Union aide allegedly spat on cop: Dispute said to be over shots of booze; letter calls for resignation<p>Oct. 1--Editor's Note: To view a PDF of the letter to the Albany Police Officer's Union requesting James Lyman's resignation, click here.</p> <p>ALBANY -- An irked Albany cop is calling for the ouster of a top police union official he says "spat in the face" of a fellow officer during a dispute over shots of Jagermeister alcohol last month.</p> <p>Officer Daniel Condon wrote a Sept. 25 letter urging ...
Albany Times Union, N.Y. - 2008-09-29 15:23:44BRIEF: 38 union workers lost jobs, Teamsters say<p>Oct. 1--A top Teamsters official said this morning that 38 members of the union are out of work because Waste Management replaced them during the strike of trash haulers.</p> <p>Tom Benvenuto, business agent for Local 200 of the Teamsters, confirmed that 38 workers are now jobless.</p> <p>"It's a raw deal," Benvenuto said.</p> <p>Striking trash haulers walked off the job Aug. 26, but voted on ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 2008-09-29 15:23:44Union rejects insurance change; layoffs predicted<p>Oct. 1--SWAMPSCOTT -- The teachers' union has declined to join the state's Group Insurance Commission, a move that some predict will mean more teacher layoffs.</p> <p>"That's $600,000 (in savings) we're not going to have next year," said Selectman Jill Sullivan, whose board is responsible for salary negotiations.</p> <p>The town had until Oct. 1 to joining the commission.</p> <p>The commission, ...
The Salem News, Beverly, Mass. - 2008-09-29 15:23:44Union members rally over dispute: Local 1199 SEIU members, supporters seek resolution in contract talks with Kaleida<p>Oct. 1--Members of a major union at Kaleida Health System called on Kaleida to come to agreement on employee retirement benefits, a sticking point in contract talks.</p> <p>Hundreds of members of Local 1199 Service Employees International Union Health Care Workers East and their supporters blew whistles and chanted as they marched Tuesday to a field near the Larkin at Exchange building. The office ...
The Buffalo News, N.Y. - 2008-09-29 15:23:44Union workers vote down Qwest contract offer<p>Oct. 1--More labor unrest bubbled up Tuesday when unionized workers for Qwest Communications International Inc. voted down a three-year contract offer to cover 20,000 workers in 13 states, including more than 300 in Portland.</p> <p>The Communications Workers of America issued a brief statement from Denver, Qwest's home city, saying bargaining teams will meet this week to schedule new negotiations. ...
The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. - 2008-09-29 15:23:44CHL union declares strike<p>Oct. 1--HIDALGO -- Killer Bees forward Rob Voltera was preparing for a round of golf late Tuesday morning. At least for a few hours, the captain of the Rio Grande Valley's only professional hockey team wasn't going to think about the upcoming season, which is scheduled to start Monday when he and his teammates report to training camp.</p> <p>But before he could completely focus on golf, Voltera ...
The Monitor, McAllen, Texas - 2008-09-29 15:23:44Sun Country pilots to take up halved pay: Union says 'they can't do it'<p>Oct. 1--Sun Country Airlines' pilots union will meet Thursday to discuss the airline's plan to defer 50 percent of employees' pay through the end of the year.</p> <p>"You need to know that we have made no commitments to management," Buddy Scroggins, chairman of Sun Country's pilots union, said in a letter to union members earlier this week.</p> <p>The deferment plan was announced Monday after ...
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. - 2008-09-29 15:23:44Port unions reject proposal to join state's insurance plan<p>Oct. 1--NEWBURYPORT -- The city's unions have voted not to join the state's Group Insurance Commission for the second straight year, prompting Mayor John Moak to ask them to take a vote on joining another program by mid-October.</p> <p>City leaders and local legislators estimated that a switch into the GIC, which offers eight plans of insurance to state employees, could have resulted in a savings ...
The Daily News of Newburyport, Mass. - 2008-09-29 15:23:44Council again rejects new union contract<p>Oct. 1--NEWBURYPORT -- Mayor John Moak will begin negotiations again with the city's American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, after the City Council rejected for a second time a request to fund the terms of a new contract.</p> <p>The council initially rejected a transfer to cover the costs of the new agreement in August. Moak approached the council earlier this month ...
The Daily News of Newburyport, Mass. - 2008-09-29 15:23:44Shionoya embraces teachers union, 'morals': New education minister dismisses Nakayama's broadside, invites Nikkyoso to form partnership with the government<p>Oct. 1--Education minister Ryu Shionoya said Tuesday that the Japan Teachers Union (Nikkyoso) should cooperate with the ministry on improving education, dismissing critical remarks by short-lived transport minister Nariaki Nakayama, who resigned Sunday after attacking the union and calling it "a cancer."</p> <p>"Those comments totally miss the point," the new minister of education, culture, sports, ...
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