Sunday, November 27, 2011

Today's Teamster News 11.27.11

Teamsters Nationwide Tell 7-Eleven ‘It's Too High A Price To Pay For Fuel’  IBT   ...Tankhaul drivers of Teamster local unions nationwide joined members of Local Union 986 as they hand billed Thanksgiving weekend customers outside of St. Louis, Chicago, Tacoma, Wash., and California 7-Elevens this morning to protest KAG West’s destruction of union jobs...
Recall Walker Drive Surpassed Halfway Petition Signature Total of 270,000 To Oust Wisconsin Governor  Hispanic News Network USA Blog   ...On Saturday, Recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) projections to collect petition signatures have surpassed all expectations to get more than the minimum required signatures per day needed by organizers to meet the amount of 540,000 mark by January 17...
McQuaig: Occupy moves us into a new era  (opinion)  Toronto Star   ...they’ve managed to change the public discourse, putting inequality front and centre — something activists and writers, myself included, have failed to accomplish despite decades of trying...
Activists accuse Mexican president of war crimes in drug crackdown  The Guardian   ...Mexican human rights activists have asked the international criminal court to investigate President Felipe Caldéron, as well as top officials and the country's most-wanted drug trafficker, accusing them of allowing subordinates to kill, torture and kidnap civilians...
Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns  The Telegraph   ...British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain...
The Supercommittee's Failure Was 2 Decades in the Making  Baseline Scenario   ...there's still an outside chance that no one will agree to anything, December 31, 2012 will roll around, and all of the Bush tax cuts will expire. Which is the only thing that has any chance of increasing taxes on the rich and reducing the deficit...