Thursday, January 13, 2011

Today's Teamster News 01.13.11

St. Louis County's Teamsters Could Go On Strike  Duluth News Tribune   ...The Teamsters, which represents 170 county employees, are one of five county bargaining units that have been without a contract since since Dec. 31, 2009...
United Parcel Service Delivers Relief  eMoney Daily   ...United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS) has decided to partner with the American Red Cross to provide humanitarian relief...
Teamsters Applaud New Public Printer Boarman  IBT   ...The Government Printing Office (GPO) ...has a new chief, William Boarman. More than 1,000 employees of the GPO are represented by the Graphic Communications Conference (GCC)...
FedEx Takes on UPS with Long-Range China Jets  Bloomberg News   ...“If you’re an international logistics provider, which they both are, you’ve got to be big in China...
Lawmaker proposes strict vetting of planned Keystone XL oil pipeline  Lincoln Journal Star   ...Dubas introduced legislation (LB340) on Wednesday that would require oil pipeline companies such as TransCanada, which wants to build the XL, to go through a complex permit process overseen by the state Public Service Commission...
Calif. to cancel cell phone service for thousands of government workers  KDRV-TV News  ...Just days after taking office, Brown announced he will be eliminating phone service for over 48,000 government workers...
Auto Rebound Pays Dividend to Work Force  New York Times  ...The sweeping overhaul and surprising recovery of the American auto industry is about to pay off handsomely for the blue-collar workers at Ford and General Motors...the payouts — expected to top $5,000 at Ford...
Our Country is in Serious Trouble (opinion)  Economy in Crisis  ...We have sold 16,613 of our best companies in the past 30 years, increasing the number of American registered foreign owned companies in the U.S. When we work for foreign owned companies, the technology and the profits go overseas...