November 25, 2015
EPISODE NOTES
Silicon Valley Shuttle Drivers Approve First Contract; Supreme Court Denies Hearing in Amerijet Case; Senate Removes ‘Twin 33s’ Language from Measure; TPP Opposition Continues to Build; NLRB Sides with Workers in Dispute with Con-way Freight; BMWED Initiates Occupational Risk Study; Contract News; U.S. Kids Are Watched by People in Poverty
SHOW NOTES
Tech Shuttle Drivers To Receive Better Wages, Benefits; High Court Passes on Teamster Collective Bargaining Case; Senate Takes Second Stand for Highway Safety; Gigantic TPP Document Is Too Big to Pass, Lawmakers Say; Con-way Workers To Get Jobs Back as Part of NLRB Decision; Study of BMWED Members to Begin Soon; Negotiating Committee Starts Talks on Revised National Carhaul Contract; Albany Times-Union Worker Ratify New Three-Year Deal; Child Care Providers Should Be Able to Afford Own Services
November 18, 2015
EPISODE NOTES
11,000 San Bernardino Workers to Vote on
Tentative Deal; Senate Instructs Negotiators not to Back Longer Trailers; Fed
Report Details Dire Rail Needs in Northeast; Contract News; Organizing News;
This Week in Teamster Music; Protecting Truckers’ Rest Breaks Makes Highways
Safer
SHOW NOTES
Thousands of Local 1932 Members to Consider Contract Offer; Effort to
Expand Use of Longer Trailers is Handed a Setback; Aging Rail Infrastructure in
Northeast Must be Upgraded, Report Says; Fort Polk Contract Workers Authorize
Strike; Detroit Air General Workers Join Local 283; Texas Linde Gas Workers Now
Aligned with Local 745; Remembering Allen Toussaint; Congress Shouldn’t
Overrule Safety Rules in 22 States
November 11, 2015
EPISODE NOTES
Teamsters Join in Day of Action to Protest
Wages; Safety Still a Concern with New Transportation Bill; Illinois Town Threatens
Jobs of Teamster Firefighters; IBT Celebrates 60 Years at D.C. Headquarters;
Organizing News; This Week in Teamster Music; TPP Text is a Punch to the Gut of
Workers
SHOW NOTES
Protests at Fed Ex Freight, Ports
Highlight Teamster Involvement in Low Wage Demonstrations; Compromise on
Transportation Funding Must Include Rest Provisions; Local 700 Pushes Back on
Town’s Attempt to Oust Workers; Celebrating History at IBT Headquarters;
Memphis Waste Management Workers Join Local 667; The Swampers and Wilson
Pickett; Now Public Pacific Rim Trade Deal is Still a Loser
November 4, 2015
EPISODE NOTES
IBT Leaders Join Port Truck Drivers on Picket
Line; Ballots Sent Out to Clark County School Workers; Teamsters Endorse Murphy in Florida Senate
Contest; Contract News; Organizing News; This Week in Teamster Music; Congress
Needs to Solve Stagnant Wages
SHOW NOTES
Hoffa, Potter Speak Out Against Misclassification,
Wage Theft in SoCal; Staff Workers at Nevada’s Largest School District Set Kick
Off First Fair Vote to Join Local 14; JC 75 Issues Endorsement for Murphy’s
Florida Senate Run; Baumann Bus Workers Back Three-Year Contract; Seattle Sysco
Workers Ratify New Deal; Mass. Workers Start Job Actions Against Pilgrim
Parking; Rocking with the
Drive-By-Truckers; Unemployment is Down,
But Wages are Flat
