Today's Teamster News 08.01.13

<a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/teamsters-protest-mckessons-worker-abuse-and-executive-pay-shareholder-meeting" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Protest McKesson's Worker Abuse And Executive Pay At Shareholder Meeting</a>  IBT   ...Teamsters from across the country protested today outside the annual shareholder meeting of San Francisco-based McKesson Corporation, North America’s leading pharmaceutical distributor...<br /><a href="http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/ivp-no-end-in-sight-for-gold-cross-strike-20130731,0,4417353.story" rel="nofollow">No end in sight for Teamsters strike against Gold Cross</a>  Imperial Valley Press   ...The Gold Cross ambulance employees strike entered its third day Tuesday, and with talks between the company and the employees’ union at a standstill, there is no end in sight...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/sites/teamster.org/files/UPSFreightNegotiationsUpdate7312013.pdf" rel="nofollow">UPS Freight Negotiations Update</a>  IBT   ...The UPS Freight National Negotiating Committee met today to discuss concerns that members have raised about the tentative agreement that was rejected. The committee also discussed the next steps for continuing negotiations with the company so that an agreement can be put to another membership vote. <a href="http://www.teamster.org/sites/teamster.org/files/UPSFreightNegotiationsUpdate7312013.pdf" rel="nofollow">View the memo here...</a><br /><a href="http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/civil-service-ruling-in-scranton-parking-authority-case-seen-as-harbinger-1.1529151" rel="nofollow">Civil Service ruling in Scranton Parking Authority case seen as harbinger</a>   Scranton Times-Tribune   ...A state Civil Service Commission dismissal of a furlough appeal by Scranton Parking Authority's former executive director may be a harbinger in an unrelated arbitration case involving union workers, who are members of Teamsters Local 229, who also were laid off...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/sites/teamster.org/files/TLA_Annual_Schedule_2013_07312013.pdf" rel="nofollow">2013 Teamsters Leadership Academy (TLA) Course Summary and Registration Form</a>  IBT   ...Check out the Teamsters Leadership Academy schedule of programs for Teamster leaders that available for the remainder of this year. Download the schedule <a href="http://www.teamster.org/sites/teamster.org/files/TLA_Annual_Schedule_2013_07312013.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>...<br /><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/31/economic-recovery-by-statistical-manipulation/" rel="nofollow">Economic Recovery by Statistical Manipulation</a>  Counterpunch   ...he Obama administration will announce a major revision of how it calculates GDP which will bump up GDP numbers by as much as 3% according to some estimates...<br /><a href="http://americanmanufacturing.org/blog/new-amtrak-trains-made-usa">New Amtrak trains, made in USA</a>  manufacture this   ...The Department of Transportation reports that the first of Amtrak's new fleet of electric locomotives, called Cities Sprinters, rolled out of a Siemens plant in Sacramento, CA...<br /><a href="http://www.thetrucker.com/News/Stories/2013/7/31/Truckstransported608ofUS-NAFTAtradeinMay2013.aspx" rel="nofollow">Trucks transported 60.8% of U.S.-NAFTA trade in May 2013</a>   Trucker News Services   ...The Bureau of Transportation Statistics released May, North American Free Trade Agreement freight numbers showing that trucks carried 60.8 percent of the $98.6 billion of freight moved in May 2013 between the United States and its NAFTA partners, Canada and Mexico...<br /><a href="http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/union-leader-says-bart-contract-talks-were-unprodu/nY8c2/" rel="nofollow">Union leader says BART contract talks were unproductive</a>  KTVU News   ...BART management met with union leaders again Tuesday to try to reach an agreement before the contract for the transit agency's employees expires Sunday night but a union official said the talks weren't productive...<br /><a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/30/4378519/low-wage-worker-protests-fire.html" rel="nofollow">Protests about low wages continue in Kansas City</a>  Kansas City Star   ...Stand Up KC, a campaign to give a collective voice to low-paid fast-food workers, staged a rally and march Tuesday afternoon at which 500 people advocated for higher pay and union rights...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-31/bankrupt-detroit-receives-less-u-s-aid-than-colombia.html" rel="nofollow">Bankrupt Detroit Receives Less U.S. Aid Than Colombia</a>  Bloomberg News   ...President Barack Obama proposed giving Colombia about $323 million in aid next year, mostly to combat drug trafficking and violence. Detroit, with an 81 percent higher homicide rate, will get $108.2 million...<br /><a href="http://nwahomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=449462" rel="nofollow">Walmart Embroiled in D.C. Wage Battle</a>  KNWA-TV   ...Walmart is threatening to pull out three of its stores that are planned to open this fall in the nation's capital. If the mayor signs the Large Retailer Accountability Act that was passed by the D.C. Council, the corporation could be forced to pay its employees more than $4 above minimum wage...<br /><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/07/30/fox-claims-that-feeding-seniors-in-need-is-an-e/195129" rel="nofollow">Fox Claims That Feeding Seniors In Need Is An Effort To Buy Their Vote</a>  Media Matters for America   ...Fox News continued its campaign to demonize programs that provide necessary food assistance to millions of Americans by attacking the AARP's effort to enroll eligible seniors in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), baselessly claiming the program was an effort to buy their vote and dismissing the fact that many eligible seniors find it difficult to get the assistance they need...<br /><a href="http://wxxinews.org/post/prison-guard-union-still-smarting-over-closure-announcement" rel="nofollow">Prison Guard Union Still Smarting Over Closure Announcement</a>  WXXI News   ...Correction officers say they are still in “shock”, that late on a July Friday, with very little advance warning, New York's Gov. Cuomo’s prison agency announced the closure of four prisons within the next year...<br /><a href="http://apnews.excite.com/article/20130729/DA7R3V3G2.html">Group accuses Apple supplier of labor abuses</a>  Associated Press   ...A labor rights group Monday accused a Chinese company that makes iPhones for Apple Inc. (AAPL) (AAPL) of abuses including withholding employees' pay and excessive working hours...<br /><a href="http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1012036" rel="nofollow">Opinion: NC House Dances With Joy Over Their Accomplishments</a>  CNN iReport  ...It should have been a solemn day last Thursday when the NC General Assembly passed legislation that has been called the most severe voter restrictions  ... in the country, but instead there was fiddling, dancing and ice cream...

Today's Teamster News 08.01.13

Teamsters Protest McKesson's Worker Abuse And Executive Pay At Shareholder Meeting   IBT   ...Teamsters from across the country protest...

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