Teamsters Speak Out at Lobby Day in Olympia teamster.org ...Correctional employees teamed up with taxi cab operators, warehouse workers, nurses, cooks and county and city employees for dozens of meetings with legislators...
Whitney Foods Workers Join Teamsters Local 703 teamster.org ...Chicago distribution workers with Whitney Foods are now members of Teamsters Local 703 after the company voluntarily recognized its employees’ right to join the union last fall...
Collective Bargaining: How to Negotiate Strong Teamster Contracts teamster.org ...The IBT Training and Development Department is conducting a Teamsters Leadership Academy on collective bargaining, March 11-14, 2014...
Allegiant Air Pilots to Meet with Investors, Analysts to Discuss Operating, Safety Concerns teamster.org "...the major service disruptions over the last several months, ranging from multiple fleet shutdowns, chronic staffing and equipment shortages, significant ramp-up in 3rd party contracting for scheduled flights and sub-servicing and the shutdown of the company’s training department, all flow from the short-sighted decisions being made at the top.”...
New poll shows voters overwhelmingly oppose Fast Track TeamsterNation ...Voters by a 2-to-1 margin oppose Fast Track authority to pass trade deals, according to a new poll by Hart Research released today...
Reid Deals Body Blow to Obama on Trade Wall Street Journal ...Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke publicly with the White House Wednesday on trade policy, instantly imperiling two major international trade deals...
Even Companies Need to Know More about Fast Track, TPP teamster.org ...Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) raised the issue of trade provisions that would allow foreign companies to sue governments before international tribunals
Fight back against currency manipulation McClatchy ...we need to increase sales of goods and services made in the United States, which means expanding exports, reducing imports and shrinking our trade deficit. Currency manipulation, by about 20 countries (mostly in Asia), is the single most important cause of our trade deficit...
Asian Shares Slump After Fed Action Wall Street Journal ...Market turmoil returned to Asia Thursday, with Japanese stocks at one point slumping more than 3%, after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would scale back further on its stimulus measures...
Is A New Economic Crisis At Hand? TripleCrisis ...AT the end of last week, several developing countries saw sharp falls in their currency as well as stock market values, prompting the question of whether it is the start of a wider economic crisis. The sell-off in emerging economies also spilled over to the American and European stock markets, thus causing global turmoil...
K Street's Fortunes Decline for Third Year OpenSecrets ...For the third straight year, spending on K Street is down, with only a handful of industries spending more on lobbying in 2013 than they did in 2012...
Fortune 50 CEO pay vs. our salaries CNN Money ...With a staggering total compensation package of $378 million for 2011, Apple's Tim Cook takes the cake for the highest Fortune 50 CEO-to-typical-worker pay ratio. Indeed, it takes 6,258 typical Apple worker salaries to match Cook's total pay...
The Stealth Privatization of Pennsylvania's Bridges TruthOut ...Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's administration has decided to sign a 40-year contract to privatize the state's crumbling bridges, but there has been little to no media coverage of the deal and what it will mean for two generations of Pennsylvanians...
Fun With Scary Pension Numbers in Chicago Center for Economic Policy and Research ...The Chicago Tribune headlined a news story: "Chicago pension tab: $18,596 for every man, woman, child." That's pretty scary. Fortunately my Chicago public school teachers taught me about fractions and denominators. That is what is missing here. The key point is that Chicago does not have to pay this money tomorrow or even over the next year. This is a liability over the next 30 years...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Today's Teamster News 04.11.2013
Republicans applaud chained CPI in Obama budget Politico ...It would decrease the amount paid out in Social Security benefits by lowering the rate of cost of living adjustments...
Republicans Attack President's Budget for Social Security Cuts CNN ..."He's going to have a lot of pushback from some of the major senior organizations ... and Republicans as well..."
Postal Service backs down on cutting Saturday mail CBS News ...The financially beleaguered Postal Service backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery, conceding Wednesday that its gamble to compel congressional approval had failed...
Lenders in settlement to make payouts to foreclosed borrowers Los Angeles Times ...most of the borrowers would receive $300, the minimum allowed under the settlement terms. The maximum of $125,000 would go to 1,135 borrowers whose homes were seized while they were serving in the military or who were current on their payments...
Poverty's grip seen across Baltimore Associated Press ...The number of Americans living in poverty today has not been seen since Lyndon Johnson occupied the White House, and nowhere is it more visible than in urban environments like Baltimore...
WTO Global Trade Growth Forecast for 2013 Lowered to 3.3 Percent Bloomberg ...The World Trade Organization cut its forecast for global trade growth again as the economic slowdown in Europe suppresses demand...
Paycheck Deception rears ugly head in Missouri International Brotherhood of Boilermakers ...Despite hearing testimony overwhelmingly in opposition to SB29, extremists in House Workforce Development and Workplace Safety Committee voted today to send SB29 to the Missouri House floor. This paycheck deception bill seeks to shut hardworking public workers out of the political process – and to take away their voice on the job...
Happytown: State House wants to block sick-time ordinances Orlando Weekly ...Florida House votes in favor of bill that would pre-empt sick time ordinances by invalidating them before they pass at local level...
Bill Would Limit Cities From Requiring Some Worker Benefits Indiana Public Media ...Senate Bill 213 states that counties, cities, towns, and townships cannot require employers to provide benefits, terms of employment, working conditions, or attendance and leave policies that exceed those enshrined in federal or state law...
Wisconsin GOP lawmakers want to limit impact of courts Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ...With some of their major legislative achievements thwarted by the courts in the past two years, Wisconsin Republicans are advancing a bill that would limit the ability of circuit judges to block state laws for the long term...
Teamsters, Hernando County Reach Contract Agreement Tampa Bay Times ...After two years of negotiations, Hernando County and Teamsters Local 79, which represents about 400 county workers, have reached a tentative agreement on a contract...
School Crossing Guards to Get Back Pay The Augusta Chronicle ...School workers, including school bus workers, are being encouraged to apply retroactively for winter break and spring break layoff unemployment benefits. Georgia is paying more than $8 million in earned unemployment benefits to more than 4,000 workers who were denied payments last year by the state’s labor commissioner...
Hoffa Hears Earful From Mechanics in Charlotte IBT ...Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa visited US Airways mechanics and related in Charlotte on Wednesday, April 10 to hear about the problems and challenges they are facing. The workers, who are leaders in the campaign to form a union with the Teamsters, gave him an earful about their problems and the terrible representation they are getting from the IAM...
Teamsters At Republic Services Extend Picket Lines to Sun Valley, California IBT …Sanitation workers employed at Republic Services/Allied Waste’s Carbon Limestone landfill in Youngstown, Ohio raised their 10th picket line extension at Republic’s Sun Valley, Calif. facilities early this morning...
Extremists Attacking Sick Leave: Enough To Make You Sick (Opinion) IBT ...The anti-crowd is at it again. Not satisfied with anti-worker, anti-union and anti-living wage, extremist politicians are now anti-earned sick leave...
Republicans Attack President's Budget for Social Security Cuts CNN ..."He's going to have a lot of pushback from some of the major senior organizations ... and Republicans as well..."
Postal Service backs down on cutting Saturday mail CBS News ...The financially beleaguered Postal Service backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery, conceding Wednesday that its gamble to compel congressional approval had failed...
Lenders in settlement to make payouts to foreclosed borrowers Los Angeles Times ...most of the borrowers would receive $300, the minimum allowed under the settlement terms. The maximum of $125,000 would go to 1,135 borrowers whose homes were seized while they were serving in the military or who were current on their payments...
Poverty's grip seen across Baltimore Associated Press ...The number of Americans living in poverty today has not been seen since Lyndon Johnson occupied the White House, and nowhere is it more visible than in urban environments like Baltimore...
WTO Global Trade Growth Forecast for 2013 Lowered to 3.3 Percent Bloomberg ...The World Trade Organization cut its forecast for global trade growth again as the economic slowdown in Europe suppresses demand...
Paycheck Deception rears ugly head in Missouri International Brotherhood of Boilermakers ...Despite hearing testimony overwhelmingly in opposition to SB29, extremists in House Workforce Development and Workplace Safety Committee voted today to send SB29 to the Missouri House floor. This paycheck deception bill seeks to shut hardworking public workers out of the political process – and to take away their voice on the job...
Happytown: State House wants to block sick-time ordinances Orlando Weekly ...Florida House votes in favor of bill that would pre-empt sick time ordinances by invalidating them before they pass at local level...
Bill Would Limit Cities From Requiring Some Worker Benefits Indiana Public Media ...Senate Bill 213 states that counties, cities, towns, and townships cannot require employers to provide benefits, terms of employment, working conditions, or attendance and leave policies that exceed those enshrined in federal or state law...
Wisconsin GOP lawmakers want to limit impact of courts Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ...With some of their major legislative achievements thwarted by the courts in the past two years, Wisconsin Republicans are advancing a bill that would limit the ability of circuit judges to block state laws for the long term...
Teamsters, Hernando County Reach Contract Agreement Tampa Bay Times ...After two years of negotiations, Hernando County and Teamsters Local 79, which represents about 400 county workers, have reached a tentative agreement on a contract...
School Crossing Guards to Get Back Pay The Augusta Chronicle ...School workers, including school bus workers, are being encouraged to apply retroactively for winter break and spring break layoff unemployment benefits. Georgia is paying more than $8 million in earned unemployment benefits to more than 4,000 workers who were denied payments last year by the state’s labor commissioner...
Hoffa Hears Earful From Mechanics in Charlotte IBT ...Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa visited US Airways mechanics and related in Charlotte on Wednesday, April 10 to hear about the problems and challenges they are facing. The workers, who are leaders in the campaign to form a union with the Teamsters, gave him an earful about their problems and the terrible representation they are getting from the IAM...
Teamsters At Republic Services Extend Picket Lines to Sun Valley, California IBT …Sanitation workers employed at Republic Services/Allied Waste’s Carbon Limestone landfill in Youngstown, Ohio raised their 10th picket line extension at Republic’s Sun Valley, Calif. facilities early this morning...
Extremists Attacking Sick Leave: Enough To Make You Sick (Opinion) IBT ...The anti-crowd is at it again. Not satisfied with anti-worker, anti-union and anti-living wage, extremist politicians are now anti-earned sick leave...
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Today's Teamster News 09.02.12
The slowdown is spreading around the world The Economist ...The most perturbing aspect of the current slowdown is that the weakness is so widespread, affecting emerging economies as well as rich countries...
Still No Justice for Mortgage Abuses (opinion) New York Times ...The economy will not recover and justice will not be done unless and until the mortgage mess is resolved...
The era of cheap food may be over The Guardian ...Farmers have been getting more efficient, increasing the yields of land under production, but this has been offset by two negative factors: policies in the US and the EU that divert large amounts of corn for biofuels and poor harvests caused by the weather...
OOPS: Mitt Romney Calls United States A ‘Company’ ThinkProgress ...Paul Ryan and I understand how the economy works, we understand how Washington works, we will reach across the aisle and find good people who like us, want to make sure this company deals with its challenges...
Isaac Victim Loses Home; Says Mitt Told Her to Go Home and Call 211 Crooks and Liars ..."He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states...
Hostess hits Workers with Ultimatum The Indypendent ...Management at bankrupt Hostess products - maker of Twinkies, cupcakes, Wonder Bread and other baked goods - hit its unions, notably the Teamsters and the Bakery Workers (BCTGM), with a "last, best and final" offer ultimatum on August 16...
Coast Gears: Teamsters Labor Day weekend car show First Coast News ...Teamsters Local 512 held a Labor Day weekend car show and cookout at its Lane Avenue location on the Westside Saturday...
Still No Justice for Mortgage Abuses (opinion) New York Times ...The economy will not recover and justice will not be done unless and until the mortgage mess is resolved...
The era of cheap food may be over The Guardian ...Farmers have been getting more efficient, increasing the yields of land under production, but this has been offset by two negative factors: policies in the US and the EU that divert large amounts of corn for biofuels and poor harvests caused by the weather...
OOPS: Mitt Romney Calls United States A ‘Company’ ThinkProgress ...Paul Ryan and I understand how the economy works, we understand how Washington works, we will reach across the aisle and find good people who like us, want to make sure this company deals with its challenges...
Isaac Victim Loses Home; Says Mitt Told Her to Go Home and Call 211 Crooks and Liars ..."He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states...
Hostess hits Workers with Ultimatum The Indypendent ...Management at bankrupt Hostess products - maker of Twinkies, cupcakes, Wonder Bread and other baked goods - hit its unions, notably the Teamsters and the Bakery Workers (BCTGM), with a "last, best and final" offer ultimatum on August 16...
Coast Gears: Teamsters Labor Day weekend car show First Coast News ...Teamsters Local 512 held a Labor Day weekend car show and cookout at its Lane Avenue location on the Westside Saturday...
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