Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Today's Teamster News 08.02.11

Walker's Failure Hikes Unemployment Rate; Senate GOP to Cut $56 Million from Newly Unemployed  One Wisconsin Now   ... figures show Wisconsin’s unemployment rate under Gov. Scott Walker has jumped higher than most states in the past two months...
Wisconsin recall ad deluge may presage 2012 election  Reuters   ...A deluge of political advertising in Wisconsin this summer to sway the largest wave of special state elections in U.S. history may be a harbinger of the partisan onslaught expected in the 2012 national elections...
We Are Ohio canvass kicks off in Cincinnati  Fox19   ...A door-to-door canvass to repeal Senate Bill 5 in Ohio kicked off Saturday in Cincinnati...
Detroit school teachers to take 10 percent wage cut  Reuters   ...The changes overwrite the previous union contract...
Indiana unemployment lower than in many right-to-work states  NWI.com   ...and the most recent state to adopt right-to-work -- Oklahoma in 2001 -- since has lost many of its manufacturing jobs to Mexico and China...
Study: Deunionization A Leading Factor Behind Increasing Income Inequality  ThinkProgress   ...Deunionization is worsening the income inequality gap, accounting for nearly a third and a fifth of wage inequality among men and women, respectively...