Thursday, May 8, 2014

May 8 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.

Fast-Food Worker Strike About to Go Global
Fighting the Big Apple’s Big Inequality Problem
Showdown looms in South African platinum strike
Dozens Protest After Doctor is Fired
Union coverage to continue after Rainbow grocery sale
Worthington packinghouse workers authorize strike
Climate Change: Engine of Inequality
Green Groups Banned From Hearings on Alberta Tar Sands
The expansion of Border Patrol
China shale gas to hurt African exporters
UN urges Qatar to reform labor practices
Los Angeles Becomes the First with More Than a Dozen Unionized Carwashes
Marlborough Hospital Nurses to Deliver Safer Staffing Petition
A Freedom Budget for All Americans
Irish Workers Seek Payback as Investors Reap Reward
Park Ridge officials called to testify before labor relations board
How a little union decided to help temporary foreign workers
Burnaby trench worker death prompts RCMP investigation
First Nickel ordered to hand over documents in deaths of 2 workers
Florida Finds Itself in the Eye of the Storm on Climate Change *
U.S. Issues Safety Alert for Oil Trains *

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