Does a Twinkie Made Without Union Labor Taste Different? | Fox Business Video

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Twinkies showdown another blow to unions - NBC News.com

Twinkies showdown another blow to unions  - NBC News.com:

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The Teamsters said it had no comment, and calls to the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union were not immediately returned Friday.

Christopher Rhomberg, a Fordham University sociology professor, said the strike went beyond wages and benefits.

"The workers had good reason to doubt management's intentions and reorganization plan," Rhomberg said. "The company had gone through bankruptcy twice in the last eight years and a revolving-door of management teams that increased the firm's debt but failed to reinvest in production or new products."

For the union workers who were left without a job, the Hostess shutdown showed the weakness of unions, said Daniel Opler, a history professor at College of Mount Saint Vincent and a labor relations specialist.

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SUPERMAN JOINS A UNION!!

GOP’s hot plan: Cut food for poor people!

GOP’s hot plan: Cut food for poor people!

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Marco Rubio, the man who still can’t seem to decide whether he actually wants to be responsible for an immigration bill, has a fun proposal to continue punishing immigrants well after they become legal residents or possibly even citizens:

In the Senate, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has endorsed an amendment to a comprehensive immigration bill he helped negotiate that would deny health benefits to immigrants for five years after they become legal residents — two years after they would be eligible to become citizens under the legislation.

The GOP may be surprised to hear this, as they busy themselves gutting it, but immigrants do not come here for our generous welfare state. Spending for the undocumented made up a whopping 1.4 percent of all healthcare spending in the U.S. over the last decade.One fun side effect of making immigrants ineligible for subsidized healthcare is that that will obviously give employers an incentive to hire immigrants over native-born workers, precisely the stated reason many Republicans have for opposing immigration to begin with. But punishment is the most important policy goal of all for the modern GOP.

Guilty Verdicts in New Jersey Worker-Safety Trial - New York Times

Guilty Verdicts in New Jersey Worker-Safety Trial - New York Times:

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On April 26, 2006, five managers at Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co. subsidiary of the infamous McWane steel pipe corporation were convicted of multiple felonies by a federal judge after one of the longest trials in the Justice Department’s history. The crimes included various environmental crimes as well as lying to OSHA Compliance Officer Carol Tiedemann from OSHA’s Avenel NJ Area Office.

The ringleader was Plant Manager John Prisque. The company lawyer attacked the prosecutors from the US DOJ’s Environmental Crimes Section, led by David Uhlmann, Andrew Goldsmith and Deborah Harris, and predicted that the defendants would be “ultimately vindicated.”

Three years later, the company and the managers were sentenced – Prisque got the stiffest sentence: five years in prison. After that the company and its managers appealed those convictions and sentences to the US Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court, and lost

This week, Prisque surrendered to the US Bureau of Prisons, at the minimum security prison in Minersville, PA. All or most of the other managers have done so too.

The wheels of justice grind slowly ….

Our thanks go to all the investigators and prosecutors who worked so hard to make this day happen.

Eric Frumin

OSHA to Investigate Second Louisiana Chemical Plant Explosion

OSHA to Investigate Second Louisiana Chemical Plant Explosion

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 or the second time in the past few days, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched an investigation into a chemical plant explosion in Louisiana. On Thursday, a plant in Geismar, La., exploded, killing one person and injuring 73. On Friday, a blast in Donaldsonville, La., killed one person and injured seven. The plant that exploded on Thursday hadn't been inspected by OSHA in 20 years. It is not yet known when the last inspection was done at the Donaldsonville plant.

OSHA officials were expected to visit the plant, owned by CF Industries, as soon as the state's hazardous materials unit could guarantee that the location was safe to visit. Police identified Ronald “Rocky” Morris Jr., 55, of Belle Rose, La., a 34-year employee at the plant, as the victim.