July 9 News Update

Each Monday-Friday, by 9AM Central, we’ll post links to news stories and analytical articles of interest to working people. Sometimes they will be accompanied by editorial commentary. Stories from the New York Times will be followed with a *. The Times pay wall policy allows free access to only about ten articles a month.

Today's post includes stories during our holiday break

Organizing: Aim the Slingshot Well
Gender equality case nets nurses $150M
Chinese anti-pollution protesters freed as state bows to public outcry
Japan nuclear crisis 'man-made'
Bolder Protests Against Pollution Win Project’s Defeat in China *
Troubles at a 1960s-Era Nuclear Plant in California May Hint at the Future *
Drought Reaches Record 56% of Continental US
Labor collected enough signatures to put home health workers measure on the ballot
Department of Labor To Investigate Union Busting on Army Base
Immigration Audits: Building A Strong Defense
The Unsolved Murders of Indigenous Women in Canada
Nuclear power at record levels, despite Fukushima disaster
Liberals strike 'historic' wage-freeze deal with Catholic teachers
Argentina ex-junta leaders jailed
Portugal court rules public sector pay cut unconstitutional
Why Marxism is on the rise again
‘No Child’ Law Whittled Down by White House *
As Exxon Mobil Weighs Oil Bid, Afghans Move Closer to a Foreign Investment Goal *
Article Questions New Industrial Park in Haiti: Labor Rights a Concern
Bill Moyers on Union Movement’s Tough Times
A Union Grows in Brooklyn
Roller-coaster hits and kills worker at Montreal's La Ronde
Sweltering heat topples 11 Ontario records
EMS workers overloaded with mental health, addictions calls
Catholic teachers' deal with province troubles union
Chomsky on the Occupy movement
VA halts employee downgrades
Joyce D. Miller, Breaker of Glass Ceilings, Dies at 84 *
Groups’ Praise for Cuomo? It Was Written by His Aides *
Dismal hiring shows economy stuck in low gear
Motor Coach workers vote to strike
Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone
U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren’t there
Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized? *
Retirees Occupy Community Center in Berlin
Norway faces oil output shutdown as pension talks fail