September 9 News Update

‘Hands Up, Don’t Ship!’ Minneapolis UPS Workers Protest Shipments to Missouri Police - See more at: http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2014/08/hands-dont-ship-minneapolis-ups-workers-protest-shipments-missouri-police#sthash.rJeEoDbc.dpuf

Carbon dioxide levels are rising at a record-shattering pace, U.N. warns
Charges Dropped Against Climate Activists *
Climate Change Will Disrupt Half of North America’s Bird Species *

Nursing home workers in Hudson, Bergen counties threaten strikes
California on verge of enacting paid sick leave legislation
Workers at one Bloomington hotel organize; labor dispute at another
Stop Feeding The Hand that Bites Us
Join the People’s Climate March
Is Water a Human Right in Detroit?
Emotional town hall meeting on civic pension packed with worried workers
2 workers dead after workplace accident in Fox Valley
Peru anti-logging activist murdered
Boom in Energy Spurs Industry in the Rust Belt *
Drought-Plagued Phoenix Is Swamped by Rain *

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.

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