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Thursday, May 21, 2015

May 21 News Update

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Protests hit McDonalds shareholder meeting

Oil slicks spread 9 miles off California, foul beaches, air
Firm behind Calif. oil spill has shaky record
'Nightmare' California oil spill damages rare coastal ecosystem

Chinese Bike Light Strikers Occupy Factory
State workers rally for pay increases, approval of contracts
US to sell bombs to Israel, helicopters to Saudis
Judge temporarily halts fracking permits in North Carolina
Nebraska poised to abolish the death penalty
Los Angeles' minimum wage on track to go up to $15 by 2020    
How Climate Protection Has Become Today’s Labor Solidarity
The truth behind Peabody's campaign to rebrand coal as a poverty cure
Rachel Notley renews vow to raise Alberta's minimum wage
Puffy, Feathered Sticking Point of a $612 Billion House Bill *
Study Links Dolphin Deaths to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill *
‘Opt Out’ Becomes Anti-Test Rallying Cry in New York State *
Rigging of Foreign Exchange Market Makes Felons of Top Banks *


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.

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Bill Onasch at 5:03 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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