Hard hitting global and local news
The days of getting carpal tunnel syndrome from cutting meat are now over, at least as measured by a meat processing plant in Greece, shown in the video below. The video starts out a bit slow, but is rather fascinating once it gets going.
House speaker John Boehner made an incremental move in Obama’s direction in regards to tax hikes.
Those looking for a step in the right direction today can find it in the Financial Times Live Blog which announces “EU drops timetable for creating eurozone fiscal and banking union”. EU heads of state and government have started gathering in Brussels even though their summit isn’t scheduled to begin until 5pm.
The chart assumes a steady rise in labor force to the BLS 2020 projection of 164,360.
Please consider the Detroit News article Chrysler reinstates 13 workers fired for drinking on job . Chrysler Group LLC says it was forced to reinstate 13 workers who were fired from its Jefferson North Assembly Plant two years ago after being filmed by a local television station drinking and smoking what the network suggested was a controlled substance before and during work. "The workers followed the grievance procedure process outlined in the collective bargaining agreement between Chrysler and the United Auto Workers.
How to Uproot Walmart & Bring Jobs Back Home. December 11, 2012 ( LocalOrg ) – In many towns across America, Walmart, or a similar mega-retailer, is the only option you have when you need (almost) anything. Big-retail is a monopoly in its truest form and it has become so, not through “free market” economics, technological innovation, supply and demand, or healthy competition, but rather through a combination of pro-monopoly rules and regulations, human exploitation, outsourcing labor overseas, while preventing labor domestically from unionizing for better wages, job security, and benefits. The sub-par trinkets, poisoned food and beverages, and slave-made goods that line the corporate consumer troughs at Walmart are the result of a global network taking advantage of socioeconomic disparity, consumer ignorance, and deplorable labor conditions to bring the very lowest prices possible to consumers. The consumers pushing their carts through the aisles of Walmart scarcely realize the conditions within which workers overseas toil to line those aisles.
Gallup Reports Upper-Income Spending Worst November Ever With the generally upbeat spending reports on black Friday and cyber-Monday, Gallup paints a different point of view in its most recent poll that shows U.S. Consumer Spending Holds Steady, Consistent With 2011 Americans’ self-reported daily spending averaged $73 in November, essentially on par with September and October.
Right-to-Work provisions are at long last coming to Michigan. Reuters reports ‘right-to-work’ law exempts existing union contracts Right-to-Work could be approved within a week Stunning blow to organized labor Immediate impact blunted by "grandfather" clause Opponents vow to overturn new law The proposed Michigan "right-to-work" law will not apply to existing union contracts, a leading sponsor of the proposal said on Friday, which may blunt its immediate impact on the huge auto industry in the state.