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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

February 7 News Update


Men walk with skis on a snow-covered path near the Eiffel
        Tower in Paris, as winter weather with snow and freezing
        temperatures arrive in France.
Traffic chaos in French capital after first real dose of wintry weather
Three-Year Prison Sentence for Shutting Down Tar Sands Pipeline
UK built half of Europe's offshore wind power in 2017

German Metal Workers Reach Deal Favoring Free Time Over Wages
German Factory Orders Surge as Workers Score Labor Deal

Columbia Refuses to Bargain with Its Graduate Student Union
Norwich reaches pension amendment agreement with 10 labor unions
Meet the Coalition Building a Global Union Movement Against Capitalism
Labor Dispute in Central Iran Heats Up
Florida Bill Seeks to Stop Arrests of Injured Immigrant Workers
Restaurants have no right to take employees' tips
Minneapolis school custodians vote to join SEIU 284
Thinking politics
Donald Trump orders Pentagon to plan grand military parade
US-Mexico border migrant deaths rose in 2017 even as crossings fell
Trump’s Talk of Unity Replaced by ‘Treason’ and ‘Shutdown’ *
Failure to Screen for Sleep Apnea Led to 2 Recent Train Crashes *


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 5:49 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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