Monday, March 17, 2014

March 17 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.

The Mystery of the Missing Methane
50 000 in Russia anti-war demo
Portland City Workers Vote to Strike
De Blasio Pushes a 9-Year Contract for Teachers
The Blossoming of Idle No More
Nuke waste fire ruled ‘preventable’
U.C. Medical Center’s Technical Workers to Strike
Vancouver transit union calls for better security on buses
High Levels of Pollution Spur Paris to Action *
Private Employment Slowly Reclaims Pre-Downturn Peak *
Oil Mars Ala. Swamp Months After Crude Train Crash *
Search for Bodies Yields to Hunt for a Cause of East Harlem Explosion *
Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science *
Income Gap, Meet the Longevity Gap *
Questions as More Wastewater Flows in North Carolina *
Industry Behind Anti-Wage-Hike Letter *
Union workers fight right-to-work law
IWW Claims Violation of NLRB Settlement as Insomnia Worker Suspended
Union militant on how wind-power development is held to ransom for profit
Parkview Community Hospital workers vote to unionize
Unskilled Are Hired for Fukushima Cleanup *
Low-Wage Workers Finding It’s Easier to Fall Into Poverty, Harder to Get Out *
Mayors, brewers skip St. Patrick's Day parades
Thousands in Japan protest nuclear power

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