Nov
2011 29
2011 29
Cooper Tires Locks Out 1,050 Workers While CEO Sees Third Straight Year With Salary Raise
This morning, locked out workers picketed the Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. plant in Findlay, OH. Yesterday, plant officials told 1,050 workers they were on “extended holiday shutdown” and then announced they would try to continue on with temporary workers. The union workers, represented by Steelworkers (USW) Local 207, had been...
Nov
2011 25
2011 25
WARNING: Recalls On Twitter Are Closer Than They Appear
Saturday, November 19th, 2011. 6:34AM. Three young men, 32, 25 and 20, depart Brooklyn, NY with one goal: cross “Lambeau Field” off of their respective bucket lists. The “frozen tundra” of Lambeau, idolized in 1990s Sportscenter broadcasts by Chris Berman, is perhaps as iconic an image as there is in pro football. The...
Nov
2011 25
2011 25
BLACK EYE-DAY: Woman Pepper Sprays XBox360 Suitors In Early Morning Shopping Incident
Early this morning, a woman in the Los Angeles area took a page out of the anti-Occupy Wall Street playbook when she pepper-sprayed shoppers at a Wal-Mart in an attempt to beat them to a video game console: A customer shot pepper spray at other customers at a busy Northridge Wal-Mart store late Thursday night, ...
Nov
2011 25
2011 25
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: Wells Fargo Says Retirement Age Is 80, But U.S. Life Expectancy Is 77.8
Last week, a San Francisco Business Times piece sparked outrage when it reported that villainized 1%ers Wells Fargo had announced that the retirement age was “going the way of the typewriter, another 20th-century relic.” The claim was based on a survey the big bank had conducted: Wells found in a survey that 25 percent of ...
Nov
2011 23
2011 23
29,000 Children Could Be Dropped From Wisconsin Medicaid
Something must be done about the state of Wisconsin’s $550 million Medicaid deficit, and nobody argues such a contention. However, the current proposal being floated by the Secretary of the Department of Health Services, Dennis Smith, leaves too many people (children especially) out in the cold. Smith ran the Medicaid system under former...
Nov
2011 22
2011 22
DEF SCAM: Russell Simmons Is #OccupyWallStreet’s “Agent Entrepreneur”
There is a saying around the Occupy Movement: “this is not a leaderless movement; this is a movement of leaders.” For over two months, Occupiers have stuck by this principle despite being endlessly urged to create a “structure,” make “demands,” and do a bunch of other things that would make people who...
Nov
2011 22
2011 22
#OccupyHomeDepot: Teamsters, Atlanta Activists “Mic Check” Union-Buster At In-Store Protest
MIC CHECK! Occupy Atlanta hit their first corporate target last week when 75 people gathered to protest Home Depot and their treatment of workers. The in-store surprise was followed by a march across the street to join in solidarity with Communications Workers of America (CWA) members marching outside a Verizon store. The group of 75 ...
Nov
2011 18
2011 18
It Turns Out That Verizon and CWA Agree On Something After All: The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Those New Yorkers who lasted the longest at yesterday’s #N17 demonstrations were greeted by an amazing sight. As tens of thousands of concerned citizens, political activists and trade unionists, including members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA), marched from Foley Square onto the Brooklyn Bridge, someone illuminated the Verizon...
Nov
2011 17
2011 17
Occupy St. Louis, Unions, MO JWJ Team Up for Infrastructure Rally Today
From the St. Charles County Democrats: MO Jobs with Justice, community groups, local area unions, and allies are joining Occupy St. Louis for a Rally and March for Jobs. Congress has recently voted against several Jobs bills, and they need to get serious about solving our jobs crisis and put people back to work rebuilding ...
Nov
2011 17
2011 17
We Party Shirt Appears in Awful, Co-Optive #OWS Themed Music Video on MTV.com (Not Our Idea!)
This isn’t exactly big news, but hey, when you print a thousand shirts and someone tells you one of them is on MTV, you kind of have to look into it. Penguin Prison is a crap disco rehash. His music ain’t much. To make matters worse, the young lad with a London circa 2004 haircut ...
Nov
2011 16
2011 16
CALL OF DUTY 99: North Carolina Cops Acting All Video Game Like On Occupy
We may be a couple days back on this one, but it’s just too crazy not to post. Twenty Five Chapel Hill police officers arrested self described “anti-capitalist” occupiers who had planned to take control of an abandoned car dealership and turn it into a cafeteria, dormitory, and library. The officers, which Raw Story describes ...
Nov
2011 16
2011 16
PEW: Traditional News Outlets Still Not Using Twitter Right; Only 2% Ask Followers for Information
A new study has been released that shows while more and more media companies are taking to Twitter, most are using it incorrectly. Gigaom.com reported that the Pew Research Center looked at 3,600 tweets from 13 of the country’s major newspapers, radio and TV station sources over the course of a week. The study found ...
