Houston Management Sends Email to Striker to Apply to Be Temporary Strikebreaker (Chicago, IL) – Striking Funeral Director Lawrence Mandel was surprised that Dignity Memorial would bother offering him an “opportunity.” As Mandel picketed in front of Dignity Memorial Piser Funeral Services in Skokie, he received an...
The conduct of the New York State Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in rehabilitating the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge can only be described as anti-American. The MTA plans to send $235.7 million of Americans' hard-earned toll dollars to China for foreign steel and foreign fabrication to renovate a bridge...
The latest monthly U.S. jobs report shows America's manufacturing sector lost 6,000 jobs in June 2013, a setback in the effort to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs in President Obama's second term. Commented Scott Paul, President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM): "The economy is producing jobs, but they...
The latest monthly U.S. trade figures were released this morning by the U.S. Department of Commerce: In May, the overall U.S. international goods and services deficit rose to $45.1 billion, up from $40.1 billion in April (revised). The monthly U.S. goods deficit with China climbed to $27.9 billion in May, up from...
16 SCI Funeral Homes Affected As Company Forces Strike, Pickets Begin July 2 (Chicago, IL) – Funeral directors and drivers represented by Teamsters Local 727 overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike against Houston-based funeral giant Service Corporation International (NYSE: SCI) this evening. The strike is set...
After More Than 40 Hours of ‘Wheel Spinning,’ Funeral Employees Make Major Movement in Attempt to Settle Contract (Chicago, IL) -- Teamster-represented funeral directors and drivers issued a “last and best” contract proposal to begin the final day of negotiations with Houston-based funeral giant Service Corporation International...
Union Will Talk To Members In Areas Where Supplements Were Rejected (WASHINGTON) – Teamsters employed at ABF Freight System, Inc. have voted to approve the national master portion of the ABF National Master Freight Agreement as well as 21 of the 27 supplements. Some local/area supplemental...
Funeral Directors and Drivers Gather in Support of Negotiating Committee (Chicago, IL) – Funeral directors, drivers and their supporters from around Chicago rallied in front of SCI-owned Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn today. The rally was held to support the funeral directors’ bargaining team. “We hope...
Brains and power are intoxicating, and can be quite lethal when beauty is added to the mix. Politics would be better with fewer powerful bald white guys and more hot women. Women get things done, and look great doing it. The list has been divided into the...
Wage and Hour Violations Found at Florida State Prison (TAMPA, Fla.) – The U.S. Department of Labor is overseeing the award of a $603,237 settlement to current and retired employees of the State Prison Facility in Raiford after finding that more than 700 corrections officers were...