Wall Street Journal Online -
Strike Looms as Greek Leaders Push for Deal
needed to win a new bailout agreement to keep the country from defaulting on its debts next month. Unions representing both Greece's public sector and private industry have cheduled a nationwide strike for Tuesday, as the coalition of parties backing interim Prime Minister Lucas Papademos faced bitter...
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Washington Post -
Air France Cancels Some Flights After Labor Unions Strike
flights and 20 percent of European and domestic flights will be cancelled today amid a strike by labor unions. The strike, involving pilots, flight attendants and ground workers, has been called to run through Feb. 9. The airline said it will give an update later today after it sees...
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Washington Times -
Economy Briefs
in late March. But in a country deep in recession, with unemployment at 19 percent, many politicians and unions oppose more austerity measures. The three party leaders held a five-hour meeting late Sunday with Prime Minister Lucas Papademos to hammer out a deal with debt inspectors representing eurozone...
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Charlotte Observer -
Greek crisis talks for debt deal pushed to Monday
in late March. But in a country deep in recession, with unemployment at 19 percent, many politicians and unions oppose more austerity measures. The three party leaders held a five-hour meeting late Sunday with Prime Minister Lucas Papademos to hammer out a deal with debt inspectors representing eurozone...
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Boston Herald -
Intense Greek talks for debt deal continue
minimum monthly wage, and cuts in lump-sum retirement payouts, as part of a long list of cost-cutting demands. Unions and employers’ associations oppose the wage cuts, arguing it would worsen a recession in its fourth year and unemployment, already at around 19 percent. Also Monday, left wing opposition...
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Boston Herald -
One case Ace-d for Sox
And then there was David Ortiz [stats]. The Red Sox [team stats] avoided an arbitration hearing with Alfredo Aceves, agreeing yesterday on a one-year, $1.2 million contract with the right-hander. The settlement was close to the midpoint of the negotiations. Aceves had asked for...
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Town Hall -
Entitlements for Teachers
as chairman of the Republican Party in the county where we both live. Her gemini memberships in the teachers union and the Grand Old Party make for an interesting antithetic. So, I figured that I would respond to her concerns in the form of a cogitative Townhall article. Here...
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RealClearPolitics - Articles -
Box-Checking Obama in a Liberal Cocoon
The New Yorker has now done this twice. The first time was in an article last April on Obama's foreign policy in which he quoted a "top aide" (National Security Adviser Tom Donilon? It sounds like him) saying that the president was "leading from behind" on Libya. Not...
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Los Angeles Times -
Trutanich surprises groups by listing them as backers
president was incorrectly identified as Jim Freeman. Freeman is a political consultant who has worked for the school police union but was hired last year by the campaign of one of Trutanich's rivals, Mario Trujillo, who runs the district attorney's Bellflower office. "This obviously was a mistake...
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Seattle Times -
Bills would reshape how state teachers evaluated
one pushed by the business commuity and those who want to improve education, another backed by the state teachers union, one from Gov. Chris Gregoire and yet another from state Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn. So how do all of these differ from yet another system — one...
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Washington Times -
The super PAC to end all super PACs?
? the latter group?s founder, Duke Thomas, said of the 2010 Supreme Court case that allowed corporations and unions to donate to such groups and allowed them to accept contributions of any size. ?I think it is ludicrous to say someone gave me $1 million, but if they call...
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Los Angeles Times -
Groups surprised Trutanich listed them as endorsers
president was incorrectly identified as Jim Freeman. Freeman is a political consultant who has worked for the school police union but was hired last year by the campaign of one of Trutanich's rivals, Mario Trujillo, who runs the district attorney's Bellflower office. "This obviously was a mistake...
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Town Hall -
Greek unions plan 24-hour strike against austerity
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's two major labor unions plan a 24-hour strike on Tuesday against austerity measures and reforms demanded by international lenders in exchange for a new bailout package, union officials said on Sunday. "We are planning...
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Town Hall -
Greek unions plan 24-hour strike against austerity 4:18 pm Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's two major labor unions plan a 24-hour strike on Tuesday against austerity measures and reforms demanded by international lenders in exchange for a new bailout package, union officials said on Sunday. "We are planning...
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Town Hall -
Unions Plan to "Occupy CPAC"
#OccupyDC progeny appear to be planning to disrupt and lay siege to the conservative conference... According to the AFL-CIO’s Washington DC Metro Council website, “Actions are currently being planned for noontime andafter work on Friday, February 10.” Townhall will be there as a cosponsor of the event...
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Washington Post -
Forget super PACs — let’s focus on a modest proposal for legalizing bribery
scraped away decades of barnacled case law obscuring our beloved Constitution and unequivocally established the right of corporations, unions and wealthy individuals to spend as much money as they want to influence the outcome of elections. Steven Pearlstein is a Pulitzer Prize-winning business and economics...
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Washington Post -
Air France says over 85 percent of long-haul flights maintained despite strike Monday
at the last minute. It is offering free rescheduling for passengers with tickets for travel Feb. 6-9. Labor unions have called the strike to protest a bill in Parliament that would require air transport workers to give 48 hours notice before striking, as is already the case for French...
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Town Hall -
Air France keeps long-haul flights during strike
at the last minute. It is offering free rescheduling for passengers with tickets for travel Feb. 6-9. Labor unions have called the strike to protest a bill in Parliament that would require air transport workers to give 48 hours' notice before striking, as is already the case for French...
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Boston Herald -
Alan Lee Desilets, 69, of North Attleboro, trucker
He worked for the company for more than 20 years before retiring. Mr. Desilets was a member of Teamsters Local 251. He was a communicant of St. Mark Roman Catholic Church in North Attleboro. He was a devoted NASCAR fan and sports enthusiast. He enjoyed spending time with friends...
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San Francisco Chronicle -
Wife of Yankees GM Brian Cashman files for divorce
their relationship ended badly. Ortiz seeks multiyear deal: Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz wants to avoid an arbitration hearing and get a multiyear deal, but told ESPN Deportes he has left it up "to the agents and the team to deal with it" while he concentrates on getting...
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Redstate -
Excommunicate the Bishops.
of St. John Chrysostom’s famous (possibly apocryphal) maxim — explaining that clear out of nowhere, somehow, the Obama Administration decided to make Catholic institutions pay for abortifacents, birth control, and sterilization procedures, all of which are actually explicitly mortal sins in my faith...
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Charlotte Observer -
H&W hiring again, seeing good growth
Frank Emory Jr. have a lot on their plate these days. Nedzbala, 50, is managing partner of the Charlotte office of Hunton & Williams. His practice focuses on securitization, mortgage finance and other capital markets, and fixed-income transactions. Emory, 54, specializes in complex commercial litigation...
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New York Times -
Chicago News Cooperative: Rahm Emanuel’s Comments in Video Upset Teachers Union
As the Chicago Public Schools begin what are certain to be contentious contract talks with the Chicago Teachers Union, Mayor Rahm Emanuel emerged as the star of a new online video criticizing the union and promoting charter schools, whose teachers mostly are not unionized. An interview with Mr...
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Washington Post -
Darlene Meyer, Washington Post employee, guild official
and became chief steward for commercial employees a year later. In 2000, she became an officer in the unions local, the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. She had served as the locals vice president since 2002. She was a member of the bargaining committee that negotiated employee contracts with The...
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Washington Post -
Editorial Board: Scaling back the Senate confirmation wars
the executive branch. Federal government expert Paul Light recommends slashing the number of political appointees, or, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, giving the Senate a deadline for confirming nominees. Others suggest limiting the use of filibusters on certain appointments...
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