November 19 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

U.S. Senate rejects Keystone pipeline bill
ATU Joins Nurses, Health and Domestic Care Unions in Opposition to Keystone XL

If Labor’s Strategy Is as Good as Its Leaders Say, Why Are Unions in Crisis?
Dead Labor on a Dead Planet: The Inconvenient Truth of Workers' Bladders
Fracking to be permitted in GW National Forest
Gov't pension agency reports a $62 billion deficit
It’s the People’s Mail that Will Be Slowed, Workers Say
Postal Workers Push Back Against Privatization and Post Office Closures


Dining Out in Dinkytown: Remembering the Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934

The United Taxi Workers Victory and the Struggle for a New Labor Movement
No More Backroom Deals

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