GLOBAL VOLCANISM: The Most Dangerous Volcano In The United States Is Roaring To Life - Yellowstone National Park's Recent Earthquake Swarm Noted By Scientists!

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">November 05, 2013 - UNITED STATES </span></b>- Southwestern Montana and Yellowstone National Park are certainly no strangers to earthquakes, but in September, several clusters of earthquakes were raising the eyebrows of scientists. <br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FKGfhwNjk2U/UnmOCet_2KI/AAAAAAABNHg/eNXwToN-Vr4/s1600/yellowstone01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FKGfhwNjk2U/UnmOCet_2KI/AAAAAAABNHg/eNXwToN-Vr4/s1600/yellowstone01.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellowstone National Park's recent earthquake swarm noted by scientists.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Small earthquakes are normal around Yellowstone National Park, but between September 10th and 16th, early 130 small magnitude earthquakes with different epicenters ratled the park. <br /><br />These clusters of earthquakes are known as swarms. <br /><br />Mike Stickney, the director of Earthquake Studies at Montana Tech in Butte, said, "Earthquake clusters kind of come in two flavors. One is a main shock-aftershock sequence where the main shock is a big earthquake followed by smaller earthquakes that typically die away with time. A swarm is just is a bunch of earthquakes without any outstanding earthquake. You get numerous earthquakes with similar magnitude in that sequence of events." <br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JtGtjfMxHMA/UnmOB9f32vI/AAAAAAABNHY/VIJ-C3_4ETc/s1600/yellowstone02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JtGtjfMxHMA/UnmOB9f32vI/AAAAAAABNHY/VIJ-C3_4ETc/s1600/yellowstone02.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />The rumbles that hit Yellowstone in September fall into the second category. <br /><br />Stickney says, "They were actually very dramatic swarms if you were looking at seismograph centered near the epicenter of those earthquakes." <br /><br />"There would be two, three or four-minute earthquakes going off every minute. Most of those were tiny magnitude one or smaller earthquakes," he said. <br /><br />Visitors to the park likely didn't even known it was happening. <br /><br />"Depending on how excited they were about the animals they might not have even noticed the earthquake," Stickney said. <br /><br />He says that there are fairly logical explanations and one of them isn't necessarily that Yellowstone's volcano is roaring back to life. <br /><br />"There is good evidence to suggest that as magma, the molten rock at depth, cools, and crystallizes, it releases volatile water and gasses and those make their way out through fractures in the earth to the surface we see those as geothermal features in the park," he says. <br /><br />"That fluid migrating through the earth's crust, we can think of that as lubricating some of those fractures and can produce some of those earthquakes. Probably those swarms in Yellowstone are related to the overall volcanic activity at depth and not necessarily indicating that something is getting ready to erupt," Stickney explains. <br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pgko7WmAPjQ/UnmOCM__cBI/AAAAAAABNHc/YmRPPDqjkIM/s1600/yellowstone03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pgko7WmAPjQ/UnmOCM__cBI/AAAAAAABNHc/YmRPPDqjkIM/s1600/yellowstone03.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />In fact, according to Stickney, it could be quite the opposite. The volcanic activity might just be quieting down, and those swarms may be just the result of gasses being released. <br /><br />Stickney says that we know about 75 faults around western Montana that show evidence of seismic activity and only a handful of those faults have been studied in detail. <br /><br />Scientist hope to be able to study them in more detail to understand how and why those faults might move. - <a href="http://www.kxlh.com/news/yellowstone-national-park-s-recent-earthquake-swarm-noted-by-scientists/"><span style="color: orange;"><b>KXLH</b></span></a>.<br /><br /><br /> <br /></div>

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November 05, 2013 - UNITED STATES - Southwestern Montana and Yellowstone National Park are certainly no strangers to earthquakes, but in September, several clusters of earthquakes were raising the eyebrows of scientists. Yellowstone National Park'…

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GLOBAL VOLCANISM: The Most Dangerous Volcano In The United States Is Roaring To Life - More Earthquake Swarms Reported In Yellowstone During October, 2013!

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">November 04, 2013 - UNITED STATES </span></b>- According to <a href="http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/index.html"><span style="color: orange;"><b>Yellowstone Volcano Observatory</b></span></a> monthly update, University of Utah reported 168 earthquakes in the Yellowstone National Park region during October 2013. The largest event was a minor earthquake of magnitude 2.9 on October 30, 2013 at 06:58 UTC, located about 11.2 km (7 miles) north of Lake, WY.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d2c7OV8KqU0/UnfzB6Uo0JI/AAAAAAABM4c/kw-g7drJ70E/s1600/yellowstone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d2c7OV8KqU0/UnfzB6Uo0JI/AAAAAAABM4c/kw-g7drJ70E/s1600/yellowstone.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The largest of the quakes shook the ground near Old Faithful Geyser. </td></tr></tbody></table><br />Comparing earthquake activity in October to the previous month, it seems seismicity returned to relatively normal background levels.<br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><b></b><br /><div style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="color: red;"><b>October</b> seismicity in Yellowstone was marked by three distinct clusters of episodic earthquakes:</span></b></div><br /><ol><li>A<b> swarm of 54 earthquakes</b>, ~12 km (7.5 miles) north of Old Faithful, WY, occurred on October 5th, the largest earthquake in the swarm (magnitude 2.8) occurred at 15:09 UTC ~12 km north of Old Faithful, WY.</li><li><span style="color: yellow;">A <b>small swarm of 16 earthquakes</b>,</span> ~21 km (13 miles) east-northeast of Island Park, ID took place October 20 - 23, the largest earthquake (magnitude 2.1) occurred October 20th at 08:28 UTC.</li><li>A<b> <span style="color: yellow;">small swarm of 15 earthquakes</span></b><span style="color: yellow;">,</span> ~9.6 km (6 miles) north of West Yellowstone, MT occurred October 12, the largest earthquake (magnitude 2.3) occurred at 07:35 UTC.</li></ol><br />During September 2013, there were 469 earthquakes reported in the Yellowstone National Park region. The largest event was a minor earthquake of magnitude 3.6 on September 15, 2013 at 16:53 UTC, located about 11.2 km (7 miles) north of Old Faithful, WY.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: red;"><b> </b></span></span><br /><div style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: red;"><b>September seismicity in Yellowstone was marked by five distinct clusters of episodic earthquakes:</b></span></div><br /><ol><li>A <span style="color: yellow;"><b>notable swarm of 246 earthquakes</b>,</span> ~8km (5 miles) north of Old Faithful, WY, began September 13 and tapered off September 20th, including the largest event of the month on September 15 (magnitude 3.6).</li><li><span style="color: yellow;"><b>81 events occurred in an episodic swarm</b></span> ~27.3 km (17 miles) east-northeast of West Yellowstone, MT, with swarm activity occurring September 13 and again from September 24, through September 30. The largest earthquake of the swarm (magnitude 3.5) occurred September 13, at 13:56 UTC~25.7 km (16 miles) south-southwest of Mammoth, WY.</li><li>A <span style="color: yellow;"><b>small swarm of 27 earthquakes</b>,</span> ~9.6 km (6 miles) north of West Yellowstone, MT, took place on September 27 and 28, with the largest event (magnitude 2.3) occurring September 27, at 16:40 UTC.</li><li>A <span style="color: yellow;"><b>small swarm of 23 earthquakes</b>,</span> ~14.4 km (9 miles) north-northeast of Old Faithful, WY, began September 3 and ended September 5. The largest earthquake (magnitude 2.2) occurred September 4, at 13:10 UTC ~14.4 km north-northeast of Old Faithful, WY.</li><li>The southernmost September 2013 <span style="color: yellow;"><b>swarm of 21 earthquakes</b>,</span> ~11.2 km (7 miles) south-southwest of West Thumb, WY, occurred September 10. The largest earthquake (magnitude 3.3) took place in the center of the swarm at 13:46 AM MDT.</li></ol>Yellowstone earthquake activity in September was at elevated levels during the above swarms but, has returned to a relatively normal background level by October 1, 2013.<br /><br />Slow subsidence of the caldera, which began in early 2010, continues. Current deformation patterns at Yellowstone remain within historical norms.<br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_monitoring_117.html">Repeating earthquakes suggest volcanic and tectonic origins of Yellowstone seismic swarms</a><br /><br />Click <a href="http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_multimedia_10.html"><span style="color: orange;"><b>HERE</b></span></a> for the Yellowstone Webcam.<br /><br />- <a href="http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/11/04/more-earthquake-swarms-reported-in-yellowstone-during-october-2013/"><span style="color: orange;"><b>The Watchers</b></span></a>.<br /><br /><br /></div>

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Oakland gives sweetheart deal to anti-worker creep

<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take a look at this: A Teamster-hating, worker-screwing California business owner, who swindled port truck drivers out of nearly $1 million, is </span><a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/oakland-to-spend-15-million-to-help-influential-contractor/Content?oid=3713472" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">getting a $1.5 million handout</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> from the city of Oakland. And to top it off, the city doesn’t have the money to cover the deal with the influence-wielding contractor -- Bill Aboudi.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQTzwKEGtnelIvRMfZUMNy7reLsKbG7l-9iOso93Tqo5xgu9ZzFlp8FK6rw_pYliweDmTwSNRexCUOixvWjbXQTJb_fBCH9FRlkv-7hV8WVGIDtAaOusVK6KqaY5dqe6OzuPWUPpCB_M71/s1600/aboudi.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQTzwKEGtnelIvRMfZUMNy7reLsKbG7l-9iOso93Tqo5xgu9ZzFlp8FK6rw_pYliweDmTwSNRexCUOixvWjbXQTJb_fBCH9FRlkv-7hV8WVGIDtAaOusVK6KqaY5dqe6OzuPWUPpCB_M71/s320/aboudi.jpeg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aboudi, who </span><a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/06/judge-says-greedy-oakland-hustler-owes.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an Alameda County Superior Court judge determined in June had stolen $965,000 in wages</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> from 73 current and former employees, just doesn’t like to follow the rules. And in addition to screwing his workers, his company, Oakland Maritime Support Services, has also been discharging storm water pollution into the San Francisco Bay in violation of state and federal environmental laws, court documents show.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> That, however, seems of little concern to Oakland officials, who gave him the money to offset his move from a former Army base being redeveloped by the city. By the way, did we mention Aboudi has also repeatedly missed rent payments in excess of $235,000 and that his business has been effectively exempted from having to pay parking taxes?<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doug Bloch of </span><a href="http://www.teamstersjc7.org/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teamsters Joint Council 7</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> said he is befuddled by the turn of events:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m speechless. It’s a gift of public funds.</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What’s really going on here? </span><a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The East Bay Express</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> explains:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So why has the city been assisting a contractor who fails to pay his workers and has polluted the environment? And why does it continue to do financial favors for him? Aboudi has strong defenders on the city council: namely, Councilmembers Larry Reid, Desley Brooks, and Rebecca Kaplan.</span></blockquote></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aboudi also has exploited citizen fears of trucks parking in West Oakland neighborhoods by telling folks that if the city does not provide him with another truck-parking location, then truckers will park their big rigs in front of people's homes — even though such long-term parking is illegal. And Aboudi's threats are hollow because the port also operates a thirty-acre truck-parking facility, and thus provides plenty of truck parking in the area.</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Port officials also have been less accommodating toward Aboudi than the city has. The port balked at agreeing to a multi-year lease with the city because of Aboudi's many legal troubles and the $1 million court judgment against him. As a result, city officials ordered the Army Base development team, led by Oakland developer Phil Tagami, to move part of its construction-staging area to the port property so that Aboudi could move his business onto the land that Tagami's team had planned to use.<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> See the switch-a-roo they pulled?<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But there’s a snag. The switch will cost an extra $1.465 million, Tagami said late last week, because the port property has to be readied for use as a construction-staging site. That's $1.465 million that the city doesn't have -- and wouldn't otherwise have to spend were the city weren’t making accommodations for Aboudi. "The city wrote a letter accepting responsibility," Tagami said of the extra costs, "but doesn't have the money to pay for it."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p>So to recap, powerful city contractor with lots of connections is getting something for nothing while he screws drivers who work for him, taxpayers and the environment. Got it!</o:p></span></div>

California ports wage theft Oakland gives sweetheart deal to anti-worker creep

Take a look at this: A Teamster-hating, worker-screwing California business owner, who swindled port truck drivers out of nearly $1 million, is getting a $1.5 million handout from the city of Oakland. And to top it off, the city doesn’t have the mone…

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Teamsters join LA Labor Day march for workers

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiYzsAkCQyvAN94PkWF2YjvBLPfIrPV1pHXTCFTfI6msI1V5UsBJ4vH1mymMje1rCHC2g2mhjdx-5KOe10yOQyBIW15_XkY_Ebz5D8Lvon8_OdAOvjPhNW7UehPNVQ2xsp_3KhpRl_vC7/s1600/050.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiYzsAkCQyvAN94PkWF2YjvBLPfIrPV1pHXTCFTfI6msI1V5UsBJ4vH1mymMje1rCHC2g2mhjdx-5KOe10yOQyBIW15_XkY_Ebz5D8Lvon8_OdAOvjPhNW7UehPNVQ2xsp_3KhpRl_vC7/s400/050.JPG" title="Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti met with Teamsters Horsemen during Los Angeles Labor Day festivities." width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (center) met with Teamsters during picnic.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We're catching up with our Labor Day coverage. Here is a dispatch from California: </i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About 250 Southern California Teamsters joined more than 2,000 of their union brothers and sisters Monday in Los Angeles to march for workers’ rights. </span><a href="http://www.lalbharborlabor.org/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Labor Day parade</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and rally took place near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where </span><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/08/la-port-strike-ends-with-return-to-work.html" rel="nofollow">port truck drivers have been fighting</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for fair treatment and the right to organize.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Led by three 18-wheelers in front and about 100 motorcycles and classic cars in back, Teamsters from several different locals across the region chanted, cheered and revved their engines while traversing the mile-long parade route. They also delighted the hundreds of spectators taking in the event with their call-and-response cheers:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rolling, rolling, rolling with the Teamsters! Who are we? Teamsters!</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anthony Balbastro, a <a href="http://www.teamsters63.org/" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Local 63</a> member and a shop steward at United Stationers, said the Labor Day event filled him with pride:</span></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only in America can you stand next to other brothers and sisters and march.</span></blockquote></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Patrick Kelly, secretary-treasurer of <a href="http://www.teamsters952.org/" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Local 952</a>, said the parade sends an important message to all workers:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is an example of collective direct action where we can show the community who we are. It is important to reaffirm solidarity among working people.</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a group of retired Teamsters said they are concerned about the next generation of workers. Dan Salazar, a retired member of Teamsters Local 63, said:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are here out of respect for the lifestyle we enjoy for our families. We want other people to enjoy what we had. The laws have changed, peoples’ culture has changed. They are starting to get left behind.<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhuQtLagdCg9rtRmy2IPFnvVAySsF3Q6RTjpB_UnSXS9jGMV-gBthO8Ai_UiOJQVhS5kBl9EWlojhEEuUcXUWYtf5KqSQljNCjWO231adkzRy2fH4UQLCj_E4LTpoNZSw4dmi4xdReV3Gp/s1600/038.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhuQtLagdCg9rtRmy2IPFnvVAySsF3Q6RTjpB_UnSXS9jGMV-gBthO8Ai_UiOJQVhS5kBl9EWlojhEEuUcXUWYtf5KqSQljNCjWO231adkzRy2fH4UQLCj_E4LTpoNZSw4dmi4xdReV3Gp/s320/038.JPG" title="Teamsters marching during the parade want better jobs, schools and health care." width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teamsters marched for a better life for the middle class.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Salazar said he was encouraged by recent actions by low-wage workers. Last week, </span><a href="http://www.teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/08/la-port-strike-ends-with-return-to-work.html"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">L.A. port truck drivers returned to work after a historic 24-hour strike</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ended against trucking company Green Fleet Systems. The drivers struck to protest unfair labor practices by Green Fleet’s management, including unlawful anti-union retaliation, harassment and intimidation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The short, sudden port truck driver strike was followed by more job actions by low-wage workers around the country. Fast-food workers in more than 50 U.S. cities walked off the job on Thursday. <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/175995/protesting-activists-firings-walmart-workers-plan-biggest-mobilization-black-friday#axzz2dwMbJVgt" rel="nofollow">Walmart workers are planning to strike</a> in 15 cities tomorrow, their largest mobilization since Black Friday. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the parade, people thronged a local park for a barbecue and entertainment. Joining them were federal, state and local elected officials who pledged to work on behalf of workers for fairer wages. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Newly elected <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Garcetti" rel="nofollow">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti</a> said now is the time to stand up for workers:</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We will fight for a living wage. And better schools. And a greater Los Angeles.</span></blockquote></div>

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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (center) met with Teamsters during picnic.We're catching up with our Labor Day coverage. Here is a dispatch from California: About 250 Southern California Teamsters joined more than 2,000 of their union brothers and si…

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