China Buys Inroads in the Caribbean, Catching U.S. Notice Trade Reform ...China’s economic might has rolled up to America’s doorstep in the Caribbean, with a flurry of loans from state banks, investments by companies and outright gifts from the government in the form of new stadiums, roads, official buildings, ports and resorts in a region where the United States has long been a prime benefactor...
Judge Rules Wells Fargo Engages in “Reprehensible,” Systemic Accounting Abuses on Mortgages, Hits with $3.1 Million Punitive Damages for One Loan naked capitalism ...The bank is not simply willing to steal from consumers, via blatant, institutionalized violations of its own agreements on mortgages and later on bankruptcy plans. It has absolutely no respect for the law, whether it be contracts or court procedures. It’s a band of marauders that our society treats as legitimate...
Cramming Funny Fees Onto our Phone Bills: Not so Funny Credit Slips ...Cramming is tacking unrequested services onto land line bills and now cell phone bills, such as celebrity gossip news, daily horoscopes, even dating services. Our AGs office claims that cramming is one of the practices about which they get the most complaints...
Union: Right-to-work violates free speech Associated Press ...Indiana's new right-to-work law should be struck down because it infringes upon unions' free speech rights by depriving them of the dues that fund their political speech, attorneys for a union challenging the law contend, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's so-called Citizens United ruling that eased restrictions on corporate campaign spending...
Wisconsin State Senator Says Women Are Paid Less Because ‘Money Is More Important For Men’ ThinkProgress ...Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly repealed his state’s equal pay law last week, a decision that will make it harder for victims of wage discrimination to sue for lost earnings and back wages...
Teamsters end strike at Nichols Aluminum Quad City Times ...Teamsters Local 371 has ended its strike at Nichols Aluminum but is awaiting the Davenport company’s next move as to whether the employees will return to work, the union president said this morning...
