February 24, 2016
EPISODE NOTES:
UA Mechanics Picket to Protest Airline Contract Offer; Seattle Uber Driver Critical of Company Dismissed; Unions Get Reprieve on Friedrichs Supreme Court Case; Central States Pension Call Set; Contract News; This Week in Teamster Music; More Lawmakers Are Seeing Through TPP Lies
SHOW NOTES:
United Protests Held at Three Airports Over Contract; Uber Using Shady Means to Target Union-Affiliated Driver Standing Up for Workers; Public Sector RTW Still a Concern After Scalia’s Death; Pensioners Can Call Mondays to Discuss Central States; Carhaul Negotiations to Begin Again; “This Land is Your Land” and Woody Guthrie; Bipartisan Opposition Grows for Pacific Rim Trade Pact
February 17, 2016
EPISODE NOTES
United Mechanics Vote Overwhelmingly to
Reject Contract Offer; Teamsters Will Remember W.Va. Lawmakers Approving RTW;
Local 728 Members Help Deliver Water to Flint; EPI Study Finds 30% of Workers
on Public Assistance; Organizing News; This Week in Teamster Music; Pensions
Become Political Parlor Game for Some
SHOW NOTES
Strike Authority Granted by UA
Mechanics; W.Va. Workers Get Short Shrift from Legislature; Atlanta Teamsters
Lend Helping Hand to Flint Residents; Working Full Time Doesn’t Guarantee
Making Ends Meet; Calif. Flour Mill Workers Join Local 166; Singer Ruth Brown
and Musician Rights; Shady Pension Practices Abound at All Levels of Government
February 10, 2016
EPISODE NOTES
Local 104 Picket Lines Against US Foods
Extend from Phoenix to SoCal; Workers Wait on Veto of W.Va. RTW Bill; Teamsters
Use Super Bowl to Step Up Efforts against MillerCoors in N.C.; BLET Wants Feds
to Drop Device Usage Mandate; Organizing News; This Week in Teamster Music;
Judge Sides with Workers in Kentucky RTW Case
SHOW NOTES
Teamsters Strike at Foodservice Provider Due to
Lack of Contract; Corporate Cronies Use Same Old Tricks to Pass RTW in W.Va.; Union
Continues Campaign Against Shutdown of N.C. Brewery; Emergency Order Sought to
Stop Use of Train Technology; NorCal County Workers Join Local 856; Rockers
Rush Sing About “Working Man”; Some Still See Many Problems With RTW
February 3, 2016
EPISODE NOTES
Teamsters Warn Hill Aides about Central
States Pension Proposal; Oakland Port Drivers to Receive Prevailing Wage;
Maryland Teamsters Help Halt Loss of Safeway Jobs; Airline Merger Will Help Protect Union Jobs;
Contract News; This Week in Teamster Music; Flint Fiasco Places Thousands of
Lives at Risk
SHOW NOTES
Central States Pension Plan is Unsound, Would
Hurt Thousands of Workers, Retirees; Misclassification Addressed in New Port of
Oakland Agreement; Teamsters Help Save Hundreds of Warehouse Jobs; Teamster
Aviation Workers Will Benefit From Merger; Philly Food Distribution Workers Win New Deal;
Horizon Air Workers Ratify Agreement; Remembering Brother Timothy Lynch; Mich.
Gov. Snyder Needs to Act to Help Flint Residents
