Thursday, August 9, 2012

Today's Teamster News 08.09.12

Chinese telecoms giants are taking over the world. Should we be scared?  informed comment   ...Huawei is not yet a household name in the UK – for one thing, there is confusion over how to pronounce it – but the Chinese telecommunications giant is spreading its reach around the world. But accompanying its global expansion are worrying whispers of covert surveillance and espionage...
Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads  Huffington Post   ...The sitting U.S. ambassador to El Salvador charged that several families, including at least one that invested with Bain, were living in Miami and directly funding death squads...
For Unpaid College Loans, Feds Dock Social Security  Smart Money  ...From January through August 6, the government reduced the size of roughly 115,000 retirees' Social Security checks on those grounds. That's nearly double the pace of the department's enforcement in 2011; it's up from around 60,000 cases in all of 2007 and just 6 cases in 2000...
Report: Low-Wage Jobs Are Flooding Florida  Florida Center for Investigative Reporting   ...Florida is poised to become a state of mostly low-wage and/or low-skilled jobs. Experts have noticed that as the state sees jobless numbers decrease, a lot of the new jobs tend to be low-skilled jobs that pay less than the jobs they replace...
Privatization of Voting Machines Threatens Wisconsin Election Integrity  Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative   ...In Wisconsin, as elsewhere in the nation, there has been a concerted push by corporate interests to eliminate the public counting of votes. This privatization of our election processes has been advanced by laws and rules...
Teamsters Take On TPG, Again  Wall Street Journal   ...The Teamsters Union and TPG Capital LP are locked in a labor dispute once again. For the second time in less than two years, the Teamsters are threatening a TPG-backed company with the threat of a walkout over contract negotiations following an acquisition by the private equity firm...