Is a stealth Right to Work effort brewing in Columbus? Thomas Suddes Cleveland Plain Dealer ... fretting about whether this General Assembly will spring so-called Right to Work (for Less) on Ohioans isn’t a symptom of paranoia. Instead, it may be common-sense caution...
ALEC’s Latest Trojan Horse: The Attack on Standards and Safeguards Moves to the States Center for Effective Government ..., these pieces of legislation serve as a Trojan horse designed to quietly shut down state efforts to establish public protections that ensure all their residents enjoy safe and healthful lives...
The 10 Companies Paying Americans The Least: 24/7 Wall Street Huffington Post ...CEOs at nine of these 10 companies are paid more than $10 million annually, while Michael Duke and Howard Schultz, CEOs of Walmart and Starbucks, each receive more than $20 million per year...
Three Million More in Poverty than Previously Estimated The Real News ...the West now becomes the area that has the highest poverty rate, at about 25 percent of their population being counted as poor...
Deadly tornadoes hit US Midwest states BBC News ...Powerful tornadoes have swept through the US Midwest, destroying buildings and overturning vehicles in the states of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky...
The People Can Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership Counterpunch ...The broad bi-partisan opposition announced this week shows that winning Fast Track has very little support in Congress. In fact, the letters may be the death knell for such legislation...
Qatar migrant workers 'treated like animals' - Amnesty BBC News ...Amnesty says migrant workers are often subjected to non-payment of wages, dangerous working conditions and squalid accommodation. The rights group said one manager had referred to workers as "animals"...
Rights group: Gulf must increase worker protection Associated Press ...Riots have broken out in Saudi Arabia as authorities crack down on laborers without proper visas. In Qatar, rights groups and others have raised concerns about living and working conditions for crews building venues for the 2022 World Cup. ...
Mexico officials find 8 bodies in border city home Associated Press ...the bodies were found early Sunday and apparently were members of the same extended family. He said exact ages were not yet available but three of the dead appeared to be children and five were adults...
Something stinks in Wisconsin Center for Media and Democracy ...Wisconsin is home to two SPN right-wing think tanks: the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI) and the MacIver Institute for Public Policy. While WPRI and the MacIver Institute claim to be focused on issues important to the people of Wisconsin, both push a right-wing agenda dictated by their right-wing funders and partners, such as the Bradley Foundation...
Workers Standing Together to Demand Respect at Taylor Farms Labor's Edge ...at Taylor Farms in Tracy, the bosses are threatening and intimidating workers as part of a campaign to stop those workers from joining a union...
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Monday, November 18, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
Today's Teamster News 09.16.13
Summers Pulls Name From Consideration for Fed Chief New York Times ...After weeks of opposition to his candidacy from an array of progressives, the president’s inability to rally Congressional Democrats on Syria persuaded Mr. Summers that his most important audience — the Senate, which must confirm a Fed chairman — probably could not be won over...
Wal-Mart Moves Forward With First D.C. Stores After Mayor Vetoes 'Living Wage' ABC News ...Wal-Mart will move forward with plans for its first stores in the nation's capital after Mayor Vincent Gray vetoed the city council's bill that mandated higher wages for so-called big-box stores...
Officials Say Nearly 19,000 Homes Damaged, Destroyed In Flooding CBS Denver ...The Colorado Office of Emergency Management estimated Sunday on its website that 17,494 homes have been damaged and 1,502 destroyed...
At Grandmother’s House We Stay Pew Research ...In 2011, 7.7 million children in the U.S.–one-in-ten—were living with a grandparent, and approximately 3 million of these children were also being cared for primarily by that grandparent...
Public Colleges' Quest for Revenue and Prestige Squeezes Needy Students The Chronicle of Higher Education ...Less institutional aid goes to the poorest students, as colleges seek to rise in rankings and make up for state cuts...
Joe Stiglitz: The People Who Break the Rules Have Raked in Huge Profits and Wealth and It's Sickening Our Politics Alternet ...More than 20 million Americans who would like a full time job still can't get one, incomes are still lower than they were a decade and a half ago, wealth in the middle is back to where it was two decades ago. Young Americans face a mountain of student debt, and dismal job prospects...
The 1 Percent Took Home the Largest Share of Income Since 1928 Last Year Next New Deal ...the only year on record in which the top 1 percent took home a larger piece of the economic pie was in 1928, and then only barely...
New Rule Could Shed Light on CEO-Worker Pay Gap Bill Moyers & Company ...The Securities and Exchange Commission has been considering (and considering, and considering) a new rule mandated three years ago under Dodd-Frank that would require companies to disclose the ratio between a CEO’s compensation and the median pay of the firm’s employees...
AFL-CIO to Fight "Trade" Deals Like TPP truthout ...It looks like this will be a treaty that writes corporate and billionaire interests into law with no protections for regular people and our environment from corporate and billionaire interests...
Pollsters say Scott Walker is vulnerable in 2014 The Capital Times ...those who feel the state economy is in poor condition are much less likely to support Walker than those who believe the state is on the right track, meaning that Democrats could hurt Walker by driving home the message that he isn't creating jobs...
Wal-Mart Moves Forward With First D.C. Stores After Mayor Vetoes 'Living Wage' ABC News ...Wal-Mart will move forward with plans for its first stores in the nation's capital after Mayor Vincent Gray vetoed the city council's bill that mandated higher wages for so-called big-box stores...
Officials Say Nearly 19,000 Homes Damaged, Destroyed In Flooding CBS Denver ...The Colorado Office of Emergency Management estimated Sunday on its website that 17,494 homes have been damaged and 1,502 destroyed...
At Grandmother’s House We Stay Pew Research ...In 2011, 7.7 million children in the U.S.–one-in-ten—were living with a grandparent, and approximately 3 million of these children were also being cared for primarily by that grandparent...
Public Colleges' Quest for Revenue and Prestige Squeezes Needy Students The Chronicle of Higher Education ...Less institutional aid goes to the poorest students, as colleges seek to rise in rankings and make up for state cuts...
Joe Stiglitz: The People Who Break the Rules Have Raked in Huge Profits and Wealth and It's Sickening Our Politics Alternet ...More than 20 million Americans who would like a full time job still can't get one, incomes are still lower than they were a decade and a half ago, wealth in the middle is back to where it was two decades ago. Young Americans face a mountain of student debt, and dismal job prospects...
The 1 Percent Took Home the Largest Share of Income Since 1928 Last Year Next New Deal ...the only year on record in which the top 1 percent took home a larger piece of the economic pie was in 1928, and then only barely...
New Rule Could Shed Light on CEO-Worker Pay Gap Bill Moyers & Company ...The Securities and Exchange Commission has been considering (and considering, and considering) a new rule mandated three years ago under Dodd-Frank that would require companies to disclose the ratio between a CEO’s compensation and the median pay of the firm’s employees...
AFL-CIO to Fight "Trade" Deals Like TPP truthout ...It looks like this will be a treaty that writes corporate and billionaire interests into law with no protections for regular people and our environment from corporate and billionaire interests...
Pollsters say Scott Walker is vulnerable in 2014 The Capital Times ...those who feel the state economy is in poor condition are much less likely to support Walker than those who believe the state is on the right track, meaning that Democrats could hurt Walker by driving home the message that he isn't creating jobs...
Friday, April 26, 2013
Today's Teamster News 04.26.13
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever Rolling Stone ...The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix...
Executive-Pay Tax Break Saved Fortune 500 Corporations $27 Billion Over the Past Three Years Citizens for Tax Justice ...One “single tax break, for executive stock options” allowed Fortune 500 corporations to avoid paying $11.2 billion in income taxes in 2012. The top 25 benefiting during 2010-12: Apple $3.2bn, Facebook $1.6bn, JP Morgan $1.1 bn, etc...
The West, Texas, explosion shows the deadly effect of profit before safety The Guardian ...Poor regulation of the West Fertilizer plant likely contributed to 15 deaths – just as 13 US workers die at their jobs every single day…
Bangladesh Factory Disasters Will Become ‘More And More’ Common Talking Points Memo ...Walmart, H&M, Sears, Gap, etc. outsource to Bangladesh because of its low wages and labor standards. It also lacks safety regulations, resulting in the recent factory collapse which left at least 250 dead and more than 1,000 injured...
Four Reasons to Worry About the Potential Koch Takeover of Tribune Co. Newspapers (opinion) The Nation ...If their bid is successful, the Koch brothers won’t just have a strong influence over the laws we all live under and the climate we pass on to the next generation, they’ll be publishing the news we read...
Labor Department: Florida Unemployment Regime Violates Civil Rights Requirements Huffington Post ...Florida violated federal civil rights law with its new and unusual requirement that unemployment claimants file online and take math and reading tests before they can receive benefits, the U.S. Labor Department determined this month...
California Lawmakers Consider Soda Tax KTLA5 ...A bill that would impose a tax on sugary drinks in California is in front of lawmakers in Sacramento this week. The state law would tax sugary drinks such as sodas, energy drinks and sweet teas one cent per fluid ounce.
Anti-Worker "Paycheck Protection" Bills Moving in Missouri PR Watch ...Missouri is the latest front in the attack on organized labor with so-called "paycheck protection" bills moving through the legislature, with backing from the usual array of corporate interests. But according to the Economic Policy Institute, the bills primarily disadvantage workers while preserving privileges for corporations...
Cincinnati city council votes no on right-to-work law Business Courier ...Cincinnati City Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing right-to-work laws and the “workplace freedom” amendment being pushed by some groups in Columbus...
Maine lawmakers kill right-to-work, dues bills Associated Press ...The Maine Senate has killed a pair of bills labeled by opponents as anti-union. Senators voted 21-13 Thursday against a right-to-work bill, which would have made it illegal for a private employer to require employees to join a labor organization or pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment...
Oregon lawmakers pass law to lower pension COLAs Pensions & Investments ...The Oregon House of Representatives passed a pension reform bill Wednesday that lowers the maximum cost-of-living adjustment for retirees of the $61.1 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund...
Ind. lawmakers reach deal on tax cuts, road funds Associated Press ...Gov. Mike Pence and Indiana's Republican legislative leaders have reached a budget deal that increases spending on roads and schools while giving the governor a piece of the income tax cut he has arduously sought this session...
Teamsters Reach Tentative Agreements Covering 250,000 Workers at UPS, UPS Freight IBT ...The Teamsters Union announced last night that it has reached tentative agreements with UPS on new five-year national contracts for package and freight workers that protect their health care benefits, provide substantial wage increases and significantly raise contributions to pension and health and welfare benefits...
Hudson Valley Teamster School Bus Drivers Return To Work At Durham IBT ...After engaging in an unfair labor practice strike today, Teamsters Local 445 has given Durham School Services an unconditional offer to return to work at the beginning of the work day on Friday morning, April 26, 2013...
Torres Adds Teamsters To Trove of Union Endorsements City & State ...Bronx City Council candidate Ritchie Torres continues to pick up support from organized labor in a crowded to replace City Council Majority Leader Joel Rivera, winning the endorsement of the Teamsters Joint Council 16, one of the largest unions in the city with roughly 120,000 members...
Striking Thorn Creek Basin workers to return Friday NWI Times ...A two-month picket by Teamsters members of the Thorn Creek Basin Sanitary District will come to an end this week...
Executive-Pay Tax Break Saved Fortune 500 Corporations $27 Billion Over the Past Three Years Citizens for Tax Justice ...One “single tax break, for executive stock options” allowed Fortune 500 corporations to avoid paying $11.2 billion in income taxes in 2012. The top 25 benefiting during 2010-12: Apple $3.2bn, Facebook $1.6bn, JP Morgan $1.1 bn, etc...
The West, Texas, explosion shows the deadly effect of profit before safety The Guardian ...Poor regulation of the West Fertilizer plant likely contributed to 15 deaths – just as 13 US workers die at their jobs every single day…
Bangladesh Factory Disasters Will Become ‘More And More’ Common Talking Points Memo ...Walmart, H&M, Sears, Gap, etc. outsource to Bangladesh because of its low wages and labor standards. It also lacks safety regulations, resulting in the recent factory collapse which left at least 250 dead and more than 1,000 injured...
Four Reasons to Worry About the Potential Koch Takeover of Tribune Co. Newspapers (opinion) The Nation ...If their bid is successful, the Koch brothers won’t just have a strong influence over the laws we all live under and the climate we pass on to the next generation, they’ll be publishing the news we read...
Labor Department: Florida Unemployment Regime Violates Civil Rights Requirements Huffington Post ...Florida violated federal civil rights law with its new and unusual requirement that unemployment claimants file online and take math and reading tests before they can receive benefits, the U.S. Labor Department determined this month...
California Lawmakers Consider Soda Tax KTLA5 ...A bill that would impose a tax on sugary drinks in California is in front of lawmakers in Sacramento this week. The state law would tax sugary drinks such as sodas, energy drinks and sweet teas one cent per fluid ounce.
Anti-Worker "Paycheck Protection" Bills Moving in Missouri PR Watch ...Missouri is the latest front in the attack on organized labor with so-called "paycheck protection" bills moving through the legislature, with backing from the usual array of corporate interests. But according to the Economic Policy Institute, the bills primarily disadvantage workers while preserving privileges for corporations...
Cincinnati city council votes no on right-to-work law Business Courier ...Cincinnati City Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing right-to-work laws and the “workplace freedom” amendment being pushed by some groups in Columbus...
Maine lawmakers kill right-to-work, dues bills Associated Press ...The Maine Senate has killed a pair of bills labeled by opponents as anti-union. Senators voted 21-13 Thursday against a right-to-work bill, which would have made it illegal for a private employer to require employees to join a labor organization or pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment...
Oregon lawmakers pass law to lower pension COLAs Pensions & Investments ...The Oregon House of Representatives passed a pension reform bill Wednesday that lowers the maximum cost-of-living adjustment for retirees of the $61.1 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund...
Ind. lawmakers reach deal on tax cuts, road funds Associated Press ...Gov. Mike Pence and Indiana's Republican legislative leaders have reached a budget deal that increases spending on roads and schools while giving the governor a piece of the income tax cut he has arduously sought this session...
Teamsters Reach Tentative Agreements Covering 250,000 Workers at UPS, UPS Freight IBT ...The Teamsters Union announced last night that it has reached tentative agreements with UPS on new five-year national contracts for package and freight workers that protect their health care benefits, provide substantial wage increases and significantly raise contributions to pension and health and welfare benefits...
Hudson Valley Teamster School Bus Drivers Return To Work At Durham IBT ...After engaging in an unfair labor practice strike today, Teamsters Local 445 has given Durham School Services an unconditional offer to return to work at the beginning of the work day on Friday morning, April 26, 2013...
Torres Adds Teamsters To Trove of Union Endorsements City & State ...Bronx City Council candidate Ritchie Torres continues to pick up support from organized labor in a crowded to replace City Council Majority Leader Joel Rivera, winning the endorsement of the Teamsters Joint Council 16, one of the largest unions in the city with roughly 120,000 members...
Striking Thorn Creek Basin workers to return Friday NWI Times ...A two-month picket by Teamsters members of the Thorn Creek Basin Sanitary District will come to an end this week...
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