Josh Kosman New York Post November 09, 2012 View the original piece Bakers at seven or eight Hostess plants are planning a strike this weekend, The Post has learned. The bankrupt maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread implemented a pay cut at these plants after members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union rejected the proposal. The pact includes an 8 percent first year pay cut, a suspension of pension payments...

Mark B. Solomon DC Velocity November 08, 2012 View the original piece Along with hell freezing over, the national debt being retired, and a write-in candidate winning today, add this to the list of improbable scenarios: David G. Ross may be changing his tune on YRC Worldwide Inc. Ross, a Baltimore-based analyst who covers the trucking industry for investment firm Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., has been one of Wall Street's biggest bears on the Overland...

Michele Fuetsch Transport Topics November 05, 2012 View the original piece The trucking industry in the Northeast was scrambling last week in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to assess the damage to fleet facilities and roadways and to determine which customers were ready to accept deliveries. The storm, which slammed ashore in southern New Jersey Oct. 29, devastated the shoreline there and swamped lower Manhattan under an enormous tidal surge, killed more than 80 residents...

Suzanna Stagemeyer Kansas City Business Journal November 02, 2012 View the original piece YRC Worldwide Inc. reported third-quarter profitability gains, despite revenue rolling downhill slightly. The Overland Park-based trucking company (Nasdaq: YRCW) reported $1.24 billion in revenue for the three months that ended Sept. 30. That’s down 3.1 percent from the same quarter last year. But comprehensive net income attributable to YRC Worldwide was $6.7 million, compared with a loss of $186.8 million a year...

Transport Topics October 24, 2012 View the original piece A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has agreed to hear oral arguments in December from a pair of federal lawsuits challenging the U.S.-Mexico cross-border pilot trucking program. The two lawsuits filed last year, one by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and the other by the Teamsters union, allege that the program allowing Mexican carriers into the United States does not comply...

Alexandra Bradbury Labor Notes October 12, 2012 View the original piece Strikers have returned to work with their heads held high and their wallets full at Walmart’s largest North American distribution center. Warehouse workers in Elwood, Illinois, announced Saturday that they had won their key demand, reinstatement of all who were fired or suspended for on-the-job organizing, along with full back pay for everyone who participated in the three-week strike. “I think there’s been a...

Bruce Vail In These Times October 12, 2012 View the original piece A bankruptcy judge turned the screws even tighter on workers at Hostess Brands last week, giving corporate managers the right to unilaterally cut wages and benefits for the thousands of men and women who make the Twinkies, Wonder Bread and other baked goods that have made the company famous. Judge Robert Drain of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, N.Y., handed down...

JOC Staff Journal of Commerce October 10, 2012 View the original piece ABF Freight System and the Teamsters union will open talks on a new multiyear labor contract Dec. 18, the trucking company and union said today. The current ABF Freight-Teamster contract expires May 31. The less-than-truckload carrier is expected to seek ways to reduce its labor costs, considered among the highest in LTL trucking, in the negotiations. ABF Freight System also may seek relief...

Alice Hines Huffington Post October 10, 2012 View the original piece The first retail worker strike against Walmart has spread from Los Angeles, where it began last week, to stores in a dozen cities, a union official said Tuesday. Walmart workers walked off the job in Dallas, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay area, Miami, the Washington, D.C., area, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Chicago and Orlando, said Dan Schlademan, director of the United Food and Commercial Workers'...

Gwen Florio, Karen E. Quinones Miller and David Johnston, Philadelphia Inquirer October 02, 2012 View the original piece They came in squad cars, vans and finally a New Jersey Transit bus, about 120 police officers in riot gear, facing down a rowdy but ultimately yielding band of about 30 longshoreman. The workers, members of International Longshoremen's Association 1566, gathered yesterday evening outside the chained gates of a dock in Gloucester City as members of a...