Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Today's Teamster News 05.30.12

Flat U.S. Wages Help Fuel Rebound in Manufacturing  Wall Street Journal   ...The celebrated revival of U.S. manufacturing employment has been accompanied by a less-lauded fact: Wages for many manufacturing workers aren't keeping up with inflation...
A revalued Chinese currency would benefit U.S. economy  Manufacture This   ... the U.S. Department of the Treasury released its “Semi-Annual Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies.”  The report did NOT cite China as a currency manipulator...
War hero, 91, targeted in Florida's purge of voter rolls  Stars and Stripes   ...Using an American war veteran as the face of their cause, two South Florida congressmen called on the governor Tuesday to immediately stop the state’s purge of the voter rolls...
MJS Report Says Scott Walker is at the Heart of Criminal Corruption Probe  The Lakeland Times   ...A breaking investigative report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel suggests that Scott Walker is at the heart of the John Doe criminal corruption probe that has charged six Walker associates with 15 felonies. The report discusses an email exchange between Walker and longtime adviser, John Hiller, over a County contract that is under investigation for potential bid-rigging...
Conservatives fast tracked CP Rail back-to-work bill  City News   ...Back-to-work legislation that will end a week-long strike by CP Rail workers was put on Parliament's equivalent of a red-eye bullet train...
Teamsters Demand US Small Business Administration Cut Ties with Private Equity Fund Westbury Partners  GCC-IBT Local 1-L   ...Today, dozens of Teamsters, construction workers and community members protested outside the Small Business Administration's regional office in downtown Manhattan calling on the federal agency to pull its investment from private equity firm Westbury Partners in response to ongoing workers' rights violations and anti-union activity at its portfolio company AFL Web Printing...