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Friday, February 9, 2018

February 9 News Update


DEEP wants sneak environmental permit rule reversed
Huge levels of antibiotic use in US farming revealed

Dow Jones plunges 1,000 points as inflation fears spook investors
We All Have Stake in Stock Market, Right? Guess Again *

House Passes Bill to End Brief Shutdown *
What Puerto Rico Is, and Isn’t, Getting in Disaster Relief *

P&G’s move ends generations of soap making in Armourdale
Syed Jamal, arrested by ICE, granted stay as he was sent to Texas
Unionized county jail workers must be served hot meals
I’m joining 140 Columbia faculty in support of a graduate workers’ union
JetBlue contract workers at Logan Airport go on picket line
FBI finds no evidence of attack in death of border patrol officer
Stanford professor accused of being a terrorist. McCarthyism is back
Women earn 10% less than men in America's public sector
Carnival party named after dictatorship torturers called 'insult to Brazil'
Boeing raises prospect of only one pilot in the cockpit of planes
Northern Ireland will stay in single market after Brexit, EU says
Corbyn says players should walk off if racially abused at World Cup
Union Leaders Protesting DeVos Are Left Out in the Cold *


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 6:00 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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