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...In particular, local chapters of the Teamsters Union are mobilising to challenge incentive deals that they say displace other logistics jobs that pay more....
...The case involves a Seattle concrete company which sued its local Teamster union after some cement hardened when workers went on strike....
...Mr Korgan, a former warehouse worker, now fights to organise the industry as secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 1932, a union in southern California’s Inland Empire, a major logistics hub....
...The US state of Virginia this month passed a requirement that its local utilities deliver 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2045....
...The term was first recognised in Japan decades ago, and annual claims have been steadily rising to a record 1,456 in 2015....
...“I had union experience,” says Mr Ruffin, who previously dealt with the Teamsters union at his Kansas dairy. “They are tough — oh, God, are they tough....
...“If our local Teamsters Union allows it, I could at least be a loader on a truck,” she says....
...In November, drivers who transport Facebook staff to and from work in California voted to be represented by the Teamsters union....
...“Corporate America loves to tout the growth in trade due to Nafta, but those dollars have largely gone into the pockets of top executives,” said James Hoffa, the president of the Teamsters Union....
...The debate over the Galway Bay farm is dividing the local community between those people who prioritise jobs and those who are firstly concerned about the environment....
...“These four electoral votes right here could make the difference,” he told supporters at a Teamsters union hall. “We don’t know how this thing is going to play out.”...
...By the end of the day, a visibly glitzier crowd was prepared to push past a noisy Teamsters Union picket line to buy expensive art....
...Embassytown, by China Miéville, Macmillan, RRP£17.99, 432 pages British sci-fi’s golden boy can do no wrong....
...It was quite a wreck but she had contacts with the local builders.”...
...One recent benefit for the local Alzheimer’s Society revolved around local celebrities – including two union leaders at the shuttered GM plant – learning how to dance in an adaptation of a popular TV show...
...Mr Raynor argues that in general, “no unions use the current system in the US any more …because it doesn’t work”....
...The union represents about 7,500 of the brewer’s 30,000 US employees and also workers among the company’s 500-plus local distributors....
...Jack Cipriani, head of the brewery workers section of the Teamsters union, which represents 7,500 of the company’s 35,000 employees, has also said he wants Anheuser-Busch to remain “an American company”....
...Asked about threats by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union of many Laidlaw drivers, to disrupt the deal, Mr Lockhead said he expected no real trouble....
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