Thursday, June 2, 2011

Today's Teamster News 06.02.11

Three GOP senators go to court to block recalls  Associated Press   ...GOP Sens. Dan Kapanke of La Crosse, Luther Olsen of Ripon and Randy Hopper of Fond du Lac all want judges to block the Government Accountability Board from calling elections...
Secret tape: GOP considered spoiler candidate to challenge Shilling  LaCrosse Tribune   ... La Crosse County Republicans discussed running a spoiler candidate against Democrat Jennifer Shilling in an effort to delay the recall election of Sen. Dan Kapanke, according to a secret recording of the party's general membership meeting last week...
Senate Republicans declare war on Ohio’s minimum wage constitutional amendment  Plunderbund   ...they’re now seeking to undermine Ohio’s minimum wage protections that the voters overwhelming supported a little over four years ago...
Maine Child Labor Law: Teens To Work More During School Year  Huffington Post   ...Paul LePage, Maine's Republican governor, signed into law Tuesday a watered-down version of a controversial bill that would have rolled back the state's child labor standards...
Lansing politicians focused on bath salts, not jobs  We are the people Michigan.com   ...Last year, politi­cians across the state ran on a plat­form of cre­at­ing jobs. Instead, this is what our elected offi­cials were focused on today — bath salts...
Two N.H. GOP Lawmakers Resign Over House Speaker’s Anti-Worker Agenda  AFL-CIO   ...Two top-ranking Republican legislators in the New Hampshire House have resigned their leadership positions to protest House Speaker Bill O’Brien’s extreme anti-worker agenda and strong-arm tactics...