Verizon Workers Strike Over Proposed Cuts
Despite making more than $40B since 2013, telecom giant cries poverty as it tries to curb jobs, benefits.
Today's Teamster News 01.23.14
Midwest Foods Warehouse Workers Choose Teamsters teamstersjc25.com ...Thirty distribution employees and drivers at Midwest Foods overwhelmingly voted to join Teamsters Local 703, which negotiated a strong, new five-year contract for their newest members...
Today's Teamster News 11.15.13
Teamsters Support Walmart Strikers teamster.org ...Teamsters are out front supporting Walmart worker protests in the run-up to the nationwide strike planned for Friday, Nov. 29, or Black Friday. Walmart workers want respect, a living wage and the right to form a union...
Today's Teamster News 10.07.13
US shutdown is starting to hit business, says Commerce Secretary BBC News ...On Friday, the US defence contractor Lockheed Martin said it would put 3,000 workers on unpaid leave...
Global TPP fears are on the rise
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is raising concerns not only in the U.S., but increasingly abroad as well. The reason is a familiar one to working Americans who have sounded the alarm about the potential trade pact -- jobs.
Today's Teamster News 08.12.12
Paul Ryan Wants to Destroy Social Security & Medicare Economic Populist ...If you think the middle class has it too good, too much security, taxes aren't high enough, not enough fear of unemployment, too much help for education, and so on, while the wealthy haven't been coddled enough in recent years, not enough tax cuts, too little upward redistribution of income, not enough bank bailouts, etc., etc., then the Republican proposals should make you happy...
Today's Teamster News 09.21.11
Cautionary lessons from Michigan New York Times ...Jennifer M. Granholm, the former Democratic governor of the state, (said) ... “Laissez-faire, passivity, tax cuts, hands-off does not work. And, really, that’s the lesson from this laboratory of democracy which is Michigan...”
Today's Teamster News 08.22.11
Verizon strike to end but talks to continue Priyo.com ...About 45,000 Verizon Communications employees are set to end a two-week strike and return to work by Tuesday after the telephone company and unions said they reached an agreement to resume bargaining...
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