Thursday, November 10, 2011

Today's Teamster News 11.10.11

Protesters give Sotheby's clients a rough reception  AFP   ...Union workers and Occupy Wall Street activists gave a rough welcome to well-heeled Sotheby's clients as they arrived in limousines to attend an auction of contemporary art in New York...
Occupy protesters start march from NYC to DC in time for decision on Bush tax cuts  Associated Press   ...Flanked by police scooters, about two dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters started a two-week walk from New York to Washington on Wednesday...
Ohio Republican legislators have an SB 5 rewrite to do: Kevin O'Brien (opinion)  Plain Dealer   ...Ohio awoke Wednesday morning to a different political landscape. The fiscal problems in state and local governments were all in their usual places...
Capitol Crackdown an Abuse of Power  ForwardforLiberty   ...The citations issued during this legislative session by law enforcement to protesters holding signs and videotaping events at the (Wisconsin) Capitol represent another chapter in an almost year-long story of the suppression of citizens’ access to government and the right to free expression and assembly...
Euro Fears Spread to Italy as the Debt Crisis Deepens  New York Times   ...Since the start of the euro crisis two years ago, the big fear has been contagion, that market unease about the high debt and slow growth in Europe’s southern rim would infect the core. On Wednesday, contagion arrived with brute force...
Largest Municipal Bankruptcy Filed  Wall Street Journal   ...Jefferson County, Ala., which owes more than $3 billion on a failed sewer deal, filed Wednesday for what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history after a tentative rescue plan with creditors unraveled...