Sunday, September 16, 2012

Today's Teamster News 09.16.12

Revolution From Above (opinion)  Paul Craig Roberts   ...Most americans cannot pay for fighting multi-trillion dollar wars for 11 years, bailout trillions of dollars in uncovered casino bets by Wall Street, have their middle class jobs sent abroad by corporations, and still expect to have higher personal incomes...
Large Anti-Austerity Protests in Spain, Portugal  Associated Press   ...The conservative government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has introduced stinging cuts and raised taxes in a bid to reduce the deficit and to reassure investors and officials from the 17-nation eurozone...
Union sues after Florida legislative panel approves privatization of prison health care  The Republic   ...Two Florida unions are suing after lawmakers decided to move ahead with a plan to privatize nearly 3,000 jobs in the state's prisons...
GOP trickster Roger Stone says Koch Brothers paid $100m to get Paul Ryan on the ticket  NYAltNews   ...The billionaires, according to Stone, promised to shell out an extra $100 million toward “independent expenditure” campaigning for the GOP ticket to get their preferred candidate on the ballot...
Capitol Crackdown Sends Disabled Veteran to Hospital, Another Activist to Jail  Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative   ...The Capitol police crackdown on free speech continued today as two more people were arrested leaving the building after a spontaneous gathering in the rotunda...
Coca-Cola fighting union battle in Fort Worth  Fort Worth Star-Telegram   ...The Coca-Cola Co. is opening all the spigots to keep the corporate-owned Fort Worth bottling plant from becoming its only unionized facility in the South. If a majority of voting employees cast ballots to join Teamsters Local 997 on Wednesday, it could flag an important victory by organized labor over the soft drinks giant. Some 427 workers would be covered...