Friday, May 1, 2015

May 1 News Update

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Baltimore’s Implosions
On May Day, Longshore Workers Stop Work to Protest Racist Police Brutality
Huge protests on US East Coast over police 'injustices'
Freddie Gray died after head 'slammed into bolt in back of police van'
Class, not race, is the engine of police harassment in Baltimore
Here’s one way Baltimore teens are worse off than poor youth in Nigeria and India
Freddie Gray’s Injury and the Police ‘Rough Ride’ *

Climate change could push a sixth of species to extinction: study
Paris climate deal must swell new UN fund: director

Oregon Supreme Court overturns majority of PERS cuts
Illinois governor tries novel approach in anti-union battle
Gov. Brown defends cuts to wetland restoration near tunnels
Greece resumes debt talks with creditors
German unemployment hits 24-year low
GOP House measure would block local DC abortion rights law
UAW reports 55 percent membership at VW plant in Tennessee
Nurses Welcome Introduction of Legislation to Improve Veterans’ Health Care
New map project highlights mountaintop removal
El Super grocery chain accused of 'coercing' workers
These Things Can Change
What killed the babies in a St. Louis suburb?
Commonly Used Chemicals Come Under New Scrutiny *

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

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