Teamsters Joint Council 42 and Local 911 Endorse Lee Rogers for Congress Inland Empire ...Dr. Lee Rogers, candidate for Congress in California’s 25th District, announced today that he has picked up the endorsements of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 911 and their umbrella organization, Joint Council 42. Rogers, a podiatrist, is a member of the Teamsters Union...
Use Teamster-Made Ingredients for Thanksgiving teamster.org ...For your Thanksgiving recipes, use Teamster-made ingredients and support your brothers and sisters at these companies...
Waste Workers Near San Diego Ratify First Teamster Contract teamster.org ...Drivers and mechanics at Waste Management in Carlsbad, California, who voted to join Teamsters Local 683 in San Diego, have ratified their first contract...
New contract gives wage increases for dining workers The Daily Pennsylvanian ...Penn dining workers have finished negotiations with Bon Appetit, which will increase their wages and provide a healthcare package. Negotiations began in September, after the workers joined Teamsters Local 929...
Massena, highway department union reach four-year deal North Country Now ...The Town Council in Messena, New York, unanimously agreed to a four-year contract with the Teamsters Local 687 to cover the town Highway Department’s eight employees on Wednesday night...
Hoffa to Corporate America: 'Have You No Sense of Decency?' Huffington Post ...the average American family pays $6,000 a year to cover government tax breaks for big business....
Senator Sounds The Alarm On Social Security teamster.org ...The median retirement savings of U.S. workers near retirement age is only $12,000....
Walmart Workers Strike At Seven Stores In Dallas ThinkProgress ...Walmart workers called out or walked off the job at seven stores in Dallas, according to OUR Walmart activists, the group that has been organizing strikes and protests against the company...
Wal-Mart labor group promises 1,500 Black Friday protests next week Salon ...Amid scrutiny of Wal-Mart taking up employee-to-employee charity, strike wave continues against retail giant...
The Middle Class Is Disappearing Despite The Economic Recovery ThinkProgress ...There were nearly 700,000 fewer middle-income households since the began than during the economic crisis, according to new Census Bureau data...
The U.S. ranks 26th for life expectancy, right behind Slovenia Washington Post ...Back in the 1970s, Americans typically lived longer than residents of other countries. Not anymore, according to a new report...
‘I Watched My Patients Die of Treatable Diseases Because They Were Poor’ AlterNet ...A Galveston medical student describes life and death in the non-existent Texas safety net...
Tea party groups can't shield donors, FEC rules Politico ...The panel voted 3-2 against a proposal that would have allowed the Tea Party Leadership Fund to shield the names and information of their donors from public scrutiny...
What will happen to truck drivers when self-driving vehicles take over? Washington Post ...Google's test vehicles for its self-driving technology are a Lexus and a Prius. That suggests that Google sees self-driving as a technology for passenger cars. But self-driving technology will almost certainly affect industry and commerce first...
5 Signs the Rich Have Way Too Much Money AlterNet ...You can get a $5,000 hamburger for lunch. The Fleur de Lys restaurant in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay offers the "Fleurburger 5000" for $5,000...
Cash America fined over claims of robo-signing, gouging military families Washington Post ...The $19 million settlement is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s first with a payday lender...
UPS increasing rates by 4.9% in 2014 Associated Press ...The shipping company said that the number is an average of its UPS Ground, Air and International, and Air Freight rate increases for the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico...
Spanish court sentences 'Robin Hood' mayor Associated Press ...A Spanish court has sentenced a town mayor and four others to seven months in prison for occupying unused military land they wanted to be loaned to farmers hard hit by the economic crisis...
NY Signs DOL Deal to Tackle Misclassification; Payroll Fraud Protection Act of 2013 Introduced The We Party ...The state of New York has signed into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division in an attempt to stop the misclassification of employees as independent contractors. New York is the 15th state to sign such an agreement...
Targets seek stay of investigation into Scott Walker's recall campaign and other groups Wisconsin State Journal ...Three unnamed petitioners are asking that a judge be ordered to temporarily halt a secret investigation into campaign activity by Gov. Scott Walker’s recall campaign and more than two dozen conservative political groups...
Wisconsin Employment: October 2013 Econbrowser ...Two numbers to remember: 84 thousand and 107 thousand. The first number is the amount by which actual October employment lags Governor Walker's promised path; the second is the amount by which the Administration's own forecast for January 2015 lags Walker's promised 250,000 net new jobs figure...
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Today's Teamster News 09.04.13
BLET, Tacoma Rail sign new 5-year agreement teamster.org ...This agreement covers about 20 locomotive engineers and contains a signing bonus and significant wage and paid time off improvements, as well as health and welfare benefits equal to other city workers in Tacoma, Wash...
Safety alert for rail workers teamster.org ...All distractions, electronic or otherwise, reduce your focus on safety and can be fatal. This is true whether you are on or near the track or highway...
Henry J. "Hank" Breen, Founder and First Director of Airline Division, Passes Away teamster.org ...he assumed the position of Airline Division Director in 1961 at a time when the air cargo industry was largely unrepresented within an industry represented by other unions in the passenger airline industry...
2013 Teamster Women's Conference Registration teamster.org ...The Teamster Women’s Conference will be held September 19-21, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Register now to join your Teamster Sisters and Brothers!...
Obama underscores need to finish Asia-Pacific trade deal this year The Hill ...the president once again underscored his stance that the 12 nations involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) should conclude talks this fall, the White House said...
Don't Let Corporations Hijack Another Trade Deal AFL-CIO ...Corporations are trying to manipulate the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a free trade agreement being negotiated right now that would be bigger than NAFTA—to increase their power over the global economy, so they have a say in everything from your rights at work to the prices of your prescriptions and the safety of your child’s toys...
Labor’s Thomas Perez: ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ Washington Post ...I’ve traveled the country in my short time here on the job, talking to CEOs...
Why This Particular Recovery Is So Bad at Creating New Jobs Pacific Standard ...Businesses are reluctant to invest their record profits in new workers, and instead, they’re hoarding cash—because they aren’t convinced people can afford to buy the goods and services they sell. Too many of them are unemployed!...
ECONOMISTS: Summers As Fed Chair Would Shave 0.5% Off GDP And Cost Us 350,000 Jobs Business Insider ...10-year Treasury rates have already risen because of the expectation that Summers will be nominated...
The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed Mother Jones ...Overall, almost one-fifth of the total job growth since the recession ended in mid-2009 has been in the temp sector, federal data shows. But according to the American Staffing Association, the temp industry's trade group, the pool is even larger: Every year, a tenth of all US workers finds a job at a staffing agency...
What's Killing Poor White Women? The American Prospect ...For most Americans, life expectancy continues to rise—but not for uneducated white women. They have lost five years, and no one knows why...
Across U.S., bridges crumble as repair funds fall short Los Angeles Times ...Engineers say thousands are close to collapse. And between the recession, sequestration and congressional gridlock, money to fix them is scarcer than ever...
Koch Family Sinks Big Money Into New Pro-Lhota PAC New York Observer ...David Koch and his wife, Julia, have each contributed $145,050 to “New Yorkers for Proven Leadership,” which will begin airing television ads tomorrow touting the former MTA chairman and deputy mayor, sources said...
Moral Monday Activists in North Carolina Demand Republicans Pay Attention to Their Constituents PolicyMic ...the protests were North Carolina’s new civil rights movement: especially as they resist the racially charged voter suppression legislation — described by some as the most restrictive in the country — that that impedes democracy for people of underprivileged racial and economic backgrounds...
Safety alert for rail workers teamster.org ...All distractions, electronic or otherwise, reduce your focus on safety and can be fatal. This is true whether you are on or near the track or highway...
Henry J. "Hank" Breen, Founder and First Director of Airline Division, Passes Away teamster.org ...he assumed the position of Airline Division Director in 1961 at a time when the air cargo industry was largely unrepresented within an industry represented by other unions in the passenger airline industry...
2013 Teamster Women's Conference Registration teamster.org ...The Teamster Women’s Conference will be held September 19-21, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Register now to join your Teamster Sisters and Brothers!...
Obama underscores need to finish Asia-Pacific trade deal this year The Hill ...the president once again underscored his stance that the 12 nations involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) should conclude talks this fall, the White House said...
Don't Let Corporations Hijack Another Trade Deal AFL-CIO ...Corporations are trying to manipulate the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a free trade agreement being negotiated right now that would be bigger than NAFTA—to increase their power over the global economy, so they have a say in everything from your rights at work to the prices of your prescriptions and the safety of your child’s toys...
Labor’s Thomas Perez: ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ Washington Post ...I’ve traveled the country in my short time here on the job, talking to CEOs...
Why This Particular Recovery Is So Bad at Creating New Jobs Pacific Standard ...Businesses are reluctant to invest their record profits in new workers, and instead, they’re hoarding cash—because they aren’t convinced people can afford to buy the goods and services they sell. Too many of them are unemployed!...
ECONOMISTS: Summers As Fed Chair Would Shave 0.5% Off GDP And Cost Us 350,000 Jobs Business Insider ...10-year Treasury rates have already risen because of the expectation that Summers will be nominated...
The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed Mother Jones ...Overall, almost one-fifth of the total job growth since the recession ended in mid-2009 has been in the temp sector, federal data shows. But according to the American Staffing Association, the temp industry's trade group, the pool is even larger: Every year, a tenth of all US workers finds a job at a staffing agency...
What's Killing Poor White Women? The American Prospect ...For most Americans, life expectancy continues to rise—but not for uneducated white women. They have lost five years, and no one knows why...
Across U.S., bridges crumble as repair funds fall short Los Angeles Times ...Engineers say thousands are close to collapse. And between the recession, sequestration and congressional gridlock, money to fix them is scarcer than ever...
Koch Family Sinks Big Money Into New Pro-Lhota PAC New York Observer ...David Koch and his wife, Julia, have each contributed $145,050 to “New Yorkers for Proven Leadership,” which will begin airing television ads tomorrow touting the former MTA chairman and deputy mayor, sources said...
Moral Monday Activists in North Carolina Demand Republicans Pay Attention to Their Constituents PolicyMic ...the protests were North Carolina’s new civil rights movement: especially as they resist the racially charged voter suppression legislation — described by some as the most restrictive in the country — that that impedes democracy for people of underprivileged racial and economic backgrounds...
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Today's Teamster News 01.27.13
Sen. Tom Harkin won't seek re-election in 2014 DesMoines Register ...Harkin shoulders an important assignment in the Senate: He’s chairman of the HELP committee, which stands for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, a huge jurisdiction...
Not Everyone is Living Longer Mother Jones ...the life expectancy of white working class men (who dropped out of high school) fell by three years from 1990 to 2008, and that of white working class women by five years...
A handy guide to Davos-speak Reuters ...Ray Dalio, who runs Bridgewater, the world’s biggest hedge fund ... said... the big conversation in politics and economics, he said, will be about how to get more out of workers – growth won’t come from the next Internet, the next real estate boom or any new asset, in other words. This means, he said, hard choices about questions like “How long is a vacation?” or “What is a good life?”...
ALEC Has Opposed "Popular Vote" Efforts Which Would Protect Against Partisan Rigging of Electoral College Center for Media and Democracy ...The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has actively lobbied against state plans to implement a national popular vote for president, urging state legislators to preserve the Electoral College -- which GOP legislators are now trying to rig to ensure the the next president is a Republican...
Morsi sends army to Suez after deadly clashes Aljazeera ...The protesters have demanded the establishment of an official minimum wage and a suspension of the new constitution, which opponents of the president say was rushed through...
New Walmart store to open in Chinatown despite protests PressTV ...A new Walmart store planned for a historical Los Angeles neighborhood is moving forward, despite protests from labor groups...But labor groups say they remain committed to preventing that opening from ever occurring...
Snyder admits making Michigan a Right to Work state was never about creating jobs Eclectablog ...“Over 90 percent of the jobs that you’re looking at aren’t going to be in a situation where right to work is even relevant,” Snyder said...
Pa. Right-to-Work Fight Battle Lines Drawn Upper Macungie Patch ...Gov. Tom Corbett already has said that he Pennsylvania “lacks the political will” to pass right-to-work laws, though he would sign them if they came across his desk. But that sentiment seems to fuel right-to-work supporters...
Not Everyone is Living Longer Mother Jones ...the life expectancy of white working class men (who dropped out of high school) fell by three years from 1990 to 2008, and that of white working class women by five years...
A handy guide to Davos-speak Reuters ...Ray Dalio, who runs Bridgewater, the world’s biggest hedge fund ... said... the big conversation in politics and economics, he said, will be about how to get more out of workers – growth won’t come from the next Internet, the next real estate boom or any new asset, in other words. This means, he said, hard choices about questions like “How long is a vacation?” or “What is a good life?”...
ALEC Has Opposed "Popular Vote" Efforts Which Would Protect Against Partisan Rigging of Electoral College Center for Media and Democracy ...The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has actively lobbied against state plans to implement a national popular vote for president, urging state legislators to preserve the Electoral College -- which GOP legislators are now trying to rig to ensure the the next president is a Republican...
Morsi sends army to Suez after deadly clashes Aljazeera ...The protesters have demanded the establishment of an official minimum wage and a suspension of the new constitution, which opponents of the president say was rushed through...
New Walmart store to open in Chinatown despite protests PressTV ...A new Walmart store planned for a historical Los Angeles neighborhood is moving forward, despite protests from labor groups...But labor groups say they remain committed to preventing that opening from ever occurring...
Snyder admits making Michigan a Right to Work state was never about creating jobs Eclectablog ...“Over 90 percent of the jobs that you’re looking at aren’t going to be in a situation where right to work is even relevant,” Snyder said...
Pa. Right-to-Work Fight Battle Lines Drawn Upper Macungie Patch ...Gov. Tom Corbett already has said that he Pennsylvania “lacks the political will” to pass right-to-work laws, though he would sign them if they came across his desk. But that sentiment seems to fuel right-to-work supporters...
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