Monday, March 31, 2014

March 31 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.

Threat from global warming heightened in latest U.N. report
IPCC report: climate change felt 'on all continents and across the oceans'
What did that ‘NASA-funded collapse study’ really say?
IPCC: Effects of climate change 'worse than we had predicted'
IPCC report: Climate change a threat to security, food and humankind
Panel warns of worsening effects of climate change
U.N. Panel Says Worst Effects of Climate Change Are Yet to Come *

Amazon workers on strike in Germany
Socialist candidate is elected first female mayor of Paris
Kansas City streetcar extensions get green light from City Council
$1 trillion student loan debt widens U.S. wealth gap
Conservation in Kansas comes under attack in Legislature
No Papers, No Fear
Ukraine’s IMF Deal Means Greece-Like Depression
Louisiana trying to halt coastal erosion
International Solidarity Helps Fijian Workers
BMWE gains higher wages from arbitration; LACMTA tentative agreement with ATU
White House opens door to new rules to cut methane emissions
Crimea Crisis Has Little Impact Thus Far on Russian Oil Deals *
UAW membership rises 2% in 2013
Unions, a Week after Strike Vote, Strike Tentative Deal with Portland
Brazil police: Worker likely without safety cable
Pulitzer winning journalist warns CCSU audience of abuses by government
Report: NSA kept tabs on 122 world leaders
Hopes Frustrated, Many Latinos Reject the Ballot Box Altogether *
U.S. Agency Knew About G.M. Flaw but Did Not Act *
Law May Force Drilling on Balking Landowners *

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