Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Today's Teamster News 01.03.12

The penny finally drops. Pay people properly and you will get better results  The Independent   ...A decade of hard graft by Living Wage campaigners has forced employers to recognise that higher salaries boost productivity...
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: 2012 could be the year Germany lets the euro die (opinion)  The Telegraph   ...All policy levers are set on deep recession, and deep recession is what Europe will get...
Prayer group gets waiver on Statehouse access  Associated Press   ...(Indiana) AFL-CIO Spokesman Jeff Harris said the special access is part of an effort to limit public debate at the Statehouse. "I think it's just incredible that the state is now in the position to pick and choose who gets access to the Statehouse,"...
Montana High Court Says 'Citizens United' Does Not Apply In Big Sky State  Move To Amend   ...Montana’s Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional rights to directly spend money on ‘independent expenditures’ in campaigns...
Governor Walker Is Not Actually a Good Person  Esquire   ...It's going to be hilarious watching this guy flounder through the next several months. He may wind up signing one of his own recall petitions before it's through...
Hampton reaches contract deal with Teamsters  Seacoast Online   ... the agreement for the Teamsters ... calls for a 2.5 percent increase in wages over a two-year period.