Wednesday, November 20, 2013

November 20 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.

Widening Inequality Shatters Mirage of Social Mobility
Union workers rally in support of Boeing machinists
UC workers and grad students to strike Wednesday systemwide
600 union members hit Queensland Parliament to protest law changes
Wage rights rally is Wednesday in Kansas City
Port Truckers Battle ‘Sweatshops on Trucks’
Public universities should be free
Activists launch ballot initiative to raise DC minimum wage
Supreme Court declines to block Texas abortion law
One killed in Cairo clashes as riot police storm Tahrir Square
More metro economies struggling in 2013: report
Tazreen Factory Fire: A Year Later, Survivors Feel Forgotten
Local 1177 Improves Benefits, Pay In New Renzenberger Contract
Walmart Asks Workers To Donate Food To Its Needy Employees
The Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty is the complete opposite of 'free trade'
Albuquerque voters reject late-term abortion ban
Canada, Australia, Japan: Climate change saboteurs
Government Failings Intensify Haiyan Aid Disaster
NSA Wanted To Collect Geolocation Data
Alberta orders cleanup of coal slurry spill into Athabasca River

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