January 31 Week In Review Now Online

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January 29 News Update

Billionaire Paul Allen's yacht damaged Caribbean protected coral
Modern European summers are warmest since Roman times, study finds
Independent Greenland 'could not afford' to sign up to Paris climate deal
Environment ministers meeting in Ottawa face sobering emissions projections


Quebec Unions Debate a Settlement


Seattle Uber Drivers Win Right to Bargain
Postal customers, unions back reform legislation
Six years of resistance by electricians
Historic Fare Strike Hits Buses in Grand Rapids, MI
Union membership rates hold steady in Minnesota, across nation
Teamsters and others fighting pension battle over multi-employer fund
Aussie vote to decide on gay marriage: PM
Feds to expand equal pay data collection
US failed to protect Central American kids
Ind. aims to repeal 'religious objections' law
Tories threaten to block Liberal efforts to repeal controversial union laws
Drug Shortages Forcing Hard Decisions on Rationing Treatments *
Chemicals Caused Samsung Chip Worker's Ovarian Cancer *
Many Fertilizer Plants Are Poorly Located and Regulated, Says Report *

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January 28 News Update

Rapid, affordable energy transformation possible
The woman who blew the whistle on Flint
Suit seeks replacement of Flint's pipes
Pipeline projects to face new environmental regulations
Water Pollution in Hoosick Falls Prompts Action by New York State *

40 percent of Afghan kids forced to work
Bikeshare Union Has Wheels
PBS’s ‘The Mine Wars’ Shows West Virginia’s Militant, Radical Labor History
Workers Who Occupied Their Factory in 2008 Win New Bankruptcy Payout
Petitioners demand nursing staff be retained at Nashoba Valley Medical
Tories accused of shortchanging public as £26bn privatisation haul revealed
Austerity Unbroken
Wounded Warriors Project Questioned Over Spending *
Manhattan Construction Worker Injured in Fall Down Elevator Shaft *

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January 27 News Update

Doomsday Clock stuck near midnight due to climate change and nuclear war
'Natural' gas not as good as solar – despite the gas industry's best efforts
World heritage forests burn as global tragedy unfolds in Tasmania
SoCal Gas sued over leak near Porter Ranch


Tempers flare, tires burn in French strikes


Transit union cites lack of progress in contract talks
New MNA president sees nurses as change agents
The Davos Blind Eye: How the Rich Eat the Poor and the World
Brazil ‘losing the battle’ against mosquitoes
Denmark approves migrant 'jewelry bill'
SF mayor asks feds for probe of shooting
Corporate education reform goes global
Dominican economy lures Puerto Ricans in crisis
Surge of Americans tests limits of Cuba's tourism industry
Immigrant-rights protesters detained after blocking downtown LA intersection
Lead poisoning strikes another US town
Assault charge filed against Missouri assistant professor    
AP Investigation: Feds' Failures Imperil Migrant Children
Local union chapters disregard national leadership to endorse Bernie Sanders
One Killed and Protest Leaders Arrested in Rural Oregon *
Hundreds Vanishing in Egypt as Crackdown Widens, Activists Say *
Indictment Deals Blow to G.O.P. Over Planned Parenthood Battle *
Lyft Agrees to Settle Class-Action Lawsuit With California Drivers *

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January 26 News Update

Record hot years almost certainly caused by man-made warming
The Flint Water Crisis from the Ground Up
Climate Change, Women and Bangladesh’s Disaster Capitalism
The specter of geoengineering haunts the Paris climate agreement
Sea level rise from ocean warming underestimated, scientists say
Flint rewrites water testing directions blamed in lead pollution crisis


Here’s Some History to Help Understand the Racial Wealth Gap

Corporate law firm, pro-Israel group, derail UAW vote endorsing boycott


Detroit teachers protest hearing on sick-outs
Why more nurses are unionizing in Phila.
When 'withdrawal' means escalation
MSD Board reinstates LIUNA as union, tentatively approves labor contract
ATI-Steelworkers labor dispute gets attention of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey
Vladimir Putin accuses Lenin of placing a 'time bomb' under Russia
House of Lords votes to keep income-related child poverty measures
Russia's GDP falls 3.7% as sanctions and low oil price take effect
Former tech workers suing Disney
2 Abortion Foes Behind Secret Videos Are Indicted *
The Wreck of Amtrak 188 *

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January 25 Week In Review Now Online

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January 25 News Update

'It's all just poison now': Flint reels as families struggle through water crisis
Flint residents still paying bills for contaminated water
Health study ordered on California gas leak

Twin Cities janitors authorize strike
Tougher road ahead this time for Kansas City's earnings tax campaign
Employee Wellness Programs Use Carrots and, Increasingly, Sticks *
Marking Arab Spring, protesters in Egypt defy crackdown
Illinois: Chicago Cuts Public School Jobs *

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January 22 News Update

While Global Temperatures Rise, the Poor Burn Faster
Monsanto sues to keep herbicide off California list of carcinogens
Court rules Clean Power Plan may proceed
EPA official resigns over Flint water crisis
Bolivia's second-largest lake dries up and may be gone forever
How Elites Contained the Climate Justice Movement
A Question of Environmental Racism in Flint *
Court Rejects a Bid to Block Coal Plant Regulations *


Philly Teachers Go For It
Staff union ratifies new labor deal with SEIU Local 1000
Carnival Industry Depends on Mexican Laborers Paid Below Minimum Wage
Protect Female Farmworkers *
Twin Cities Labor Chorus Serenades San Francisco
Mass Layoff for Condos: Not Sweet, Really Low
NLRB: Walmart 2013 strikes were lawful
Better nursing-staffing equals lower mortality
Glory days of Chinese steel leave behind abandoned mills and broken lives
Secret Russian arms donation to Fiji raises concerns of bid for Pacific influence
Buffalo Bills make Kathryn Smith NFL's first full-time female coach
HCA appeals order that it pay $434 million to KC foundation
Locked-out Goodwill workers wake up without paycheques
Greek Farmers Temporarily Block Highways to Protest Reforms *
Batteries on Transit System Power More Than Just the Trains *

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January 21 News Update

Planet shatters warming records, 2015 hottest 'by far'
US: 2015 was Earth's hottest by a wide margin
It's official: 2015 'smashed' 2014's global temperature record. It wasn't even close
2015 smashes record for hottest year, final figures confirm
2015 Was Hottest Year in Historical Record, Scientists Say *

As Water Crisis Grew, Officials Belittled Flint’s Complaints *
EPA expected to brief U.S. House committee on Flint water crisis
U.S. agency says its response to Flint water crisis too slow

Air pollution in China abates, but winter a problem: Greenpeace
Study: By 2050 more plastics than fish in sea
Obama nixes bill killing smaller stream regs
Natural gas likely overtook coal as top U.S. power source in 2015
California Said to Target Exxon in Climate Inquiry *


NHS funding is falling behind European neighbours' average, research finds

Detroit teacher calls for 'full strike' amid protests
Teachers threaten another DPS sickout for Thursday
Detroit Teacher 'Sickouts' Close Schools Again
Nearly all Detroit schools closed due to teachers' sickout
Crumbling, Destitute Schools Threaten Detroit’s Recovery *


John Legend, Colombian star Juanes perform outside jail


Republic Windows workers who staged 2008 sit-in to get final payment

UE Win at NLRB: Harassing Political Charge by Israeli Law Firm Dismissed
University of Minnesota faculty file for union election
U.S. records 2nd and 3rd coal deaths of 2016
Gunmen kill prominent ally of Venezuelan president
BLM activists interrupt mayors' conference
Walmart to hike wages for more than 1.2 million workers on Feb. 20

NTSB investigating fatal Greyhound bus crash in San Jose

US celebrities back 'Dump Trump' campaign
UK car production hit 10-year high in 2015
Union: Huhtamaki in Waterville temporarily lays off 25-30 over Chipotle woes
Russian airstrikes in Syria have 'killed more than 1,000 civilians'
Inquiry Sees Putin Role in 2006 Poisoning *

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January 20 News Update

Facing slow govt response, ordinary people act to stem Flint water crisis
Bill McKibben: How to drive a stake through the heart of zombie fossil fuel
Environmentalists warn of disaster for Everglades if oil fracking bill passes
World's oceans warming at increasingly faster rate, new study finds


UK doctors suspend planned two-day strike amid talks

How the Oscars began as a tool for union-avoidance
22nd annual Screen Actors Guild awards


The Austerity Agenda in Sheep’s Clothing

Hundreds of low-wage Portland airport service workers unionize
Labor union vows to support CSU faculty if it strikes
Baggage handlers at PDX vote to join Machinists Union
'Staggering' 18,800 Iraqi civilians killed since 2014
Tunisian city under curfew after unemployment rally
China's growth rate hits 25-year low
Bakers demand union recognition
Workers rally, deliver petitions to boost minimum wage
Jos Williams Retiring
Gunmen Kill at Least 19 at University in Pakistan *
PotashCorp shuts down New Brunswick mine, cuts 430 jobs
BBC Journalist Turned Away From Flight to U.S. Because She Was Born in Iran *
California: Two Killed in Greyhound Rollover *

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January 19 News Update

Leaking Methane Plume Spreading Across L.A.'s San Fernando Valley
Efforts to Plug California Gas Leak Actually Made It Worse, Officials Say
California's 'Staggering' Leak Could Spew Methane for Months
Company Behind Methane Leak Is Ordered to Offset the Climate Damage
State of Emergency as Leak Becomes Methane Equivalent of Deepwater Horizon

Jesse Jackson calls Flint a 'disaster zone'
Anger and Scrutiny Grow Over Poisoned Water in Michigan City *
Michigan pollution shows black lives don't matter

Earthquakes at Wastewater Injection Site Give Oklahomans Jolt into 2016
Obama Administration Halts New Coal Leases, Gives Climate Policy a Boost
U.S. Pledges to Ease Pain of Closing Coal Mines in Shift to Cleaner Energy *
Southern Africa drought causing starvation
Denmark broke world record for wind power in 2015

Richest 1% Now Wealthier Than the Rest of the World


6 arrested during $15 protest at Logan

Biggest strikes in Quebec since 1972


Children as young as seven mining cobalt used in smartphones, says Amnesty


Remembering UE's Relationship with Martin Luther King

King Celebrations Overlook His Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism
UM System continues to meet with labor union
Possible impasse on Illinois state and union worker negotiations
Nurses and five hospital systems reach tentative agreement
Labor experts call for major reform to union election law
Walmart to shutter hundreds of US stores
Court considers Obama immigration action
New Orleans Puts Poor on ‘Waiting List’ for Lawyers, Suit Alleges *
Workers Sickened at House Office Building *
Suburban Phila news groups pressed for labor deals
In Memoriam Ellen Meiksins Wood 1942-2016
Labor issues call for racial unity
Tata job cuts: unions attack lack of government action
Transport Canada heavily redacting rail safety documents

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The January 17 Week In Review Is Now Online

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January 15 News Update

We will observe the Martin Luther King holiday Monday. Next news update will be Tuesday, January 19

A Terrifying Jump in Global Temperatures
Historic Test for Climate Defenders Dealt Legal Blow
January hurricane forms in Atlantic for first time since 1938
SoCalGas understated health risk of massive natural gas leak, data shows
Coal leases on federal lands facing review
Environmental activists pleased with new greenhouse gas rules
In Climate Move, Obama to Halt New Coal Mining Leases on Public Lands *
Some Cars by Renault and Other Makers Fail French Air-Quality Emissions Tests *

Nurses to pursue wage-only negotiations
Planned Parenthood sues group over videos
Nurses Union Warns Alvarado Hospital Suffers High Turnover Rate
Kansas governor orders Planned Parenthood funding cut
Boeing, engineers union reach tentative six-year labor deal
Proposed laws could change lives of D.C.’s hourly workers
Some W.Va. workers angry about Right to Work legislation  
Rotterdam Dockers Strike – A Test Case for Europe?
Requiem for a News Channel
Footage of 2013 police shooting of Chicago teenager released
Flint activists rally over water crisis
China's Haier Buying GE Appliance Unit for $5.4 Billion *

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January 14 News Update

Global warming could stave off next ice age for 100,000 years
Bulgaria eyes new gas project after South Stream failure
Nevada solar industry collapses after state lets power company raise fees
EU scientists in row over safety of Glyphosate weedkiller
South Africa weather service says 2015 driest year on record
B.C. government failed to properly consult First Nations on pipeline, court rules

Al Jazeera America to close down


Why the B-52 Failed


Bringing Back the Strike May Be Our Only Hope


Revealed: how Jeremy Corbyn has reshaped the Labour party
The Corbyn effect: who–and where–are the thousands of new Labour members?
Why I joined: 'I believe in the NHS, the welfare state and Labour values'

It’s Not Too Late For Unions to Win the Friedrichs Case
Where Did the OUR Walmart Campaign Go Wrong?
GE Cutting Thousands of European Jobs After Alstom Deal
Methodist Church blacklists 5 Israeli banks
Janitors challenge building owner to improve standards
Obama wrong on trade, advocates say
Income inequality will be more pronounced as US population ages
Alberta freezes wages of non-unionized public service employees for 2 years
LBPSB teachers vote 51% in favour of new contract
Internet Yields Uneven Dividends and May Widen Inequality, Report Says *
French Fraud Investigators Search Renault Sites-Union Official *

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January 13 News Update

Boston climate march built solidarity
Essential reading on the Paris climate agreement
Anti-fracking protesters evicted from Cheshire camp
Opencast coal mine operator appeals Welsh council's refusal
CN train derailment close to Hudson, Ont. worries nearby First Nation chief


Hall of Fame baseball player Monte Irvin dies at 96


Junior doctors' strike: increasing optimism over deal to end dispute

Cook County jail in Chicago on lockdown after staff no-show
Three Palestinians shot dead by Israelis during unrest
Cologne Turkish also fear crime and race tensions
'Like jail': New York homeless say shelters not the answer
Nurses ask Oregon to scrutinize giant Providence-St. Joseph merger
Socialist Win in Seattle: Anomaly or Harbinger?
As oil plunges, energy companies cut jobs, postpone projects
National Guard to distribute water in Flint
An Attack on Democracy? Worries over Poland Mount in Brussels and Berlin

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January 12 News Update

Climate Insurgency After Paris
Climate change means more fear, less fun for global middle class: UBS
Dozens of whales die after southern India stranding
Automakers Go Electric, Even if Gas Is Cheap *


The US supreme court must protect the right of teachers to speak in a loud voice
Conservative U.S. justices prepared to deliver blow to unions
Supreme Court hears arguments in major worker rights case


London Underground users to face three 24-hour tube strikes

Central American immigrants scramble for options to deportation by U.S.
Teacher 'sick-out' absences close dozens of Detroit schools
In Letter to Congress, UE and 1,500 Organizations Oppose TPP
Tory bill could cost UK nearly 200,000 council houses, warns Labour
Corbyn plan for Labour members to get say on Trident policy 'against rules'
Canada mining company halts some works, cuts jobs in Greece
Germany arrests 211 far-right extremists in Leipzig
Canada's idle response to VW's cheating cars
No plans for Chrysler crossover SUV at Windsor Assembly Plant, CEO says
Junior Doctors’ Strike in England Disrupts Care for Thousands *
Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says *

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January 11 News Update

Anthropocene Working Group: Yes, a new epoch has begun
The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare *
Turtles' age determined by atomic-bomb fallout in their shells
Spillway of swollen Mississippi River open near New Orleans
Volkswagen proposes catalytic converter fix ahead of crucial meeting with EPA
'A millennium’s worth of earthquakes': What are states going to do?
Neglect May Do What ISIS Didn’t: Breach Iraqi Dam *


McDonald's taken to court over alleged anti-union actions


Labour expecting £6m loss in funding through trade union bill

At Supreme Court, Public Unions Face Possible Major Setback *
Workers speak out about what’s at stake in Supreme Court case
Supreme Court Case on Public Sector Union Fees Rouses Political Suspicions *

Deadly strike on Yemen MSF clinic draws condemnation
Detroit braces for 'sickout' by teachers frustrated by class sizes and conditions
Flint Wants Safe Water, and Someone to Answer for Its Crisis *
Doctors Unionize to Resist the Medical Machine *
State labor board to hear Chicago Teachers Union complaint
Ecuador to complete $1 bn payout to Occidental by April: Correa
Canada PM condemns pepper spray attack on Syrian refugees
Rhythm and blues singer Otis Clay dies at age 73
Venezuela must learn from Indonesia
Thousands of Hong Kong protesters gather to demand release of booksellers
Fire breaks out at Jerusalem offices of human rights group B’Tselem
Coal Industry seeks to stall black lung protections
Minneapolis’s Less Visible, and More Troubled, Side *

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