Monday, December 26, 2011

Today's Teamster News 12.26.11

IMF's Lagarde warns global economy threatened  Reuters   ...Emerging countries, which had been growth engines for the world economy before the crisis, have also been affected, said Lagarde, citing China, Brazil and Russia...
1% Super Rich Form a Non-Profit To Advocate For Themselves  Economic Populist   ...they have formed an organization, the Job Creators Alliance, to run public relations against us imbeciles who point out they are greedy bastards and to shape the national agenda...
Banks still waiting on most Dodd-Frank rules  Washington Post   ...A year and a half has gone by since the Dodd-Frank financial reform act was signed into law, but barely a quarter of the rules in the legislation have been finalized, though federal regulators are rolling out key components of the bill...
Mentally ill flood ER as states cut services  Reuters   ...Across the country, doctors like Sullivan are facing a spike in psychiatric emergencies - attempted suicide, severe depression, psychosis - as states slash mental health services and the country's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression takes its toll...
'Right to Work Is a Cancerous Ideology'  LA Progressive   ...right to work laws are designed to weaken large unions, destroy small unions, and keep unorganized workers from unionizing...
Walker's travel called into question  Wisconsin State Journal   ...almost half of the $5.1 million he raised since July came from beyond the state's borders...