Waste Management Announces Second Quarter 2010 Earnings
July 30, 2010: Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2010. Revenue for the second quarter of 2010 was $3.16 billion compared with $2.95 billion for the same 2009 period, an increase of $206 million, or 7.0%. Net income(a) for the quarter was $246 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, compared with $247 million, or $0.50 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2009. The...
Randy Furst: A First Amendment hero remembered
July 30, 2010: In 1976, my life and Daniel Schorr's intersected. When he died last week at age 93, I lost a friend, the public lost a trusted news analyst at National Public Radio, and the First Amendment lost one of its bravest defenders. I was a young reporter in 1976 at the Minneapolis Star; Schorr was a famous journalist who worked for CBS TV. He'd scored a number of scoops during the Watergate era,...
FreshDirect supervisors threaten pro-union employees with out-of-state move
July 29, 2010: The grocery delivery company FreshDirect is being accused of playing a high-stakes game of chicken with employees trying to organize a union. Supervisors at the Long Island City, Queens, warehouse are threatening that the company will leave the city if workers vote to unionize. Click here to read more at NY Daily News.
UPS Conference Call Set for Thursday
July 28, 2010: The Package Division is holding a telephone Conference Call on Thursday night, July 29 to update UPS Teamsters. The rescheduled conference call will update stewards and assistant stewards about UPS issues as well as the status of legislation that would make it easier for our union to organize FedEx. The original conference call on these topics was scheduled for two weeks ago. But the conference call had technical problems and the call...
Local 533 union treasurer charged with stealing from 2,000 fellow members
July 28, 2010: The former treasurer of Local 533 Teamster's Union is accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from his fellow members. Local 533 represents about 30 industries. From UPS to Waste Management, there are about 2,000 local members who pay their dues. And now, one of their own, is charged with stealing about $125,000 of their money. On Tuesday, Mark Tracy made a brief appearance in U.S. District Court. Tracy is charged...
BNA DLR: Hoffa Picks Hall as New Running Mate
July 28, 2010: International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President James Hoffa has named Ken Hall to be his running mate as general secretary-treasurer for the IBT election in 2011, replacing Thomas Keegel, who recently announced he will retire at the end of his term, the union announced July 23. Hall currently serves as international vice president at-large, the director of the package division, representing more than 250,000 workers at United Parcel Service, and principal officer...
Hoffa Campaign Re-starts Petition Drive
July 27, 2010: The reelection campaign of James Hoffa has discarded thousands of accreditation petitions which local officers collected for the Hoffa-Keegel Slate, following Tom Keegel’s July 15 defection from the Hoffa camp. Hoffa’s new campaign accreditation petitions, which are available on his campaign website, list 21 candidates out of a total of 28 positions up for election next year. Notably, only one of the twenty-one members of the Hoffa Slate is African American, one...
Yellow told to turn over workers' list
July 27, 2010: Yellow Transportation must turn over the names and phone numbers of black employees who worked at the company's Chicago Ridge terminal as part of a federal lawsuit filed last year, alleging racial discrimination, according to a court ruling. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Yellow in December, alleging that black workers at the terminal, which closed last year, were subjected to insulting messages, including hangman's nooses and racist graffiti. Click here...
BNA Daily Labor Report: Report Finds Unions Must Make Changes To Avoid Risk of Losing Young Female Talent
July 26, 2010: Unions must begin to make changes now or today's young activists, and their younger colleagues, will abandon the labor movement and pursue social justice in other organizations with more welcoming cultures and values, according to a report released July 16 by the Berger-Marks Foundation. While there have been significant gains for women in workplaces and the labor movement, a two-day summit in March 2010 in New Orleans among 30 women activists from...
BNA Daily Labor Report: Seventh Circuit Upholds Reinstatement of Roadway Driver
July 26, 2010: The Labor Department's Administrative Review Board properly concluded that Roadway Express Inc. failed to show it would have fired a truck driver even if he had not testified in a co-worker's grievance hearing, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled July 22 in the case's second trip to the appeals court (Roadway Express Inc. v. DOL, 7th Cir., No. 09-1315, 7/22/10). Writing for the unanimous three-judge panel in denying...