Saturday, February 25, 2012

Today's Teamster News 02.25.12

Romney's Big-Stadium Speech Makes Some Ask: Why Union-Bash In Detroit?  NPR   ..."Taking pot shots at the union doesn't serve either candidate well," said Singelis of Shiners International. Again on Friday in Ford Field, he called Romney's jab at the UAW — "a huge communication error"...
Scott Walker's Koch Connection Goes Bad  The Nation   ...Could Koch really be admitting to a violation for the Internal Revenue Service code that says organizations such as AFP are “absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office”? It certainly sounded like it...
Anonymous Hacks Private Prison Company Website  Huffington Post   ...Hackers defaced the website for the Florida-based GEO Group, the nation's second-largest operator of private prisons...
Greece: The Epicenter of Global Pillage  Energy Bulletin   ...Greece is the epicenter of what's metastasizing globally. The latest bailout deal highlights out-of-control pillage...
Would We Have Drugged Up Einstein? How Anti-Authoritarianism Is Deemed a Mental Health Problem  Alternet   ...Americans have been increasingly socialized to equate inattention, anger, anxiety, and immobilizing despair with a medical condition, and to seek medical treatment rather than political remedies. What better way to maintain the status quo than to view inattention, anger, anxiety, and depression as biochemical problems of those who are mentally ill rather than normal reactions to an increasingly authoritarian society?...
IATSE, Teamsters set Monday rally for 'Die': Orgs to protest Original Prods. as part of push to unionize TV series  Variety   ...The rally has been set in the wake of producers dismissing about 30 crew members who were attempting to unionize. Teamsters busines rep Steve Dayan said the fired crew members have been replaced...