Today's Teamster News 09.14.13

<a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/first-student-school-bus-workers-choose-teamsters" rel="nofollow">First Student School Bus Workers Choose Teamsters</a>  teamster.org   ...School bus drivers and monitors with First Student in Oak Park, Mich., have voted by an overwhelming 5-1 margin to join Teamsters Local 1038 in Detroit...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/dairy-workers-georgia-join-local-528" rel="nofollow">Dairy Workers in Georgia Join Local 528</a>  teamster.org   ...On September 6, workers at Mayfield Dairy in Macon voted to become Teamsters by a nearly 3-1 margin. There are 32 transport drivers, route sales drivers and warehouse workers in the unit...<br /><a href="http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Sikorsky-lays-off-200-workers-4809286.php" rel="nofollow">Sikorsky lays off 200 workers</a>  Connecticut Post   ...Sikorsky Aircraft announced plans Thursday to cut its hourly workforce by 200 people, mostly here in Connecticut, in its second round of layoffs of that size this summer...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/allied-chooses-jack-cooper-bid" rel="nofollow">Allied Chooses Jack Cooper Bid</a>  teamster.org   ...At the auction that concluded Thursday, September 12, Allied selected Jack Cooper Transport as the entity with the best and highest bid...<br /><a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/09/12/us-volkswagen-uaw-idINBRE98B0AE20130912" rel="nofollow">U.S. union UAW close to organizing at Volkswagen plant</a>  Reuters   ...Volkswagen's factory at Chattanooga, Tennessee, is close to becoming the first U.S. car assembly plant run by a foreign company to have its workers officially represented by the United Auto Workers union, a German paper reported...<br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/10-reasons-millennials-are-screwed-generation" rel="nofollow">10 Reasons Millennials Are the Screwed Generation</a>  AlterNet   ...Young people living in the United States have inherited a broken country. Here are the reasons…<br /><a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/09/12/financial-crisis-cases-ending-as-sec-struggles-with-reputation/" rel="nofollow">Financial Crisis Cases Ending As SEC Struggles With Reputation</a>  Fire Dog Lake   ...It has now been 5 years since Wall Street crashed the economy through its pump and dump mortgage derivative scheme. Few of the bad actors have been held accountable and none of the big ones...  <br /><a href="http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/09/us_manufacturing_rebirth_fizzl.html" rel="nofollow">U.S. manufacturing rebirth fizzles as jobs still head overseas</a>  Bloomberg News   ...Despite promises of a U.S. manufacturing resurgence, job gains in the field have stagnated as work continues to be sent to other countries...<br /><a href="http://valleywag.gawker.com/google-execs-have-been-flying-to-nantucket-with-taxpaye-1310297294/1310355985@maxread" rel="nofollow">The Pentagon Helped Pay for Gas on These Billionaires' Private Jets</a>  Gawker   ...Guess who's been paying for jet fuel on behalf of a handful of billionaires? That's right—you...<br /><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Bill-granting-domestic-workers-OT-goes-to-Gov-4810133.php" rel="nofollow">Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passes Legislature</a>  San Francisco Chronicle   ...Californians who hire a nanny, a cook, a maid or other domestic employees would be required to pay them overtime wages under a landmark bill that awaits Gov. Jerry Brown's signature...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/09/13/usda-official-defends-pork-inspection-pilot-program/?hpid=z14" rel="nofollow">USDA official defends pork inspection pilot program</a>  Washington Post   ...A top food safety official at the USDA says that a pilot program for inspecting pork is working well, defending the experimental procedures being used in five hog plants around the country...<br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-rules-wisconsins-union-reforms-constitutional-200020962.html" rel="nofollow">Federal judge rules Wisconsin's union reforms constitutional</a>  Reuters   ...Wisconsin's controversial collective bargaining reforms do not violate the free speech and equal protection rights of public sector union workers, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday...<br /><a href="http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/22530497-418/union-will-fight-right-to-work-law-on-appeal.html" rel="nofollow">Union vows to fight Indiana right-to-work law on appeal</a>  Associated Press   ...Indiana is appealing a ruling declaring the state’s right-to-work law unconstitutional, Attorney General Greg Zoeller said Thursday...<br /><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/mary-landrieu-morganza-levee-oil-supply" rel="nofollow">Louisiana Senator Wants to Shut Down Nation's Oil Supply Until Congress Funds Levee Project</a> Mother Jones   ...Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) <a href="http://www.republican.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/floor-updates?ID=b81efa95-9a3a-45c2-9362-56b45846bb28" rel="nofollow">said Wednesday</a> that Louisiana ought to shut down all of the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico until the House of Representatives agrees to fund a much-needed levee project in her state designed to protect against Katrina-type storms...

Today's Teamster News 09.14.13

First Student School Bus Workers Choose Teamsters   teamster.org   ...School bus drivers and monitors with First Student in Oak Park, Mich....

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