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Monday, August 17, 2015

August 17 News Update

Climate change hits Tanzania's coffee beans
The Colorado mine spill was predictable and preventable
Is Los Angeles giving oil drilling a pass?


Julian Bond, Former N.A.A.C.P. Chairman and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 75 *


FCA's union workers set strike authorization vote for Aug. 20
Steelworkers Fight To Preserve Benefits In Labor Negotiations
ATI locks out union workers
Union challenges KapStone's impasse
Fear over missing firefighters as Chinese officials evacuate blast site
Brazilian GM Workers Appeal for Solidarity in Strike Against Layoffs
Arkansas cuts Planned Parenthood contracts
A&P Will Fire 25,000 Grocery Workers
AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale *
U.S. Allows Limited Oil Exports to Mexico *
Tens of thousands protest in Brazil to say, 'Dilma must go'
MSP workers continue efforts for $15 wage
Effort to boost wages could bring robots to restaurants
Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree, Study Says *


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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