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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

February 23 News Update

Peruvian pipeline leaks in Amazon
Kansai Electric finds leaked radioactive water at nuclear plant
Shale fightback seen lifting U.S. oil output to record high by 2021
U.S. EPA asks Volkswagen to make electric cars in U.S.
295,000 US deaths may be prevented by 2030 with cuts to greenhouse gas
Ocean heat fueled deadly Cyclone Winston
Sea levels rising at fastest rate in 2,800 years


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Worker centers on front lines in combating wage theft
Home health care workers cheated out of hard-earned pay
Pennsylvania Nurses Catch Organizing Fever
ATU Shows Solidarity with Striking Barcelona Metro Workers
Nurses to Protest Eroding Patient Care Conditions at S. California Hospital
Illinois governor eyes blocking Chicago school debt
Thousands in Japan rally against U.S. base on Okinawa
Frequency, Size of Labor Disputes Up In 2015 For First Time In Years
The Politics of Abortion and the Irish National Election
Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory
Frustration lingers in call of ‘Justice for Mah-hi-vist Goodblanket’
NDP asking for stop to all health care layoffs before election
Legionnaires’ Outbreak in Flint Was Met With Silence *


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.

Bill Onasch at 5:47 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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