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Monday, April 6, 2015

April 6 News Update

Steelworkers Union Rally
Marathon Catlettsburg Oil Workers Reach Agreement to End Strike

Beneath Crops in California, Groundwater Crisis Grows *
California Drought Tests History of Endless Growth *
More than 1 million Californians lack reliable access to clean water

Thai environmentalists pay for activism with their lives
2011 Japan Tsunami Unleashed Ozone-Destroying Chemicals
Dockworkers union leaders back West Coast ports labor deal
Nigeria releases Al Jazeera journalists
Duke Energy, Virginia agree to settlement
Greenhills mine explosion near Elkford, B.C. sends 3 to hospital
In Chicago’s Reshaped Politics, Unions Are Divided Over Mayoral Race *
Victor Gotbaum, Labor Leader , Dies at 93 *


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 5:35 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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