Monday, March 21, 2011

Today's Teamster News 03.21.11

Emails obtained from Gov. Scott Walker show public wrote him in support of budget repair bill  The Isthmus   ...However, a significant number of these emails came from outside Wisconsin...
Gov. Mitch Daniels takes a page out of Gov. Scott Walker’s playbook The State Column   ...The Indiana Republican has backed a push by state Republican lawmakers to work around Democrats, who has fled the state in order to protest a vote against curbing union rights...
Preserve state parks  Toledo Blade   ...The new budget proposed by Gov. John Kasich authorizes private drilling for oil and gas in Ohio's state parks...
Collective Bargaining Rally in DBQ   Eastern Iowa Government   ...Unions have already lost much of their power in Wisconsin and now Iowa lawmakers are debating collective bargaining rights here...
Protesters greet Scott in Charlotte  Herald-Tribune   ...About 400 protesters were waiting for Gov. Rick Scott when he pulled up in Charlotte County to speak at a GOP fundraiser on Saturday night...
Unemployed facing new obstacle  Philadelphia Inquirer   ...The nation's payrolls seem to be expanding, but many worry that one group will be left behind - the unemployed themselves, as employers bypass them for people who already have jobs...
Welcome to Debtors' Prison, 2011 Edition  The Wall Street Journal   ...Some judges are worried that the jump in debt-related arrest warrants is creating a modern-day version of debtors' prison. The practice ended in 1833 after decades of controversy, since borrowers owing as little as 60 cents could be held indefinitely in squalid jails until they paid off their debt...
The FDIC Wants $900 Million From Former WaMu Exes, Their Wives   Dealbreaker   ... the FDIC has sued three former Washington Mutual execs ... whose “extreme and historically unprecedented risks with WaMu’s held-for-investment home loans portfolio” resulted in the bank’s collapse...