IKEA Lockout - Coquitlam Rally Nov. 23, 2013 Teamsters Local 213 ...It was a fantastic turnout today at the IKEA Rally held at the Coquitlam location with strong representation from many Unions including Teamsters Canada, Unifor, Unite Here, BCTF, ITF, ILWU, PSAC, BCFL. CUPE, COPE and many more...
France Investigating Ikea on Spying Allegations New York Times ...Prosecutors have placed three senior Ikea executives in France under investigation amid allegations that they authorized illegal spying on employees and customers...
$13 Billion, Yes, but What Took So Long? New York Times ...although it took the Justice Department more than five years to pursue a major bank for its role in the mortgage mania, the investigation seems to have unearthed material that, by and large, could have been dug up with a spoon...
Failure To Punish Wall St Weighs on Economy Big Picture ...enforcing the rule of law – i.e. prosecuting white collar fraud – is necessary for a healthy economy...
FCC: Airlines Will Be the Ones Deciding Whether to Allow In-Flight Calls Slate ...Shortly after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said that it was time to review “our outdated and restrictive rules” on the use of mobile phones on airplanes, the outrage was immediate...
Deficit of Trade Information (updated) TradeReform ...Fast Track combined with the TPP was not so much a mechanism for getting things through the Congress quickly and efficiently as it was a mechanism for getting around the Congress...
Swiss voters reject plan to cap top managers' pay CBC ...Swiss voters soundly rejected on Sunday a proposal to limit the pay of companies' highest-paid managers to 12 times that of their lowest-paid workers, a plan that business leaders had warned could weaken the prosperous nation's economy...
German union plans further strikes at Amazon Reuters ...Union Verdi is preparing more strikes to step up pressure on Amazon in Germany, its biggest market outside the United States, in a dispute over pay and conditions...
Nonprofit that flipped homes to investors faces scrutiny Reuters ...A U.S. housing regulator has been investigating the activities of a small California not-for-profit that bought hundreds of foreclosed homes through a federally backed program intended to help local communities hurt by the housing bust...
Electric vs hydrogen: China is battleground for auto giants Reuters ...While the Europeans were heralding the all-electric vehicle at the Guangzhou auto show this week, Toyota Motor and Honda Motor were unveiling hydrogen fuel cell cars at shows in Tokyo and Los Angeles...
Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Published New York Times ...top editors, led by Matthew Winkler, the editor in chief, decided in late October not to publish an investigative article because of fears that Bloomberg would be expelled from China. The article (was) about a Chinese tycoon and his ties to families of Communist Party leaders...
Reform the New York Times! Media must stop protecting companies tied to Chinese corruption Salon ...The story is that America and most of its people are heavily dependent upon, if not addicted to, the very system of suffocating control and exploitation they profess to regret...
ALEC Mulls Assault On Constitution’s 17th Amendment — The Direct Election Of Senators ThinkProgress ...one of the items up for review is language for a bill, called the Equal State’s Enfranchisement Act, that would allow state legislatures to add a candidate’s name to the ballot for a U.S. senate seat, along with the names of those nominated by voters...
5 Reasons Millennials Should Support Strengthening, Not Cutting, Social Security AFL-CIO Now ...Millennials will likely rely on Social Security even more than generations before...
