Wednesday, October 16, 2013

October 16 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.

Congress in disarray as shutdown deal collapses
No clear plan to avoid default as deal collapses
Seeing Its Own Money at Risk, China Rails at U.S. *
Buffett Says Allowing US Default Would Be Idiocy *

Iraq war claimed half a million lives, study finds
Unity Disposal workers strike
Grocery workers strike could expand to Thurston, Mason counties
Fracking Booms, Workers Busted
Does Your Copy of Labor Notes Take Forever to Arrive?
Thousands march for immigrant rights
Adjunct professors in dire straits with low pay, lack of full-time jobs
Majority of US fast food workers need public assistance
TWU Members Rally on Behalf of Contractless Flight Attendants at Allegiant
How Did the Mine Workers Take on Peabody and Bankruptcy and Win?
Local 332 Says GE is 'Stonewalling' Information Requests
Germany Ponders the Super Chicken
Donation from BMW Owners Raises Eyebrows
US moose decline not mirrored in Ontario or Quebec
'Moose die-off' not seen in Yukon, where populations stable
Ministry of Labour issues 17 orders after Waterloo death
Toronto's Enbridge pipeline hearing begins Wednesday
Algae blooms on Lake Erie getting 'difficult to control'
Rich getting richer in Hamilton while the rest stagnate
Glenn Greenwald to leave Guardian
Group Says Haitian Garment Workers Are Shortchanged on Pay *
South Dakota Ranchers Face Storm’s Toll, U.S.’ Helping Hands Are Tied *
Alaska’s King-Crab Fleet Is Left in Port by Shutdown *
Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to EPA Rules on Gas Emissions *

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