Wednesday, September 18, 2013

September 18 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.

Census Numbers Show Lost Decade for Working Families

Brazil's Rousseff calls off state visit to U.S. over spying
EU Parliament Furious about NSA Bank Spying
Snowden Among Nominees for a European Human Rights Prize *
Extended Ruling by Secret Court Backs Collection of Phone Data *

A Week in August in South Africa
South Africa’s Motlanthe Says Union May Yet Strike Over Gold Pay

AFL-CIO Convention: Style 10, Substance 0
British cosmologist Hawking backs right to assisted suicide
MedStar Washington Hospital Center broke federal labor law
Unions Oppose TVA Privatization
Nigerian workers strike for national minimum wage
Another pipeline disaster: Molasses kills
Labour board rules on email spat in diplomats strike
7,500 songbirds killed at gas plant in Saint John
Vale fined $1M in Sudbury miners' deaths
University of Windsor board ratifies Unifor contracts
Arctic sea ice shrinks to record low
Obama rules out wider freeze on deportations
Reaping Profit After Assisting on Health Law *
Florida Among States Undercutting Health Care Enrollment *
U.S. to Include Home Care Aides in Wage and Overtime Law *

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