Food Fight: Contractor Accused of $750 Million Overcharge for Wartime Grub Wired ... The congressmen want documents and information within 10 days from both the Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and the Switzerland-based company, Supreme Foodservice GmbH. This might be difficult, because the Pentagon has alleged Supreme Foodservice — which has been paid $5.5 billion since 2005 to supply food to more than 250 bases and outposts – did not maintain invoices and truck manifests (.pdf) while transporting food, water and other materiel; nor did the company provide data to investigators on fuel costs, price estimates and even correct flight plans...
Defectors describe horror, heartbreak in North Korea's labor camps CNN ...Horrific heart-breaking accounts of being quite literally worked to death have emerged over recent years. But the camps continue and Pyongyang still refuses to acknowledge their existence...
Walker DNR Appointee Sought to Privatize Trout Streams Wisconsin Citizens Media Co-op ...Scott Gunderson, appointed by Scott Walker to a top position in the DNR, once pushed for legislation that would have privatized thousands of miles of Wisconsin’s waterways, including portions of every trout stream in the state...
Teamsters Ask Windsor Dump Truck Drivers to Join Today's Trucking ...Remember when Windsor-area dump truck drivers staged a protest over low wages? Well, it looks like Teamsters Local 879 would like the drivers to join the union...
Tory back-to-work bill will get stock rolling Thursday Canada.com ...Federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt hopes freight service will resume at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. by Thursday after tabling a back-to-work bill for its striking workers on Monday...
