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Thursday, June 5, 2014

June 5 News Update


'Walmart moms' walk off the job
Walmart Strikers Take Fight to Walton’s Estate

Growth Has Been Good for Decades. So Why Hasn’t Poverty Declined? *
Americans fared better after Great Depression than today

Study warns carbon cuts fall short as UN climate conference begins
Crucial East Coast highway bridge remains closed
Farm Backs Off Threat to Use Guestworkers as Scabs
Greenpeace Erects Fracking Site at Cameron's Estate
China clamps down in Beijing on Tiananmen 25th anniversary
Minimum wage hikes fail domestic workers
Union Nurses Say 'Lift Up El Paso'
Improving Health Care for Veterans — A Watershed Moment for the VA
O&R, labor union reach tentative agreement
Oregon Iron Works to merge with Vigor Industrial
Leslie Orear, Helped Bring Together Black, White Packing Workers in 1930s
Germany Launches Investigation into NSA Spying
Yuri Kochiyama, Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 93 *
UAW Elects President Who Vows Single Term *


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.

We take a closer look at news stories in our companion Week In Review blog, hosted at: KC Labor at WordPress

Bill Onasch at 5:01 AM

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Retiree member of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1287. Active member National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. Webmaster of kclabor.org since March, 2000. Former Vice-President of ATU 1287. In Minneapolis during Seventies-Eighties held several posts in UE Local 1139 including Local President and Shop Chairman at Litton Microwave. Charter member of Labor Party Advocates. Founding member of US Labor Against the War.
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