Teamsters
County public employees to vote for Teamsters affiliation Daily Press ... Ballots have been mailed out to more than 15,000 San Bernardino County, city and agency employees to vote on whether they want to join Teamsters, officials said...
Trade
Ron Wyden's internet freedom allies fret he'll abandon them on trade pact The Oregonian ...Sen. Ron Wyden was greeted Friday morning at his Umatilla town hall meeting by a 30-foot-long blimp urging him to oppose an upcoming trade pack that critics say could curb internet freedom...
Wyden faces wide scope of question East Oregonian ...Education and international trade were on the minds of citizens who showed up to a town hall meeting hosted by Sen. Ron Wyden in Umatilla Friday...
TPP clock ticks as Congress dallies on trade authority Japan Times ... Negotiations on a contested Pacific free trade pact have apparently hit a new snag — a U.S. legislative delay in bringing forward a bill viewed as crucial to concluding the deal. Dashing earlier expectations, the U.S. Congress has yet to submit a bill that would grant what is called Trade Promotion Authority to President Barack Obama so he can sign trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership without deep legislative scrutiny...
Getting It Wrong on Trade: TPP Is Not Good for Workers Beat the Press ...What part of getting kicked in the face do you not understand?...
State Battles
'Right to work' laws aren't about jobs or rights. They're about power. The Week ... If you're an average worker who just wants to make more money, should you oppose "Right to Work" statutes? Absolutely...
Prevailing Wage Laws: Why Are They An Increasingly Popular Target For Republican State Legislators? International Business Times ... This session, Nevada has already repealed prevailing wages for school construction projects. A bill that scales back West Virginia’s system awaits the signature of the governor. Indiana nears a repeal. Michigan mulls a similar proposal. Some Wisconsin Republicans see it as the next step after right-to-work...
War on Workers
Working Minority Families Are Twice As Likely To Be Low-Income As Whites Wall Street Journal ... Racial and ethnic minorities made up 40% of all working families, but accounted for 58% of working families that are low-income...
NYU Graduate Students Win Historic Victory The American Prospect ...the Graduate Students Organizing Committee of the United Autoworkers, or GSOC, reached a historic, tentative agreement with administrators at New York University, averting a strike that was scheduled to begin just hours later...
Worker killed after being thrown from machine Equipment World ...Law enforcement and Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials are investigating the death of a construction worker on a jobsite in Rutherford County, North Carolina...
Miscellaneous
The rise of luxury toilet paper Washington Post ...Sales in the United States of what the industry calls "luxury" rolls — anything quilted, lotioned, perfumed or ultra-soft, from two- to four-ply — climbed to $1.4 billion last year, outpacing all other kinds of toilet paper for the first time in nearly a decade...
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Thursday, November 20, 2014
Today's Teamster News 11.20.14
Teamster News
FedEx Freight Workers In Charlotte Vote To Join Teamsters Local 71 teamster.org ... A group of 222 drivers at FedEx Freight’s Charlotte, N.C., terminal voted today to join Teamsters Local 71...
Sysco And Us Foods Teamsters Protest Sysco Shareholders Meeting teamster.org ...Teamsters employed at Sysco and US Foods protested outside Sysco’s shareholders meeting today to demand answers to tough questions from the company’s Board of Directors about its proposed purchase of US Foods and the impact on thousands of jobs...
Facebook Drivers Vote To Join Teamsters teamster.org ... Drivers who shuttle Facebook employees to and from the company headquarters in Menlo Park., Calif., have voted in favor of representation by Teamsters Local 853 in San Leandro, Calif...
Yonkers, Teamsters employees agree to new 10-year contract MidHudson News ...The City of Yonkers and Teamsters Local 456 have agreed to a new 10-year contract for city employees. The pack, supported by 80 percent of the union’s membership, is retroactive to 2009 and will expire in 2018, Mayor Michael Spano announced Wednesday...
Trade
Conservatives and Liberals Agree, TPP Hates Your Freedom (opinion) Huffington Post ...This supposed trade deal has far-reaching legal implications for our nation and beyond but it has been negotiated in secret without oversight from Congress or the American People...
Obama Is Pushing Two Giant Trade Deals — Here’s What You Need to Know Campaign for America's Future ...only eight House Democrats are on record as favoring fast-track. On the other side of the aisle, as I noted in January, the tea party wing of the Republican Party has dubbed the TPP “Obamatrade,” and is warning, in the words of one “analyst” on the Tea Party News Network, that TPP is a “weapon aimed straight at our Constitution, straight at our sovereignty and straight at Christians around the world.”...
State Battles
S.F. Supervisors Vote 10-0 To Approve "Bill Of Rights" For Formula Retail Workers San Francisco Business Journal ...San Francisco restaurant and retail workers will have more predictable schedules and more opportunities for full-time work under two ordinances passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday...
Voter ID Laws Scrutinized For Impact On Midterms New York Times ...In North Carolina, early voting was cut by seven days. In Kansas, 22,000 people were stopped from registering to vote because they lacked proof of citizenship. And in Texas, Democrats say the country’s toughest voter ID law contributed to a one-term congressman’s losing a tight race to his Republican rival....
Unions Aren't The Problem For Alabama Workers (opinion) Montgomery Advertiser ...union workers earn nearly $4 more per hour than non-union workers for the same work. They have significantly better benefits and retirement plans. And they receive raises and bonuses more frequently. Additionally, unions keep the gap between worker pay and CEO pay closer and they reduce the amount of tax dollars spent on employee training and re-training, because the unions usually ensure its members are properly trained...
Report That Poverty Declined Under Brownback Was Misleading WIBW ...A state agency acknowledges it sent out a news release shortly before November's election that incorrectly claimed poverty in Kansas had declined under Gov. Sam Brownback's administration...
UC tuition-hike plan advances, but debate just beginning San Jose Mercury News ...University of California regents voted Wednesday to raise tuition annually for the next five years if the state doesn't give the system more funding, making an aggressive -- if wildly unpopular -- first move in a high-stakes state-funding fight...
War on Workers
Push To Protect Immigrant Farm Workers Wall Street Journal ...Farm workers and some agriculture industry officials are making a last-minute push for President Barack Obama to include protections for undocumented agricultural workers in his new immigration policy, worried that the pending executive action may be the last opportunity to change immigration rules for a while...
Amazon Worker Forces Changes As Labor Board Settles Claim Bloomberg Businessweek ...the settlement requires the online retailer to post notices at its fulfillment centers notifying employees that they have the right to form unions and work with each other for collective benefits...
Senate Report Criticizes Goldman and JPMorgan Over Their Influence in Commodities Market New York Times ...A two-year Senate-led investigation is throwing back the curtain on the outsize and sometimes hidden sway that Wall Street banks have gained over the markets for essential commodities like oil, aluminum and coal...
Walmart Workers Rally in "Global Day of Action for Decent Work" truthout ...On November 19, Walmart workers in 10 countries are holding demonstrations to highlight the company's poor labor practices from its retail stores throughout the entire supply chain, and to call for a living wage for Walmart's global workforce and countless supply chain workers...
Tracy Morgan Fighting To Recover From ‘Severe Brain Injury,’ Lawyer Says New York Times ...A Walmart truck slammed into a limo van that was carrying Mr. Morgan and several friends on their way back from a show in Delaware. One person was killed, and three others were injured, two seriously. Mr. Morgan, 46, spent several weeks in a hospital and in rehabilitation...
Chesapeake police ID worker killed in accident Associated Press ...Chesapeake police have identified a worker who died after he was run over by truck. Officer Kelly O'Sullivan tells media outlets that 47-year-old Nouel Fallejo of Virginia Beach was working on the truck...
Lawsuit settlement in death of film worker in Ga. Associated Press ... The family of a film worker killed when she was hit along train tracks while shooting a biographical movie about singer Gregg Allman announced a settlement Wednesday with several defendants...
West Texas worker killed under semitrailer Associated Press ...Authorities in West Texas say a worker has died after being crushed under a semitrailer that he was working on...
Miscellaneous
Bill To Restrict N.S.A. Data Collection Blocked In Vote By Senate Republicans New York Times ...Tuesday’s vote only put off until next year a debate over security and personal liberties. While a Republican-controlled Senate is less likely to go along with the kinds of reforms that were in the bill, which sponsors had named the U.S.A. Freedom Act, the debate could further expose rifts between the party’s interventionist and more libertarian-leaning wings...
FedEx Freight Workers In Charlotte Vote To Join Teamsters Local 71 teamster.org ... A group of 222 drivers at FedEx Freight’s Charlotte, N.C., terminal voted today to join Teamsters Local 71...
Sysco And Us Foods Teamsters Protest Sysco Shareholders Meeting teamster.org ...Teamsters employed at Sysco and US Foods protested outside Sysco’s shareholders meeting today to demand answers to tough questions from the company’s Board of Directors about its proposed purchase of US Foods and the impact on thousands of jobs...
Facebook Drivers Vote To Join Teamsters teamster.org ... Drivers who shuttle Facebook employees to and from the company headquarters in Menlo Park., Calif., have voted in favor of representation by Teamsters Local 853 in San Leandro, Calif...
Yonkers, Teamsters employees agree to new 10-year contract MidHudson News ...The City of Yonkers and Teamsters Local 456 have agreed to a new 10-year contract for city employees. The pack, supported by 80 percent of the union’s membership, is retroactive to 2009 and will expire in 2018, Mayor Michael Spano announced Wednesday...
Trade
Conservatives and Liberals Agree, TPP Hates Your Freedom (opinion) Huffington Post ...This supposed trade deal has far-reaching legal implications for our nation and beyond but it has been negotiated in secret without oversight from Congress or the American People...
Obama Is Pushing Two Giant Trade Deals — Here’s What You Need to Know Campaign for America's Future ...only eight House Democrats are on record as favoring fast-track. On the other side of the aisle, as I noted in January, the tea party wing of the Republican Party has dubbed the TPP “Obamatrade,” and is warning, in the words of one “analyst” on the Tea Party News Network, that TPP is a “weapon aimed straight at our Constitution, straight at our sovereignty and straight at Christians around the world.”...
State Battles
S.F. Supervisors Vote 10-0 To Approve "Bill Of Rights" For Formula Retail Workers San Francisco Business Journal ...San Francisco restaurant and retail workers will have more predictable schedules and more opportunities for full-time work under two ordinances passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday...
Voter ID Laws Scrutinized For Impact On Midterms New York Times ...In North Carolina, early voting was cut by seven days. In Kansas, 22,000 people were stopped from registering to vote because they lacked proof of citizenship. And in Texas, Democrats say the country’s toughest voter ID law contributed to a one-term congressman’s losing a tight race to his Republican rival....
Unions Aren't The Problem For Alabama Workers (opinion) Montgomery Advertiser ...union workers earn nearly $4 more per hour than non-union workers for the same work. They have significantly better benefits and retirement plans. And they receive raises and bonuses more frequently. Additionally, unions keep the gap between worker pay and CEO pay closer and they reduce the amount of tax dollars spent on employee training and re-training, because the unions usually ensure its members are properly trained...
Report That Poverty Declined Under Brownback Was Misleading WIBW ...A state agency acknowledges it sent out a news release shortly before November's election that incorrectly claimed poverty in Kansas had declined under Gov. Sam Brownback's administration...
UC tuition-hike plan advances, but debate just beginning San Jose Mercury News ...University of California regents voted Wednesday to raise tuition annually for the next five years if the state doesn't give the system more funding, making an aggressive -- if wildly unpopular -- first move in a high-stakes state-funding fight...
War on Workers
Push To Protect Immigrant Farm Workers Wall Street Journal ...Farm workers and some agriculture industry officials are making a last-minute push for President Barack Obama to include protections for undocumented agricultural workers in his new immigration policy, worried that the pending executive action may be the last opportunity to change immigration rules for a while...
Amazon Worker Forces Changes As Labor Board Settles Claim Bloomberg Businessweek ...the settlement requires the online retailer to post notices at its fulfillment centers notifying employees that they have the right to form unions and work with each other for collective benefits...
Senate Report Criticizes Goldman and JPMorgan Over Their Influence in Commodities Market New York Times ...A two-year Senate-led investigation is throwing back the curtain on the outsize and sometimes hidden sway that Wall Street banks have gained over the markets for essential commodities like oil, aluminum and coal...
Walmart Workers Rally in "Global Day of Action for Decent Work" truthout ...On November 19, Walmart workers in 10 countries are holding demonstrations to highlight the company's poor labor practices from its retail stores throughout the entire supply chain, and to call for a living wage for Walmart's global workforce and countless supply chain workers...
Tracy Morgan Fighting To Recover From ‘Severe Brain Injury,’ Lawyer Says New York Times ...A Walmart truck slammed into a limo van that was carrying Mr. Morgan and several friends on their way back from a show in Delaware. One person was killed, and three others were injured, two seriously. Mr. Morgan, 46, spent several weeks in a hospital and in rehabilitation...
Chesapeake police ID worker killed in accident Associated Press ...Chesapeake police have identified a worker who died after he was run over by truck. Officer Kelly O'Sullivan tells media outlets that 47-year-old Nouel Fallejo of Virginia Beach was working on the truck...
Lawsuit settlement in death of film worker in Ga. Associated Press ... The family of a film worker killed when she was hit along train tracks while shooting a biographical movie about singer Gregg Allman announced a settlement Wednesday with several defendants...
West Texas worker killed under semitrailer Associated Press ...Authorities in West Texas say a worker has died after being crushed under a semitrailer that he was working on...
Miscellaneous
Bill To Restrict N.S.A. Data Collection Blocked In Vote By Senate Republicans New York Times ...Tuesday’s vote only put off until next year a debate over security and personal liberties. While a Republican-controlled Senate is less likely to go along with the kinds of reforms that were in the bill, which sponsors had named the U.S.A. Freedom Act, the debate could further expose rifts between the party’s interventionist and more libertarian-leaning wings...
Monday, September 22, 2014
Today's Teamster News 09.22.14
Trade
More questions and answers on contentious TTIP trade deal Guardian ...Congratulations on Owen Jones’s article highlighting the threat that the proposed EU-US free-trade deal known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership presents to our sovereignty – not to mention our standards of workers’ rights, environmental standards and food safety rules...
U.S. Trade Rep. Froman Pushes Secret TPP With Business, Political Elites New American ...U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman ... is making the rounds, addressing high-powered commercial, political, and academic circles to build support for the still-secret (and developing) Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive assault on America’s national sovereignty that the Obama administration is attempting to market as a trade pact...
State Battles
Sam Brownback’s failed ‘experiment’ puts state on path to penury (opinion) Washington Post ...as the damaging social and budgetary impacts of his slash-and-burn fiscal measures have become apparent, Mr. Brownback, a conservative Republican seeking reelection this fall in a state where every statewide elected official is also a Republican, is in the disorienting position of trailing his Democratic challenger in the polls...
The real crimes of Chris Christie (opinion) Philly.com ...Over the last five years, the New Jersey governor has been running a political Ponzi scheme -- probably legal but definitely immoral -- in steering money, huge tax breaks, and other perks to his friends and to the 1 Percent, while the poor and middle class have suffered...
Audit discovers massive mismanagement problems and millions of lost dollars at Scott Walker's job-creation agency Wisconsin Gazette ...WEDC's official database includes documentation for only 4,796 "actual" jobs created by the agency over a two-year period. To create those jobs about $203 million in taxpayer money went out the door in grants, loans and bonding authority...
War on Workers
For-Profit Colleges as Factories of Debt naked capitalism ...A whopping 96% of students who manage to graduate from for-profits leave owing money, and they typically carry twice the debt load of students from more traditional schools...
Professors on food stamps: The shocking true story of academia in 2014 Salon ...Over three quarters of college professors are adjunct. Legally, adjunct positions are part-time, at-will employment. Universities pay adjunct professors by the course, anywhere between $1,000 to $5,000...
Labor Groups Seek Probe of Wal-Mart's PAC Wall Street Journal ...Labor and advocacy groups are seeking an investigation into whether Wal-Mart Stores Inc. … violated federal election laws by soliciting employees for donations to its political-action committee in exchange for charitable contributions to a fund that helps Wal-Mart employees in need...
Walmart's Plan To Encourage Political Donations Violates Election Law, Groups Claim Huffington Post ...The company entices managers, executives, professional workers and shareholders to give to its political action committee by promising to donate twice as much money to a company-run charity for Walmart employees as its workers give to the PAC...
Man, 51, is killed while working at Supervalu warehouse in Hopkins Minneapolis Star-Tribune ...A 51-year-old man was killed Sunday at the Supervalu warehouse in Hopkins in what authorities are calling an industrial accident...
Upstate NY farm worker dies after being trapped in hay baler Associated Press ...The Genesee County Sheriff's Office says a 23-year-old farm worker has died after becoming trapped in a hay baling machine...
Miscellaneous
Jerry Brown Seeks More Electric Cars in California New York Times ...Gov. Jerry Brown of California has signed several bills … designed to make electric cars more affordable for low-income residents, and the intent is to have at least one million zero-emission and near-zero-emission vehicles on the state’s roads by 2023...
More questions and answers on contentious TTIP trade deal Guardian ...Congratulations on Owen Jones’s article highlighting the threat that the proposed EU-US free-trade deal known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership presents to our sovereignty – not to mention our standards of workers’ rights, environmental standards and food safety rules...
U.S. Trade Rep. Froman Pushes Secret TPP With Business, Political Elites New American ...U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman ... is making the rounds, addressing high-powered commercial, political, and academic circles to build support for the still-secret (and developing) Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive assault on America’s national sovereignty that the Obama administration is attempting to market as a trade pact...
State Battles
Sam Brownback’s failed ‘experiment’ puts state on path to penury (opinion) Washington Post ...as the damaging social and budgetary impacts of his slash-and-burn fiscal measures have become apparent, Mr. Brownback, a conservative Republican seeking reelection this fall in a state where every statewide elected official is also a Republican, is in the disorienting position of trailing his Democratic challenger in the polls...
The real crimes of Chris Christie (opinion) Philly.com ...Over the last five years, the New Jersey governor has been running a political Ponzi scheme -- probably legal but definitely immoral -- in steering money, huge tax breaks, and other perks to his friends and to the 1 Percent, while the poor and middle class have suffered...
Audit discovers massive mismanagement problems and millions of lost dollars at Scott Walker's job-creation agency Wisconsin Gazette ...WEDC's official database includes documentation for only 4,796 "actual" jobs created by the agency over a two-year period. To create those jobs about $203 million in taxpayer money went out the door in grants, loans and bonding authority...
War on Workers
For-Profit Colleges as Factories of Debt naked capitalism ...A whopping 96% of students who manage to graduate from for-profits leave owing money, and they typically carry twice the debt load of students from more traditional schools...
Professors on food stamps: The shocking true story of academia in 2014 Salon ...Over three quarters of college professors are adjunct. Legally, adjunct positions are part-time, at-will employment. Universities pay adjunct professors by the course, anywhere between $1,000 to $5,000...
Labor Groups Seek Probe of Wal-Mart's PAC Wall Street Journal ...Labor and advocacy groups are seeking an investigation into whether Wal-Mart Stores Inc. … violated federal election laws by soliciting employees for donations to its political-action committee in exchange for charitable contributions to a fund that helps Wal-Mart employees in need...
Walmart's Plan To Encourage Political Donations Violates Election Law, Groups Claim Huffington Post ...The company entices managers, executives, professional workers and shareholders to give to its political action committee by promising to donate twice as much money to a company-run charity for Walmart employees as its workers give to the PAC...
Man, 51, is killed while working at Supervalu warehouse in Hopkins Minneapolis Star-Tribune ...A 51-year-old man was killed Sunday at the Supervalu warehouse in Hopkins in what authorities are calling an industrial accident...
Upstate NY farm worker dies after being trapped in hay baler Associated Press ...The Genesee County Sheriff's Office says a 23-year-old farm worker has died after becoming trapped in a hay baling machine...
Miscellaneous
Jerry Brown Seeks More Electric Cars in California New York Times ...Gov. Jerry Brown of California has signed several bills … designed to make electric cars more affordable for low-income residents, and the intent is to have at least one million zero-emission and near-zero-emission vehicles on the state’s roads by 2023...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Today's Teamster News 07.16.14
Teamster News
Teamsters Propose End To Potential $283M Executive Pay Give-Away At McKesson IBT ...ISS, the country’s largest proxy advisor, announced its recommendation that McKesson shareholders vote ‘FOR’ Item #6 on the company proxy to support a Teamster-sponsored proposal that urges the company to address the automatic accelerated vesting of equity awards in the event of a change of control and termination...
YRC, Teamsters Sign Off On New Board Member Kansas City Business Journal ...William "Bob" Davidson will join YRC Worldwide. Late Friday, the Overland Park-based less-than-truckload carrier (Nasdaq: YRCW) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that the union-nominated company-approved Davidson will join YRC's nine-member board...
Events July 17-20 To Commemorate 80th Anniversary Of 1934 Teamsters Strike Twin Cities Daily Planet ...Events planned for four days July 17-20 will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Minneapolis Teamsters strikes of 1934. considered the most significant single labor event in Minnesota history. Films, music, speeches, a march, a street festival, a picnic and a lecture by the author of a new book about the 1934 strike will be featured. Event organizers also have reached out to descendants of 1934 strikers to include them in 80th anniversary events...
Oxford Deputies To Picket Courthouse Tuesday To Protest Wages Oxford Hills Sun Journal ...Oxford County Sheriff's deputies are expected to picket in front of the courthouse on Western Avenue on Tuesday morning to draw attention to their labor dispute with the county. Deputies are asking for a contract, higher wages and a reinstatement of border patrols, according to Ray Cote, Teamsters Local 340 representative...
GET Bus Strike Starts At 12:01 A.M. Tuesday Bakersfield Californian ...With no breakthrough in sight Monday, a six-month-old labor dispute pushed Bakersfield to the brink of its first bus strike in 34 years. The union representing 257 bus drivers and mechanics at Golden Empire Transit District said its members walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday after failing to reach agreement with management on raises and some drivers' classification...
Trade
Japan, U.S. to meet again in August on TPP Japan Times ...Japan and the United States reaffirmed their commitment to settle as soon as possible the disputes standing in the way of finalizing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, agreeing to hold talks again next month, Japanese officials said...
Dems Push to Delay Trans-Pacific Partnership Until After Elections New American ...Democrats in Congress are pumping the brakes on negotiations of a multinational trade pact, worried that a significant bloc of their base would leave the party should the agreement be approved before the November elections...
State Battles
Activists Pitch L.A. Ballot Measure For Citywide $15 Minimum Wage Los Angeles Times ...A coalition of activists has taken the first step in a campaign for a $15 minimum wage for workers across Los Angeles, drafting language for a ballot measure that would follow in the footsteps of a boost recently approved in Seattle...
Obama admin to join voting rights cases in Ohio and Wisconsin MSNBC ...The moves would represent the first time that Holder’s Justice Department has intervened against statewide voting laws outside the areas that the Supreme Court freed from federal oversight in last year’s Shelby County v. Holder ruling...
War On Workers
The Inverted World of Mobile Capital Project Syndicate ...A growing number of American companies are seeking to move their legal headquarters abroad by acquiring or merging with foreign companies...
A Push to Give Steadier Shifts to Part-Timers New York Times ...The recent, rapid spread of on-call employment to retail and other sectors has prompted proposals that would require companies to pay employees extra for on-call work and to give two weeks’ notice of a work schedule...
Debt Collection 'Factory' Preyed On Broke Americans: Lawsuit Huffington Post ...A federal watchdog is suing a collection agency that allegedly operated like a "factory" churning out lawsuits against cash-strapped borrowers, often using misleading, deceptive and illegal practices...
The Staples Boycott: A Big Teachers Union Gets on Board Wall Street Journal ...“Postal workers are the most amazing public servants,” said American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. “Who does Staples really want and need to come into its stores every single day? Teachers. The best way we can help is if we say to Staples: ‘You do this to the postal workers, and we aren’t buying supplies in your stores.’”...
A Tale Of ‘Too Big To Fail’ In Higher Education New York Times ...to varying degrees, the predicament of unaccountable colleges overseen by ineffective accreditors exists nationwide...
Miscellaneous
Germany's plan to take on NSA: Block eavesdroppers with classical music, and use typewriters Telegraph ...Politicians in Germany have devised an ingenious solution to combat the threat of eavesdropping by American spies: playing classical music during their meetings...
Senators Blast NCAA, ESPN In Review Of College Athletics Roll Call ...Senators hammered NCAA President Mark Emmert on July 9, as questions about student-athlete compensation, graduation rates, health care and sexual assault took center stage. Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., kicked off by (saying) ... There’s a growing perception that college athletics, particularly Division I football and basketball, are not avocations at all. What they really are is highly profitable commercial enterprises.”...
Teamsters Propose End To Potential $283M Executive Pay Give-Away At McKesson IBT ...ISS, the country’s largest proxy advisor, announced its recommendation that McKesson shareholders vote ‘FOR’ Item #6 on the company proxy to support a Teamster-sponsored proposal that urges the company to address the automatic accelerated vesting of equity awards in the event of a change of control and termination...
YRC, Teamsters Sign Off On New Board Member Kansas City Business Journal ...William "Bob" Davidson will join YRC Worldwide. Late Friday, the Overland Park-based less-than-truckload carrier (Nasdaq: YRCW) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that the union-nominated company-approved Davidson will join YRC's nine-member board...
Events July 17-20 To Commemorate 80th Anniversary Of 1934 Teamsters Strike Twin Cities Daily Planet ...Events planned for four days July 17-20 will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Minneapolis Teamsters strikes of 1934. considered the most significant single labor event in Minnesota history. Films, music, speeches, a march, a street festival, a picnic and a lecture by the author of a new book about the 1934 strike will be featured. Event organizers also have reached out to descendants of 1934 strikers to include them in 80th anniversary events...
Oxford Deputies To Picket Courthouse Tuesday To Protest Wages Oxford Hills Sun Journal ...Oxford County Sheriff's deputies are expected to picket in front of the courthouse on Western Avenue on Tuesday morning to draw attention to their labor dispute with the county. Deputies are asking for a contract, higher wages and a reinstatement of border patrols, according to Ray Cote, Teamsters Local 340 representative...
GET Bus Strike Starts At 12:01 A.M. Tuesday Bakersfield Californian ...With no breakthrough in sight Monday, a six-month-old labor dispute pushed Bakersfield to the brink of its first bus strike in 34 years. The union representing 257 bus drivers and mechanics at Golden Empire Transit District said its members walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday after failing to reach agreement with management on raises and some drivers' classification...
Trade
Japan, U.S. to meet again in August on TPP Japan Times ...Japan and the United States reaffirmed their commitment to settle as soon as possible the disputes standing in the way of finalizing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, agreeing to hold talks again next month, Japanese officials said...
Dems Push to Delay Trans-Pacific Partnership Until After Elections New American ...Democrats in Congress are pumping the brakes on negotiations of a multinational trade pact, worried that a significant bloc of their base would leave the party should the agreement be approved before the November elections...
State Battles
Activists Pitch L.A. Ballot Measure For Citywide $15 Minimum Wage Los Angeles Times ...A coalition of activists has taken the first step in a campaign for a $15 minimum wage for workers across Los Angeles, drafting language for a ballot measure that would follow in the footsteps of a boost recently approved in Seattle...
Obama admin to join voting rights cases in Ohio and Wisconsin MSNBC ...The moves would represent the first time that Holder’s Justice Department has intervened against statewide voting laws outside the areas that the Supreme Court freed from federal oversight in last year’s Shelby County v. Holder ruling...
War On Workers
The Inverted World of Mobile Capital Project Syndicate ...A growing number of American companies are seeking to move their legal headquarters abroad by acquiring or merging with foreign companies...
A Push to Give Steadier Shifts to Part-Timers New York Times ...The recent, rapid spread of on-call employment to retail and other sectors has prompted proposals that would require companies to pay employees extra for on-call work and to give two weeks’ notice of a work schedule...
Debt Collection 'Factory' Preyed On Broke Americans: Lawsuit Huffington Post ...A federal watchdog is suing a collection agency that allegedly operated like a "factory" churning out lawsuits against cash-strapped borrowers, often using misleading, deceptive and illegal practices...
The Staples Boycott: A Big Teachers Union Gets on Board Wall Street Journal ...“Postal workers are the most amazing public servants,” said American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. “Who does Staples really want and need to come into its stores every single day? Teachers. The best way we can help is if we say to Staples: ‘You do this to the postal workers, and we aren’t buying supplies in your stores.’”...
A Tale Of ‘Too Big To Fail’ In Higher Education New York Times ...to varying degrees, the predicament of unaccountable colleges overseen by ineffective accreditors exists nationwide...
Miscellaneous
Germany's plan to take on NSA: Block eavesdroppers with classical music, and use typewriters Telegraph ...Politicians in Germany have devised an ingenious solution to combat the threat of eavesdropping by American spies: playing classical music during their meetings...
Senators Blast NCAA, ESPN In Review Of College Athletics Roll Call ...Senators hammered NCAA President Mark Emmert on July 9, as questions about student-athlete compensation, graduation rates, health care and sexual assault took center stage. Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., kicked off by (saying) ... There’s a growing perception that college athletics, particularly Division I football and basketball, are not avocations at all. What they really are is highly profitable commercial enterprises.”...
Monday, June 16, 2014
Today's Teamster News 06.16.14
Teamsters
With strike over, SEPTA riders exude relief Philly.com ...SEPTA's 13 Regional Rail lines returned to normal after the one-day strike by rail engineers and electrical workers, the first in 31 years. President Obama intervened Saturday, signing an executive order to appoint an emergency board to mediate the dispute between SEPTA and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen plus the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
Court blocks Teamsters’ bid to thwart company sale Business Management Daily ...A court has ruled that the Teamsters union can’t scuttle the sale of Will Poultry, a Buffalo food distributor. The company had been looking for a buyer for three years when it finally found one. The sale agreement called for terminating all employees and allowing the new owner to determine which ones it would bring back. The new owner would not be obligated to honor the existing collective bargaining agreement or recognize the Teamsters union, which represented workers...
Trade
Financial services off the table at next round of TTIP talks EurActive.com ... The inclusion or otherwise of financial services in the free trade agreement negotiations is a major point of disagreement between the US and the EU. While the EU insists financial services should be included in any deal, the US Treasury has argued firmly against working with the Europeans to regulate their financial sector...
State Battles
Trade groups sue VT over GMO labeling law Burlington Free Press ...Four national organizations whose members would be affected by Vermont's new labeling law for genetically engineered foods filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court challenging the measure's constitutionality...
North Carolina Treasurer, Accused of Malfeasance , Defends Secrecy of Private Equity Investments naked capitalism ...the current Treasurer, Janet Cowell, in her role as sole trustee for the state pension (is accused of) ... of supporting a “pay to play” system as well as failing to curb abuses and promoting a secrecy system essential to hiding them. He also estimates that her oversight failures have cost North Carolina $6.8 billion during her term in office...
War on Workers
This Is What Barely Making Ends Meet In America Sounds Like Huffington Post ...According to U.S. Census data, more than 7 percent of workers live below the federal poverty line, with many more above the cutoff but still struggling...
The Question on People Leaving the Labor Force is 41-Year-Olds, Not 61-Year-Olds Center for Economic Policy and Research ... the unemployment rate is considerably lower than would otherwise be the case because so many people have simply given up looking for work and are therefore not counted as being unemployed...
Amazon Is Planning A Way To Let You Hire Babysitters And Plumbers Reuters ...The move takes direct aim at consumer review sites Yelp Inc and Angie's List Inc as well as U.S. home improvement chains Home Depot Inc and Lowe's Companies Inc, which have both invested in ways to connect customers with local plumbers, painters and other service providers...
Miscellaneous
Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers New York Times ...Starbucks will provide a free online college education to thousands of its workers, without requiring that they remain with the company, through an unusual arrangement with Arizona State University...
With strike over, SEPTA riders exude relief Philly.com ...SEPTA's 13 Regional Rail lines returned to normal after the one-day strike by rail engineers and electrical workers, the first in 31 years. President Obama intervened Saturday, signing an executive order to appoint an emergency board to mediate the dispute between SEPTA and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen plus the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
Court blocks Teamsters’ bid to thwart company sale Business Management Daily ...A court has ruled that the Teamsters union can’t scuttle the sale of Will Poultry, a Buffalo food distributor. The company had been looking for a buyer for three years when it finally found one. The sale agreement called for terminating all employees and allowing the new owner to determine which ones it would bring back. The new owner would not be obligated to honor the existing collective bargaining agreement or recognize the Teamsters union, which represented workers...
Trade
Financial services off the table at next round of TTIP talks EurActive.com ... The inclusion or otherwise of financial services in the free trade agreement negotiations is a major point of disagreement between the US and the EU. While the EU insists financial services should be included in any deal, the US Treasury has argued firmly against working with the Europeans to regulate their financial sector...
State Battles
Trade groups sue VT over GMO labeling law Burlington Free Press ...Four national organizations whose members would be affected by Vermont's new labeling law for genetically engineered foods filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court challenging the measure's constitutionality...
North Carolina Treasurer, Accused of Malfeasance , Defends Secrecy of Private Equity Investments naked capitalism ...the current Treasurer, Janet Cowell, in her role as sole trustee for the state pension (is accused of) ... of supporting a “pay to play” system as well as failing to curb abuses and promoting a secrecy system essential to hiding them. He also estimates that her oversight failures have cost North Carolina $6.8 billion during her term in office...
War on Workers
This Is What Barely Making Ends Meet In America Sounds Like Huffington Post ...According to U.S. Census data, more than 7 percent of workers live below the federal poverty line, with many more above the cutoff but still struggling...
The Question on People Leaving the Labor Force is 41-Year-Olds, Not 61-Year-Olds Center for Economic Policy and Research ... the unemployment rate is considerably lower than would otherwise be the case because so many people have simply given up looking for work and are therefore not counted as being unemployed...
Amazon Is Planning A Way To Let You Hire Babysitters And Plumbers Reuters ...The move takes direct aim at consumer review sites Yelp Inc and Angie's List Inc as well as U.S. home improvement chains Home Depot Inc and Lowe's Companies Inc, which have both invested in ways to connect customers with local plumbers, painters and other service providers...
Miscellaneous
Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers New York Times ...Starbucks will provide a free online college education to thousands of its workers, without requiring that they remain with the company, through an unusual arrangement with Arizona State University...
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Today's Teamster News 06.08.14
Teamsters
Dispatchers, Customer Service Reps Unite for Teamster Representation teamster.org ...Dispatchers and customer service representatives at Cook DuPage Transportation (CDT) joined their paratransit driver and garage attendant co-workers by voting for Teamsters Local 727 representation on June 2...
Trade
The Real Effects of KORUS Can Be Seen in Our Struggling Economy Economy in Crisis ...Since it was enacted, our total trade deficit with South Korea has been over 55 billion dollars. Our exports actually fell by 12 percent in the first month, which was exactly the opposite of what we were told would happen…
State Battles
Infrastructure Sticker Shock: Financing Costs More than Construction Washington's Blog ...California needs $700 billion in infrastructure over the next decade, and the state doesn’t have that sort of money in its general fund. Where will the money come from? ... The Chinese government has a hidden funding source: it owns its own banks. That means it gets its financing effectively interest-free...
New signature rule causing headaches for candidates, state election officials Wisconsin State Journal ...(Lt. Gov. candidate Mary Jo) Walters said the new law is an effort at “voter intimidation” akin to putting the recall petitions online...
War on Workers
Lack of funding is the real VA scandal Physicians for a National Health Program ...There are two primary reasons for the problem of wait times. One has to do with Congress’ consistent failure to provide adequate funding so that the VA could hire more staff to care for an increasing number of veterans who live longer with complex service and age related health problems...
Genius deal? Apple's staff paid less than Coles' checkout workers Sydney Morning Herald ...Tech giant Apple has struck a new pay deal with retail staff that locks in starting rates lower than supermarket checkout workers and probable pay cuts in real terms every year for the next four years....
America’s Wealthiest Family Uses Phony Philanthropy to Increase Personal Wealth Jobs With Justice ...America’s richest family contributes almost none of their personal wealth to the family’s charity, according to a new report by the Walmart 1 Percent...
CEO Performance Pay is Bad for Everyone Except CEOs Next New Deal ...CEO pay is not just unfair, but harmful. It’s bad for businesses, workers, and taxpayers, and it’s one of the reasons that the economy remains sluggish...
University Presidents Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank While the People Who Work for Them Are on Food Stamps History News Network ...as the incomes of the 25 best-paid public university presidents soared, the livelihoods of their faculty deteriorated. This deterioration resulted largely from the fact that tenured and tenure-track faculty were replaced with adjuncts (part-time instructors, paid by the course) and contingents (temporary faculty)...
Miscellaneous
Feds propose chemical safety overhaul The Hill ...The 121-page plan calls for strengthened regulations at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as steps to protect chemical plants from the threat of a terrorist strike....
Billionaire Heir Sentenced To Four Months In Jail For Sexually Assaulting His Stepdaughter ThinkProgress ...A Wisconsin billionaire pled guilty to sexual assault of his stepdaughter, but was only sentenced to four months in jail on Friday. Samuel Curtis Johnson III, heir to the SC Johnson cleaning supplies empire, will have to serve at least 60 days of his sentence and pay a fine up to $6,000...
Dispatchers, Customer Service Reps Unite for Teamster Representation teamster.org ...Dispatchers and customer service representatives at Cook DuPage Transportation (CDT) joined their paratransit driver and garage attendant co-workers by voting for Teamsters Local 727 representation on June 2...
Trade
The Real Effects of KORUS Can Be Seen in Our Struggling Economy Economy in Crisis ...Since it was enacted, our total trade deficit with South Korea has been over 55 billion dollars. Our exports actually fell by 12 percent in the first month, which was exactly the opposite of what we were told would happen…
State Battles
Infrastructure Sticker Shock: Financing Costs More than Construction Washington's Blog ...California needs $700 billion in infrastructure over the next decade, and the state doesn’t have that sort of money in its general fund. Where will the money come from? ... The Chinese government has a hidden funding source: it owns its own banks. That means it gets its financing effectively interest-free...
New signature rule causing headaches for candidates, state election officials Wisconsin State Journal ...(Lt. Gov. candidate Mary Jo) Walters said the new law is an effort at “voter intimidation” akin to putting the recall petitions online...
War on Workers
Lack of funding is the real VA scandal Physicians for a National Health Program ...There are two primary reasons for the problem of wait times. One has to do with Congress’ consistent failure to provide adequate funding so that the VA could hire more staff to care for an increasing number of veterans who live longer with complex service and age related health problems...
Genius deal? Apple's staff paid less than Coles' checkout workers Sydney Morning Herald ...Tech giant Apple has struck a new pay deal with retail staff that locks in starting rates lower than supermarket checkout workers and probable pay cuts in real terms every year for the next four years....
America’s Wealthiest Family Uses Phony Philanthropy to Increase Personal Wealth Jobs With Justice ...America’s richest family contributes almost none of their personal wealth to the family’s charity, according to a new report by the Walmart 1 Percent...
CEO Performance Pay is Bad for Everyone Except CEOs Next New Deal ...CEO pay is not just unfair, but harmful. It’s bad for businesses, workers, and taxpayers, and it’s one of the reasons that the economy remains sluggish...
University Presidents Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank While the People Who Work for Them Are on Food Stamps History News Network ...as the incomes of the 25 best-paid public university presidents soared, the livelihoods of their faculty deteriorated. This deterioration resulted largely from the fact that tenured and tenure-track faculty were replaced with adjuncts (part-time instructors, paid by the course) and contingents (temporary faculty)...
Miscellaneous
Feds propose chemical safety overhaul The Hill ...The 121-page plan calls for strengthened regulations at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as steps to protect chemical plants from the threat of a terrorist strike....
Billionaire Heir Sentenced To Four Months In Jail For Sexually Assaulting His Stepdaughter ThinkProgress ...A Wisconsin billionaire pled guilty to sexual assault of his stepdaughter, but was only sentenced to four months in jail on Friday. Samuel Curtis Johnson III, heir to the SC Johnson cleaning supplies empire, will have to serve at least 60 days of his sentence and pay a fine up to $6,000...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Today's Teamster News 04.22.14
Teamster News
Memo: Teamsters urge 'no' vote on YRC compensation package Kansas City Business Journal ...Leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are asking YRC shareholders to vote against a number of proposals concerning executive compensation at YRC Worldwide Inc...
Mayor Tom Coyne Seeks Cut In Brook Park's Workforce Cleveland.com ...Mayor Tom Coyne is trying to cut his staff's size and pay. Council has given him mixed support, approving a pay freeze on April 15 for non-union workers but rejecting a pact demoting several supervisors represented by the Teamsters...
Trade
Free Trade On Steroids: The Threat Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership Los Angeles Times ...Many supporters of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, trade agreement are arguing that its fate rests on President Obama's bilateral talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan this week...
State Battles
Wisconsin Bargaining Law Doesn't Breach Unions' Constitutional Rights, Court Affirms Bloomberg BNA ...A controversial law enacted in 2011 that provides that most public employee unions can bargain with state and local government employers over base wages only and eliminates payroll deductions for union dues doesn't violate the unions' First Amendment or 14th Amendment rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled April 18...
How The Koch Brothers' Greenback Influences Green Jobs, Clean Energy Debate Bangor Daily News ...Just last month the Maine Heritage Policy Center and the Beacon Hill Institute, housed at Suffolk University in Boston, released a new study attacking Maine's efforts to promote public health and mitigate climate change...
ALEC And The Koch Brothers Fight Solar Energy With Surcharges Digital Journal ...Citizens across the United States are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal governments are unwilling to do by installing solar panels...
UAW Withdraws Objections To Chattanooga VW Vote Nashville Business Journal ...The National Labor Relations Board was to hold its hearing today on February's unionization vote at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant, but the UAW has instead withdrawn its objections...
War On Workers
Who Are the Koch Brothers and What Do They Want? Huffington Post ...For the Koch brothers, spending more than Obama and Romney combined would be a drop in their bucket. They would hardly miss the few billion dollars...
For Many Americans, 'Temp' Work Becomes Permanent Way Of Life NBC News ...For Americans who can't find jobs, the booming demand for temp workers has been a path out of unemployment, but now many fear it's a dead-end route...
Union Target: For-Profits Inside Higher Ed ...A relatively small group of New York City teachers' announcement that they'd received a collective bargaining agreement with their school might have gone unnoticed last week, but for one significant detail: their employer is Kaplan, Inc, a major player in for-profit higher education...
The Decline Of Labor Unions And The Rise Of The Minimum Wage Seattle Times ...In February, a bitterly divided local Machinists union at Boeing, narrowly voted to accept the company's contract extension to build the 777X airplanes...
NCAA Faces Change, Legal Challenges In Months Ahead CNN ...When training camps for big-time college football teams open in August, behemoth linemen and other players will get their first taste of how much food Division I schools can provide their athletes. In short, as much as they want...
Memo: Teamsters urge 'no' vote on YRC compensation package Kansas City Business Journal ...Leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are asking YRC shareholders to vote against a number of proposals concerning executive compensation at YRC Worldwide Inc...
Mayor Tom Coyne Seeks Cut In Brook Park's Workforce Cleveland.com ...Mayor Tom Coyne is trying to cut his staff's size and pay. Council has given him mixed support, approving a pay freeze on April 15 for non-union workers but rejecting a pact demoting several supervisors represented by the Teamsters...
Trade
Free Trade On Steroids: The Threat Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership Los Angeles Times ...Many supporters of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, trade agreement are arguing that its fate rests on President Obama's bilateral talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan this week...
State Battles
Wisconsin Bargaining Law Doesn't Breach Unions' Constitutional Rights, Court Affirms Bloomberg BNA ...A controversial law enacted in 2011 that provides that most public employee unions can bargain with state and local government employers over base wages only and eliminates payroll deductions for union dues doesn't violate the unions' First Amendment or 14th Amendment rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled April 18...
How The Koch Brothers' Greenback Influences Green Jobs, Clean Energy Debate Bangor Daily News ...Just last month the Maine Heritage Policy Center and the Beacon Hill Institute, housed at Suffolk University in Boston, released a new study attacking Maine's efforts to promote public health and mitigate climate change...
ALEC And The Koch Brothers Fight Solar Energy With Surcharges Digital Journal ...Citizens across the United States are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal governments are unwilling to do by installing solar panels...
UAW Withdraws Objections To Chattanooga VW Vote Nashville Business Journal ...The National Labor Relations Board was to hold its hearing today on February's unionization vote at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant, but the UAW has instead withdrawn its objections...
War On Workers
Who Are the Koch Brothers and What Do They Want? Huffington Post ...For the Koch brothers, spending more than Obama and Romney combined would be a drop in their bucket. They would hardly miss the few billion dollars...
For Many Americans, 'Temp' Work Becomes Permanent Way Of Life NBC News ...For Americans who can't find jobs, the booming demand for temp workers has been a path out of unemployment, but now many fear it's a dead-end route...
Union Target: For-Profits Inside Higher Ed ...A relatively small group of New York City teachers' announcement that they'd received a collective bargaining agreement with their school might have gone unnoticed last week, but for one significant detail: their employer is Kaplan, Inc, a major player in for-profit higher education...
The Decline Of Labor Unions And The Rise Of The Minimum Wage Seattle Times ...In February, a bitterly divided local Machinists union at Boeing, narrowly voted to accept the company's contract extension to build the 777X airplanes...
NCAA Faces Change, Legal Challenges In Months Ahead CNN ...When training camps for big-time college football teams open in August, behemoth linemen and other players will get their first taste of how much food Division I schools can provide their athletes. In short, as much as they want...
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Today's Teamster News 04.13.14
Trade
Taiwan protesters end long occupation of parliament over trade deal Los Angeles Times ...Hundreds of protesters in Taiwan ended a nearly monthlong blockade of parliament Thursday, giving leaders a fragile reprieve to finish a disputed trade pact with China...
We are in danger of losing our country’s assets! Trade Reform ...How many are aware that the chain of AMC Theaters is now owned by Chinese Corporation? … This means that the Chinese will now be in a position to shape public opinion and mold the minds of our children through entertainment media...
State Battles
Scott Walker campaign asks Supreme Court to intervene in 'John Doe' investigation Wisconsin State Journal ...Another legal challenge has been filed in the ongoing investigation into possible illegal campaign activity during Wisconsin’s spate of recalls, this time by the attorney for Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign...
University of Southern Maine, Facing Organized Opposition from Students and Faculty, Rescinds Proposed Cuts naked capitalism ...University of Southern Maine President Theodora Kalikow on Friday rescinded the 12 faculty layoffs that had prompted weeks of protests, saying she’s open to alternative plans for finding up to $14 million in cuts...
The War on Workers
Soglin: Ride-sharing companies refuse to meet standards Channel 3000...Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said ride-sharing companies operating in the city refuse to meet standards, and to date, refuse to respect Madison ordinances. Lyft and Uber, which launched in Madison in recent months, allow customers to order a ride from drivers using a downloadable phone application...
Something To Keep An Eye On: College Enrollment Has Dropped Substantially Since 2012 Economic Policy Institute ...Enrollment was on a general upward trend since 1985, but peaked in 2012 and has since dropped in each of the last two years...
Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Vexed by Low Demand for Mortgages Bloomberg ...New York-based JPMorgan said jobs at its mortgage business declined 14,000, or 30 percent, since the start of last year. Wells Fargo set plans to cut 1,100 positions in the most recent three months, which ranked as its worst first quarter for mortgage revenue since 2008...
Spy planes: Millions of airline passengers using inflight WiFi are being tracked by the NSA… and it could be illegal Daily Mail ...Gogo, the main supplier of WiFi to airlines, gives data to U.S. authorities...
Thousands in Paris and Rome Protest Austerity Measures Al Jazeera America ...Tens of thousands of people took part in protests in central Paris and Rome, organized by hard-left parties opposed to government economic reform plans and austerity measures...
Why Won't Washington Take on Wall Street's Biggest Crimes? Atlantic ...The Justice Department has successfully convicted dozens of bankers for insider trading. But the big banks did something much worse and got away with it...
Taiwan protesters end long occupation of parliament over trade deal Los Angeles Times ...Hundreds of protesters in Taiwan ended a nearly monthlong blockade of parliament Thursday, giving leaders a fragile reprieve to finish a disputed trade pact with China...
We are in danger of losing our country’s assets! Trade Reform ...How many are aware that the chain of AMC Theaters is now owned by Chinese Corporation? … This means that the Chinese will now be in a position to shape public opinion and mold the minds of our children through entertainment media...
State Battles
Scott Walker campaign asks Supreme Court to intervene in 'John Doe' investigation Wisconsin State Journal ...Another legal challenge has been filed in the ongoing investigation into possible illegal campaign activity during Wisconsin’s spate of recalls, this time by the attorney for Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign...
University of Southern Maine, Facing Organized Opposition from Students and Faculty, Rescinds Proposed Cuts naked capitalism ...University of Southern Maine President Theodora Kalikow on Friday rescinded the 12 faculty layoffs that had prompted weeks of protests, saying she’s open to alternative plans for finding up to $14 million in cuts...
The War on Workers
Soglin: Ride-sharing companies refuse to meet standards Channel 3000...Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said ride-sharing companies operating in the city refuse to meet standards, and to date, refuse to respect Madison ordinances. Lyft and Uber, which launched in Madison in recent months, allow customers to order a ride from drivers using a downloadable phone application...
Something To Keep An Eye On: College Enrollment Has Dropped Substantially Since 2012 Economic Policy Institute ...Enrollment was on a general upward trend since 1985, but peaked in 2012 and has since dropped in each of the last two years...
Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Vexed by Low Demand for Mortgages Bloomberg ...New York-based JPMorgan said jobs at its mortgage business declined 14,000, or 30 percent, since the start of last year. Wells Fargo set plans to cut 1,100 positions in the most recent three months, which ranked as its worst first quarter for mortgage revenue since 2008...
Spy planes: Millions of airline passengers using inflight WiFi are being tracked by the NSA… and it could be illegal Daily Mail ...Gogo, the main supplier of WiFi to airlines, gives data to U.S. authorities...
Thousands in Paris and Rome Protest Austerity Measures Al Jazeera America ...Tens of thousands of people took part in protests in central Paris and Rome, organized by hard-left parties opposed to government economic reform plans and austerity measures...
Why Won't Washington Take on Wall Street's Biggest Crimes? Atlantic ...The Justice Department has successfully convicted dozens of bankers for insider trading. But the big banks did something much worse and got away with it...
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, August 30, 2013
Today's Teamster News 08.30.13
Illinois Teamsters endorse Pat Quinn for governor Teamsters Joint Council 25 ...Teamsters Joint Council 25 endorsed Pat Quinn for a second term as Illinois governor today in a press conference at the Chicago International Produce Market...
Teamsters Approve Contract Extension With DHL’s Air Express International Transport Topics ...Teamsters union workers employed by DHL subsidiary Air Express International have approved a one-year contract extension, the union said...
Fast food strikes go super-sized in clash over wages CNBC ...From San Diego to New York, workers stopped flipping burgers, frying fries, and slathering on secret sauce in what organizers called the largest strikes against the nation's fast food companies ever...
US Banks Earn Record $42.2B in 2nd Quarter Associated Press ...The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says the banking industry earned $42.2 billion in the second quarter, up 23 percent from the second quarter of 2012. About 54 percent of U.S. banks reported improved earnings from a year earlier...
Teen employment hits record lows, suggesting lost generation McClatchy ...slightly more than three in 10 teens actually worked a summer job, out of a universe of roughly 16.8 million U.S. teens. “We have never had anything this low in our lives. This is a Great Depression for teens, and no time in history have we encountered anything like that,” said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston...
San Bernardino, California, eligible for bankruptcy: judge Reuters ...The tentative ruling came despite objections by the California Public Employees' Retirement System, or Calpers. The $260 billion pension fund is the city's biggest creditor...
NSA: fear of a black van zdnet ...Most of us are good citizens. And yet. What if the government is listening in, or watching, or scanning, and some algorithm triggers an investigation and some quota-happy g-man decides to make one of us a pet project?...
Poverty saps mental capacity to deal with complex tasks, say scientists The Guardian ...Poor people spend so much mental energy on the immediate problems of paying bills and cutting costs that they are left with less capacity to deal with other complex but important tasks, including education, training or managing their time, suggests research published on Thursday...
Why is Sydney University on strike? Because students are not our 'clients' (opinion) The Guardian ...The ongoing commodification of higher education is just one facet of the disastrous hijacking of universities by corporate ideology. We are fighting this...
Colombia farmers' strikes spread to cities 3 News ...Nationwide agricultural strikes are continuing in Colombia after more than a week of ongoing roadblocks, marches and clashes with the police. Protests have grown in size and intensity after the president, Juan Manuel Santos, denied a strike was happening...
No federal challenge to pot legalization in two states CNN ...Attorney General Eric Holder, in a conference call Thursday morning, notified the governors of Colorado and Washington that the department, for now, will not seek to pre-empt those states' laws, which followed voters' approval of ballot measures that legalized recreational marijuana use...
Nearly 40% of the Top Paid CEOs Bombed at Their Jobs Economic Populist ...Of those 500 who made the Wall Street Journal's top 25 highest paid Chief Executive Officer list, a whopping 38% were utter failures at their jobs...
Teamsters Approve Contract Extension With DHL’s Air Express International Transport Topics ...Teamsters union workers employed by DHL subsidiary Air Express International have approved a one-year contract extension, the union said...
Fast food strikes go super-sized in clash over wages CNBC ...From San Diego to New York, workers stopped flipping burgers, frying fries, and slathering on secret sauce in what organizers called the largest strikes against the nation's fast food companies ever...
US Banks Earn Record $42.2B in 2nd Quarter Associated Press ...The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says the banking industry earned $42.2 billion in the second quarter, up 23 percent from the second quarter of 2012. About 54 percent of U.S. banks reported improved earnings from a year earlier...
Teen employment hits record lows, suggesting lost generation McClatchy ...slightly more than three in 10 teens actually worked a summer job, out of a universe of roughly 16.8 million U.S. teens. “We have never had anything this low in our lives. This is a Great Depression for teens, and no time in history have we encountered anything like that,” said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston...
San Bernardino, California, eligible for bankruptcy: judge Reuters ...The tentative ruling came despite objections by the California Public Employees' Retirement System, or Calpers. The $260 billion pension fund is the city's biggest creditor...
NSA: fear of a black van zdnet ...Most of us are good citizens. And yet. What if the government is listening in, or watching, or scanning, and some algorithm triggers an investigation and some quota-happy g-man decides to make one of us a pet project?...
Poverty saps mental capacity to deal with complex tasks, say scientists The Guardian ...Poor people spend so much mental energy on the immediate problems of paying bills and cutting costs that they are left with less capacity to deal with other complex but important tasks, including education, training or managing their time, suggests research published on Thursday...
Why is Sydney University on strike? Because students are not our 'clients' (opinion) The Guardian ...The ongoing commodification of higher education is just one facet of the disastrous hijacking of universities by corporate ideology. We are fighting this...
Colombia farmers' strikes spread to cities 3 News ...Nationwide agricultural strikes are continuing in Colombia after more than a week of ongoing roadblocks, marches and clashes with the police. Protests have grown in size and intensity after the president, Juan Manuel Santos, denied a strike was happening...
No federal challenge to pot legalization in two states CNN ...Attorney General Eric Holder, in a conference call Thursday morning, notified the governors of Colorado and Washington that the department, for now, will not seek to pre-empt those states' laws, which followed voters' approval of ballot measures that legalized recreational marijuana use...
Nearly 40% of the Top Paid CEOs Bombed at Their Jobs Economic Populist ...Of those 500 who made the Wall Street Journal's top 25 highest paid Chief Executive Officer list, a whopping 38% were utter failures at their jobs...
Friday, June 14, 2013
Student loan crisis brings us all down
College tuition is soaring, real wages are decreasing -- and Congress can't even get it together long enough to agree that interest rates on student loans shouldn't double next year.
With the domestic student loan debt reaching over $1 trillion last month, student loans are already threatening the return of the housing market and retirement savings. Forty-seven percent of Millennials even say student loans have delayed them from buying even a car.
Horror stories of unemployed graduates – and financially-strapped parents – with hundreds of thousands in loans are all too common.
On Wednesday in The Detroit Times, General President Jim Hoffa wrote:
And it doesn't just affect the debt-ridden; lower-income students who manage to graduate are often forced to follow their wallets over their dreams because of high loan payments and low employment prospects. Howard Dean’s Roll Call op-ed on Wednesday notes:
Unfortunately, future and current college students have no guarantee that even current interest rates will remain constant – unsubsidized Stafford loan rates, held by middle-class and low-income students, are set to double on July 1, adding over $7,000 to the repayment of the average loan if Congress fails to intervene.
Without a plan for educational affordability, Congress is jeopardizing the social well-being of our workers and our nation. We need a higher education infrastructure that actively works to provide access for all Americans – not just the wealthy.
With the domestic student loan debt reaching over $1 trillion last month, student loans are already threatening the return of the housing market and retirement savings. Forty-seven percent of Millennials even say student loans have delayed them from buying even a car.
Horror stories of unemployed graduates – and financially-strapped parents – with hundreds of thousands in loans are all too common.
On Wednesday in The Detroit Times, General President Jim Hoffa wrote:
Higher education has long been the stepping stone to a better life. But that stone is being swept away by a tide of student debt.
The numbers tell a frightening story: As many as 30 percent of borrowers may be delinquent on their student loan debt. More students are borrowing than ever before, and they’re borrowing more — the average loan has increased by 49 percent, to $24,803, since 2005. Today, the average student in this country graduates with $26,600 in loan debt.Higher education is essential, not just for our children but for our members. More union members than ever are college educated, with the percentage of college-educated union workers doubling since 1983. Scholarships like the James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund cannot always fill the gap between family finances and the rapidly increasing cost of education. Financially vulnerable students have no choice but to borrow.
And it doesn't just affect the debt-ridden; lower-income students who manage to graduate are often forced to follow their wallets over their dreams because of high loan payments and low employment prospects. Howard Dean’s Roll Call op-ed on Wednesday notes:
Doctoring isn’t the only field losing out on talented young first globals, thanks to the long-term costs of crushing student debt. Recently, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that the low salary and high debt load are increasingly turning teaching into an impractical career, despite how important education is to improving the nation’s long-term economic prospects....
Our hospitals, government, nonprofits, and classrooms are losing out on a generation of talent, because new workers who come from middle-class and low-income families – the people who have the most experience with social problems – can’t afford to work for the public interest. Without intervention, this trend is only going to continue.With the tripling of educational debt since 2004, the lower loan rates are the only short-term solution available for younger generations.
Unfortunately, future and current college students have no guarantee that even current interest rates will remain constant – unsubsidized Stafford loan rates, held by middle-class and low-income students, are set to double on July 1, adding over $7,000 to the repayment of the average loan if Congress fails to intervene.
Without a plan for educational affordability, Congress is jeopardizing the social well-being of our workers and our nation. We need a higher education infrastructure that actively works to provide access for all Americans – not just the wealthy.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Today's Teamster News 10.08.12
Obama Better For Economy, Workers And Economists Agree Huffington Post ...Economists gave Obama's economic plan an average grade of 3.15 on a five-point scale: nearly 50 percent higher than their 2.14 grade of Romney's plan, according to a new survey by The Economist...
Real-Live Voter Fraud Washington Monthly ...What do forged absentee ballots and vote-buying have in common? They occur more often than in-person impersonation (which is virtually non-existent) and are unaffected by voter ID laws...
The jobs numbers: never mind the quantity, check the quality The Guardian ...more workers are in stuck in part-time jobs because their hours were cut back or they're unable to find full-time positions. The number of workers in this category shot up to 8.5 million in September – an increase of 581,000 from last month...
Desperately Chasing Jobs in a Polarized Wisconsin Town (television review) New York Times ...the energy and political capital expended on those 120 potential jobs are a sign of how desperate things are in Janesville and surrounding Rock County, where the closing of the auto plant is estimated to have cost 11,000 jobs. (The film makes no reference to Representative Paul D. Ryan...
Andy Kroll, The Death of the Golden Dream of Higher Education TomDispatch ...For the first time in generations, California's community colleges and state universities are turning away qualified new students and shrinking their enrollments as state funding continues its long, slow decline...
Wells Fargo boosts lobbying presence in Maine, elsewhere Bangor Daily News ...After becoming a national bank, Wells Fargo now has lobbyists bending state legislators’ ears everywhere from Denver to Baton Rouge, La. In Maine, state records show Wells lobbied on three bills, including one that would require banks to provide original documents while foreclosing. It was vetoed by the governor. Wells had no lobbyists in Maine five years ago...
Real-Live Voter Fraud Washington Monthly ...What do forged absentee ballots and vote-buying have in common? They occur more often than in-person impersonation (which is virtually non-existent) and are unaffected by voter ID laws...
The jobs numbers: never mind the quantity, check the quality The Guardian ...more workers are in stuck in part-time jobs because their hours were cut back or they're unable to find full-time positions. The number of workers in this category shot up to 8.5 million in September – an increase of 581,000 from last month...
Desperately Chasing Jobs in a Polarized Wisconsin Town (television review) New York Times ...the energy and political capital expended on those 120 potential jobs are a sign of how desperate things are in Janesville and surrounding Rock County, where the closing of the auto plant is estimated to have cost 11,000 jobs. (The film makes no reference to Representative Paul D. Ryan...
Andy Kroll, The Death of the Golden Dream of Higher Education TomDispatch ...For the first time in generations, California's community colleges and state universities are turning away qualified new students and shrinking their enrollments as state funding continues its long, slow decline...
Wells Fargo boosts lobbying presence in Maine, elsewhere Bangor Daily News ...After becoming a national bank, Wells Fargo now has lobbyists bending state legislators’ ears everywhere from Denver to Baton Rouge, La. In Maine, state records show Wells lobbied on three bills, including one that would require banks to provide original documents while foreclosing. It was vetoed by the governor. Wells had no lobbyists in Maine five years ago...
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Today's Teamster News 05.20.12
At Big U.S. Companies, 60% of Cash Sits Offshore: J.P. Morgan CFO Journal ...Apple had the highest offshore corporate cash balance, with $74 billion held overseas, representing 67% of its total cash holdings. But as a percentage of total cash, J.P. Morgan said the company had a smaller amount sitting offshore than many of its tech rivals, including Microsoft, Cisco, and Hewlett-Packard, which had 89% or more of their cash overseas. Microsoft, General Electric, Cisco Systems, Google, and Oracle had the next largest dollar amounts of cash held overseas...
A Victory for All of Us truthdig ...Judge Forrest struck down language in the law that she said gave the government the ability to incarcerate people based on what they said or wrote...
Quebec student protesters find creative ways around controversial new law The Star ...Bill 78 lays out strict regulations governing demonstrations of over 50 people, including having to give eight hours’ notice for details such as the protest route, the duration and the time at which they are being held. Failure to comply could bring stiff penalties for the organizers, but the law could be difficult to enforce...
How Competition Is Killing Higher Education Bloomberg ...It’s about “keeping up with the Joneses,” an official at Wright State University said in a Dayton Daily News article last fall detailing why colleges in Ohio were spending hundreds of millions of dollars on student centers and other nonacademic attractions in a down economy...
Marquette faculty members rebuke Ryan budget Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...More than 50 faculty members at Marquette University, including a dozen theologians, have issued a public letter to U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan criticizing his proposed budget as morally unjust and accusing him of distorting Catholic social teaching in its defense...
Canadian Pacific says union gives strike notice Reuters ...Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd (CP.TO: Quote) said on Saturday the union representing nearly 5,000 engineers, conductors and traffic controllers submitted a 72-hour strike notice, giving workers the right to walk off their jobs as early as Wednesday...
A Victory for All of Us truthdig ...Judge Forrest struck down language in the law that she said gave the government the ability to incarcerate people based on what they said or wrote...
Quebec student protesters find creative ways around controversial new law The Star ...Bill 78 lays out strict regulations governing demonstrations of over 50 people, including having to give eight hours’ notice for details such as the protest route, the duration and the time at which they are being held. Failure to comply could bring stiff penalties for the organizers, but the law could be difficult to enforce...
How Competition Is Killing Higher Education Bloomberg ...It’s about “keeping up with the Joneses,” an official at Wright State University said in a Dayton Daily News article last fall detailing why colleges in Ohio were spending hundreds of millions of dollars on student centers and other nonacademic attractions in a down economy...
Marquette faculty members rebuke Ryan budget Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...More than 50 faculty members at Marquette University, including a dozen theologians, have issued a public letter to U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan criticizing his proposed budget as morally unjust and accusing him of distorting Catholic social teaching in its defense...
Canadian Pacific says union gives strike notice Reuters ...Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd (CP.TO: Quote) said on Saturday the union representing nearly 5,000 engineers, conductors and traffic controllers submitted a 72-hour strike notice, giving workers the right to walk off their jobs as early as Wednesday...
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