Friday, January 21, 2011

Today's Teamster News 01.21.11

Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority approves plans for expanded rail service  Crain's Cleveland Business   ...the Port Authority selected Parsons Brinckerhoff to handle the design and construction of a planned rail loop on the docks...
In The Nation's Second-Largest Port, Hints Of An Export Boom  Huffington Post   ... After a year of steady improvement, California's Port of Long Beach, a key barometer for the demand for American goods abroad, exported more goods than it imported in December...
TransCanada plans U.S. Bakken pipeline link  Reuters   ...TransCanada Corp (TRP.TO: Quote) plans to build a $140 million link to its proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from the Bakken oil region in the northern United States...
Judge won't allow new trial in ATA-FedEx lawsuit  Indianapolis Star   ...A federal judge will not allow a new trial in a lawsuit that netted nearly $66 million in damages for now-bankrupt ATA Airlines...
Rocky Mountaineer workers join Teamsters Canada union  Progressive Railroading   ...Previously, the 130 workers were represented by the Canadian Auto Workers...
China goes to Nixon (opinion)  New York Times   ...our newest economic superpower may indeed be on its way to some kind of economic crisis, with collateral damage to the world as a whole...
Chicago Teamsters Link With Chinese Labor Federation for Trade Union Partnership  IBT  ...Coli: Teamsters In Illinois Take Major Step Towards Global Cooperation...
Path Is Sought for States to Escape Debt Burdens  New York Times  ...Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers...