China Requests Consultation On 22 U.S. Countervailing Duty Orders Trade Reform ...China’s request focuses primarily to the issue of the provision of manufacturing inputs for “less than adequate remuneration.” In all 22 cases, petitioners alleged that China provided inputs such as raw materials, land, and electricity for “less that adequate remuneration,” i.e., below a market benchmark price. These subsidy programs accounted for a large portion of each Chinese exporter’s total subsidy rate...
Why is Nobody Freaking Out About the LIBOR Banking Scandal? Rolling Stone ...This story is so outrageous that it shocks even the most cynical Wall Street observers...
Rep. Joe Walsh Blasts Double Amputee’s Military Service, Says She’s Not A ‘True Hero’ ThinkProgress ...The Tea Party freshman opened the Elk Grove town hall by arguing that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was reluctant to discuss his own military service in 2008, which made him a “noble hero.” By contrast, “Now I’m running against a woman who, my God, that’s all she talks about,” Walsh said...
Challenge to collective bargaining petition fails Associated Press ...State officials say they can't reject the nearly 700,000 signatures filed recently to get a measure protecting collective bargaining rights on the November ballot...
Strike heats up at Anheuser-Busch warehouse in Riverside The Press-Enterprise ...“Strikes aren’t pretty,’’ Local 166 president Mike Pharris said, but the Bloomington-based union is following the rules. “What we’re doing is exercising our First Amendment rights, our freedom of speech. We’re exercising our rights to freedom of assembly.”...
Teamsters decry new Raleigh police 'quasi-quota' evaluations WRAL.com ...More than 100 Raleigh police officers are filing formal grievances against the department over a new performance evaluation program that grades officers by counting the number of activities they perform on duty, a Teamsters group said Tuesday...
