Romney’s Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas Washington Post ...During the nearly 15 years that Romney was actively involved in running Bain, a private equity firm that he founded, it owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the United States to overseas call centers and factories making computer components...
Prisons, Privatization, Patronage New York Times ...As more and more government functions get privatized, states become pay-to-play paradises, in which both political contributions and contracts for friends and relatives become a quid pro quo for getting government business...
AFSCME Elects Chief Who Backs National Political Role Bloomberg Businessweek ...The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees elected its No. 2 leader as president, signaling the biggest U.S. public-workers union will remain active in President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign...
Supreme Court rules against union on nonmember fees for politics Los Angeles Times ...TheU.S. Supreme Courtsharply criticized public-sector unions for using money from nonmembers to fund special political campaigns, stepping into the intense political debate about such unions and signaling that new constitutional limits may be coming...
Judge blocks law to stop health care union dues Detroit Free Press ...A judge blocked a new Michigan law Wednesday that's aimed at ending union dues paid by home health care workers who are private contractors and not public employees...
American Austerity: Why the States Cutting Spending Are Doing Worse The Atlantic ...there isn't any evidence that austerity does any good in a situation like ours...
County employees declare impasse, want pay raise Seacoast Online ...Through the Teamsters union, Rockingham County employees claim they've made insurance concessions that will save the county $1.2 million a year, but have received nothing in return...
