Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Today's Teamster News 09.25.12

Spain Recoils as Its Hungry Forage Trash Bins for a Next Meal  New York Times   ...As Spain tries desperately to meet its budget targets, it has been forced to embark on the same path as Greece, introducing one austerity measure after another, cutting jobs, salaries, pensions and benefits, even as the economy continues to shrink...
I.M.F.’s Call for More Cuts Irks Greece  New York Times   ...The government is resisting a push by the International Monetary Fund to impose additional austerity measures that Greek leaders fear could destabilize the shaky coalition government...
Prison Break: Budget Crises Drive Reform, But Private Jails Press On  ABA Journal   ...In return for sacks of cash, the company wants 20- to 30-year contracts for housing criminals. And the already controversial full privatization also requires states to grind out convictions and sentences for two or three decades at today’s pace and severity, maintaining a guaranteed 90 percent occupancy rate—calibrating the wheels of justice to fit a profit-margin spreadsheet...
Citizens United accounts for 78% of 2012 election spending, study shows  Guardian   ...Almost $465m of outside money has been spent on the US presidential election campaign so far, including $365m that can be attributed to the supreme court's landmark Citizens United ruling, according to a report released on Monday.udy shows...
STUDY: U.S. Spends $59 Billion on Social Welfare…$92 Billion on Corporate Welfare  We Party Patriots   ...the numbers clearly show that corporations are “mooching” off the government at a much higher rate than 47% of citizens...
AE union suspends its strike  DesMoines Register   ...Striking Anderson Erickson Dairy employees returned to work late Monday evening after the company and the Teamsters Union agreed to meet Oct. 3 to discuss union members’ health care benefits...
Sysco Teamsters achieve 3-year deal; FSA Teamsters achieve 4-year deal  Teamsters Local 117   ...Teamsters at Food Services of America (FSA) and Sysco voted overwhelmingly to ratify their contracts this weekend...