Monday, October 15, 2012

Today's Teamster News 10.15.12

Thousands protest in Spain, Portugal against austerity cuts  AFP   ...Portugal’s main trades union the CGTP led several thousand marchers to the front of parliament, where deputies are expected to vote through a harsh austerity budget on Monday...
Walmart Strike Memo Reveals Confidential Management Plans  Huffington Post   ...The memo makes clear that Walmart, the world's largest private employer, views the labor protests as a serious attack, a message that runs contrary to the company's public comments that the strikes are mere "publicity stunts,"...
Is This Why Romney Won't Talk to Sensata Workers Whose Jobs Are Being Shipped to China?  truthout   ...right now he is making big money from Sensata and other companies that are sending people's jobs to China...
The Three U.S. Free Trade Agreements Passed a Year Ago Today Have not Boosted U.S. Exports  Public Citizen   ...U.S. exports to Korea are down while imports from Korea and Colombia have surged, expanding job-killing U.S. trade deficit; Panama deal not even in effect...
Prop. 32 isn't what it seems (opinion)  Stockton Record   ...one side - corporate interests, Super PACs and an array of billionaires - is trying to get voters to undermine the power of their political opponents...
Another CEO Threatens To Fire Employees If Obama Wins  ThinkProgress   ...Arthur Allen of ASG Software Solutions … said in an email to his employees that they’d only have themselves to blame if they lose their jobs if Obama wins...