Monday, February 7, 2011

Today's Teamster News 02.07.11

Governors Chop Spending  Wall Street Journal   ...Governors around the U.S. are proposing to balance their states' budgets with a long list of cuts and almost no new taxes, reflecting a goal by politicians from both parties to erase deficits chiefly by shrinking government...
Labor Fumes over Democrats' Charlotte Pick  Politico   ...They picked the least unionized state in the entire country...
Obama Reaches for Corporate Support  Wall Street Journal   ...President Barack Obama will ask some of his toughest business critics at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday to back his economic agenda...
Companies Fight Back on Executive Pay  Wall Street Journal   ...Some companies are ... denouncing proxy-advisory firms that tell shareholders how to vote...
Another year of mystery for SF's high-speed rail path  nbcbayarea.com  ...The High-Speed Rail Authority announced that it will keep plans for the region under wraps until 2012...
NW Ohio Train Jumps Tracks, Massive Ethanol Fire Forces Evacuations  Indiana's News Center   ...A huge fireball that could be seen for up to 15 miles erupted following a train derailed in Hancock County, Ohio early Sunday morning...
NLRB Cools Legal Threat Vs. States Over Card Check  Investor's Business Daily   ...The National Labor Relations Board has backed off from threats to sue four states to stop them from enforcing new anti-card check state constitutional amendments...
Say yes to the Keystone pipeline  (Opinion)  Washington Post   ...Washington Post   ...Oil sands crude is nasty, and the sooner the world stops burning it, the better. But that's actually not much of a reason to kill the pipeline...