Today's Teamster News 07.21.13

<a href="http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/07/port_truckers_for_carteret_fir.html" rel="nofollow">Port truckers for Carteret firm vote to join the Teamsters</a>  Newark Star Ledger   ...More than 100 port truck drivers who work in Carteret for an Australian-based global logistics firm have voted to join the Teamsters, the union said today...<br /><a href="http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/07/ohio_second_in_nation_for_job.html#incart_river_default" rel="nofollow">Ohio ranked second in nation for most jobs lost in June: state's unemployment rate up to 7.2%</a>  Cleveland Plain Dealer   ...Ohio lost the second highest number of jobs in the country in June, just a month after posting the largest job gains, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday...<br /><a href="http://www.thedurhamnews.com/2013/07/19/3038264/moral-monday-critics-blinded-by.html" rel="nofollow">Moral Monday critics blinded by their own propaganda</a> (opinion)  The Durham News   ...Like old Soviet-era Stalinists and modern religious theocrats they find it impossible to acknowledge the simple truth that’s painted in living color right before their eyes – namely, that millions of North Carolinians are not buying the snake oil they and their allies are selling and do not want to see the clock of state turned back a half-century or more...<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/arts/design/detroits-creditors-eye-its-art-collection.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">Detroit’s Creditors Eye Its Art Collection</a>  New York Times   ...As Detroit files for bankruptcy — the largest American city ever to do so — the impressive collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts has become a political bargaining chip in a fight that could drag on for years between the city and its army of creditors, who have said in no uncertain terms that the artworks must be considered a salable asset...<br /><a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/unfunded-pension-liabilities-are-1-trillion-not-38-trillion-never-take-anything-in-a-washington-post-editorial-at-face-value" rel="nofollow">Unfunded Pension Liabilities Are $1 Trillion, Not $3.8 Trillion: Never Take Anything In a Washington Post Editorial At Face Value</a>  Center for Economic and Policy Research   ...the unfunded liabilities (for state and local public sector pensions) are 0.22 percent of projected GDP over the next 30 years. And ... most state and local governments are already funding at levels that are consistent with making up this shortfall so there will no required tax increases or spending cuts to meet these future obligations...<br /><a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/07/how-goldman-made-5-billion-by-manipulating-aluminum-inventories-and-copper-is-up-next.html">How Goldman Made $5 Billion By Manipulating Aluminum Inventories (and Copper Is Up Next) </a> naked capitalism   ...Goldman and its speculator allies manipulate prices … This is simply another form of looting...<br /><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/is-there-no-limit-to-what-this-government-will-privatise-uk-plasma-supplier-sold-to-us-private-equity-firm-bain-capital-8718029.html" rel="nofollow">'Is there no limit to what this Government will privatise?': UK plasma supplier sold to US private equity firm Bain Capital</a>  The Independent   ...The Government was tonight accused of gambling with the UK’s blood supply by selling the state-owned NHS plasma supplier to a US private equity firm...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/nsa-spokesman-accidentally-admits-that-the-government-is-spying-on-all-americans.html" rel="nofollow">NSA Spokesman Accidentally Admits that the Government Is Spying On Virtually All Americans</a>  Washington's Blog   ...Given that there are now approximately 875,000 people in the government’s database of suspected terrorists – including many thousands of Americans – every single American living on U.S. soil could easily be caught up in the dragnet...<br /><a href="https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/public-cops-for-private-kochs/7ac5a54b9d5dbacf2b3f3dbc0cdad156979d0214/">Public Cops for Private Kochs</a>  NSFWCORP   ...police and private security formed a better ring of defense around the ALEC conference than what the CIA compound had in Benghazi...<br /><a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/07/tafta-industry-comments-and-democracy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eyesontrade+%28Eyes+on+Trade%29" rel="nofollow">TAFTA: Corporations Express Fear of Democracy</a>  Public Citizen   ...The Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) negotiations have only just begun, but already hundreds of corporations are weighing in to let negotiators know what they hope to get out of the agreement...

Today's Teamster News 07.21.13

Port truckers for Carteret firm vote to join the Teamsters  Newark Star Ledger   ...More than 100 port truck drivers who work in Carteret f...

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