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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

June 25 News Update


LIRR workers would get 17% raise over 7 years in latest offer
Contract Offer Scorned, L.I.R.R. Faces Strike *

How coal miners die on the job
Living Poor in San Francisco
Hopkins service workers to strike again Friday
Smith’s, union to resume negotiations
The Skilled Workers Behind the Green Line
California Grad Employee Contract Shows Reform Works
Egypt’s crackdown goes deeper than the Al Jazeera verdict
Barely getting by in Laurel County, Kentucky
Banks shut branches in poorer communities
Lawrence Gen. Hospital RNs to Hold June 26 Informational Picket
N.C. leaders were outraged by climate predictions — so they changed them


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 4:53 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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