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Monday, January 29, 2018

January 29 News Update


The U.S. May Back a Vietnam Coal Plant. Russia Is Already Helping. *
Protest set for Texas wildlife refuge
Why Your Train Is Delayed *
Oil Boom Gives the U.S. a New Edge in Energy and Diplomacy *
Iranians Prayed for Rain, but Were Covered in Snow *
Fire Breaks Out at Taiwan Refinery *
German Carmakers Criticized for Emissions Research on Monkeys *

Davos and the Donald
It’s Not a Roar, but the Global Economy Is Finally Making Noise *
In Davos Speech, Trump Mixes Facts With Fiction *
At Davos, the Real Star May Have Been China, Not Trump *

St. Paul Federation of Teachers schedules strike vote
BBC, Criticized Over Pay Gap, Cuts Salaries of Some Male Journalists *
Crisis in the Canadian Labour Movement
An Island Adrift
Organized Labor’s Growing Class Divide
California: A shrinking hotbed for unions
Union Stages ‘Work-In’ at O’Neill
How Dreamers came to dominate US politics
Las Vegas construction company files defamation suit against union
Women’s Marches get a huge turnout nationwide
After six months of Macron
Hundreds of thousands living in squalid rented homes in England
On Family Farms, Little Hands Steer Big Machines *
Russians Brave Icy Temperatures to Protest Putin and Election *


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.
Posted by Bill Onasch at 7:03 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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