Today's Teamster News 08.06.13

<a href="http://www.record-bee.com/cars/ci_23787121/teamsters-strikers-call-community" rel="nofollow">Teamsters, strikers call on Lake Transit, county leaders to take action</a>  Lake County Record-Bee   ...Teamsters, Paratransit employees and members of the community gathered Friday at noon in front of Lake County’s City Hall to picket, address the media and call on county leaders and Lake Transit to take action on the public transportation issue...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/waste-workers-win-card-check-recognition-new-hampshire" rel="nofollow">New Hampshire Waste Workers Win Card-Check Recognition to Become Teamsters</a>  IBT   ...Waste workers with Casella Waste Systems in Brentwood, N.H., will now be represented by the Teamsters Union, after Local 633 in Manchester, N.H., secured a card-check agreement. The workers overwhelmingly signed up to become Teamster members... <br /><a href="http://www.ivpressonline.com/community/ivp-photo-galleries-gold-cross-strike-continues-20130804,0,3449113.photogallery" rel="nofollow">Gold Cross Strike Continues for EMTs, Paramedics</a>  Imperial Valley Press...Friends, families, and supporters of Teamsters Local 542 picket in front of Gold Cross Ambulance on Sunday afternoon in El Centro. Check out this photo gallery...<br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323681904578644610607143772" rel="nofollow">U.S. Trustee Objects to AMR Chief's $20 Million Severance, Again</a>  Wall Street Journal   ...Justice Department officials monitoring the American Airlines bankruptcy case again objected to a proposed $20 million severance package for Tom Horton, AMR's current chief executive, according to a court filing made late Friday...<br /><a href="http://www.joc.com/regulation-policy/transportation-regulations/us-transportation-regulations/us-issues-new-rail-safety-rules-after-quebec-disaster_20130803.html" rel="nofollow">U.S. Issues New Rail Safety Rules After Quebec Disaster</a>  Journal of Commerce   ...The Federal Railroad Administration on Friday issued <a href="http://www.fra.dot.gov/eLib/details/L04719">an emergency order</a> aimed at making the hauling of hazardous materials safer, following last month's deadly Quebec fuel train accident...<br /><a href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/08/politicians-must-step-and-make-rail-safety-top-priority" rel="nofollow">Politicians must step up and make rail safety a top priority</a> (opinion)   Rabble   ...Transport Canada's emergency safety directive issued following the Lac-Mégantic rail tragedy is welcome but more can be done...<br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-louisiana-train-accident-20130805,0,3187072.story" rel="nofollow">100 homes evacuated in southern Louisiana after train derails</a>  Los Angeles Times   ...About 100 homes remained evacuated on Monday as officials worked to clean up the area around the derailment of a train carrying chemicals near the town of Lawtell, Louisiana. The accident took place Sunday and derailed 27 cars of a Union Pacific train...<br /><a href="http://michaelsnyder.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/08/40-percent-of-u-s-workers-make-less-than-what-a-full-time-minimum-wage-worker-made-in-1968/" rel="nofollow">40 Percent Of U.S. Workers Make Less Than What A Full-Time Minimum Wage Worker Made In 1968</a>  Men's News Daily   ...Are American workers paid enough? Back in 1968, the minimum wage in the United States was $1.60 an hour. Using the inflation calculator <a href="http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm" rel="nofollow">that the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides</a>, $1.60 in 1968 is equivalent to $10.74 today...<br /><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/03/bernie-sanders-walmart-familys-obscene-wealth-subsidized-by-taxpayers/" rel="nofollow">Bernie Sanders: Walmart family’s ‘obscene’ wealth subsidized by taxpayers</a>  Raw Story   ...Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Saturday and scoffed at the idea that major corporations like Walmart can’t afford to pay their workers a living wage and that to raise the U.S. minimum wage would be bad for the economy...<br /><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/100935856" rel="nofollow">The rich are saving cash at a record pace</a>  CNBC   ...Since the financial crisis, the wealthy have become the nation's top cash hoarders, filling up deposit accounts and money markets at a rapid clip...<br /><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/08/02">Massive Toxic Black Cloud, Brought To You by the Koch Bros, Blows Over Detroit</a>  Common Dreams   ...Mind-boggling video of a billowing, high-carbon, high-sulfur cloud from the mountain of petroleum coke - waste from Canadian tar sands shipped from Alberta to Detroit, and the dirtiest potential energy source ever - illegally stored by the Koch Brothers along the Detroit River...<br /><a href="http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18126-eight-ways-privatization-has-failed-america" rel="nofollow">Eight Ways Privatization Has Failed America</a> (opinion)  Truth-Out   ...Some of America's leading news analysts are beginning to recognize the fallacy of the "free market." They're right. A little analysis reveals that privatization doesn't seem to work in any of the areas vital to the American public...<br /><a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/15355/special_report_the_alec_fueled_race_to_the_bottom_in_wages_and_workers_righ/" rel="nofollow">The Force Behind Bills To Lower Wages and Suppress Workers’ Rights? You Guessed It: ALEC</a>  In These Times   ...As working Americans speak out for higher wages, better benefits and respect in the workplace, a coordinated, nationwide campaign to silence them is mounting—and ALEC is at the heart of it...<br /><a href="http://www.journal-advocate.com/sterling-local_news/ci_23786016/report-state-workers-need-raise-match-private-sector" rel="nofollow">Report: State workers need raise to match private sector</a>  Denver Post   ...Colorado's roughly 32,000 state workers need a 3.8 percent raise to catch up to their counterparts in the private sector, the state Department of Personnel and Administration said...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story_1.html" rel="nofollow">Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon</a>  Washington Post   ...Ultimately, the paper’s financial challenges prompted the company’s board to consider a sale, a step once regarded as unthinkable by insiders and the Graham family...<br /><a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/viewart/20130804/NEWS02/308040048/Indiana-senator-push-municipal-bankruptcy-law" rel="nofollow">Indiana senator to push for municipal bankruptcy law</a>  Associated Press   ...A northwestern Indiana lawmaker says he will push a measure next year that would change state law to allow local governments to file for bankruptcy like Detroit did in July...<br /><a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Judge-to-open-documents-in-Idaho-prison-lawsuit-4707081.php" rel="nofollow">Judge to open documents in Idaho prison lawsuit</a>  Associated Press   ...A federal judge has ordered that several documents be unsealed in a lawsuit between Idaho inmates and Corrections Corporation of America just days before a hearing is set over whether the private prison company should be held in contempt of court...<br /><a href="http://www.kentucky.com/2013/08/04/2749781/union-bus-strike-in-parts-of-metro.html" rel="nofollow">Four-day bus strike in suburbs east of Phoenix ends</a>  Associated Press   ...First Transit bus drivers in the Phoenix suburbs tentatively reached an agreement Sunday with a national bus company to end a four-day strike by the drivers that would let bus service resume in time for Monday morning's commute...<br /><a href="http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_23795522/bart-strike-averted-governor-orders-inquiry" rel="nofollow">BART strike averted as Governor orders inquiry</a>  Associated Press   ...Hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay area commuters got at least a temporary reprieve from a massive transit strike today when Gov. Jerry Brown ordered an inquiry into a labor contract dispute...

Today's Teamster News 08.06.13

Teamsters, strikers call on Lake Transit, county leaders to take action   Lake County Record-Bee   ...Teamsters, Paratransit employees and m...

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