Today's Teamster News 09.05.13

<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ual-flight-simulator-techs-vote-for-teamster-representation-2013-09-04" rel="nofollow">UAL Flight Simulator Techs Vote For Teamster Representation</a>  teamster.org   ...flight simulator technicians at United Airlines voted for sole representation by the Teamsters Union. The 98 technicians were previously represented by the Teamsters at United in Denver and the Transport Workers Union at Continental in Houston prior to the 2010 merger...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/teamcare" rel="nofollow">TeamCare Improvements Announced for UPS Teamsters</a>  teamster.org   ...Local union leaders representing UPS Teamsters who currently receive TeamCare health care benefits and those moving into the TeamCare plan met in Chicago today to learn about improvements made since the UPS National Master Agreement was ratified in June...<br /><a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2013/09/04/workers-plan-major-nationwide-protest-against-walmart" rel="nofollow">Workers plan major nationwide protest against Walmart for September 5th</a>  Workday Minnesota   ...Workers in more than a dozen cities, including St. Paul, plan protests Thursday against Walmart’s treatment of its employees. Organizers expect thousands to participate in the demonstrations...<br /><a href="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/paid-vacations-decline/?_r=0" rel="nofollow">Paid Vacation’s Decline</a>  New York Times   ...In 1992-93, 82 percent of American workers reported receiving paid vacation days. Today the share is down to 77 percent...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/04/who-makes-the-minimum-wage_n_3866290.html" rel="nofollow">Minimum Wage Workers Largely Live In The South, Are Women</a>  Huffington Post   ...Even in Hanson County, South Dakota, America’s cheapest county, a single <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/worker-wage_n_3610530.html">full-time worker needs to earn $10.20 per hour</a> -- nearly $3 more than the federal minimum wage -- to afford basic needs...<br /><a href="http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/09/as-austerity-lifts-so-does-europe/" rel="nofollow">As austerity lifts, so does Europe</a>  macrobusiness   ...Another good week for Europe as the latest PMI data shows the tentative recovery is gaining pace...<br /><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/09/04/2572141/american-families-food-insecurity/" rel="nofollow">One In Seven American Families Faces Food Insecurity</a>  ThinkProgress   ...An average of 11 percent of families were food insecure from 1998 to 2007, but in 2008 the rate spiked above 14 percent...<br /><a href="http://www.epi.org/blog/budget-debates-matter-difference-gop-democratic/" rel="nofollow">Budget Debates Matter: The Difference in GOP and Democratic Levels of Discretionary Spending for 2014 Translates into Nearly 1 Million Jobs</a>  Economic Policy Institute   ...just as the intellectual case for austerity has fallen away, American policy is now set on an extremely austere auto-pilot that will slow growth and employment, all while the economy remains very far from recovered from the Great Recession...<br /><a href="http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/lehman-brothers-and-the-failure-of-free-market-finance-by-adair-turner" rel="nofollow">The Failure of Free-Market Finance</a>  Project Syndicate   ...high debt burdens, relentlessly rising for several decades – in the private sector even more than in the public sector – were a major threat to economic stability...<br /><a href="http://preview.reuters.com/2013/9/3/student-loan-default-rates" rel="nofollow">What we don't know about the $1.2 trillion student loan problem</a>  Reuters   ...$28,000 -- The typical 2012 college graduate’s debt load upon Graduation Day, according to Hamilton Place Strategies...<br /><a href="http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/us-trade-deficit-returns-july-2013-5356" rel="nofollow">The U.S. Trade Deficit Returns in July 2013</a>  Economic Populist   ...The real news is the monthly China trade deficit just hit a new all time high of $30.1 billion...<br /><a href="http://www.housingwire.com/articles/26628-injunction-preventing-hundreds-of-ri-foreclosures-is-lifted" rel="nofollow">Injunction preventing hundreds of RI foreclosures is lifted</a>  HousingWire   ...A Rhode Island federal judge lifted a blanket injunction, which initially blocked foreclosures in 825 different cases...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-04/wealthy-new-yorkers-call-de-blasio-s-tax-plan-offensive.html" rel="nofollow">Wealthy New Yorkers Call De Blasio’s Tax Plan Offensive</a>  Bloomberg   ...When New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio first proposed taxing the rich so every child in the city could attend all-day preschool, it was October and he had support from fewer than 10 percent of Democrats in polls. Now he leads the pack...<br /><br />

Today's Teamster News 09.05.13

UAL Flight Simulator Techs Vote For Teamster Representation  teamster.org   ...flight simulator technicians at United Airlines voted for so...

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