In the depth of the recession, some foreign countries made a simple calculation. They’d subsidize their steel industries even though that violates international trade rules. It paid off by keeping their citizens employed, paid and fed. These countries banked on dumping their excess steel in the...
During the weeks leading up to the rainy season, the weather in Juba, the low-rise and mud-hut capital of the recently established nation of South Sudan, starts to turn on anyone who isn’t prepared for it. Mornings begin breezy, tropical, and pleasant, then undergo an...
Ketchup king H.J. Heinz Co. announced last week that it’s working with Ford to convert tomato waste into auto parts. Now that’s an innovative Fusion! In addition, it is further proof that Americans can do anything. They sent a man to the moon and a rover to Mars....
A dozen North Carolinians had the brazen idea that, as American citizens, they could exercise their right to express their concerns to one of their elected representatives, Thom Tillis, who is the general assembly’s Speaker of the House. They waited patiently for 10 hours in Tillis’ office in the...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce threw a little hissy fit last week, stomping its Gucci-shod feet over a new rule requiring corporations to report the difference in pay between their median workers and their CEOs. As usual, the naval-gazing Chamber got it all wrong. The big business lobby...
Steelworkers and CEOs, Democrats and Republicans are rallying together this month across the country to alert their fellow Americans to a threat to independence. These groups, often at each other’s throats, have allied to confront a surge in dumped foreign steel, an illegal practice that jeopardizes the viability...
Hoffa-Led Global Delegation Calls for Board Oversight of Worker Rights (BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND) – Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa led a powerful delegation of Teamsters, including North American school bus workers, in calling on the National Express Group PLC (NEX: LN) Board of Directors to address the...
The GOP wants America to divorce Obamacare so badly that Republicans are willing to stoop to the tactics of prototypical evil mothers-in-law – nitpicking, backbiting, and straight up lying. Just last week, Republicans got caught in a lie about Obamacare very publicly – at their own...
Ruling Affirms Teamster Election for Florida School Bus Workers (WASHINGTON) – School bus drivers and monitors in Santa Rosa County, Fla., who are members of Teamsters Local 991 in Mobile, Ala., have won a major victory in a decision handed down by the National Labor Relations...
“Golden Coffin” Death Benefit for CEO is Exorbitant and Not Tied to Performance (SCOTTSDALE, AZ) – Representatives from the Teamsters General Fund presented a shareholder resolution today at Republic Services’ [NYSE: RSG] annual shareholder meeting that would give shareholders the right to vote on agreements to give executives...