Today's Teamster News 11.06.13

<a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/teamsters-urge-passage-employment-non-discrimination-act" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Urge Passage Of Employment Non-Discrimination Act</a>  teamster.org   ...The Teamsters Union yesterday called on Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would provide strong federal protections against discrimination, making it illegal to base hiring decisions or to fire someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity...<br /><a href="http://www.the-news-leader.com/news%20local/2013/11/06/hudson-firm-bids-11-7-million-for-empire-die-casting" rel="nofollow">Hudson firm bids $11.7 million for Empire Die Casting in Macedonia, Ohio</a>  Nordonia Hills News-Leader   ...The investment firm New Growth Capital Group has signed a letter of intent to purchase Macedonia's Empire Die Casting, an East Highland Road metal parts manufacturer, for $11.7 million. Approximately 170 workers there are represented by Cleveland-based Teamsters Local 416...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/mitch-mcconnell-rand-paul-right-to-work_n_4219341.html" rel="nofollow">Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul Hope To Tack Right-To-Work Law Onto Employment Non-Discrimination Act</a>  Huffington Post   ...Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have proposed an amendment to a workplace discrimination bill in the hopes of creating a national right-to-work law...<br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/05/apple-creates-us-jobs-renewable-energy" rel="nofollow">Apple creates 2,000 jobs shifting production back to US </a> The Guardian   ...The California technology titan is beginning to shift production back to its home market, with the creation of its second US plant in under a year. It is understood the renewable energy powered facility in Mesa, Arizona, will produce laboratory grown sapphire crystals of the kind used in the iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner...<br /><a href="http://www.epi.org/blog/daily-reminder-thousands-die-preventable/" rel="nofollow">A Daily Reminder That Thousands Die In Preventable Workplace Deaths Every Year</a>  Economic Policy Institute   ...the Cal-OSHA Reporter News Digest ... is filled with grim stories of workers mangled by machinery, suffocated by corn in a silo, killed in falls or struck by a careless driver as they worked on the highway, or sometimes, killed in ways so horrible that it beggars the imagination...<br /><a href="http://angrybearblog.com/2013/11/ripping-off-college-students-economic-future.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Hzoh+%28angrybearblog.com%29" rel="nofollow">Ripping Off College Students Economic Future</a>  Angry Bear   ...Student Debt has quadrupled from 2003 to 2013 going from ~$240 billion to > $1,000,000,000. Up from 41% in 1989, 66% of all students now have an average debt of ~$27,000...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/faa-orders-additional-pilot-training/2013/11/05/02c19d02-463a-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_story.html?hpid=z4" rel="nofollow">FAA Orders Additional Pilot Training</a>  Washington Post   ...Almost four years after an upstate New York commuter plane crash killed 50 people, the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday imposed stricter training requirements for commercial airline pilots...<br /><a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10956" rel="nofollow">First Wall Street Criminal Confession in a Generation...Still No One in Jail</a>  The Real News   ... Bill Black: SAC Capital Advisors pleads guilty to insider trading, but owner Steven Cohen has yet to face criminal prosecution...<br /><a href="http://www.timesunion.com/news/politics/article/Illinois-unions-hold-strong-despite-blows-to-labor-4953899.php" rel="nofollow">Illinois unions hold strong despite blows to labor</a>  Associated Press   ...Across the middle of the country, organized labor has taken one hit after another in places that were once union strongholds: Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana, where workers lost bargaining power and saw their ranks shrink, leaving them weaker than almost any time in the past century. The notable exception is Illinois...<br /><a href="http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/nlrb_moves_forward_on_unfair_labor_practice_charges_against_t-mobile_us" rel="nofollow">NLRB Moves Forward on Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against T-Mobile US</a>  cwa-union.org   ...The National Labor Relations Board's Acting General Counsel announced that the U.S. government would prosecute T-Mobile US for violating U.S. labor law by illegally firing two workers at a Wichita, Kansas call center because of their union activity...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/republican-spending-cuts-economy_n_4213435.html?utm_hp_ref=business" rel="nofollow">How Republicans Have Trashed The Economy, In 1 Chart</a>  Huffington Post   ...The next time a Republican tells you government spending is out of control, this chart is all you need to prove otherwise...<br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa/americas-greatest-shame-child-poverty-rises-and-food-stamps-cut-while-billionaires" rel="nofollow">America's Greatest Shame: Child Poverty Rises and Food Stamps Cut While Billionaires Boom</a>  AlterNet   ...Since the start of the Great Recession in 2007, the percentage of poor children has climbed by 4.5 percent, while the income of the top 1 percent has risen by 34%.Why do we put up with such injustices?...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/worlds-richest-people_n_4219024.html?utm_hp_ref=business" rel="nofollow">Half Of The World's Richest People Come From Just 2 Families</a>  Huffington Post   ...Seven of the 12 richest people in the world have names ending in <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/koch-brothers-commercial_n_3581017.html" rel="nofollow">Koch</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/waltons-net-worth_n_1680642.html" rel="nofollow">Walton</a> or <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79413.html" rel="nofollow">Adelson</a>, according to a new calculation by Bloomberg Markets magazine. Of course, extreme wealth gives you a lot of political power. Here's how these folks wield their influence...<br /><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/walmart-disability-benefits-supreme-court" rel="nofollow">Walmart Is Trying to Block Workers' Disability Benefits</a>  Mother Jones   ...If the Supreme Court rules in the retail giant's favor, it will be easier for companies to deny workers benefits...<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/04/us-usa-detroit-bankruptcy-idUSBRE9A30TD20131104" rel="nofollow">Detroit emergency manager pressed on pension cuts at bankruptcy trial</a>  Reuters   ...Detroit's unions called witnesses on Monday to testify that the city does not belong in <a href="http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/bankruptcy?lc=int_mb_1001" rel="nofollow">bankruptcy</a> including representatives of a union and retirees who said a negotiated settlement of the city's debts had been possible before it filed for bankruptcy in mid-July...

Today's Teamster News 11.06.13

Teamsters Urge Passage Of Employment Non-Discrimination Act   teamster.org   ...The Teamsters Union yesterday called on Congress to pass the...

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