January 27, 2016
PODCAST NOTES:
Hoffa Tells MillerCoors to Keep N.C. Brewery Open; NYC Horse Carriage Driving Teamsters Reach Agreement with DeBlasio; Rail Teamsters Raise Concerns on Norfolk Southern Takeover; Flint Water Crisis is State Fiasco; Contract News; Organizing News, This Week in Teamster Music; Income Disparity is Even Worse than Imagined
SHOW NOTES:
MillerCoors Brewery Shutdown is Tied to InBev Merger; Horse Carriages Will Continue in Central Park; Teamsters Join Chorus Raising Concerns About Proposed Norfolk Southern Hostile Takeover; Flint Fiasco Raises Questions About Water Safety; N.H. Town Approves Police Employees Contract; SoCal O’Reilly Auto Parts Delivery Workers Join Local 166; The Swampers and ‘Patches,’ Wealth of Bottom Half of Globe Equal to Top 62 People
January 20, 2016
EPISODE NOTES
Hall Join Thousands in Protesting RTW in
W.Va.; Feds Host Two More Meetings on Central States Pension Proposal; BLET
Petitions Railroad Agency to Mandate Warning Signs; Obama Proposes Wage
Insurance; Contract News; This Week in Teamster Music; Anti-Unionism is Real
Reason Behind Supreme Court Case
SHOW NOTES
Teamsters
Take a Lead Role in W.Va. Fight Against RTW; Two More Chances to Sound Off
Against Lousy Central States Pension Plan; Rail Safety Jeopardized by Removal
of Speed Restriction Signs, BLET says; President’s Plan Would Protect Wages of
Middle-Class Workers; Carhaul Negotiations Continue; Ray Charles Honors MLK,
Others in “Abraham, Martin, John”; High Court Lawsuit Threatens Worker Wages
January 13, 2016
EPISODE NOTES
Local 727 Coke Workers Ratify Three-Year
Deal; Lawmakers, Labor Leaders Raise Opposition to TPP; Aussie Labor Leader
Talks Up New Approach for Truckers; Minnesota Teamsters Endorse Angie Craig;
Contract News; Organizing News; This Week in Teamster Music; NLRB Election
Changes Help Workers
SHOW NOTES
Illinois Coke Teamsters Overwhelming Approve New
Contract; TPP Opponents Kick Off 2016 Opposition to Deal; Labor Leader Floats
Australian Trucker Proposal for U.S.; Minnesota House Candidate Wins Backing of
Teamsters; Carhaul Negotiations Begin Again; 300 BLET Members Agree to New
Contract; Renzenberger Workers Join Local 746; Red Simpson and ‘Six Days on the
Road’; Agency Rule Changes a Boon for Organizing
January 6, 2016
EPISODE NOTES
Local 727 Reaches Tentative Deal with Coke
Subsidiary, Ends Strike; Calif. Commissioner Sides with Drivers in Wage
Dispute; Fort Irwin Teamsters Call Out Employer for Cutting Wages, Benefits;
New Year Brings Higher Wages to Workers in 14 States; Organizing News; This
Week in Teamster Music; Teamsters, Lawmakers Raise Drumbeat Against Pension
Proposal
SHOW NOTES
Coca-Cola Refreshments Workers Set to Vote on New Contract; 38 Calif.
Port Truck Drivers Awarded $6.9M in Stolen Wages; Federal Contractor Won’t
Recognize Teamsters at Calif.’s Fort Irwin; States, Cities Act on Their Own to
Raise Wage Floor; Orange County Workers Join Local 952; N.J. School Bus Workers
Now Part of Local 102; Maine Red Cross Workers Organize with Local 340; Georgia
Pepsi Workers Become Members of Local 528; Dropkick Murphys and Unions; Union
Leaders, Members Oppose Central States Pension Plan
