Trade
Ford moves jobs, production from Mexico to America PowerNation ...Ford Motor Co. plans to announce details of a manufacturing shift of medium-duty trucks from Mexico to the United States. Its F-650s and F-750s will be moved to the Ohio Assembly Plant, and the switch is planned to take place in early 2015…
Success Of Fringe Parties In European Parliament Raises New Obstacle To TAFTA/TTIP's Progress TechDirt ...following last week's elections for the European Parliament, a new obstacle to concluding the agreement has been added: an increased number of European politicians (MEPs) that are skeptical about pan-European projects in general, and TAFTA/TTIP...
State Battles
Wall Street Journal hits Scott Walker again on Doe deal-making Milwauke Journal Sentinel ...The Wall Street Journal editorial page has once again spanked Gov. Scott Walker for allegedly contemplating a settlement deal with John Doe prosecutors...
The War on Workers
How the NSA Can Get Onto Your Computer PBS Frontline ...there is a suite of programs, codenamed QUANTUM, which allows the NSA access to a much wider variety of computers...
New Law ‘Facilitates Privatization’ of US Water Systems Mint Press News ...Much of America’s drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs attention, but critics worry that a new funding bill could be a pipeline to government-subsidized privatization...
Fast Food Workers' Movement: Union 2.0? Real News Network ...With the support of America's second largest union SEIU, the fast food workers' $15 wage movement has grown, but is this unorganized workforce of the past shaping up to be the future face of the American organized labor force?...
The problems isn't the VA or Eric Shinseki (opinion) GQ ...thus ends the honorable career of a soldier who was correct about the lies behind the greatest policy disaster of our times, about the essential criminality of the people who launched the invasion of Iraq, but whose primary failures as an administrator were his inability to oversee the people in his department who were directly trying to cope with the flood of casualties that resulted from all of those soldiers that most of official Washington told Eric Shinseki they would never need to create a democratic paradise in Iraq...
SEC Chair Mary Jo White Earns the Wrath of the Media for Refusing to Acknowledge High Frequency Trading Perks as a Crime Wall Street on Parade ...there has been a slow, but steady, realization that the woman President Obama sold to the American people as the white knight who would rein in abuses on Wall Street has failed miserably in that role...
Miscellaneous
It's simple. If we can't change our economic system, our number's up (opinion) Guardian ...It was neither capitalism nor communism that made possible the progress and pathologies (total war, the unprecedented concentration of global wealth, planetary destruction) of the modern age. It was coal, followed by oil and gas...
Not Walking the Walk on Board Diversity New York Times ...is there a penalty if a company reneges on its promise of change? The answer, if you are Skechers USA, the footwear manufacturer, is apparently not…
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Sunday, June 1, 2014
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Today's Teamster News 05.11.14
Teamster News
Employees of local bus company seek to join union Bennington Banner ...Employees of the Green Mountain Express may soon become part of the Teamsters Union...
Trade
TPP Is Another Upward Transfer of Wealth naked capitalism ...As with NAFTA, the TPP will benefit U.S. companies relocating jobs to low-wage, high-repression nations...
U.S. steelmakers ‘under assault’ from dumped imports NWI Times ...Steel dumping poses a real threat to jobs in Northwest Indiana, and policy-makers in Washington need to take heed, industry officials said...
War on Workers
Is the true unemployment rate 23.2%? Trade Reform ...The SGS unemployment rate for April 2014, unfortunately still dependent on government data, is: 23.2% — this being more consistent with the experience of live citizens...
The Rise of the Gig Economy truthout ...Using the BLS definition, which includes independent contractors, temporary workers, on-call workers, and workers provided by contract firms, contingent workers made up over 11% of the labor force in 2005...
Now Trending: Whistleblowers in Low-Wage Jobs Turn to Social Media Jobs With Justice ...This recent step in the right direction comes after years of pressure from OUR Walmart, the association of current and former Walmart employees who have demanded more hours and stable work schedules from the retailer...
401(k)s are retirement robbery: How the Koch brothers, Wall Street and politicians conspire to drain Social Security Salon ... Thirty-five percent of total retirement contributions in the United States are made to Social Security, which puts them beyond the reach of the private market. The more that Social Security can be privatized, the more new profit opportunities the financial services industry will have...
The NSA’s Corporate Collaborators Counterpunch ...”There almost is no division between the private sector and the NSA, or the private sector and the Pentagon, when it comes to the American national security state. They really are essentially one...”
Getting past economic development subsidy hype Angry Bear ...The EU’s state aid rules guarantee transparency, restrict location subsidies to the poorest regions, and cap the amount of subsidy a project can receive based on two principles: 1) The richer the region, the lower the maximum subsidy allowed (with 0 as the maximum in many regions)...
Miscellaneous
Federal Data: Americans keeping vehicles longer since start of recession Washington Post ...the average age of household autos increased from 10.1 years about 11.3 years between 2007 and 2012, while the average household income rose from $63,091 per year to $65,596 during the same period...
Target’s CEO didn’t leave because of a cybersecurity breach Washington Post ... The business model isn't working anymore, and it's going to take a serious overhaul to bring up to speed, when competitors are already far ahead...
Employees of local bus company seek to join union Bennington Banner ...Employees of the Green Mountain Express may soon become part of the Teamsters Union...
Trade
TPP Is Another Upward Transfer of Wealth naked capitalism ...As with NAFTA, the TPP will benefit U.S. companies relocating jobs to low-wage, high-repression nations...
U.S. steelmakers ‘under assault’ from dumped imports NWI Times ...Steel dumping poses a real threat to jobs in Northwest Indiana, and policy-makers in Washington need to take heed, industry officials said...
War on Workers
Is the true unemployment rate 23.2%? Trade Reform ...The SGS unemployment rate for April 2014, unfortunately still dependent on government data, is: 23.2% — this being more consistent with the experience of live citizens...
The Rise of the Gig Economy truthout ...Using the BLS definition, which includes independent contractors, temporary workers, on-call workers, and workers provided by contract firms, contingent workers made up over 11% of the labor force in 2005...
Now Trending: Whistleblowers in Low-Wage Jobs Turn to Social Media Jobs With Justice ...This recent step in the right direction comes after years of pressure from OUR Walmart, the association of current and former Walmart employees who have demanded more hours and stable work schedules from the retailer...
401(k)s are retirement robbery: How the Koch brothers, Wall Street and politicians conspire to drain Social Security Salon ... Thirty-five percent of total retirement contributions in the United States are made to Social Security, which puts them beyond the reach of the private market. The more that Social Security can be privatized, the more new profit opportunities the financial services industry will have...
The NSA’s Corporate Collaborators Counterpunch ...”There almost is no division between the private sector and the NSA, or the private sector and the Pentagon, when it comes to the American national security state. They really are essentially one...”
Getting past economic development subsidy hype Angry Bear ...The EU’s state aid rules guarantee transparency, restrict location subsidies to the poorest regions, and cap the amount of subsidy a project can receive based on two principles: 1) The richer the region, the lower the maximum subsidy allowed (with 0 as the maximum in many regions)...
Miscellaneous
Federal Data: Americans keeping vehicles longer since start of recession Washington Post ...the average age of household autos increased from 10.1 years about 11.3 years between 2007 and 2012, while the average household income rose from $63,091 per year to $65,596 during the same period...
Target’s CEO didn’t leave because of a cybersecurity breach Washington Post ... The business model isn't working anymore, and it's going to take a serious overhaul to bring up to speed, when competitors are already far ahead...
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Today's Teamster News 03.03.13
Lords of Disorder: Billions for Wall Street, Sacrifice for Everyone Else truthout ...The President’s “sequester” offer slashes non-defense spending by $830 billion over the next ten years. That happens to be the precise amount we’re implicitly giving Wall Street’s biggest banks over the same time period...
New Cars Increasingly Out of Reach for Many Americans CNBC ...a new study ... finds median-income families in only one major U.S. city actually can afford the typical new vehicle. The typical new vehicle is now more expensive than ever, averaging $30,500 in 2012...
Greece reclassified to 'emerging market' from developed The Telegraph ...A major fund manager has reclassified Greece from a developed to an emerging market, in an unprecedented move reflecting the "unfortunate economic tailspin" of the Greek economy, which has threatened the future of the euro...
Paycheck protection bill yields contentious Senate debate Missouri Times ...Sen. Paul LeVota, D-11, called the bill unnecessary and “a mockery.” ... Right now, under the law, you can refuse to support political contributions through your union. I mock this bill because this bill is a mockery...”
New poll from Quinnipiac finds voters aren't sold on Kasich's sales tax expansion Plain Dealer ...Gov. John Kasich’s rising popularity among Ohioans hasn’t translated into strong support for his bold tax reform plan that would broaden the state’s sales tax while cutting the income tax rates...
Loosened gag still too tight (opinion) Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ...Prosecuting Hoosiers for photographing or videotaping embarrassing or illegal activity at industrial operations would be, unfortunately, easier under a bill passed in the state Senate on Tuesday...
John Doe probe of Scott Walker office closed with no new charges Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Nearly three years after the probe was launched, retired Appeals Court Judge Neal Nettesheim signed an order shutting down the secret investigation...
Teamsters: ABF talks going ‘in the right direction’ The City Wire ...After a slow start and some less than kind comments from both parties about tactics, progress is being reported on contract negotiations between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Arkansas Best Corp...
New Cars Increasingly Out of Reach for Many Americans CNBC ...a new study ... finds median-income families in only one major U.S. city actually can afford the typical new vehicle. The typical new vehicle is now more expensive than ever, averaging $30,500 in 2012...
Greece reclassified to 'emerging market' from developed The Telegraph ...A major fund manager has reclassified Greece from a developed to an emerging market, in an unprecedented move reflecting the "unfortunate economic tailspin" of the Greek economy, which has threatened the future of the euro...
Paycheck protection bill yields contentious Senate debate Missouri Times ...Sen. Paul LeVota, D-11, called the bill unnecessary and “a mockery.” ... Right now, under the law, you can refuse to support political contributions through your union. I mock this bill because this bill is a mockery...”
New poll from Quinnipiac finds voters aren't sold on Kasich's sales tax expansion Plain Dealer ...Gov. John Kasich’s rising popularity among Ohioans hasn’t translated into strong support for his bold tax reform plan that would broaden the state’s sales tax while cutting the income tax rates...
Loosened gag still too tight (opinion) Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ...Prosecuting Hoosiers for photographing or videotaping embarrassing or illegal activity at industrial operations would be, unfortunately, easier under a bill passed in the state Senate on Tuesday...
John Doe probe of Scott Walker office closed with no new charges Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Nearly three years after the probe was launched, retired Appeals Court Judge Neal Nettesheim signed an order shutting down the secret investigation...
Teamsters: ABF talks going ‘in the right direction’ The City Wire ...After a slow start and some less than kind comments from both parties about tactics, progress is being reported on contract negotiations between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Arkansas Best Corp...
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Today's Teamster News 12.27.12
Ten Reasons Why the Chained CPI Is Terrible Policy firedoglake ...Social Security benefits are already declining due to increases in the retirement age and Medicare premiums...
Ruth Marcus Is Outraged by Overly Generous Social Security Checks CEPR ...we have tens of millions of seniors living high on Social Security checks averaging a bit over $1,200 a month at a time when folks like the CEOs in the Campaign to Fix the Debt are supposed to subsist on paychecks that typically come to $10 million to $20 million a year...
Massive New Surveillance Program Uncovered by Wall Street Journal Slate ...The guidelines allow the NCTC, for the first time, to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, using “predictive pattern-matching,” to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. The data the counterterrorism center has access to, according to the Journal, includes “entire government databases—flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others....”
Ford to invest $773 million in the U.S. to create 2,350 new jobs and save 3,240 existing jobs AFP ...The Dearborn-based manufacturer posted its best November since 2005, as sales rose six percent to 177,673 vehicles. The results were driven by strong demand for its small cars, which posted their best November in 12 years...
Fox Parent Company Being Sued For Using Mafia Like Business Tactics Addicting Info ...The Dial Corp, makers of soap, personal-care and household cleaning products, have filed suit against News Corp along with subsidies News America, News America Marketing FSI, and News America Marketing In-Store Services, alleging that the company engaged in anti-competitive and illegal practices in order to monopolize the market, even forcing competition out of business through its illegal and immoral tactics...
Michigan Right to Work Law Was the Brainchild of ALEC, The Most Dangerous Group in Politics PolicyMic ...ALEC wasted no time in sending many of their most onerous "model legislation" bills to Michigan. These included the Emergency Manager law, privatization of public schools, expansion of charter schools, HB 5221 (Voter ID Act), which required voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote, and HB 4305 with language similar to ALEC’s model “Immigration Law Enforcement Act...”
Bakken boom making big impact on regional businesses Farm and Ranch Guide ...To visualize the economic impact to Billings of the Bakken oil boom, you can watch the oil field trucks rumble by or you can track subtler clues. Private jets lined up on the tarmac. Rolex watches and diamonds flying out of jewelry stores...
Teamsters Rep: NSB mayor owes cop apology for obscenity after trying to cut through closed street for Christmas parade Headline Surfer ...Bob Walker, business agent for Teamsters Local 385, who represents 38 New Smyrna Beach officers (said) "I think he owes the officer an apology at the very least..."
Ruth Marcus Is Outraged by Overly Generous Social Security Checks CEPR ...we have tens of millions of seniors living high on Social Security checks averaging a bit over $1,200 a month at a time when folks like the CEOs in the Campaign to Fix the Debt are supposed to subsist on paychecks that typically come to $10 million to $20 million a year...
Massive New Surveillance Program Uncovered by Wall Street Journal Slate ...The guidelines allow the NCTC, for the first time, to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, using “predictive pattern-matching,” to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. The data the counterterrorism center has access to, according to the Journal, includes “entire government databases—flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others....”
Ford to invest $773 million in the U.S. to create 2,350 new jobs and save 3,240 existing jobs AFP ...The Dearborn-based manufacturer posted its best November since 2005, as sales rose six percent to 177,673 vehicles. The results were driven by strong demand for its small cars, which posted their best November in 12 years...
Fox Parent Company Being Sued For Using Mafia Like Business Tactics Addicting Info ...The Dial Corp, makers of soap, personal-care and household cleaning products, have filed suit against News Corp along with subsidies News America, News America Marketing FSI, and News America Marketing In-Store Services, alleging that the company engaged in anti-competitive and illegal practices in order to monopolize the market, even forcing competition out of business through its illegal and immoral tactics...
Michigan Right to Work Law Was the Brainchild of ALEC, The Most Dangerous Group in Politics PolicyMic ...ALEC wasted no time in sending many of their most onerous "model legislation" bills to Michigan. These included the Emergency Manager law, privatization of public schools, expansion of charter schools, HB 5221 (Voter ID Act), which required voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote, and HB 4305 with language similar to ALEC’s model “Immigration Law Enforcement Act...”
Bakken boom making big impact on regional businesses Farm and Ranch Guide ...To visualize the economic impact to Billings of the Bakken oil boom, you can watch the oil field trucks rumble by or you can track subtler clues. Private jets lined up on the tarmac. Rolex watches and diamonds flying out of jewelry stores...
Teamsters Rep: NSB mayor owes cop apology for obscenity after trying to cut through closed street for Christmas parade Headline Surfer ...Bob Walker, business agent for Teamsters Local 385, who represents 38 New Smyrna Beach officers (said) "I think he owes the officer an apology at the very least..."
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Links 08/04/10
Ensuring Another 75 Years of Social Security Huffington Post ...there is one federal program that has remained consistently popular since it was first signed into law 75 years ago this month: Social Security.
Obama Courts Labor Support for Trade Deal Wall Street Journal ...The Obama administration is promising labor unions that it will enforce a range of worker protections in new trade pacts in an effort to win labor's support of a revised South Korea free-trade agreement.
Smoother Ride for Auto-Parts Makers Wall Street Journal ...Now, the U.S.-based automotive suppliers are not only doing better, but they are profitable, their stocks are surging, they are hiring...
Dollar Thrifty Rejects Avis Bid Reuters
More Workers Face Pay Cuts, Not Furloughs New York Times ...Local and state governments, as well as some companies, are squeezing their employees to work the same amount for less money in cost-saving measures that are often described as a last-ditch effort to avoid layoffs.
Rolling Museum Casts Light on Current-Day Forced Labor New York Times ...Institutionalized slavery may have largely gone by the wayside in the United States around 1865, but that does not mean it has entirely vanished.
Top state court keeps union proposition off November ballot Arizona Daily Sun ...Arizonans won't be able to vote in November to make it harder for unions to organize, at least not unless legislators fix it -- and quickly.
Obama Courts Labor Support for Trade Deal Wall Street Journal ...The Obama administration is promising labor unions that it will enforce a range of worker protections in new trade pacts in an effort to win labor's support of a revised South Korea free-trade agreement.
Smoother Ride for Auto-Parts Makers Wall Street Journal ...Now, the U.S.-based automotive suppliers are not only doing better, but they are profitable, their stocks are surging, they are hiring...
Dollar Thrifty Rejects Avis Bid Reuters
More Workers Face Pay Cuts, Not Furloughs New York Times ...Local and state governments, as well as some companies, are squeezing their employees to work the same amount for less money in cost-saving measures that are often described as a last-ditch effort to avoid layoffs.
Rolling Museum Casts Light on Current-Day Forced Labor New York Times ...Institutionalized slavery may have largely gone by the wayside in the United States around 1865, but that does not mean it has entirely vanished.
Top state court keeps union proposition off November ballot Arizona Daily Sun ...Arizonans won't be able to vote in November to make it harder for unions to organize, at least not unless legislators fix it -- and quickly.
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