Today's Teamster News 09.08.13

First Coast Gears: Pontiac muscle comes on strong at Teamsters show  Florida Times Union ...Harris and Boito brought their Pontiacs to the annual Labor Day weekend car show at Teamsters Local 512 on Lane Avenue last Saturday...
Privacy Scandal: NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data  Der Spiegel   ...The United States' National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers...
Naked tax protest in front of German Chancellor's office  Tax Justice Network   ...a naked tax protest by Attac-Germany, with calls for unitary taxation and country by country reporting...
Low-Wage Employers Have Fought Hard to Keep Their Workers Poor — Now Workers are Fighting Back  Moyers & Co.   ...After decades of seeing their incomes shrink, those at the bottom of the economic ladder are starting to band together and fight back — and it’s one of the most important economic stories of our time...
Free Markets are Fraudulent Markets (opinion)  Economic Populist   ...Historically, competitive market economies are a relatively new economic system, and while very productive, they are not self-sustaining, are unstable and require significant state support and regulation to function properly...
The Political Calculations behind Growing Inequality  truthout   ...In the 1980s, campaign contributions from the top 0.01 percent roughly equaled the campaign contributions from all of organized labor. In 2012, America’s top 0.01 percent all by themselves outspent labor by more than four-to-one...
Want to Move Kids Out of Poverty? Then Protect the Middle Class  The Atlantic   ...in parts of the country that are more heavily middle class, there also tends to be more upward mobility for the poor...
An American Bridge Made of Chinese Steel Demonstrates the Need for a Rational Trade Policy  Economy In Crisis   ...The prices for Chinese-made steel are about 25% lower than for domestic steel, but this does not represent a victory won on an open and level playing field...
Detroit, Labor Day and a Hard Day’s Night (opinion)  The Hill   ...A competitive nation needs a strong safety net for its citizens, one that neither depends on fickle global employers nor burdens workers’ democratic institutions with a redistributive role best played by the government.    In addition, the U.S. should take a cue from the European Union and allocate more funds to help hard hit areas transition their economies...
Burlesque performers, occupiers protest possible sale of Portland park  Bangor Daily News   ...Tension over whether a large section of Portland’s Congress Square Park should be sold to private developers escalated late Friday night, as burlesque performers and members of the occupy movement demonstrated at the site, attracting police warnings...
Occupy Sandy builds worker power in Far Rockaway  Co-operative News   ...One of those bigger projects is a worker-run cooperative initiative, organized by Occupy Sandy and supported by the Working World, an organization that specializes in incubating collectively owned businesses...

Today's Teamster News 04.24.12

For first time since Depression, more Mexicans leave U.S. than enter  Washington Post   ...A four-decade tidal wave of Mexican immigration to the United States has receded, causing a historic shift in migration patterns as more Mexicans appear to be leaving the United States for Mexico than the other way around, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center...
Strike hit Italy rages against Monti’s labour reforms  Labour Start  ...Thousands have taken to streets of the Italian capital Rome to protest over government plans to introduce legislation that will make it easier for companies to sack employees...
Jailed for $280: The Return of Debtors' Prisons  CBS MoneyWatch   ...How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn't pay a medical bill -- one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn't owe...
Occupy Movement Looks Toward Political Conventions  New York Times   ... as many as 60 groups have signed on to join the Coalition to Protest at the D.N.C. In Florida, Occupy Tampa is involved in planning similar efforts for the Republican National Convention, which will be held there in August...
Home construction goes the "Made in America" route  Manufacture This   ...A Virginia home construction worker has taken on the challenge of building a house that's entirely made in America...
Procter & Gamble Becomes 13th Company To Drop ALEC  ThinkProgress   ...The good government group Common Cause filed a complaint with the IRS today contesting ALEC’s charitable tax status, arguing it is actually a lobby group getting preferential tax treatment...
Federal Judge Finds Jimmy John's Guilty of Illegally Firing Whistleblowers in Sick Day Campaign : Long Delay in Legal Process Demonstrates Dysfunction of US Labor Law  IWW   ...A federal judge has ordered Jimmy John's to reinstate six workers fired by franchise owners Mike and Rob Mulligan over a year ago for blowing the whistle on company policies that expose customers to sandwiches made by sick workers...