October 28, 2015
EPISODE NOTES
Hoffa Joins Lawmakers in Opposing Longer
Tractor Trailers; First Student Workers Approve New 5-Year Deal; Aviation
Technicians to Consider UA Contract; Lawmakers Want Labor Dept. to Create
Workers’ Comp Plan; Contract News; This Week in Teamster Music; Making Public
Sector Jobs RTW Will Gut Wages
SHOW NOTES
Motorist
Safety Shouldn’t Take a Back Seat to Profits, Hoffa Says; School Bus Workers OK
First Student National Contract; UA Proposal Sent Out for Consideration; Feds
Need to Intervene in State Worker Comp Cuts; SoCal Grocery Workers Agree to
Deal; Teamsters Reach Tentative Deal with Baltimore Sun; BLET Members Ratify
Five-Year Agreement; Brian Wilson and the Wrecking Crew; Public Sector Workers
Shouldn’t Be Punishing Back for Anti-Union Forces
October 21, 2015
EPISODE NOTES
Maryland Safeway Employees Protest Plan to
Shutter Facility; Taylor Farms Workers Hospitalized After Chemical Spill; Lack
of Sick Days Causes Food Workers to Stay on the Job; Contract News; Organizing
News; This Week in Teamster Music; Congress Should Rebuild Roads, Not Lengthen
Trailers
SHOW NOTES
New Safeway Owner Wants to Shut Down Warehouse
During Holiday Season; Supervisor Ignores Dangerous Conditions, Tells Taylor
Farm Workers to Go Back to Work; More Than Half of Food Workers Show Up Sick on
the Job; Carhaul Negotiators to Reconvene; Coca-Cola Workers Join Local 773;
Warehouse, Maintenance Workers Now Part of Local 745; Rocker Billy Corgan
Endorses TMAP at IBT Visit; Truck Drivers Need Better Infrastructure, Not Twin
33s
October 14, 2015
EPISODE NOTES:
Hoffa, IBT Leaders Tell Central States to Scrap Proposal; SoCal Port Truck Driver Talks Wage Theft at WH Summit; New Card Check Bill Unveiled in Congress; Calif. Ready-Mix Drivers Now Covered Under Prevailing Wage Laws; Contract News; Organizing News; This Week in Teamster Music; D.C. Paid Leave Bill Stands Up for Workers
SHOW NOTES:
Central States Shouldn’t Cut Pension Benefits to the Bone, IBT Says; Local 848’s Paz Encouraged by Pro-Union Talk at Workers’ Summit; Sanders-Pocan Measure Would Make It Easier to Organize; SoCal Grocery Workers Reach Tentative Deal; Detroit Shuttle Drivers Join Local 299; The Union Ties to ‘These Boots,’ Paid Parental Leave Should Be More Widespread
October 7, 2015
EPISODE NOTES:
Trade Authorities Approve TPP Deal Despite Protests; Teamsters Hold Off on Presidential Endorsement; Mediation Board Says Affiliated Airlines Should Be Treated as One; Contract News; This Week in Teamster Music; Despite Deal, Resistance to TPP Grows in All Corners
SHOW NOTES:
Georgia Teamsters Raise Ruckus Against Pacific Rim Trade Deal; IBT Says It’s Not Ready to Endorse Yet; Red Cross Teamsters Approve New Deal; American Airline Service Agents Reach Tentative Agreement; Local 284 Deal with NetJets Awaits Ratification; United Labor Woes Continue; Joe Hill and “The Rebel Girl”; TPP Agreement is Raising Concerns
