Randy Hopper Found Not Guilty Of DUI Charge, After Union-Conspiracy Defense Talking Points Memo ...Former Wisconsin state Sen. Randy Hopper (R) was found not guilty by a jury Friday on a charge of drunk-driving, after mounting a court defense that his arrest in October was the product of a conspiracy by the public employee union members who had successfully worked to recall him from office earlier last summer...
Plain Talk: Indiana’s pro-union ‘Lunchpail Republicans’ bear watching The Cap Times ...“A Lunchpail Republican believes in the rights to speak freely and bear arms, supports labor and business, and insists that the government should not interfere with the day-to-day operations of private-sector organizations,” he added. “We should not have to choose between our party, our union and our guns.”...
Italian truckers' strike seen crippling car deliveries Reuters ...A bitter Italian truckers' strike is seen cutting car deliveries by 40 percent in March, adding to the pain on the country's hard-pressed auto sector, carmakers said, with top producer Fiat planning to halt production at two plants next week...
Companies Pick Up Used Packaging, and Recycling’s Cost New York Times ...A growing number of large food and beverage companies in the United States are assuming the costs of recycling their packaging after consumers are finished with it, a responsibility long imposed on packaged goods companies in Europe and more recently in parts of Asia, Latin America and Canada...
JPMorgan Sued by Trader Over $3 Million Decimal Point Bloomberg News ...JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) is being sued by a trader who says he accepted a contract from the investment bank because a typographical error made him believe he would be paid 10 times what was actually offered...
270,000 More IT Jobs Headed Offshore Information Week ...Mounting political pressure will do little to stop the flow of technology and other jobs moving offshore to low-cost destinations like India and China, new research indicates. Some 750,000 jobs in IT, finance, and other business services will be offshored from the U.S. and Western Europe to developing nations between now and 2016, according to a study released this week by the Hackett Group...
