Light blogging for the next few days. TeamsterNation is taking a break.
Laid-Off US Workers Are Taking Huge Pay Cuts At Their New Jobs Associated Press ...Only 56 percent of Americans laid off from January 2009 through December 2011 had found jobs by the start of this year, the Labor Department said Friday. More than half of them took jobs with lower pay. One-third took pay cuts of 20 percent or more...
Mitt Romney Reaped Huge Tax Benefits Based On 'Active' Role At Bain Capital Huffington Post ...Even if Romney could persuade the IRS his involvement was legitimately active, that still leaves him in a rhetorical jam: For tax purposes, he claims an active status; for political purposes, he claims to have zero to do with the investments...
Human rights in Honduras: State Department looks the other way (opinion) Los Angeles Times ... In March, the AFL-CIO filed a complaint under the Central American Free Trade Agreement documenting widespread abuses of labor rights in Honduras since the 2009 coup, including firings of those who signed union petitions and assassinations of trade unionists active in the resistance...
One in Four Mississippi Residents Struggle to Afford Food Gallup ...Residents in Alabama and Delaware are also among the most likely to struggle to afford food...
California Legislature sets ambitious agenda in last week of session Los Angeles Times ...Entering the final week of their legislative session, state lawmakers still must grapple with controversial proposals to overhaul California's overburdened public pension system, revamp its costly workers' compensation scheme and change the way corporate taxes are assessed...
Michigan court's collective bargaining rights decision will be sweeping Lansing State Journal ...union advocates believe collective bargaining has helped bring about safer hospital conditions, more effective police patrols and better learning environments for students...
