Domestic Glance
In the latest escalation of an increasingly bitter labor battle, Verizon Communications Inc. has been telling union members it will suspend basic health-insurance and medical benefits on Aug. 31 for all workers still on strike at that time.
Verizon issued the threat in letters sent to 45,000 workers, who walked off the job to protest proposed cuts to their benefits that the telecommunications company says are necessary to stem a sales decline in its traditional wireline business.
Verizon to suspend basic health-insurance and medical benefits for strikers
Feds Find Young Children as Young as 6 Working on Strawberry Farms
Nearly two years after ABC News cameras uncovered young children toiling away in Michigan's blueberry fields, federal investigators have found yet another disturbing example of illegal use of child labor in the berry industry.
Three southwest Washington strawberry growers were fined $73,000 last week after the U.S. Department of Labor found children between the ages of six and 11 working in their strawberries fields in June.
Verizon workers hit picket lines from Mass. to Va.
Striking Verizon landline workers say they laid the foundation for the company's booming wireless business and shouldn't be expected to give up contract benefits just because they work on a less profitable side of the business.
But management says the company has to change to stay competitive and the 45,000 landline workers can't expect to be paid the way they were when the phone company was a monopoly.
AARP sues Wells Fargo, Fannie Mae over reverse mortgage foreclosure
AARP’s legal battle against wrongful reverse mortgage foreclosures has shifted from government regulators to lenders.
The AARP Foundation Litigation unit filed a class action lawsuit yesterday against Wells Fargo Bank and the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), charging that they failed to allow surviving spouses and heirs of reverse mortgage borrowers to purchase the property for the appraised value after loans came due — typically after the borrower’s death.
Death Of The Freedom Of Speech – Making South Park Style Videos Mocking The Police Now Illegal
Crooked judges are now issuing warrants to arrest, prosecute and jail anonymous video makers who create a South Park style videos that mocks the police.
The video parody contains anonymous characters and refers to ambiguous situations that could be occurring at any police station around the nation.
But the police state will no longer tolerated such mockery and have declared the making of such a video has now been declared a crime.
ACLU digs into mobile location privacy with huge police records request
The American Civil Liberties Union is bringing its heavy artillery to bear on the mobile location privacy debate.
The civil advocacy group has coordinated 34 of its offices to send 375 public records requests to police and law enforcement agencies across the nation, requesting comprehensive information about how police obtain and use cellphone locations and other Internet data to hunt criminals.
Multi-agency armed raid hits Rawesome Foods, Healthy Family Farms for selling raw milk and cheese
A multi-agency SWAT-style armed raid was conducted this morning by helmet-wearing, gun-carrying enforcement agents from the LA County Sheriff's Office, the FDA, the Dept. of Agriculture and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control).
Law enforcement demanded that all customers (members) of the store vacate the premises, then they demanded to know how much cash James had at the store. When James explained the amount of cash he had at the store -- which is used to purchase product for selling there -- agents demanded to know why he had such an amount of cash and where it came from.
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