Monthly Archives: August 2012
Sorry Teabaggers, Your Medicare Will be Touched by Paul Ryan
Here is the Summary Plan Description for the UPS/IBT Pension
Mars Future?
Whose Fault Was It?
The Ultimate Plan: Feed the Rich
Banksters Find a Way to Steal Social Security Money
The Banksters have found a way to steal the elderly’s Social Security money. Now it’s a few people, soon it will be all. It is what we get when we vote for the people that support the banksters“Rip-off of America”.
Here’s Where the Rich People’s Money Goes, Thanks for the Jobs!
Just an example of why our country is in the shape it’s in. The Republicans keep saying if we make the rich, richer, the jobs will come.
Well here’s the reality of where their money goes.
Jenna Jameson endorses Romney for president
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Jenna Jameson, the so-called “Queen of Porn” whose opinion will no doubt have little sway in the nation’s political class, endorsed presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney‘s bid for president.
The porn star took the stage at a San Francisco strip club last week and announced she was ready for a Romney presidency, CBS reported.
“I’m very looking forward to a Republican being back in office,” Jameson said as she sipped champagne. “When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office.”
Jameson, who by 2001 earned $60,000 for a day-and-a-half long DVD shoot and $8,000 per night dancing at strip clubs, switched positions politically speaking in 2008. Previously, she had supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
The actress’s backing comes at an odd time for the Romney campaign. Four days ago, adult film actor Ron Jeremy rejected the Romney bid telling the Boston Herald he planned to vote for President Barack Obama.
Romney’s representatives did not immediately respond to requests from TheWrap for comment.
(Editing by Chris Michaud)
What does she know about Romney that everyone else doesn’t? HMMM, first taxes, now a porn queen. What’s next?
Teamsters to Focus on Wages in Early Talks With UPS
Job security, health care and pensions are also expected to dominate negotiations
An early start to negotiations with UPS will allow the Teamsters union to focus on discussions over job security, wages, health care and pensions in January, the union said.
Teamsters leaders unanimously agreed earlier this month to begin negotiations on contracts covering approximately 250,00 union members on Sept. 27, roughly 10 months before the current five-year contract expires. The UPS and UPS Freight contract is the largest Teamsters contract and biggest U.S. collective bargaining agreement, said Jim Hoffa, Teamsters general president.
The UPS contract covers package delivery drivers, loaders and sorters, while the UPS Freight agreement covers drivers, dock workers and clerks.
“The struggling economy and the company’s recent announcements about record quarterly profits make this good timing to open negotiations,” said Ken Hall, Teamsters general secretary-treasurer. “We want to address operations issues now so we can concentrate next year on other important issues such as wages, health care and pensions.”
UPS profit in the first quarter rose 6.3 percent to $1.6 billion year-over-year, as revenue expanded 4.3 percent to $13.1 billion. The union said it plans to address work preservation related to subcontracting, workload and safety, and health this fall.
“This progress is the right thing to do for our employees and our customers,” UPS spokesman Norman Black said. “An early start to the negotiations greatly increases the chances of an early finish.”
Health care is expected to be a dominant negotiation issue, as members face rising costs and the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Health Care for America Act looms, Hall said. He warned members that if Republican Mitt Romney won the presidency, the union would face an attack on “health care plans like we’ve never seen before.”
“Romney has made it incredibly clear how he feels about labor unions,” Hall said.