Teamster News
2014 Teamsters Unity Conference Convenes teamster.org ...The 2014 Teamsters Unity Conference convened Sunday, May 4, with General President Jim Hoffa welcoming more than 1,400 Teamsters who learned about several key challenges facing the union...
Lilly Ledbetter joins Teamsters and others in support of pay equality for city's 5,000 school safety agents teamster.org ...Lilly Ledbetter, the tireless advocate for equal pay, whose historic Supreme Court case led the way to the Fair Pay Act of 2009—which bears her name—will join Teamsters Local 237 President Gregory Floyd; Sonia Ossorio, President of the New York City Chapter of National Organization for Women; and Mary Lou Urban, Co-President of the League of Women Voters, at a rally in support of resolving the pay disparity of school safety agents...
Trade
Trans Pacific Partnership Still Stalled The Register ...In spite of optimistic official rhetoric from the White House, Japan seems to be the latest speed bump on the road to the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership trade treaty...
Is Another Aspect Of The TPP They Hid From Us, Legally Stoning Gays? Down With Tyranny ...The dictator (of Brunei) is an hereditary sultan and this one is a homophobic psychotic who has just mandated the death penalty (by stoning) for gays. He's one our our esteemed partners in the TPP...
Oscars 'Night Before' Party Pulled From Beverly Hills Hotel Over Sultan of Brunei Ownership (Exclusive) Hollywood Reporter ...The Night Before the Oscars, Hollywood's starriest annual charity event, will not be held at the Beverly Hills Hotel because of the hotel’s ties to Brunei, where Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah instituted a severe new anti-gay penal code based on Sharia law last week...
State Battles
The drive to ban mandated sick days America Al-Jazeera ...the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) ... and the National Restaurant Association ... are pushing legislatures and governors to enact pre-emption (or kill-shot) laws to bar cities and counties from passing paid sick day mandates...
Outside Spending Enters Arena of Judicial Races New York Times ...The primary race for Justice Hudson’s Supreme Court seat alone has drawn more than $1 million — the bulk of it by independent groups including the Republican committee and an arm of the state Chamber of Commerce, which has spent $250,000 to promote both of her opponents with money from companies including Reynolds American, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Koch Industries.
The costly and fierce primary shows how the revolution in financing political campaigns, with the surging role of “super PACs” and other groups financed by corporations, unions and other interests, has entered what was the quieter arena of judicial elections...
War On Workers
Enron 2.0: Goldman-Linked Investors Set to Manipulate East Coast Electricity Prices naked capitalism ...With Brayton Point closed, New England consumers and businesses will spend as much as $2.6 billion more per year for electricity, critics of the deal suggest in documents filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
There's no evidence that privatisation works, but it marches on (opinion) ...Governments will always need to deal with markets for procurement and regulation – but that needs a strong, experienced civil service with equal cunning, not one cut by 30%, losing memory of past errors...
Bonuses For Federal Workers Cut In Half, Figures Show USA Today ...Bonus pay for 1.3 million federal workers fell of a proverbial fiscal cliff last year, dropping nearly 50% as a result of draconian budget cuts tied to a partial government shutdown and recent caps on employee awards...
Why Is This Farm Using Guest Workers As Strike Breakers? The Nation ...By law, a company can’t hire H-2A guest workers if it is in a labor dispute with its US workforce. But that is exactly what this Washington State berry grower is trying to do....
The Recession Made Income Inequality Even Worse Think Progress ...The gap between the rich and the poor has grown faster since the financial crisis than it did the entire decade before it, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...
Your Paycheck Proves There Was No Recovery Huffington Post ...Stock prices and corporate profits are setting records, jobs are growing and yet most Americans think the recession never ended. How can this be? Because in the one place it counts--your paycheck--the recovery never happened...
Miscellaneous
Declining Business Dynamism in the United States: A Look at States and Metros Brookings Institute ...dynamism is slowing down. Business churning and new firm formations have been on a persistent decline during the last few decades, and the pace of net job creation has been subdued. This decline has been documented across a broad range of sectors in the U.S. economy, even in high-tech...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Friday, December 20, 2013
Today's Teamster News 12.20.13
Teamsters And Fired Taylor Farms Workers Mount Unfair Labor Practice Strike, Demand Respect For Immigrant Workers teamster.org ...Today, Teamster members and fired Taylor Farms workers launched a one-day Unfair Labor Practice strike in protest against gross workers’ rights violations being committed by Taylor Farms at its facilities in Tracy, Calif...
D.C. Taxi Drivers Achieve Major Victory: Passenger-Console Deadline Extended teamster.org ...Due to the strength and unity of the Washington, D.C. Taxi Operators Association, affiliated with Teamsters Local 922, the Washington, D.C. government has extended the passenger-console deadline from Dec. 1, 2013 to Jan. 15, 2014...
Get Ready for the 2014 Trade Tsunami Public Citizen ...In the first months of 2014, Congress will decide whether it will maintain its constitutional authority over trade or succumb to White House and corporate demands to give away its power to save us from more damaging “trade” deals...
Report Suggests NSA Engaged In Financial Manipulation, Changing Money In Bank Accounts techdirt ...Governments should not use their offensive cyber capabilities to change the amounts held in financial accounts or otherwise manipulate the financial system...
The State Policy Network's Cozy Relationship With Big Tobacco truthout ......The State Policy Network (SPN), a web of right-wing "think tanks" in every state across the country, has close ties with the tobacco industry…SPN, its member affiliates, and SPN-related entities such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute, continued to receive funding from the tobacco industry that has continued through at least 2012, according to Altria/Phillip Morris documents…
New Commodity Trading Rules Good for Big Oil oil price ...The move by banking and securities regulators to ban proprietary trading at financial institutions could put an end to Wall Street’s dominance in the commodity hedging game, giving greater advantage to oil majors, but make it difficult for smaller oil and gas producers to lock in future prices to mitigate risk, industry experts say...
Ted Mitchell, Education Dept. Nominee, Has Strong Ties to Pearson, Privatization Movement The Nation ...As the administration continues to reshuffle its team, and confront new regulatory challenges, some view Mitchell’s nomination as a move towards greater privatization. In the coming months, the Department of Education will release “gainful employment” rules to rein in for-profit colleges, an experiment in proprietary education that many see as an unmitigated disaster...
Economic Opportunity Is Lowest In the Republican Bible Belt, Major Study Finds Alternet ...virtually all of this nation’s class-rigidity still remains in the U.S. South, even after the Civil War. New Dixie has replaced the aristocracy’s black slaves of Old Dixie, by the local (white) aristocracy’s institutionalized bigotry against poor people, now of all ethnic groups...
After Bangladesh Factory Collapse, Bleak Struggle for Survivors New York Times ...while the Rana Plaza disaster stirred an international outcry — and shamed many international clothing companies into pledging to help finance safety improvements in other Bangladeshi factories — the people most directly affected are still living without any guarantees of help or financial compensation...
Credit Shouldn't Be A Barrier for Job Seekers (opinion) teamster.org ...Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) unveiled legislation this week that would prevent employers from discriminating against potential hires who have poor credit...
Quest to restrict union fees targets 3 new states Associated Press ... Buoyed by recent successes in the Midwest, conservatives and business groups are targeting at least three additional states for new efforts that could weaken labor unions by ending their ability to collect mandatory bargaining fees...
Zoeller asks Supreme Court to restore right to work law NWI Times ...he Indiana Supreme Court has begun receiving written arguments over whether Lake Superior Judge John Sedia correctly ruled the state's 2012 right-to-work law unconstitutional...
OH judge says efficiency not good case for cameras Associated Press ...An Ohio judge rebuffed an argument Thursday that traffic cameras make law enforcement more efficient, stating sharply that violating motorists' rights isn't the American way...
D.C. Taxi Drivers Achieve Major Victory: Passenger-Console Deadline Extended teamster.org ...Due to the strength and unity of the Washington, D.C. Taxi Operators Association, affiliated with Teamsters Local 922, the Washington, D.C. government has extended the passenger-console deadline from Dec. 1, 2013 to Jan. 15, 2014...
Get Ready for the 2014 Trade Tsunami Public Citizen ...In the first months of 2014, Congress will decide whether it will maintain its constitutional authority over trade or succumb to White House and corporate demands to give away its power to save us from more damaging “trade” deals...
Report Suggests NSA Engaged In Financial Manipulation, Changing Money In Bank Accounts techdirt ...Governments should not use their offensive cyber capabilities to change the amounts held in financial accounts or otherwise manipulate the financial system...
The State Policy Network's Cozy Relationship With Big Tobacco truthout ......The State Policy Network (SPN), a web of right-wing "think tanks" in every state across the country, has close ties with the tobacco industry…SPN, its member affiliates, and SPN-related entities such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute, continued to receive funding from the tobacco industry that has continued through at least 2012, according to Altria/Phillip Morris documents…
New Commodity Trading Rules Good for Big Oil oil price ...The move by banking and securities regulators to ban proprietary trading at financial institutions could put an end to Wall Street’s dominance in the commodity hedging game, giving greater advantage to oil majors, but make it difficult for smaller oil and gas producers to lock in future prices to mitigate risk, industry experts say...
Ted Mitchell, Education Dept. Nominee, Has Strong Ties to Pearson, Privatization Movement The Nation ...As the administration continues to reshuffle its team, and confront new regulatory challenges, some view Mitchell’s nomination as a move towards greater privatization. In the coming months, the Department of Education will release “gainful employment” rules to rein in for-profit colleges, an experiment in proprietary education that many see as an unmitigated disaster...
Economic Opportunity Is Lowest In the Republican Bible Belt, Major Study Finds Alternet ...virtually all of this nation’s class-rigidity still remains in the U.S. South, even after the Civil War. New Dixie has replaced the aristocracy’s black slaves of Old Dixie, by the local (white) aristocracy’s institutionalized bigotry against poor people, now of all ethnic groups...
After Bangladesh Factory Collapse, Bleak Struggle for Survivors New York Times ...while the Rana Plaza disaster stirred an international outcry — and shamed many international clothing companies into pledging to help finance safety improvements in other Bangladeshi factories — the people most directly affected are still living without any guarantees of help or financial compensation...
Credit Shouldn't Be A Barrier for Job Seekers (opinion) teamster.org ...Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) unveiled legislation this week that would prevent employers from discriminating against potential hires who have poor credit...
Quest to restrict union fees targets 3 new states Associated Press ... Buoyed by recent successes in the Midwest, conservatives and business groups are targeting at least three additional states for new efforts that could weaken labor unions by ending their ability to collect mandatory bargaining fees...
Zoeller asks Supreme Court to restore right to work law NWI Times ...he Indiana Supreme Court has begun receiving written arguments over whether Lake Superior Judge John Sedia correctly ruled the state's 2012 right-to-work law unconstitutional...
OH judge says efficiency not good case for cameras Associated Press ...An Ohio judge rebuffed an argument Thursday that traffic cameras make law enforcement more efficient, stating sharply that violating motorists' rights isn't the American way...
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Today's Teamster News 09.15.13
Point, counterpoint: Teamsters, St. James debate labor contract snags The Montana Standard ...Some unionized employees have taken a strike vote against St. James Healthcare, but hope a Sept. 19 mediation session will deter such action...
Income Inequality Economic Populist ...The top 1% income earners have captured 95% of the income growth from 2009 to 2012. Folks, that's pretty much all of it...
The Stupid Trade Talk Process Trade Reform ...Yum Brands, the owner of KFC, wants cheaper chicken wings, rumps and other assorted poultry parts. Ocean Spray wants an easing of pesticide regulations. DuPont wants greater protection of trade secrets. Negotiations have barely begun for a potentially sweeping trade pact between the United States and Europe. But the lobbying is already well under way by corporations on both sides of the Atlantic...
Wynne Godley's Crucial Warnings About the Trade Deficit Still Ignored American Economic Alert ...Godley was one of the few mainstream economists who warned that huge, ballooning trade deficits like those amassed by the United States since the mid-1990s would lead to major trouble. Further, Godley’s model notably that reducing domestic budget deficits without addressing trade deficits would bring on a thoroughly unnecessary disaster on the home front – and in the rest of a world so heavily dependent on supplying American demand...
McViolation: How American Fast Food Operators Break the Law Huffington Post ...Among the most common violations is wage theft, a term used to describe practices that deprive employees of wages to which they are legally entitled. Across all industries, American workers lose an estimated $30 billion a year to wage theft...
Where's the Beef?: The First Thing Obama Can Do By Himself to Create Good Jobs Next New Deal ...A presidential executive order could directly help Lucila and the millions like her who manufacture uniforms for our military, care for our elders under Medicare, work as security guards at federally leased buildings, or are laborers on federally funded construction projects. The order would require that jobs financed by federal funds require living wages (not just minimum wage or prevailing wage in a low-wage sector), paid sick days, and prohibitions against employers fighting unionization...
Factory Rebirth Fizzles in U.S. as Work Shipped Overseas Bloomberg ...That left the factory workforce through August about 13 percent smaller than the 13.7 million when the U.S. fell into recession in December 2007. In 2000, the tally was 17 million...
Clifford Chance trainee lawyer faces sack after describing his work as 'f***ing people over for money' The Independent ...Clifford Chance, an international firm based in London and part of the ‘Magic Circle’ group of the UK’s five leading law firms, is also one of the 10 largest in the world in terms of number of lawyers and revenues...
Wall St. Exploits Ethanol Credits, and Prices Spike New York Times ...Wall Street ... set out to exploit this young market ... that is what happened this year when the price of the ethanol credits skyrocketed 20-fold in just six months...
How High 401(k) Fees Can Doom Your Retirement Plans Slate ...One of several big problems with 401(k) plans—tax subsidies for retirement savings—is that while some of the subsidy accrues to savers, some of it accrues to fee collectors who you end of paying for managing the plan...
Mississippi sitting on $872 million of Katrina funds Daily Kos ...More than half of the unspent money is tied up in a hotly debated plan to expand the state-owned Port of Gulfport, and millions more are allocated for projects that have yet to materialize. Critics also complain that some projects are far from the Katrina strike zone and don't seem to have a direct connection to recovery from the hurricane, while others have failed to take root or are not meeting promises of creating jobs...
Wisconsin Attorney General Seeks to Vitiate Open Records Law to Protect ALEC’s National Treasurer Center for Media and Democracy ...Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has taken the unprecedented step of asserting that a state legislator cannot be held accountable for refusing to disclose public records in response to a lawful open records request by the Center for Media and Democracy...
Income Inequality Economic Populist ...The top 1% income earners have captured 95% of the income growth from 2009 to 2012. Folks, that's pretty much all of it...
The Stupid Trade Talk Process Trade Reform ...Yum Brands, the owner of KFC, wants cheaper chicken wings, rumps and other assorted poultry parts. Ocean Spray wants an easing of pesticide regulations. DuPont wants greater protection of trade secrets. Negotiations have barely begun for a potentially sweeping trade pact between the United States and Europe. But the lobbying is already well under way by corporations on both sides of the Atlantic...
Wynne Godley's Crucial Warnings About the Trade Deficit Still Ignored American Economic Alert ...Godley was one of the few mainstream economists who warned that huge, ballooning trade deficits like those amassed by the United States since the mid-1990s would lead to major trouble. Further, Godley’s model notably that reducing domestic budget deficits without addressing trade deficits would bring on a thoroughly unnecessary disaster on the home front – and in the rest of a world so heavily dependent on supplying American demand...
McViolation: How American Fast Food Operators Break the Law Huffington Post ...Among the most common violations is wage theft, a term used to describe practices that deprive employees of wages to which they are legally entitled. Across all industries, American workers lose an estimated $30 billion a year to wage theft...
Where's the Beef?: The First Thing Obama Can Do By Himself to Create Good Jobs Next New Deal ...A presidential executive order could directly help Lucila and the millions like her who manufacture uniforms for our military, care for our elders under Medicare, work as security guards at federally leased buildings, or are laborers on federally funded construction projects. The order would require that jobs financed by federal funds require living wages (not just minimum wage or prevailing wage in a low-wage sector), paid sick days, and prohibitions against employers fighting unionization...
Factory Rebirth Fizzles in U.S. as Work Shipped Overseas Bloomberg ...That left the factory workforce through August about 13 percent smaller than the 13.7 million when the U.S. fell into recession in December 2007. In 2000, the tally was 17 million...
Clifford Chance trainee lawyer faces sack after describing his work as 'f***ing people over for money' The Independent ...Clifford Chance, an international firm based in London and part of the ‘Magic Circle’ group of the UK’s five leading law firms, is also one of the 10 largest in the world in terms of number of lawyers and revenues...
Wall St. Exploits Ethanol Credits, and Prices Spike New York Times ...Wall Street ... set out to exploit this young market ... that is what happened this year when the price of the ethanol credits skyrocketed 20-fold in just six months...
How High 401(k) Fees Can Doom Your Retirement Plans Slate ...One of several big problems with 401(k) plans—tax subsidies for retirement savings—is that while some of the subsidy accrues to savers, some of it accrues to fee collectors who you end of paying for managing the plan...
Mississippi sitting on $872 million of Katrina funds Daily Kos ...More than half of the unspent money is tied up in a hotly debated plan to expand the state-owned Port of Gulfport, and millions more are allocated for projects that have yet to materialize. Critics also complain that some projects are far from the Katrina strike zone and don't seem to have a direct connection to recovery from the hurricane, while others have failed to take root or are not meeting promises of creating jobs...
Wisconsin Attorney General Seeks to Vitiate Open Records Law to Protect ALEC’s National Treasurer Center for Media and Democracy ...Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has taken the unprecedented step of asserting that a state legislator cannot be held accountable for refusing to disclose public records in response to a lawful open records request by the Center for Media and Democracy...
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Today's Teamster News 06.30.13
Mandatory Federal Cuts Hurt Private Sector, Too New York Times ...Many in the facilities support field, a business category that includes janitorial, maintenance, trash disposal, guard and security, mail routing, reception and laundry services, say they are frustrated by the lack of public awareness about how defense budget cuts affect workers who are not performing stereotypical military functions...
Time is running out before student loan rates double MSNBC ... even if a deal does pass, it’s still highly likely that future students will pay more in interest to the federal government as legislators continue to insist on budget austerity...
The Supreme Court: Corporate America's Employees of the Month Bloomberg ...the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has narrowed the avenues available to employees and consumers seeking to take their grievances before a judge...
Supreme Court to hear case on Obama’s NLRB appointments Washington Post ...The Supreme Court will decide next term whether President Obama exceeded his constitutional authority by making three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was on break last year...
The Supervisor From Hell Gets a Pass From SCOTUS In These Times ...The decision could sharply limit employer liability for supervisor harassment in many cases...
The Social Security and Medicare Cutters are Very Unhappy Center for Economic and Policy Research ...No, things have not gone well for those wishing to ax Social Security and Medicare, but they are not about to give up. And with the money and access to the media they enjoy, why should they?...
Number of the Week: U.S. Oil Boom Affecting Global Prices Wall Street Journal ...The U.S. oil boom is finally affecting global energy prices — but don’t expect cheap prices at the pump as a result...
U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks: German magazine Reuters ...The United States has bugged European Union offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, according to secret documents cited in a German magazine on Saturday, the latest in a series of exposures of alleged U.S. spy programs...
Snowden fallout comes at bad time for private equity Reuters ...The industry is under growing pressure because of a series of apparent security problems that allowed Snowden to leak details of secret U.S. surveillance programs and, according to government officials, badly compromise U.S. national security...
Ed Fast and US trade rep commit to concluding TPP in 2013 iPolitics ...Trade Minister Ed Fast and his recently-confirmed American counterpart, Michael Froman, came out of their first tête-à-tête in Washington on Tuesday with an ambitious objective to conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership before the end of the year...
Rousseff's popularity plummets in wake of Brazil protests Reuters ...President Dilma Rousseff's approval rating sank by 27 percentage points in the last three weeks, a poll showed on Saturday in the strongest evidence yet that the recent wave of street protests sweeping Brazil poses a serious threat to her likely re-election bid next year...
Not Just BART, But Pretty Much the Whole Damn City of Oakland Is Going on Strike SFWeekly ...Oakland city workers this morning announced the big news that they, along with BART employees, will walk off the job on Monday at 7 a.m., in protest of stalled labor negotiations...
ALEC’s Latest Scam Is Sending Public School Dollars to Corporate Owned Private Schools PoliticusUSA ...According to the data, contrary to what Republicans, ALEC, and corporate-education advocates contend, America’s public education system has made consistent and equitable progress over the past four decades...
Teamsters, funeral directors at odds Southtown Star ...Teamsters Local 727, which represents 59 funeral directors and drivers at 16 Chicago-area funeral homes owned by Service Corporation International, has lodged unfair labor practice charges against the company...
Indefinite extension reached on National Master Agreement between Teamsters, UPS WHAS11 ...The contract was set to expire at the end of July. It will now be extended through July of 2018...
Time is running out before student loan rates double MSNBC ... even if a deal does pass, it’s still highly likely that future students will pay more in interest to the federal government as legislators continue to insist on budget austerity...
The Supreme Court: Corporate America's Employees of the Month Bloomberg ...the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has narrowed the avenues available to employees and consumers seeking to take their grievances before a judge...
Supreme Court to hear case on Obama’s NLRB appointments Washington Post ...The Supreme Court will decide next term whether President Obama exceeded his constitutional authority by making three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was on break last year...
The Supervisor From Hell Gets a Pass From SCOTUS In These Times ...The decision could sharply limit employer liability for supervisor harassment in many cases...
The Social Security and Medicare Cutters are Very Unhappy Center for Economic and Policy Research ...No, things have not gone well for those wishing to ax Social Security and Medicare, but they are not about to give up. And with the money and access to the media they enjoy, why should they?...
Number of the Week: U.S. Oil Boom Affecting Global Prices Wall Street Journal ...The U.S. oil boom is finally affecting global energy prices — but don’t expect cheap prices at the pump as a result...
U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks: German magazine Reuters ...The United States has bugged European Union offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, according to secret documents cited in a German magazine on Saturday, the latest in a series of exposures of alleged U.S. spy programs...
Snowden fallout comes at bad time for private equity Reuters ...The industry is under growing pressure because of a series of apparent security problems that allowed Snowden to leak details of secret U.S. surveillance programs and, according to government officials, badly compromise U.S. national security...
Ed Fast and US trade rep commit to concluding TPP in 2013 iPolitics ...Trade Minister Ed Fast and his recently-confirmed American counterpart, Michael Froman, came out of their first tête-à-tête in Washington on Tuesday with an ambitious objective to conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership before the end of the year...
Rousseff's popularity plummets in wake of Brazil protests Reuters ...President Dilma Rousseff's approval rating sank by 27 percentage points in the last three weeks, a poll showed on Saturday in the strongest evidence yet that the recent wave of street protests sweeping Brazil poses a serious threat to her likely re-election bid next year...
Not Just BART, But Pretty Much the Whole Damn City of Oakland Is Going on Strike SFWeekly ...Oakland city workers this morning announced the big news that they, along with BART employees, will walk off the job on Monday at 7 a.m., in protest of stalled labor negotiations...
ALEC’s Latest Scam Is Sending Public School Dollars to Corporate Owned Private Schools PoliticusUSA ...According to the data, contrary to what Republicans, ALEC, and corporate-education advocates contend, America’s public education system has made consistent and equitable progress over the past four decades...
Teamsters, funeral directors at odds Southtown Star ...Teamsters Local 727, which represents 59 funeral directors and drivers at 16 Chicago-area funeral homes owned by Service Corporation International, has lodged unfair labor practice charges against the company...
Indefinite extension reached on National Master Agreement between Teamsters, UPS WHAS11 ...The contract was set to expire at the end of July. It will now be extended through July of 2018...
Monday, February 25, 2013
Today's Teamsters News 02.25.13
Gas prices jump, but not as high, survey finds CNN ...Over the past two weeks, prices at the pump have jumped 20 cents, adding to a total rise of nearly 54 cents over the past nine weeks, according to the Lundberg Survey. A gallon of self-serve regular costs $3.80 on average nationwide, the survey found. But the speed of the spike has slowed substantially. And now, prices may even start to drop...
Trade protectionism looms next as central banks exhaust QE The Telegraph ...The four years of QE have given us a contained depression and prevented the global strategic order from unravelling. That is not a bad outcome, but the time gained has largely been wasted because few wish to face the awful truth that globalisation itself -- in its current deformed structure -- is the root cause of the whole disaster...
Major Banks Aid in Payday Loans Banned by States New York Times ...With 15 states banning payday loans, a growing number of the lenders have set up online operations in more hospitable states or far-flung locales like Belize, Malta and the West Indies to more easily evade statewide caps on interest rates...
Kasich cribbed his tax hike from an unpopular ALEC-endorsed initiative Plunderbund ...Kasich’s tax hike–in coordination with similar schemes in Nebraska, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia, and basically every GOP-controlled state–is clearly part of a national plug-and-play strategy led by ALEC, based on a failed Missouri idea...
Bloomberg's ban prohibits 2-liter soda with your pizza and some nightclub mixers New York Post ...Nanny Bloomberg unleashes his ban on large sodas on March 12 — and there are some nasty surprises lurking for hardworking families. Say goodbye to that 2-liter bottle of Coke with your pizza delivery, pitchers of soft drinks at your kid’s birthday party and some bottle-service mixers at your favorite nightclub...
Ken Hall: Where are 'Friends of Coal Miners'? Charleston Gazette ...Where are these so-called friends when it comes to the 22,500 active miners, retirees and their families who depend on Patriot Coal for their health care and pension benefits?...
Trade protectionism looms next as central banks exhaust QE The Telegraph ...The four years of QE have given us a contained depression and prevented the global strategic order from unravelling. That is not a bad outcome, but the time gained has largely been wasted because few wish to face the awful truth that globalisation itself -- in its current deformed structure -- is the root cause of the whole disaster...
Major Banks Aid in Payday Loans Banned by States New York Times ...With 15 states banning payday loans, a growing number of the lenders have set up online operations in more hospitable states or far-flung locales like Belize, Malta and the West Indies to more easily evade statewide caps on interest rates...
Kasich cribbed his tax hike from an unpopular ALEC-endorsed initiative Plunderbund ...Kasich’s tax hike–in coordination with similar schemes in Nebraska, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia, and basically every GOP-controlled state–is clearly part of a national plug-and-play strategy led by ALEC, based on a failed Missouri idea...
Bloomberg's ban prohibits 2-liter soda with your pizza and some nightclub mixers New York Post ...Nanny Bloomberg unleashes his ban on large sodas on March 12 — and there are some nasty surprises lurking for hardworking families. Say goodbye to that 2-liter bottle of Coke with your pizza delivery, pitchers of soft drinks at your kid’s birthday party and some bottle-service mixers at your favorite nightclub...
Ken Hall: Where are 'Friends of Coal Miners'? Charleston Gazette ...Where are these so-called friends when it comes to the 22,500 active miners, retirees and their families who depend on Patriot Coal for their health care and pension benefits?...
Monday, December 24, 2012
Today's Teamster News 12.24.12
Art Pope, Koch Brothers Ally, Picked To Run North Carolina Budget Huffington Post ...On Thursday, when the incoming North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) announced that Art Pope, the state's single largest donor and a founding board member of the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity, would be in charge of his state's budget as deputy budget director...
The Crass Cynicism of Right-to-Work Laws Counterpunch ...in the neo-liberal order that arose in the aftermath of the PATCO strike and, later, the coal miners’ strike in Great Britain, capitalists found that they again have everything to gain by reverting back to their old ways: enriching themselves by impoverishing their workers. This is why the most nefarious among them are now pouring money into efforts to legislate the right to work...
Right-to-work states have lower unemployment but also lower wages Charlotte Business Journal ...In the Northeast, where no states have right-to-work laws in place, the employer cost per worker per hour, including benefits, is highest in the nation at $33.18, according to the report. The cheapest labor, $26.32 per worker per hour, is in the South, where all but a couple of states have right-to-work laws on the books...
Yvonne White: Repealing right-to-work is a matter of economic justice (opinion) Detroit Free Press ...Decades before passage of the Civil Rights Act, labor unions served as the ladder to the middle class for people of color. In Michigan this month, a coalition of anti-worker interests swept away years of progress by crippling unions in the state where organized labor was born...
When Hedge Funds Trump Governments Economic Populist ...While Greece suffers to the point of revolution and suicide, hedge funds made out like bandits on Greek sovereign debt...
Gasoline Prices near Low for Year, Expected to Increase Calculated Risk ...It looks like prices will finish the year near the low, but probably increase soon...
Why Do Americans Have Less Vacation Time than Anyone Else? Big Think ...yes, the United States is the only OECD country that does not require employers to provide even a day of paid leave to its employees...
The Crass Cynicism of Right-to-Work Laws Counterpunch ...in the neo-liberal order that arose in the aftermath of the PATCO strike and, later, the coal miners’ strike in Great Britain, capitalists found that they again have everything to gain by reverting back to their old ways: enriching themselves by impoverishing their workers. This is why the most nefarious among them are now pouring money into efforts to legislate the right to work...
Right-to-work states have lower unemployment but also lower wages Charlotte Business Journal ...In the Northeast, where no states have right-to-work laws in place, the employer cost per worker per hour, including benefits, is highest in the nation at $33.18, according to the report. The cheapest labor, $26.32 per worker per hour, is in the South, where all but a couple of states have right-to-work laws on the books...
Yvonne White: Repealing right-to-work is a matter of economic justice (opinion) Detroit Free Press ...Decades before passage of the Civil Rights Act, labor unions served as the ladder to the middle class for people of color. In Michigan this month, a coalition of anti-worker interests swept away years of progress by crippling unions in the state where organized labor was born...
When Hedge Funds Trump Governments Economic Populist ...While Greece suffers to the point of revolution and suicide, hedge funds made out like bandits on Greek sovereign debt...
Gasoline Prices near Low for Year, Expected to Increase Calculated Risk ...It looks like prices will finish the year near the low, but probably increase soon...
Why Do Americans Have Less Vacation Time than Anyone Else? Big Think ...yes, the United States is the only OECD country that does not require employers to provide even a day of paid leave to its employees...
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Today's Teamster News 02.16.12
Audit Uncovers Extensive Flaws in Foreclosures New York Times ...An audit by San Francisco county officials of about 400 recent foreclosures there determined that almost all involved either legal violations or suspicious documentation...
Rising Gas Prices: Not Demand Driven Bloomberg Business Week ...much of the increase is due to speculative money that’s flowed into gasoline futures contracts since the beginning of the year, mostly from hedge funds and large money managers...
Austerity Policy Destroying Greek Society naked capitalism ...whether in a city or a village, all you see strolling the streets is a succession of empty storefronts with rent signs and often a deluge of unopened mail just inside the door. The few businesses that have managed to stay open have gigantic banners proclaiming 50-70% reductions, hoping to catch the eye of the few potential customers out there. Walking through what used to be crowded and bustling markets now feel like a Sunday stroll through deserted urban centers....
Gov. Scott Walker's corruption scandal brings shame to Wisconsin (opinion) The Isthmus ...So far, six of his closest allies have been arrested and charged with felonies...
Teamsters Local 332 union leader says she is 'insulted and offended' by Genesys letter MLive.com ...in coming months there may be unpleasant messaging about Genesys as we enter bargaining with the union representing our registered nurses,” the letter states...
Akron Red Cross impacted by Teamster strike Akron Beacon Journal ...The union maintains its members must work long hours without breaks because too few workers are scheduled...
Rising Gas Prices: Not Demand Driven Bloomberg Business Week ...much of the increase is due to speculative money that’s flowed into gasoline futures contracts since the beginning of the year, mostly from hedge funds and large money managers...
Austerity Policy Destroying Greek Society naked capitalism ...whether in a city or a village, all you see strolling the streets is a succession of empty storefronts with rent signs and often a deluge of unopened mail just inside the door. The few businesses that have managed to stay open have gigantic banners proclaiming 50-70% reductions, hoping to catch the eye of the few potential customers out there. Walking through what used to be crowded and bustling markets now feel like a Sunday stroll through deserted urban centers....
Gov. Scott Walker's corruption scandal brings shame to Wisconsin (opinion) The Isthmus ...So far, six of his closest allies have been arrested and charged with felonies...
Teamsters Local 332 union leader says she is 'insulted and offended' by Genesys letter MLive.com ...in coming months there may be unpleasant messaging about Genesys as we enter bargaining with the union representing our registered nurses,” the letter states...
Akron Red Cross impacted by Teamster strike Akron Beacon Journal ...The union maintains its members must work long hours without breaks because too few workers are scheduled...
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Today's Teamster News 01.21.12
Senate rejects Democrats' proposed changes to right-to-work NWI Times ...Senate Bill 269 is eligible for a final Senate vote as soon as Monday, though the Senate could await House action on right-to-work before voting. House Democrats boycotted a session for a fourth day Friday, but announced they'll return to the House floor Monday for a vote on what they believe is a constitutionally acceptable public referendum on right-to-work...
Fasano to Haridopolos: Don’t fast-track prison privatization The Florida Independent ...This week, lawmakers announced that two bills allowing the state to privatize prisons have been fast-tracked by leaders in the state’s GOP-led Legislature...
Lawmakers reach labor deal to clear FAA funding for takeoff The Hill ...A Senate Democratic aide said under the compromise reached Friday, the percentage of a company's workforce that would have to be in favor of a vote on unionization would be increased from 35 to 50 percent, and the NMB would have to hold public hearings before making future rule changes in lieu of requiring them to be reviewed by judges...
Unearned, and Taxed Unequally New York Times ...“It is unjust and in my opinion morally wrong to make a person with earned income pay considerably more in taxes than persons with unearned income from dividends...”
The Man Who Bought North Dakota Bloomberg ...the search for crude is making a quiet comeback in the U.S. Lots of attention has been paid to the surge in natural gas exploration, but more rigs are currently drilling for oil than gas...
Teamsters strike at Nichols Aluminum Quad City Business Journal ...Standing with union members outside the company's plant on Iowa 22, Local 371 president Howard Spoon said the biggest sticking point in the negotiations is health insurance...Local 371 represents about 254 Nichols employees...
Fasano to Haridopolos: Don’t fast-track prison privatization The Florida Independent ...This week, lawmakers announced that two bills allowing the state to privatize prisons have been fast-tracked by leaders in the state’s GOP-led Legislature...
Lawmakers reach labor deal to clear FAA funding for takeoff The Hill ...A Senate Democratic aide said under the compromise reached Friday, the percentage of a company's workforce that would have to be in favor of a vote on unionization would be increased from 35 to 50 percent, and the NMB would have to hold public hearings before making future rule changes in lieu of requiring them to be reviewed by judges...
Unearned, and Taxed Unequally New York Times ...“It is unjust and in my opinion morally wrong to make a person with earned income pay considerably more in taxes than persons with unearned income from dividends...”
The Man Who Bought North Dakota Bloomberg ...the search for crude is making a quiet comeback in the U.S. Lots of attention has been paid to the surge in natural gas exploration, but more rigs are currently drilling for oil than gas...
Teamsters strike at Nichols Aluminum Quad City Business Journal ...Standing with union members outside the company's plant on Iowa 22, Local 371 president Howard Spoon said the biggest sticking point in the negotiations is health insurance...Local 371 represents about 254 Nichols employees...
Monday, June 13, 2011
Today's Teamster News 06.13.11
Sluggish Hiring Seen as a Threat to Recovery Wall Street Journal ...The potential for a persistent slowdown in hiring is the biggest threat to the U.S. recovery, according to economists in the latest Wall Street Journal economic forecasting survey, as they sharply cut the number of jobs they projected the economy would create in coming months...
The Economy and DC (Opinion) New York Times ...The economy needs help, like direct federal job creation and options for homeowners to reduce the principal on troubled loans...
Consumers' electric bills likely to spike as coal plants close Chicago Tribune ...As stricter environmental regulations approach, some power generators are choosing to shutter their coal-fired plants...
Wis. Dems Won’t Run Fake GOP Candidates — Will Run Extra Dems Instead Talking Points Memo ...The Dems are now going to plant their own extra Democratic candidates -- now dubbed "placeholder" candidates by the Dems -- in order to delay all the targeted recalls to August...
Rally continues push against SB5 WDTN ...Dozens gathered at the John Bryan Center in Greene County Sunday to show their support for its repeal as a part of the Yellow Springs group from Stand Up for Ohio...
Scott's jobs claims cue eye-rolling Orlando Sentinel ... A $1 million incentive deal to entice Montreal-based Garda World Security Services to bring its U.S. headquarters to Boca Raton and create 100 jobs there over the next two years was first reported back in January and voted on by officials in Palm Beach County in February...
The Economy and DC (Opinion) New York Times ...The economy needs help, like direct federal job creation and options for homeowners to reduce the principal on troubled loans...
Consumers' electric bills likely to spike as coal plants close Chicago Tribune ...As stricter environmental regulations approach, some power generators are choosing to shutter their coal-fired plants...
Wis. Dems Won’t Run Fake GOP Candidates — Will Run Extra Dems Instead Talking Points Memo ...The Dems are now going to plant their own extra Democratic candidates -- now dubbed "placeholder" candidates by the Dems -- in order to delay all the targeted recalls to August...
Rally continues push against SB5 WDTN ...Dozens gathered at the John Bryan Center in Greene County Sunday to show their support for its repeal as a part of the Yellow Springs group from Stand Up for Ohio...
Scott's jobs claims cue eye-rolling Orlando Sentinel ... A $1 million incentive deal to entice Montreal-based Garda World Security Services to bring its U.S. headquarters to Boca Raton and create 100 jobs there over the next two years was first reported back in January and voted on by officials in Palm Beach County in February...
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Today's Teamster News 02.20.11
Scott Walker has already created jobs...too bad they’re in India Blogging Blue ...The Department of Health Services last month signed a new contract with Deloitte Consulting...
Tea Party lies and distorts at Wisconsin Capitol rally The Isthmus ...While the anti-Walker demonstrators were mostly guilty of overstating the governor’s fiendishness (no, he’s probably not as bad as Hitler), the Tea Party folks often distorted the issues...
Day Six of Protests in Madison WHBL News ...Madison police estimate the crowd converging on the Wisconsin state Capitol approached 70 thousand Saturday...
Ohio: Statehouse mobilization against SB 5 and Kasich's anti-worker agenda Monthly Review ...Thousands of workers and community members will pack the Statehouse again to tell lawmakers to reject the attack on Ohio's middle class and vote NO on Senate Bill 5, a bill that would gut workers' voice on the job in the hopes of dismantling unions in Ohio entirely...
Union members hope to make voices heard indystar.com ...Indiana union members plan to swarm the Statehouse this week to protest a slew of Republican-sponsored bills they say would weaken their membership...
As G20 Leaders Set Deal, Geithner Criticizes China New York Times ...financial leaders from the Group of 20 agreed on a set of guidelines to identify when economic and financial developments in some countries would create problems for the rest of the world...
Oil Flows, but High Prices Jangle Nerves New York Times ...The turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East has helped drive oil prices up to more than $102 a barrel for an important benchmark crude...
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? Rolling Stone ...Financial crooks brought down the world's economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them...
Tea Party lies and distorts at Wisconsin Capitol rally The Isthmus ...While the anti-Walker demonstrators were mostly guilty of overstating the governor’s fiendishness (no, he’s probably not as bad as Hitler), the Tea Party folks often distorted the issues...
Day Six of Protests in Madison WHBL News ...Madison police estimate the crowd converging on the Wisconsin state Capitol approached 70 thousand Saturday...
Ohio: Statehouse mobilization against SB 5 and Kasich's anti-worker agenda Monthly Review ...Thousands of workers and community members will pack the Statehouse again to tell lawmakers to reject the attack on Ohio's middle class and vote NO on Senate Bill 5, a bill that would gut workers' voice on the job in the hopes of dismantling unions in Ohio entirely...
Union members hope to make voices heard indystar.com ...Indiana union members plan to swarm the Statehouse this week to protest a slew of Republican-sponsored bills they say would weaken their membership...
As G20 Leaders Set Deal, Geithner Criticizes China New York Times ...financial leaders from the Group of 20 agreed on a set of guidelines to identify when economic and financial developments in some countries would create problems for the rest of the world...
Oil Flows, but High Prices Jangle Nerves New York Times ...The turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East has helped drive oil prices up to more than $102 a barrel for an important benchmark crude...
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? Rolling Stone ...Financial crooks brought down the world's economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them...
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Today's Teamster News 12.11.10
‘Mistaken foreclosures' on rise Associated Press ...the bank went so far as to haul away belongings and change the locks on the wrong homes...
Bernie Sanders’ Long Speech Raises Attention to Tax Cut Deal firedoglake ...Sanders is calling attention to ... a tax cut bill that raises taxes from current law for 25 million low-income workers and gives millionaires a tax cut of about $139,000 a person...
Gasoline Prices Rise to 2-Year High New York Times ...crude oil prices...rose on surging imports by China and a weakening of the dollar...
Get Ready for a Crazy Holiday Shipping Season KIVI-TV ...The U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and UPS will ship more packages on Monday than on any other day of the year...
Big bucks in boxes: the shipping business booms Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ...
online retailers are expected to see a 15 percent increase in sales...
Should You Invest Into YRC Worldwide Inc. iStockAnalyst ...the stock looks dead cheap and begs for investment...
MTD Break Down: Contract talks with Teamsters go nowhere, mediator called in Daily Sound ...For the first time in more than a decade, contract talks between the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District and its 185 Teamsters workers have broken down...
Bernie Sanders’ Long Speech Raises Attention to Tax Cut Deal firedoglake ...Sanders is calling attention to ... a tax cut bill that raises taxes from current law for 25 million low-income workers and gives millionaires a tax cut of about $139,000 a person...
Gasoline Prices Rise to 2-Year High New York Times ...crude oil prices...rose on surging imports by China and a weakening of the dollar...
Get Ready for a Crazy Holiday Shipping Season KIVI-TV ...The U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and UPS will ship more packages on Monday than on any other day of the year...
Big bucks in boxes: the shipping business booms Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ...
online retailers are expected to see a 15 percent increase in sales...
Should You Invest Into YRC Worldwide Inc. iStockAnalyst ...the stock looks dead cheap and begs for investment...
MTD Break Down: Contract talks with Teamsters go nowhere, mediator called in Daily Sound ...For the first time in more than a decade, contract talks between the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District and its 185 Teamsters workers have broken down...
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