Talking Points Memo ...The United Auto Workers on Wednesday subpoenaed Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R), along with 18 other officials, for the union's challenge of the Chattanooga, Tenn. Volkswagon plant workers' vote to reject unionization, the Associated Press reported...
New Rule Prohibits Voters In Miami-Dade County From Using The Restroom, No Matter How Long The Line ThinkProgress ...Earlier this year, the Miami-Dade County Elections Department quietly implemented a policy to close the bathrooms at all polling facilities...
War on Workers
Getting Walmart Workers Off Food Stamps Would Cost Customers Barely Anything Huffington Post ...Would you be willing to spend one penny more for a box of macaroni and cheese if it meant that Walmart workers would no longer need food stamps to survive? Because that's all it would cost, according to an analysis by American Public Media’s Marketplace...
Koch Brothers Received Millions In Obamacare Subsidies ThinkProgress ...Charles and David Koch may have spent millions of dollars opposing President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, but that didn’t stop them from benefiting from the law to the tune of $1.4 million in subsidies...
Billionaires Score Big Win With McCutcheon Decision Truthout ...The Supreme Court’s McCutcheon ruling dealt another 5-4 body blow to our democracy...
The NCAA Makes Billions and Student Athletes Get None of It StudentNation ...Despite devoting forty to sixty hours per week to their sport most of the year, Division I football players lack basic economic rights under the NCAA’s cartel restrictions...
Do You Know Where Your Government Uniform Was Made? The Nation ...Despite some laudatory local and state efforts, taxpayer dollars are still being used to purchase clothes made in sweatshops...
The Worst Cash Rip-Off Since Bank Fees? Behold an Infuriating New Scheme to Sap Your Money AlterNet ...If prepaid debit cards sound too good to be true, it's because they're a scam. Here's the hidden truth behind them...
Family Dollar to cut jobs, shut 370 stores as sales fall Reuters ...The discount retailer, which caters to lower income shoppers--many of whom live from paycheck to paycheck, said it would it would cut jobs, shut hundreds of underperforming stores and slash prices...
Uninsured Greek patients with contagious diseases are being left untreated, voluntary health clinic warns EnetEnglish ...One health clinic in Greece warned that uninsured patients have contagious and serious diseases but are left untreated due to austerity...
Miscellaneous
Senator Durbin Asks For IG Investigation into Federal Agency's Oversight of Trucking Companies With a History of Violations eNews Park Forest ...U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) asked the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Inspector General (IG) to audit the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s investigative practices after a report that the FMCSA ordered, but never actually launched, an investigation into an Illinois motor carrier with a long history of violating safety rules...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Today's Teamster News 04.09.13
Teamster News
Teamsters seek "pay parity" raises for prison staff The Florida Current ...Dozens of correctional officers converged on Florida's capitol Tuesday to lobby legislators for a pay raise, saying their jobs guarding convicted felons are just as dangerous as those of the cops who put them there...
Hoffa: So-Called Right to Work Is Still Wrong for Workers Huffington Post ...ALEC and the Koch Brothers falsely preach that right to work (for less) gives workers more freedom. But all it guarantees is that hard-working Americans will work more for less if states continue to approve such bad laws...
Trade
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is Terrible For Public Health Huffington Post ...Fifteen years ago, basic AIDS drugs cost more than $10,000 per person, per year. Many of the people who needed them the most, especially those living in poor countries, couldn't pay...
Japan, Australia Trade Agreement Could Make TPP Completion Harder Farm Futures ...Australia and Japan have completed negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement that at least one U.S. Ag group says will have implications on agricultural trade and the ongoing discussions surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
State Battles
Missouri doesn’t need divisive ‘right-to-work’ law (opinion) Kansas City Star ...Apart from the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, there is no hue and cry for right-to-work in Missouri. Nor is there valid evidence that union-busting tactics bring more jobs to states...
Outside Special Interests Lean on MO Legislators to Push ALEC’s Anti-Worker Agenda PR Watch ... Grover Norquist tweeted that the Missouri House would vote on and pass Right to Work, as if he had a crystal ball -- or more likely -- a hotline to the Speaker….Just a few months ago, Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform (acting under the absurd name "Center for Worker Freedom") was the leading group trying to stop workers at Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga...
Deal voted down in Rhode Island pension overhaul Associated Press ...A proposed settlement that would end the legal fight over Rhode Island’s 2011 landmark pension overhaul, which has been a model for other states looking to rein in runaway pension costs, was rejected by one of the groups voting on it, officials announced Monday. The parties were ordered back into mediation...
VW considering tossing election results and accepting UAW union, group says Chattanooga Times Free Press ...An anti-union group said today that Volkswagen is considering disregarding the February election results over United Auto Workers representation at the Chattanooga plant and accepting authorization cards the union claims to have collected last year...
UConn Basketball Player Speaks Of 'Hungry Nights,' Going To Bed 'Starving' Huffington Post ...His on-court skills have generated a lot of money, but University of Connecticut basketball player Shabazz Napier says there are nights he can't afford food...
War on Workers
SEC Goldman Lawyer Says Agency Too Timid on Wall Street Misdeeds Bloomberg ...A trial attorney from the Securities and Exchange Commission said his bosses were too “tentative and fearful” to bring many Wall Street leaders to heel after the 2008 credit crisis, echoing the regulator’s outside critics...
Rich people rule! Washington Post ...“economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence...”
If 97% Percent of Americans Sold Everything They Owned and Spent It on Congressional Elections, They Still Couldn't Max Out AlterNet ...Learn the scary new math of political fundraising...
Mike Lofgren: Can't We Just Say the Roberts Court Is Corrupt? Truthout ...Even in the absence of what Justice Roberts narrowly defines as "quid pro quo corruption," a court that consistently decides all relevant cases on behalf of corporate interests - most recently McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission - undermines its own legitimacy as well as the Constitution...
Miscellaneous
Citigroup To Pay $1.13 Billion Over Sketchy Mortgage Practices Associated Press ...Citigroup has agreed to pay $1.13 billion to settle claims by investors seeking that the lender buy back billions in residential mortgage-backed securities...
USDA estimates that 31% of the food supply is lost and uneaten US Food Policy ...In the United States, 31 percent—or 133 billion pounds—of the 430 billion pounds of the available food supply at the retail and consumer levels in 2010 went uneaten...
Teamsters seek "pay parity" raises for prison staff The Florida Current ...Dozens of correctional officers converged on Florida's capitol Tuesday to lobby legislators for a pay raise, saying their jobs guarding convicted felons are just as dangerous as those of the cops who put them there...
Hoffa: So-Called Right to Work Is Still Wrong for Workers Huffington Post ...ALEC and the Koch Brothers falsely preach that right to work (for less) gives workers more freedom. But all it guarantees is that hard-working Americans will work more for less if states continue to approve such bad laws...
Trade
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is Terrible For Public Health Huffington Post ...Fifteen years ago, basic AIDS drugs cost more than $10,000 per person, per year. Many of the people who needed them the most, especially those living in poor countries, couldn't pay...
Japan, Australia Trade Agreement Could Make TPP Completion Harder Farm Futures ...Australia and Japan have completed negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement that at least one U.S. Ag group says will have implications on agricultural trade and the ongoing discussions surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
State Battles
Missouri doesn’t need divisive ‘right-to-work’ law (opinion) Kansas City Star ...Apart from the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, there is no hue and cry for right-to-work in Missouri. Nor is there valid evidence that union-busting tactics bring more jobs to states...
Outside Special Interests Lean on MO Legislators to Push ALEC’s Anti-Worker Agenda PR Watch ... Grover Norquist tweeted that the Missouri House would vote on and pass Right to Work, as if he had a crystal ball -- or more likely -- a hotline to the Speaker….Just a few months ago, Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform (acting under the absurd name "Center for Worker Freedom") was the leading group trying to stop workers at Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga...
Deal voted down in Rhode Island pension overhaul Associated Press ...A proposed settlement that would end the legal fight over Rhode Island’s 2011 landmark pension overhaul, which has been a model for other states looking to rein in runaway pension costs, was rejected by one of the groups voting on it, officials announced Monday. The parties were ordered back into mediation...
VW considering tossing election results and accepting UAW union, group says Chattanooga Times Free Press ...An anti-union group said today that Volkswagen is considering disregarding the February election results over United Auto Workers representation at the Chattanooga plant and accepting authorization cards the union claims to have collected last year...
UConn Basketball Player Speaks Of 'Hungry Nights,' Going To Bed 'Starving' Huffington Post ...His on-court skills have generated a lot of money, but University of Connecticut basketball player Shabazz Napier says there are nights he can't afford food...
War on Workers
SEC Goldman Lawyer Says Agency Too Timid on Wall Street Misdeeds Bloomberg ...A trial attorney from the Securities and Exchange Commission said his bosses were too “tentative and fearful” to bring many Wall Street leaders to heel after the 2008 credit crisis, echoing the regulator’s outside critics...
Rich people rule! Washington Post ...“economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence...”
If 97% Percent of Americans Sold Everything They Owned and Spent It on Congressional Elections, They Still Couldn't Max Out AlterNet ...Learn the scary new math of political fundraising...
Mike Lofgren: Can't We Just Say the Roberts Court Is Corrupt? Truthout ...Even in the absence of what Justice Roberts narrowly defines as "quid pro quo corruption," a court that consistently decides all relevant cases on behalf of corporate interests - most recently McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission - undermines its own legitimacy as well as the Constitution...
Miscellaneous
Citigroup To Pay $1.13 Billion Over Sketchy Mortgage Practices Associated Press ...Citigroup has agreed to pay $1.13 billion to settle claims by investors seeking that the lender buy back billions in residential mortgage-backed securities...
USDA estimates that 31% of the food supply is lost and uneaten US Food Policy ...In the United States, 31 percent—or 133 billion pounds—of the 430 billion pounds of the available food supply at the retail and consumer levels in 2010 went uneaten...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Today's Teamster News 04.08.2014
Teamster News
Teamsters seek contract at Corona food warehouse Press-Enterprise ...Union leaders in Southern California are asking U.S. Foods, the second-largest food supplier in the country and the subject of a huge proposed merger deal, to begin contract negotiations with workers at a Corona distribution center...
Trade
What The Heck Is The Trans-Pacific Partnership And Why Should I Be Concerned? Consumerist ...It's 2014, and we're living in an increasingly globalized economy. International trade has been ramping up for centuries and a carefully plotted web of agreements keeps goods, services and money moving around the world...
Colombia's Anti-Union Violence Remains Rampant after Three Years of the FTA-Enabling Labor Action Plan Public Citizen ... 73 Colombian unionists have been murdered, according to a report released today by Colombia’s National Union School, a group recognized by the LAP as an authoritative source of monitoring data. There were more four more unionist murders in 2013 than in 2012...
Congress needs to act on China’s unfair trade practices Indianapolis Star ...America ran a $456 billion trade deficit in 2013, $318 billion of which came from trade with China alone. This doesn’t happen naturally. China illegally subsidizes for its state-run businesses to encourage these deficits. And it manipulates its currency to make its goods cheaper and competing American goods more expensive...
U.S. Expresses Support For Taiwan's TPP Bid Radio Taiwan International ...Taiwan's foreign ministry says the United States has openly expressed its support for Taiwan's bid to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
State Battles
More Lawmakers Pushing Identical Bills Written By National Groups AZ Central ...Arizona lawmakers introduced six bills this session seeking a U.S. Constitutional Amendment to impose new fiscal restraints on the federal government...
Exploited Temp Workers May Finally Get Some Relief Salon ...California could become one of the first states in the nation to hold companies legally responsible for wage and safety violations by their subcontractors and temp agencies if a bill proposed Friday becomes law...
War on Workers
More Than 20 Striking Students Arrested, Belying University of California’s Era of ‘Labor Peace’ In These Times ...The work stoppage, staged in protest of past alleged attempts by UC to intimidate graduate workers for labor organizing, was quickly met with what workers say was a further attempt at intimidation: The arrest of 20 students at UC Santa Cruz who were picketing early Wednesday morning...
Paid-For Legislature Takes Teacher Tenure From Thousands In Kansas firedoglake ...Weekend, overnight exploits by purchased ideologues and rank amateurs in the Kansas State legislature stripped KS public school teachers of due process rights...
I Looked Up The Fastest-Growing Jobs In America, And Boy Was It Depressing Business Insider ...secretaries, food workers, and caretakers. The median salary for the fastest-growing raw-numbers occupations, shown in the table below, is $30,000...
Hot Air Hisses Out Of Housing Bubble 2.0: Even Two Middle-Class Incomes Aren’t Enough Anymore To Buy A Median Home Testosterone Pit ...in 40 large cities, only 10% of the homes are affordable on one median salary … and … “just 41% of homes currently for sale across 40 US cities are affordable for a family earning two median incomes…”
The Money Against The Minimum Wage Open Secrets ...The minimum wage debate is back on Capitol Hill, and the usual suspects -- trade groups in industries that hire a lot of low-wage workers …have laid out huge amounts of money … giving more than $5.5 million to Congress over the past two election cycles and spending more than $91 million on lobbying just last year...
If the New York Stock Exchange is a “High-Frequency Brothel” then the SEC is its Pimp Wall Street on Parade ...Not only are the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq allowing high frequency traders to co-locate their computers next to the main computers of the exchanges to gain a speed advantage over other customers at a monthly cost that only the very rich can afford to pay but they’re now tacking on infrastructure charges that price everyone out of efficient use of the exchanges except the very top tier of trading firms...
All Work And No Pay Moyers & Company ...You've heard about the wave of recent protests calling on fast food chains like McDonald's and Burger King to raise wages for their employees, who are forced to live on next to nothing. But did you know that many workers in sit-down restaurants may be faring even worse?...
Corker Must Come Clean On The Volkswagon Union Election The Hill ...Sen. Bob Corker's problems concerning his intrusion in February's union election at Volkswagon in Chattanooga just got more serious. Confidential e-mails obtained this week by a Nashville television station...
Labor Secretary Will "Respect" NLRB Ruling Granting Northwestern Football Players Right To Unionize Des Moines Register ...U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez will respect the decision by the National Labor Relations Board last week that Northwestern football players have the right to unionize, he said at a news conference in Des Moines Saturday...
Miscelleneous
Young People Understand Unions Can Solve Problems U.S. News and World Report ...Last week, the National Labor Relations Board's Chicago Regional Director issued a notable finding: football players at Northwestern University are employees of the university for purposes of federal labor law...
Teamsters seek contract at Corona food warehouse Press-Enterprise ...Union leaders in Southern California are asking U.S. Foods, the second-largest food supplier in the country and the subject of a huge proposed merger deal, to begin contract negotiations with workers at a Corona distribution center...
Trade
What The Heck Is The Trans-Pacific Partnership And Why Should I Be Concerned? Consumerist ...It's 2014, and we're living in an increasingly globalized economy. International trade has been ramping up for centuries and a carefully plotted web of agreements keeps goods, services and money moving around the world...
Colombia's Anti-Union Violence Remains Rampant after Three Years of the FTA-Enabling Labor Action Plan Public Citizen ... 73 Colombian unionists have been murdered, according to a report released today by Colombia’s National Union School, a group recognized by the LAP as an authoritative source of monitoring data. There were more four more unionist murders in 2013 than in 2012...
Congress needs to act on China’s unfair trade practices Indianapolis Star ...America ran a $456 billion trade deficit in 2013, $318 billion of which came from trade with China alone. This doesn’t happen naturally. China illegally subsidizes for its state-run businesses to encourage these deficits. And it manipulates its currency to make its goods cheaper and competing American goods more expensive...
U.S. Expresses Support For Taiwan's TPP Bid Radio Taiwan International ...Taiwan's foreign ministry says the United States has openly expressed its support for Taiwan's bid to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
State Battles
More Lawmakers Pushing Identical Bills Written By National Groups AZ Central ...Arizona lawmakers introduced six bills this session seeking a U.S. Constitutional Amendment to impose new fiscal restraints on the federal government...
Exploited Temp Workers May Finally Get Some Relief Salon ...California could become one of the first states in the nation to hold companies legally responsible for wage and safety violations by their subcontractors and temp agencies if a bill proposed Friday becomes law...
War on Workers
More Than 20 Striking Students Arrested, Belying University of California’s Era of ‘Labor Peace’ In These Times ...The work stoppage, staged in protest of past alleged attempts by UC to intimidate graduate workers for labor organizing, was quickly met with what workers say was a further attempt at intimidation: The arrest of 20 students at UC Santa Cruz who were picketing early Wednesday morning...
Paid-For Legislature Takes Teacher Tenure From Thousands In Kansas firedoglake ...Weekend, overnight exploits by purchased ideologues and rank amateurs in the Kansas State legislature stripped KS public school teachers of due process rights...
I Looked Up The Fastest-Growing Jobs In America, And Boy Was It Depressing Business Insider ...secretaries, food workers, and caretakers. The median salary for the fastest-growing raw-numbers occupations, shown in the table below, is $30,000...
Hot Air Hisses Out Of Housing Bubble 2.0: Even Two Middle-Class Incomes Aren’t Enough Anymore To Buy A Median Home Testosterone Pit ...in 40 large cities, only 10% of the homes are affordable on one median salary … and … “just 41% of homes currently for sale across 40 US cities are affordable for a family earning two median incomes…”
The Money Against The Minimum Wage Open Secrets ...The minimum wage debate is back on Capitol Hill, and the usual suspects -- trade groups in industries that hire a lot of low-wage workers …have laid out huge amounts of money … giving more than $5.5 million to Congress over the past two election cycles and spending more than $91 million on lobbying just last year...
If the New York Stock Exchange is a “High-Frequency Brothel” then the SEC is its Pimp Wall Street on Parade ...Not only are the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq allowing high frequency traders to co-locate their computers next to the main computers of the exchanges to gain a speed advantage over other customers at a monthly cost that only the very rich can afford to pay but they’re now tacking on infrastructure charges that price everyone out of efficient use of the exchanges except the very top tier of trading firms...
All Work And No Pay Moyers & Company ...You've heard about the wave of recent protests calling on fast food chains like McDonald's and Burger King to raise wages for their employees, who are forced to live on next to nothing. But did you know that many workers in sit-down restaurants may be faring even worse?...
Corker Must Come Clean On The Volkswagon Union Election The Hill ...Sen. Bob Corker's problems concerning his intrusion in February's union election at Volkswagon in Chattanooga just got more serious. Confidential e-mails obtained this week by a Nashville television station...
Labor Secretary Will "Respect" NLRB Ruling Granting Northwestern Football Players Right To Unionize Des Moines Register ...U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez will respect the decision by the National Labor Relations Board last week that Northwestern football players have the right to unionize, he said at a news conference in Des Moines Saturday...
Miscelleneous
Young People Understand Unions Can Solve Problems U.S. News and World Report ...Last week, the National Labor Relations Board's Chicago Regional Director issued a notable finding: football players at Northwestern University are employees of the university for purposes of federal labor law...
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Today's Teamster News 04.06.14
Trade
Data Debunk for USTR Froman’s Thursday Committee Hearing Public Citizen ...In recent weeks, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman has begun making outlandish claims about past U.S. trade agreements. These claims are not supported by the official U.S. government trade data...
State Battles
Capitol Notes: Is action near on Right to Work? Springfield News-Leader ...The question gripping the (Missouri) capital is if the House will take up Right to Work legislation. ... The evidence suggests they will...
Documents released in open records lawsuit show lobbying group pulling legislators' strings Wisconsin State Journal ...“This demonstrates that ALEC is really a lobbyist-driven organization,” Fischer said. “The lobbyists are the ones calling the shots. The legislators are just following along.”...
Emails Show Sen. Corker’s Chief of Staff Coordinated with Network of Anti-UAW Union Busters In These Times ...Leaked documents obtained by Nashville TV station NewsChannel 5 WVTF reveal communications between the employees of two Tennessee Republicans—Sen. Bob Corker and Gov. Bill Haslam—and a network of prominent anti-union professionals during the United Auto Workers' union drive at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga earlier this year...
The War on Workers
Half A Million People With College Degrees Are Working For Minimum Wage ThinkProgress ...it is more than double the number of four-year degree holders who worked for minimum wage in 2005, underscoring how gradual progress has been since the recession ended. Labor experts attributed the high number of overqualified minimum wage workers to the fact that those are the job categories that have seen the most growth in the sluggish recovery...
Greediest family on earth: Proof Koch brothers have just one political principle Salon ...The Koch brothers like to pretend they're high-minded free marketers. Here's proof it's a scam...
Graduate Students on Strike Jacobin ...grievances ... concern the university’s unwillingness to bargain over key aspects of our employment, including class size and the number of terms (quarters, semesters) students are able to work. Also at issue is the university’s history of illegal intimidation of student workers...
Internet companies' growing ambitions spook 51 percent of Americans: Reuters/Ipsos poll Reuters ...Google and Facebook generally topped lists of Americans' concerns about the ability to track physical locations and monitor spending habits and personal communications
Data Debunk for USTR Froman’s Thursday Committee Hearing Public Citizen ...In recent weeks, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman has begun making outlandish claims about past U.S. trade agreements. These claims are not supported by the official U.S. government trade data...
State Battles
Capitol Notes: Is action near on Right to Work? Springfield News-Leader ...The question gripping the (Missouri) capital is if the House will take up Right to Work legislation. ... The evidence suggests they will...
Documents released in open records lawsuit show lobbying group pulling legislators' strings Wisconsin State Journal ...“This demonstrates that ALEC is really a lobbyist-driven organization,” Fischer said. “The lobbyists are the ones calling the shots. The legislators are just following along.”...
Emails Show Sen. Corker’s Chief of Staff Coordinated with Network of Anti-UAW Union Busters In These Times ...Leaked documents obtained by Nashville TV station NewsChannel 5 WVTF reveal communications between the employees of two Tennessee Republicans—Sen. Bob Corker and Gov. Bill Haslam—and a network of prominent anti-union professionals during the United Auto Workers' union drive at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga earlier this year...
The War on Workers
Half A Million People With College Degrees Are Working For Minimum Wage ThinkProgress ...it is more than double the number of four-year degree holders who worked for minimum wage in 2005, underscoring how gradual progress has been since the recession ended. Labor experts attributed the high number of overqualified minimum wage workers to the fact that those are the job categories that have seen the most growth in the sluggish recovery...
Greediest family on earth: Proof Koch brothers have just one political principle Salon ...The Koch brothers like to pretend they're high-minded free marketers. Here's proof it's a scam...
Graduate Students on Strike Jacobin ...grievances ... concern the university’s unwillingness to bargain over key aspects of our employment, including class size and the number of terms (quarters, semesters) students are able to work. Also at issue is the university’s history of illegal intimidation of student workers...
Internet companies' growing ambitions spook 51 percent of Americans: Reuters/Ipsos poll Reuters ...Google and Facebook generally topped lists of Americans' concerns about the ability to track physical locations and monitor spending habits and personal communications
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Today's Teamster News 04.05.14
Teamster News
Judge Approves $1.25 Million Wage Settlement For Baltimore City School Bus Workers teamster.org ... The settlement covers damages for 372 class members over unpaid wages dating back to 2010...
Teamsters Hail ‘Groundbreaking’ LA-Area Waste Reduction Plan teamster.org ...Teamster leaders are hailing a vote by the Los Angeles City Council this week to overhaul the city’s waste-collection system so that more materials are diverted from landfills, and will give responsible employers a better chance to do the work...
Teamsters Airline Division Statement On Republic Pilots' Vote teamster.org ...pilots of Republic Airlines, represented by Teamsters Local Union 357 in Plainfield, Ind. and the Teamsters Airline Division, voted down a tentative agreement by the count of 289-1,643...
Teamsters Union Members Receive Raise As Ypsilanti Township Reigns In Legacy Costs Ann Arbor News ...Ypsilanti Township approved a 3 percent pay increase for five of its ten Teamsters Union members, but in exchange received significant savings in legacy costs...
Trade
US allows Boeing airplane component sales to Iran BBC News ...The US Treasury has granted plane manufacturer Boeing a licence to export certain spare commercial parts to Iran, a company spokesman says...
Teamsters: House USTR Hearing Raises Warnings of ‘Back To The Future’ With Trade teamster.org ...Unfortunately for working Americans, there is reason to doubt U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman’s outlook on how the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements will affect their ability to support their families in the future...
State Battles
California Truckers Will Get $2.2 Million In Back Pay For Being Misclassified ThinkProgress ...A California logistics company must pay more than $2.2 million in back pay to seven short-haul truck drivers it had illegally misclassified as independent contractors, a state labor board ruled on Wednesday, continuing a streak of victories for drivers who are asserting their labor rights in the state...
MO House Narrowly Approves Bill Dubbed 'Paycheck Deception' By Opponents Crooks and Liars ...The bill, approved 83-69, now goes to the Senate. If they approve it, through a clause, it'll bypass the governor and go up for a referendum on the August ballot...
GOP governor uses taxpayer money to bust unions MSNBC ...There are bombshell revelations about GOP Gov. Bill Haslam’s influence in stopping the UAW from unionizing the Tennessee VW plant...
War on Workers
Hoffa Pushes Back On Labor Attacks At Public Colleges teamster.org ...Watch General President Jim Hoffa on “Real Money” as he takes on Republicans who want to block public universities from offering courses on labor issues...
Walmart Admits: 'Our Profits' Depend on 'Their Poverty' Common Dreams ...Although a notorious recipient of "corporate welfare," Walmart has now admitted that their massive profits also depend on the funding of food stamps and other public assistance programs...
Ruling Spurs Rush for Cash in Both Parties New York Times ...The ruling allows donors to make the maximum contribution to an unlimited number of campaigns, freeing donors from caps that required them to pick and prioritize from among each party’s candidates and national committees...
U.S. Creates 192,000 Jobs In March, Unemployment Rate Holds At 6.7% Associated Press ...The U.S. economy added 192,000 jobs in March, as the unemployment rate remained at 6.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday...
3 reasons to worry about March's jobs report CNN ...Average hourly wages fell in March...
Chicago McDonald's Workers Protest Against Wage Theft Progress Illinois ...As fans filed into the McDonald's All-American Games Wednesday evening, paying as much as $135 for a ticket to watch basketball played by future millionaires, fast food workers stood across the street in hopes of simply being paid what they are owed...
Loss Of Unemployment Benefits Has Now Cost Almost $5 Billion As Congress Dithers ThinkProgress ...The Senate moved one small step closer to passing a restoration of long-term jobless benefits that lapsed in December, costing states billions...
Sure, Bigwigs Want Labor Rights—But Only for Themselves In These Times ...What do Apple, the NCAA and Tennessee Republicans all have in common?...
More Than 20 Striking Students Arrested, Belying University of California’s Era of ‘Labor Peace’ In These Times ...A system-wide strike by graduate assistants at the University of California started with what their union calls an ugly irony. The work stoppage, staged in protest of past alleged attempts by UC to intimidate graduate workers for labor organizing, was quickly met with the arrest of 20 students at UC Santa Cruz who were picketing early Wednesday morning...
Hopkins Hospital Workers Speak Out against "Poverty Wages" The Real News ...The Real News talks to workers at Baltimore's internationally renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital as they prepare for a possible strike in order to obtain a $15 hourly wage...
Miscellaneous
Northwestern Football Union Leaders Take Their Case To Capitol Hill Washington Post ...As Northwestern's football players attempt to unionize, their leaders came to Capitol Hill this week to lobby for the effort and to protect their interests in advance of potential legislative battles...
How the Latest Supreme Court Ruling Will Mint Millions for Mass Media AlterNet ...The same companies which operate on our publicly owned airwaves stand to gain the most from McCutcheon and its earlier obscene counterpart, Citizens United...
Judge Approves $1.25 Million Wage Settlement For Baltimore City School Bus Workers teamster.org ... The settlement covers damages for 372 class members over unpaid wages dating back to 2010...
Teamsters Hail ‘Groundbreaking’ LA-Area Waste Reduction Plan teamster.org ...Teamster leaders are hailing a vote by the Los Angeles City Council this week to overhaul the city’s waste-collection system so that more materials are diverted from landfills, and will give responsible employers a better chance to do the work...
Teamsters Airline Division Statement On Republic Pilots' Vote teamster.org ...pilots of Republic Airlines, represented by Teamsters Local Union 357 in Plainfield, Ind. and the Teamsters Airline Division, voted down a tentative agreement by the count of 289-1,643...
Teamsters Union Members Receive Raise As Ypsilanti Township Reigns In Legacy Costs Ann Arbor News ...Ypsilanti Township approved a 3 percent pay increase for five of its ten Teamsters Union members, but in exchange received significant savings in legacy costs...
Trade
US allows Boeing airplane component sales to Iran BBC News ...The US Treasury has granted plane manufacturer Boeing a licence to export certain spare commercial parts to Iran, a company spokesman says...
Teamsters: House USTR Hearing Raises Warnings of ‘Back To The Future’ With Trade teamster.org ...Unfortunately for working Americans, there is reason to doubt U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman’s outlook on how the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements will affect their ability to support their families in the future...
State Battles
California Truckers Will Get $2.2 Million In Back Pay For Being Misclassified ThinkProgress ...A California logistics company must pay more than $2.2 million in back pay to seven short-haul truck drivers it had illegally misclassified as independent contractors, a state labor board ruled on Wednesday, continuing a streak of victories for drivers who are asserting their labor rights in the state...
MO House Narrowly Approves Bill Dubbed 'Paycheck Deception' By Opponents Crooks and Liars ...The bill, approved 83-69, now goes to the Senate. If they approve it, through a clause, it'll bypass the governor and go up for a referendum on the August ballot...
GOP governor uses taxpayer money to bust unions MSNBC ...There are bombshell revelations about GOP Gov. Bill Haslam’s influence in stopping the UAW from unionizing the Tennessee VW plant...
War on Workers
Hoffa Pushes Back On Labor Attacks At Public Colleges teamster.org ...Watch General President Jim Hoffa on “Real Money” as he takes on Republicans who want to block public universities from offering courses on labor issues...
Walmart Admits: 'Our Profits' Depend on 'Their Poverty' Common Dreams ...Although a notorious recipient of "corporate welfare," Walmart has now admitted that their massive profits also depend on the funding of food stamps and other public assistance programs...
Ruling Spurs Rush for Cash in Both Parties New York Times ...The ruling allows donors to make the maximum contribution to an unlimited number of campaigns, freeing donors from caps that required them to pick and prioritize from among each party’s candidates and national committees...
U.S. Creates 192,000 Jobs In March, Unemployment Rate Holds At 6.7% Associated Press ...The U.S. economy added 192,000 jobs in March, as the unemployment rate remained at 6.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday...
3 reasons to worry about March's jobs report CNN ...Average hourly wages fell in March...
Chicago McDonald's Workers Protest Against Wage Theft Progress Illinois ...As fans filed into the McDonald's All-American Games Wednesday evening, paying as much as $135 for a ticket to watch basketball played by future millionaires, fast food workers stood across the street in hopes of simply being paid what they are owed...
Loss Of Unemployment Benefits Has Now Cost Almost $5 Billion As Congress Dithers ThinkProgress ...The Senate moved one small step closer to passing a restoration of long-term jobless benefits that lapsed in December, costing states billions...
Sure, Bigwigs Want Labor Rights—But Only for Themselves In These Times ...What do Apple, the NCAA and Tennessee Republicans all have in common?...
More Than 20 Striking Students Arrested, Belying University of California’s Era of ‘Labor Peace’ In These Times ...A system-wide strike by graduate assistants at the University of California started with what their union calls an ugly irony. The work stoppage, staged in protest of past alleged attempts by UC to intimidate graduate workers for labor organizing, was quickly met with the arrest of 20 students at UC Santa Cruz who were picketing early Wednesday morning...
Hopkins Hospital Workers Speak Out against "Poverty Wages" The Real News ...The Real News talks to workers at Baltimore's internationally renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital as they prepare for a possible strike in order to obtain a $15 hourly wage...
Miscellaneous
Northwestern Football Union Leaders Take Their Case To Capitol Hill Washington Post ...As Northwestern's football players attempt to unionize, their leaders came to Capitol Hill this week to lobby for the effort and to protect their interests in advance of potential legislative battles...
How the Latest Supreme Court Ruling Will Mint Millions for Mass Media AlterNet ...The same companies which operate on our publicly owned airwaves stand to gain the most from McCutcheon and its earlier obscene counterpart, Citizens United...
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