Monday, September 19, 2011

Today's Teamster News 09.19.11

SB5 sides organize saturation campaigns  Youngston Vindicator   ...As the multimillion dollar Senate Bill 5 campaigns ramp up, Ohioans will be bombarded with claims and counterclaims, pleas and appeals, images and sound bites...
After Gutting Their Wages, Michigan GOP Senate Leader Says He Wants To Help Teachers With Right-To-Work Law  truthout   ...Teachers should not fall for his rhetoric and support his attack on union rights...
Pennsylvania Turnpike toll collectors' contract expires Sept. 30  pennlive.com   ...At a time when the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is studying a move toward an all-electronic toll collection system that could make the jobs of more than 700 toll collectors obsolete, the union representing those workers has a labor contract that expires Sept. 30...
Overreach doesn't fly  Times-Tribune   ...Now House Republicans plan to pass a bill that would strip the NLRB of its authority to bring the sort of case it has brought against Boeing. That's a bad idea...
Editorial: The GOP is using a Boeing case to antagonize organized labor  stlouistoday.com   ...the bill actually would put jobs at risk and leave workers exposed to punitive actions by corporations trying to avoid their legal obligations...
Nikki Haley Doubles Down On Drug Claim  FitsNews.com   ...S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley is standing by her bizarre claim that fifty percent of recent job applicants at the Savannah River Site (SRS) failed drug tests while the other half “couldn’t read and write properly...”