October 2012

And Mitt Romney might be responsible.  As Craig Unger at Salon reports this week, the pharmaceutical company that’s responsible for the outbreak, Massachusetts-based New England Compounding Company, was cited for numerous violations in 2004 while Mitt Romney was Governor.  However, his administration did nothing to punish the company or place more regulations on it.

The streets of lower Manhattan are underwater, and there are 16 reported deaths after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the Northeastern United States.  Bloomberg is estimating that the storm damage could top $20 billion.  Before making landfall – Sandy recorded the lowest barometric pressure of any Atlantic storm to hit the area in history.

The latest CEO to threaten his employees if Mitt Romney loses.  White is the owner of the industrial equipment firm Rite-Hite – and he recently sent an email to his 1,400 employees cautioning them that should Barack Obama win a second term, then he will have to drop the company’s contributions to employee retirement funds.

The fight between Sensata workers and Bain Capital is heating up.  Bain Capital is shutting down the Sensata factory in Freeport, Illinois on November 5th, just before the election, and sending 170 American jobs off to China.  But the workers who will lose their jobs aren’t going down without a fight.