Billionaire Koch brother wins $12.38 million bad wine verdict UPI ...A New York jury this week awarded oil industry billionaire William Koch $12.38 million in damages in his beef with Internet mogul Eric Greenberg over bad wine...
Lloyd Blankfein's $21m haul makes him the world's best paid banker Guardian ...Goldman Sachs paid its chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, $21m last year – and granted him a further $5m in bonus shares in January...
Dems fear Obama Social Security cut will haunt them in 2014 races The Hill ...Although Democrats have long-championed the retirement program, they say Obama's plan to reduce payments for future beneficiaries through a chained consumer price index (CPI) has weakened their stance and opened the door for Republicans to vilify the president...
In Spite of the Recovery, More Workers Are Borrowing From 401(k)s Bloomberg ...One statistic about U.S. household finances is so startling that it deserves its own post: Nearly one in three employees say they took a hardship loan or distribution from their 401(k) retirement accounts last year, up from one in four in 2011...
Michelle Rhee’s Reign of Error Taking Note ...Michelle A. Rhee, America’s most famous school reformer, was fully aware of the extent of the problem when she glossed over what appeared to be widespread cheating during her first year as Schools Chancellor in Washington, DC...
Highland result suggests RBS bankers no longer above the law Ian Fraser ...Finally, we have evidence that banks and bankers are not above the law in the United Kingdom. It seems the courts have finally woken up to the fact that allowing them to lie, cheat, deceive and defraud without legal impediment may not be a particularly good idea...
IOSHA inspectors say quotas threaten worker safety as feds begin probe Indianapolis Star ...Documents indicate Indiana’s workplace safety agency is trying to boost the number of inspections it conducts without hiring new staff — a strategy that some employees say will discourage complex workplace investigations and endanger workers...
My Word: All workers should have state plan's security (opinion) Orlando Sentinel ...the trend should be reversed with all workers having a secure plan such as the Florida Retirement System...
Prison company: Workers falsified staffing records Associated Press ...A private company that operates Idaho's largest prison acknowledged Thursday that its employees falsified nearly 4,800 hours of staffing records over seven months last year in violation of its contract with the state.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Today's Teamster News 01.27.13
Sen. Tom Harkin won't seek re-election in 2014 DesMoines Register ...Harkin shoulders an important assignment in the Senate: He’s chairman of the HELP committee, which stands for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, a huge jurisdiction...
Not Everyone is Living Longer Mother Jones ...the life expectancy of white working class men (who dropped out of high school) fell by three years from 1990 to 2008, and that of white working class women by five years...
A handy guide to Davos-speak Reuters ...Ray Dalio, who runs Bridgewater, the world’s biggest hedge fund ... said... the big conversation in politics and economics, he said, will be about how to get more out of workers – growth won’t come from the next Internet, the next real estate boom or any new asset, in other words. This means, he said, hard choices about questions like “How long is a vacation?” or “What is a good life?”...
ALEC Has Opposed "Popular Vote" Efforts Which Would Protect Against Partisan Rigging of Electoral College Center for Media and Democracy ...The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has actively lobbied against state plans to implement a national popular vote for president, urging state legislators to preserve the Electoral College -- which GOP legislators are now trying to rig to ensure the the next president is a Republican...
Morsi sends army to Suez after deadly clashes Aljazeera ...The protesters have demanded the establishment of an official minimum wage and a suspension of the new constitution, which opponents of the president say was rushed through...
New Walmart store to open in Chinatown despite protests PressTV ...A new Walmart store planned for a historical Los Angeles neighborhood is moving forward, despite protests from labor groups...But labor groups say they remain committed to preventing that opening from ever occurring...
Snyder admits making Michigan a Right to Work state was never about creating jobs Eclectablog ...“Over 90 percent of the jobs that you’re looking at aren’t going to be in a situation where right to work is even relevant,” Snyder said...
Pa. Right-to-Work Fight Battle Lines Drawn Upper Macungie Patch ...Gov. Tom Corbett already has said that he Pennsylvania “lacks the political will” to pass right-to-work laws, though he would sign them if they came across his desk. But that sentiment seems to fuel right-to-work supporters...
Not Everyone is Living Longer Mother Jones ...the life expectancy of white working class men (who dropped out of high school) fell by three years from 1990 to 2008, and that of white working class women by five years...
A handy guide to Davos-speak Reuters ...Ray Dalio, who runs Bridgewater, the world’s biggest hedge fund ... said... the big conversation in politics and economics, he said, will be about how to get more out of workers – growth won’t come from the next Internet, the next real estate boom or any new asset, in other words. This means, he said, hard choices about questions like “How long is a vacation?” or “What is a good life?”...
ALEC Has Opposed "Popular Vote" Efforts Which Would Protect Against Partisan Rigging of Electoral College Center for Media and Democracy ...The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has actively lobbied against state plans to implement a national popular vote for president, urging state legislators to preserve the Electoral College -- which GOP legislators are now trying to rig to ensure the the next president is a Republican...
Morsi sends army to Suez after deadly clashes Aljazeera ...The protesters have demanded the establishment of an official minimum wage and a suspension of the new constitution, which opponents of the president say was rushed through...
New Walmart store to open in Chinatown despite protests PressTV ...A new Walmart store planned for a historical Los Angeles neighborhood is moving forward, despite protests from labor groups...But labor groups say they remain committed to preventing that opening from ever occurring...
Snyder admits making Michigan a Right to Work state was never about creating jobs Eclectablog ...“Over 90 percent of the jobs that you’re looking at aren’t going to be in a situation where right to work is even relevant,” Snyder said...
Pa. Right-to-Work Fight Battle Lines Drawn Upper Macungie Patch ...Gov. Tom Corbett already has said that he Pennsylvania “lacks the political will” to pass right-to-work laws, though he would sign them if they came across his desk. But that sentiment seems to fuel right-to-work supporters...
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