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Haweka Debuts New Truck Alignment System - Truckinginfo
Yokohama Tire News - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 19:21
Haweka Debuts New Truck Alignment System
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More > 2/25/2010 - Yokohama Unveils New Long-Haul Steer Tire Yokohama Tire Corporation has unveiled its new its new 101ZL commercial tire, a long-haul steer ...
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Labor News Headlines March 10, 2010
Workers Independent News - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 18:21
MP3: winhead031010.mp3 Headlines: Building Trades Urge Action on Ground Zero Construction - 03/10/10 NYC Inspections Focused More On Union Sites, Even Though They're Safer Than Non-Union - 03/10/10 Workers And Clergy Call On Oakland City Council To Vote Against Bank Interest Swaps - 03/10/10
Workers And Clergy Call On Oakland City Council To Vote Against Bank Interest Swaps - 03/10/10
Workers Independent News - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 18:20
By Doug Cunningham
Workers, union activists and clergy leaders Tuesday called on the city of Oakland to follow the Los Angeles example and vote to end interest rate swap financial deals by Wall Street and banks. The workers says such deals cost Bay area governments more than $150 million a year. They say loss of that money harms public services. The Oakland action comes after the Los Angeles CIty council unanimously voted to demand banks end the practice.
NYC Inspections Focused More On Union Sites, Even Though They're Safer Than Non-Union - 03/10/10
Workers Independent News - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 18:19
By Doug Cunningham
Even though most workers dying in construction accidents are on low-rise non-union worksites, New York City Buildings Department is still focusing more enforcement on union high-rise jobs. Lou Coletti is President of the Building Trades Employers Association. Coletti says on average over the years OSHA records show union high-rise jobs are far safer than non-union.
[Coletti]: “Seventy-five percent of the fatalities are on non-union jobs below ten stories.”
OSHA’s Regional Deputy Administrator is Richard Mendelson.
Building Trades Urge Action on Ground Zero Construction - 03/10/10
Workers Independent News - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 18:18
Nine years since the World Trade Center attacks very little construction has happened at the site. Yesterday union workers who hope to be part of any future construction jobs gathered to call on New York City to start building. Jesse Russell reports:
Tale of Two CEOs: One of Them Needs to Do Better
United Steelworker Blog - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 14:25
Leo Hindery Jr. By Leo Hindery Jr. Chairman, U.S. Economy/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation The Financial Times just devoted a special section of the paper to “individuals and companies who have displayed courage and vision in the aftermath of the most wrenching financial crisis since the Great Depression.” This piece of journalism — and [...]
Labor Radio Test - Si Kahn
Workers Independent News - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:40
MP3: SiKahntest.mp3 Transcript: winhead012510.txt
Nothing needs to go in here?
Robert Rubin: Why Won’t He Go Away?
United Steelworker Blog - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:30
By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research As Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin put in place all the pieces that set up the economy for the disaster that we are now living through. He pushed legislation that weakened regulation of the financial sector; he cheered on a stock bubble that eventually grew to $10 trillion [...]
Fire forces evacuation of Salem's Yokohama plant - Roanoke Times
Yokohama Tire News - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 01:52
Roanoke Times
Fire forces evacuation of Salem's Yokohama plant
Roanoke Times
Employees stand in the parking lot of the Yokohama Tire Corp. plant on Indiana Street in Salem on Monday afternoon. ...
Fire at Salem's Yokohama plantWSLS.com
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Labor News Headlines March 9, 2010
Workers Independent News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 17:56
MP3: winhead030910.mp3 Headlines: President Obama Nominates Another Potential TSA Administrator – 03/09/10 Thousands of Protesters Expected At Insurance Industry Washington Gathering – 03/09/10 Oregon Activists Hope Fair Tax On The Rich Movement Will Spread – 03/09/10 Supreme Court Will Decide NASA Employee Privacy Issue – 03/09/10
Supreme Court Will Decide NASA Employee Privacy Issue – 03/09/10
Workers Independent News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 17:54
Are background investigations of NASA employees a violation of privacy rights? The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would take up a case asking that very question. It revolves around the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California where laboratory jobs are held by contract employees who are at risk of losing their jobs if they don’t submit to background investigations. Scientists, engineers, and other employees filed a lawsuit challenging the requirement.
Oregon Activists Hope Fair Tax On The Rich Movement Will Spread – 03/09/10
Workers Independent News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 17:54
By Doug Cunningham
When the Oregon legislature began looking at tax hikes for corporations, individuals making more than $125,000 a year, and couples earning more than $250,000 corporations thought they could beat it by forcing a statewide vote on it. The people of Oregon instead voted for these more progressive taxes. Jordana Sardo is Portland organizer for the Freedom Socialist Party.
Thousands of Protesters Expected At Insurance Industry Washington Gathering – 03/09/10
Workers Independent News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 17:53
By Doug Cunningham
About 3,000 protesters are expected to show up in Washington, D.C. Tuesday to protest health insurance abuses. More than fifty labor, religious and grassroots activist leaders will join protesters from at least ten states. They will conduct a symbolic “mass arrest” of insurance industry leaders meeting at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington.
President Obama Nominates Another Potential TSA Administrator – 03/09/10
Workers Independent News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 17:52
President Barack Obama is making a second go at filling one of the most important cabinet positions. Jesse Russell reports:
New ENVigor marries Yokohama performance, green pedigree - Inside Track Motorsport News (blog)
Yokohama Tire News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 11:26
New ENVigor marries Yokohama performance, green pedigree
Inside Track Motorsport News (blog)
The Yokohama dB super E-spec line is manufactured with natural rubber and orange oil. Yokohama Tire (Canada) Inc. markets and distributes a full line of ...
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Get a Fresh New Look for Your Car at WheelsNext! - BigNews.biz (press release)
Yokohama Tire News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 10:18
Get a Fresh New Look for Your Car at WheelsNext!
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The Jobless Rate Makes Health Care Reform Both Harder and More Important
United Steelworker Blog - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 09:00
By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley The loss of 36,000 jobs in February is better than expected but it’s still miserable. 26,000 were lost in January, according to the government’s revised figures. And the “underemployment” rate — including jobless workers who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want [...]
New Jersey State Workers Could Face Salary Freeze--03/08/2010
Workers Independent News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 07:47
New Jersey state workers have agreed to both furloughs and wage concessions to assist in balancing the state budget, but a new proposal that landed in the legislature would also freeze salaries for three years. Burlington County Assemblyman Joe Malone made the proposal which also includes freezing property taxes at the current level. Unions representing state workers have expressed they would consider such legislation a dismantling of collective bargaining rights. New Jersey is dealing with an $11 billion budget deficit.
Labor Organization Claims IBM Making Layoffs--03/08/2010
Workers Independent News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 07:46
According to the labor organization Alliance@IBM,the computer company began slashing jobs early last week. The numbers of cuts as of Thursday were estimated to be more than 2,500. The Alliance@IBM website allows laid off workers to report when their job has been cut. The organization is an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America and has been seeking for the past few years to be the officially recognized representative of IBM workers.
Labor Activists Discuss Future of Single-Payer Health Care--03/08/2010
Workers Independent News - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 07:46
Grassroots labor activists from California to Ohio gathered at the Nation Labor College, just outside Washington, D.C., to discuss the next step in the battle for single-payer healthcare.
WIN’s Kate Sheehy reports.
Kate Sheehy reports.
One of the most vocal unions has been the California Nurses Association, along with their umbrella group, National Nurses United. Martha Kuhl, Secretary-Treasurer of NNU, is a pediatrics nurse in Oakland, California. She says that nurses see everyday how lack of healthcare affects people. She says that the success of the campaign lies with unions.
