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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

January 6 News Update

Japan sushi boss pays $117,000 for endangered tuna
Texas blizzard kills 15,000 cows
Poland sub-zero weather 'kills 21'
Michigan declares state of emergency over Flint water crisis
California braces for week of El Niño storms

One U.S. service member killed, two wounded in Afghanistan
Firm to pay up after making workers clock out for bathroom
Chicago lawyer resigns after judge rules he hid evidence
Wisconsin's public-sector unions plot fightback as supreme court case looms
Sanders vows to break up banks if elected
Chicago pays reparations for police torture
What's This Friedrichs Case Really About?
The Trouble with For-Profit Healthcare: Even the Insured Face Mountains of Debt
Detroit Three auto sales soar in record year
Mayor de Blasio to Raise Base Pay for City Workers *


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 5:53 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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