Today's Teamster News 09.04.13

<a href="http://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=5471" rel="nofollow">BLET, Tacoma Rail sign new 5-year agreement</a>  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...<br /><a href="http://www.bmwe.org/news/2013/FAMES_DeviceDistractionAlert_Final.pdf" rel="nofollow">Safety alert for rail workers</a>  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...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/henry-j-%E2%80%9Chank%E2%80%9D-breen-founder-and-first-director-airline-division-passes-away" rel="nofollow">Henry J. "Hank" Breen, Founder and First Director of Airline Division, Passes Away</a>  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...<br /><a href="https://events.teamster.org/ei/cm.esp?id=4010034&pageid=_3FH0ULU6B" rel="nofollow">2013 Teamster Women's Conference Registration</a>  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!...<br /><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1005-trade/319949-obama-underscores-need-to-finish-asia-pacific-trade-deal-this-year" rel="nofollow">Obama underscores need to finish Asia-Pacific trade deal this year </a> 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...<br /><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/c/18/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=7025" rel="nofollow">Don't Let Corporations Hijack Another Trade Deal</a>  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...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/labors-thomas-perez-jobs-jobs-jobs/2013/09/01/b6ae9b7e-11b2-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_singlePage.html" rel="nofollow">Labor’s Thomas Perez: ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’</a>  Washington Post   ...I’ve traveled the country in my short time here on the job, talking to CEOs...<br /><a href="http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/the-case-of-the-still-missing-jobs-64727/" rel="nofollow">Why This Particular Recovery Is So Bad at Creating New Jobs</a>  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!...<br /><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-economists-summers-as-fed-chair-would-cost-05-off-gdp-and-350000-jobs-2013-9?op=1" rel="nofollow">ECONOMISTS: Summers As Fed Chair Would Shave 0.5% Off GDP And Cost Us 350,000 Jobs</a>  Business Insider   ...10-year Treasury rates have already risen because of the expectation that Summers will be nominated...<br /><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/expendables-temps-corporate-giants" rel="nofollow">The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed</a>  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...<br /><a href="http://prospect.org/article/whats-killing-poor-white-women" rel="nofollow">What's Killing Poor White Women?</a>  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...<br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-aging-bridges-20130904,0,4964515.story" rel="nofollow">Across U.S., bridges crumble as repair funds fall short</a>  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...<br /><a href="http://politicker.com/2013/09/koch-family-sinks-big-money-into-new-pro-lhota-pac/" rel="nofollow">Koch Family Sinks Big Money Into New Pro-Lhota PAC</a>  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...<br /><a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/61901/moral-monday-activists-in-north-carolina-demand-republicans-pay-attention-to-their-constituents" rel="nofollow">Moral Monday Activists in North Carolina Demand Republicans Pay Attention to Their Constituents</a>  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...<br /><br /><div><br /></div>

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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…

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