Teamsters and UPS eye long strike as talks stall
Labor Secretary Herman met with President Clinton while urging a return to bargaining. Reports cite about 7 000 crossing picket lines and several workers taking odd jobs to cover bills. Strike benefits of 55 weekly are paid while cash needs press Teamsters to resolve the dispute.
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Alexis Herman
United Parcel Service
Teamsters
Herman
Clinton
St. Louis
Ron Carey
UPS
David Murray
Odessa
Miguel Barrientos
Barrientos
Nick Dattomo
UPS Human Resources
City water and sewer rates rise amid park plan setback
Odessa City Council increases water and sewer rates and boosts West University speed limit. They learn a $173,000 UT Permian Basin park plan is unusable. bids exceed $2 million. Plans for a scaled down 50 acre site were proposed at $85,000, prompting questions about prior design work.
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Odessa
West University
University of Texas
Permian Basin
SWA Group
Dallas
Steve Patton
Parks and Recreation
Langraff Crutcher and Associates
Terry Witherspoon
Patton
Witherspoon
Boston adopts living wage for city contracts
Boston becomes the latest city to require companies with city contracts or subsidies to pay a living wage, starting July 1. The rule sets a minimum hourly wage of 7.49 for workers at firms with contracts over 100,000, higher than the federal rate and aimed at benefiting hotel, school, and construction laborers amid opposition from business groups.
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Boston
Thomas
Baltimore
Denver and
Poore
Ans
Menino
Samuel Tyler
Municipal Search Bureau of
Clinton hails welfare drop in year after overhaul
President Clinton touted a 1.4 million drop in welfare rolls a year after signing welfare reform. He defended the law amid critics, including Rep. Dick Gephardt, while noting tensions with the House minority leader over policy and strategy for reclaiming Congress in 1998.
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ST. Louis
Clinton
Rep
Gephardt
White House
Mike McCurry
House
McCurry
Cay
Hrtingin
Richard Gephardt
Air Force One
Texas school chiefs warn of tax rise after relief plan
AUSTIN AP Less than a week after voters approved a 1 billion property tax cut, administrators warn residents should expect higher local rates. About 94 percent backed the plan sending funds to schools, while concerns grow that reduced state revenue shifts costs back to districts and may raise minimum teacher salaries tied to state funds.
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Austin
Texas
George W. Bush
The
Texas Association of School Administrators
TASA
Johnny Veselka
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