Sunday, December 18, 2011

Today's Teamster News 12.18.11

The Great Worker Shortage Lie is Alive and Well  The Economic Populist   ...Corporations are demanding more immigration and foreign guest worker Visas to displace Americans, repress wages, technology transfer and offshore outsource further...
Veterans seek jobs  KLFY   ...One battle facing war veterans, young and old alike, after they return home is unemployment...
Plan B – How to loot nations and their banks legally  (opinion) Golem XIV   ...Does anyone think that if our governments fail to keep to their austerity targets and fail to keep bailing out the banking sector, that the banks will just shrug and say, “Well, thanks for trying” and accept their fate?...
The Anxious Generation  National Journal   ...Stressed-out Americans over 50 wonder if they’re ever going to be able to retire. They worry that the Great Recession will have a lasting impact on their security...
Indiana government can't document claimed right-to-work losses  News-Sentinel   ...The top state economic-development agency can't provide documentation or statistics to back up Gov. Mitch Daniels' assertion that a fourth to half of companies don't give Indiana a shot at new business because it lacks a right-to-work law. Instead, this figure comes from impressions conveyed by site-selection consultants...
WI man charged with multiple felonies for defacing "Recall Walker" petitions  the BRAD BLOG   ...as we'd previously covered the stated intentions of Rightwingers to sabotage the 'Recall Walker' effort in Wisconsin by shredding and burning petitions and the death threats reportedly received by supporters of the effort to remove Wisconsin's anti-union Republican governor Scott Walker, I wanted to get this on record here...