Saturday, July 21, 2012

Today's Teamster News 07.21.12

Unemployment rates rise in 27 states as more look for work  Associated Press   ...Nevada recorded the highest unemployment rate, at 11.6%, same as the previous month. It was followed by Rhode Island at 10.9% and California at 10.7%. North Dakota had the lowest unemployment rate at 2.9%, followed by Nebraska at 3.8%...
Will New Oversight of Credit Reports Stop Unscrupulous Debt Collectors?  Economic Populist   ... Unscrupulous debt collectors inaccurately report actions to credit reporting bureaus all the time, especially for Medical bills...
Housing Bubbles and Wealthier Canadians  Iacano Research   ... teetering home prices in Canada are raising alarm bells far and wide after someone did a calculation showing that the average net worth of Canadians passed that of the U.S...
Mitt Romney Avoided Major Tax Hit By Shifting Stock Of Offshoring Firm  Huffington Post   ... Mitt Romney saved himself hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes in 2010 by transferring stock in two companies from his personal account to a nonprofit entity he set up. The stock maneuver included $172,397 in shares of Sensata Technologies, a company now under fire for a high-profile effort to offshore central Illinois jobs to China...
Wisconsin progressives take on election fraud, not to be confused with voter fraud   The Daily Page   ...In a few weeks, a group of volunteers will don latex gloves, huddle around a table in downtown Madison under the watchful eyes of election clerks and start counting — by hand — a select group of ballots cast in the June 5 recall elections...
YoCream dairy workers join Teamsters local  Portland Business Journal   ...Dairy workers with Portland-based frozen yogurt specialist YoCream International Inc. have voted to join the Teamsters, the union announced Friday...