Today's Teamster News 09.30.13

<a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/communities/wegmans-blames-teamsters-for-anti-buffalo-banner-at-bills-game-20130929" rel="nofollow">Wegmans blames Teamsters for anti-Buffalo banner at Bills game</a>  The Buffalo News   ...In addition to passing out union leaflets at the Bills game, the Teamsters were accused of using the airplane to fly over the stadium with a “Wegmans wants Buffalo to lose” banner...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-29/jpmorgan-s-biggest-mistake.html" rel="nofollow">JPMorgan’s Biggest Mistake</a>  Bloomberg   ...the derivatives trades resulted in losses of $6.2 billion plus an additional $920 million in <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-19/jpmorgan-chase-agrees-to-pay-920-million-for-london-whale-loss.html">fines</a> -- so far...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/29/elizabeth-warren-student-loans_n_4013321.html" rel="nofollow">Elizabeth Warren Calls For Big Changes To Student Loans</a>  Huffington Post   ...College graduates struggling to repay their student loans should have an easier time getting their debt eliminated if they go into bankruptcy, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Saturday...<br /><a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/social-security-does-not-redistribute-from-young-to-old-it-is-a-public-pension-system?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+beat_the_press+%28Beat+the+Press%29" rel="nofollow">Social Security Does Not Redistribute From Young to Old, It Is a Public Pension System</a>  Center for Economic and Policy Research   ...If workers contributed the same amount to a privately managed pension fund and then collected an annuity in their retirement no one would call it a redistribution from young to old...<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/27/britain-pilots-sleep-idUSL5N0HN1CJ20130927" rel="nofollow">Half of British pilots admit to falling asleep in cockpit -survey</a>  Reuters   ...According to the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA), 56 percent of 500 commercial pilots admitted to being asleep while on the flight deck and, of those, nearly one in three said they had woken up to find their co-pilot also asleep...<br /><a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/09/gasoline-prices-down-35-cents-per.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CalculatedRisk+%28Calculated+Risk%29" rel="nofollow">Gasoline Prices down 35 cents per gallon year-over-year</a>  Calculated Risk   ...Some of the year-over-year price decline is related to slightly lower Brent oil prices, but most of decline is because there were refinery and pipeline issues last year at this time...<br /><a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/09/government-blurs-the-lines-between-bad-guys-and-average-americans/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Picture%29" rel="nofollow">Government Blurs the Lines Between Bad Guys and Average Americans</a>  The Big Picture   ...If you’ve ever cared about privacy while using the Internet in public, you might be a terrorist. At least that’s the message from the FBI and Justice Department’s Communities Against Terrorism initiative...<br /><a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10793" rel="nofollow">TPP Protestors Scale Trade Building To Bring Attention to Secretive Deal </a> The Real News   ...The Trans-Pacific Partnership has nothing to do with trade or freedom, and ongoing demonstrations could encourage those on the inside to speak up...<br /><a href="http://www.policymattersohio.org/sowo-2013" rel="nofollow">Stuck: State of Working Ohio 2013</a>  Policy Matters Ohio   ...While the national recovery is weak, Ohio’s is much worse... <br /><a href="http://www.uaw.org/articles/uaw-releases-2014-union-built-vehicles-list" rel="nofollow">UAW releases 2014 union-built vehicles list</a>  UAW   ...The new editions to the list include Ford Motor Co.’s Fusion sedan, made for the first time at the Flat Rock (Mich.) Assembly Plant as a result of 2011 bargaining between the UAW and Ford...<br /><a href="http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/mike_ivey/wisconsin-leads-nation-in-removing-most-people-from-medicaid/article_40027362-09d1-11e3-bcaa-001a4bcf887a.html" rel="nofollow">Wisconsin leads nation in removing most people from Medicaid</a>  The Cap Times   ...By a wide margin, Wisconsin would remove more low income people from Medicaid than any other state as part of a plan advanced by Gov. Scott Walker still awaiting federal approval...<br /><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/govt-sue-north-carolina-voter-law-20415941" rel="nofollow">Govt to Sue North Carolina Over New Voter Law</a>  Associated Press   ...The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that struck down the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act and freed southern states from strict federal oversight of their elections...<br /><a href="http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/rising-foreclosures-hurt-island-as-nation-recovers-1.6159638" rel="nofollow">Rising foreclosures hurt Island as nation recovers</a>  Newsday   ...New foreclosure cases on Long Island are spiking, even as the mortgage crisis fades in the rest of the United States...

Today's Teamster News 09.30.13

Wegmans blames Teamsters for anti-Buffalo banner at Bills game  The Buffalo News   ...In addition to passing out union leaflets at the Bill...

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