Friday, December 7, 2012

Today's Teamster News 12.07.12

Michigan Republicans brush aside Democrats, union protesters to OK right-to-work legislation  Associated Press   ...In an audacious flex of political muscle, Republicans in a single day reached the brink of a goal that for years has seemed an all-but-impossible dream: making the labor bastion of Michigan a right-to-work state...
Teamsters Make Oral Arguments In Appeals Court Against Mexican Truck Program  IBT   ...The Teamsters Union argued in court today that the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) pilot program to open the border to Mexican trucks must be shut down because it is dangerous and illegal...
Wisconsin has nation's biggest jump in new jobless benefit claims  WTAQ   ...U.S. labor officials said Thursday that almost 5,900 Wisconsin workers filed benefit applications during the week ending November 24th. That’s more than twice as many as second-place Oregon...
Apple CEO confirms company will begin manufacturing one line of computers in the United States  manufacture this   ... Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, confirms the company will begin manufacturing one of its existing Mac lines in the United States starting next year...
Adelsons donate $33 million to GOP super PACs in closing days  CNN   ...Nevada casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam contributed $33 million to two major Republican super PACs in the closing weeks of the 2012 campaign, according to campaign finance disclosure reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission...
Indiana privatization consultant heads Ohio Turnpike study  Plunderbund   ...KPMG employee Tim Wilschetz was paid to advise the “private consortia” bidding on the Indiana Toll Road in 2005.   The following year the road was leased to foreign investors who, after doubling tolls on the road, are now on track to default on their loans to finance the deal...