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Thursday, February 19, 2015

February 19 News Update

Global Unions Defend Right to Strike
Global Unions Defend Right to Strike

Explosion at Exxon Mobil refinery in California
      injures four
Explosion at Exxon Mobil refinery in California injures four

Oil Workers Threaten to Expand Strike to Long Beach Port
U.S. refinery strike enters 18th day as talks restart

Backup at ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
Small but powerful union is at center of port dispute

Review: Can Labor Save Itself?
Top Ohio Court Takes Away Local Power to Ban Fracking
Maya Angelou Was 1st Black, Female San Francisco Street Car Conductor
USW Marks the 9th Anniversary of the Pasta De Conchos Mine Explosion
Working-Class Wars, and Working-Class Peace Movements
German archdiocese of Cologne reveals $3.8 billion fortune
Studying Logistics
Google warns of US government 'hacking any facility' in the world
Russian punk band Pussy Riot release I Can't Breathe, inspired by Eric Garner
Illinois governor Bruce Rauner: organized labor's public enemy No 1?
Indian workers win $14M in US labor case
NDP will fight 'dangerous, vague, ineffective' anti-terrorism bill, Mulcair says
Company in Bangladesh Agrees to Union Peace *


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Bill Onasch at 5:42 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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