October 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

Atlantic City casino workers block streets to protest cuts
Union Workers Will March In Summerlin Tomorrow

Philadelphia Students Strike to Support Teachers
Climate change threatens Arctic way of life
TakeAction Minnesota employees organize with Guild
Letter Carriers lead rally to save Duluth postal facility
Supreme Court considers major case regarding overtime
Wave of Contingent-Faculty Organizing Sweeps onto Campuses
Solidarity with Kobanê – an urgent task
Privatization and the Crisis of Bus Drivers in Santiago
Air France in a spin as huge cost of strike revealed
Questions over Mexico mayor, wife in missing students probe
US budget deficit falls below 3% of GDP in 2014: CBO
Missouri police plan for possible riots if Brown cop not charged
U. S. Steel bankruptcy court will get to see secret federal deal
As Trains Move Oil Bonanza, Delays Mount for Other Goods and Passengers *
In Texas, a Fight Over Fracking  *

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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