Friday, July 29, 2011

Today's Teamster News 07.29.11

Firm lauded by Walker profits off needy, critics charge  Madison.com   ...The Fort Atkinson temporary services company praised by Gov. Scott Walker this week has seen its profits swell to $2.8 million annually, while paying its disabled workers less than minimum wage...
SB 5 referendum will be Issue 2 on November ballot  Columbus Disptach   ...Issue 1 is a proposal from the legislature to change the state constitution so that judges don't face mandatory retirement until age 70, up from the current 65...
Reports: Tension growing between Gov. Snyder, Republican legislators  Mlive.com   ...state Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, pressed Snyder during the meeting about advancing "Right to Life" issues. Snyder ... said his focus will remain on other issues, such as the fiscally conservative budget-cutting agenda ...
Policy research group: Florida made ‘unnecessarily harmful’ budget cuts  Florida Independent   ...the services hardest hit by state cuts have been education and health care...
Gov. Chris Christie released from hospital, says he is a little tired but otherwise fine  NJ.com   ...Gov. Chris Christie was released from a Somerville hospital early this evening after spending the day there because of an asthma attack...
How Shadowy Right-Wing Front Groups Engineered Our National Embrace Of Debt Reduction Over Job Creation  ThinkProgress   ...Since the end of the Bush presidency, shadowy right-wing groups, many of them formed for this very purpose, have primed the public with a sophisticated public relations campaign to shift the national discourse to a focus on debt reduction...