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Monday, March 4, 2019

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Who’s Afraid of the Green New Deal?
Oakland teachers reach tentative deal to end week-long strike
Lorain unions join teachers for rally against House Bill 70
Community, Other Unions Rally for Striking Workers Outside Wabtec
Last days at Lordstown
Washington’s paranoia toward China spreads to campuses
Judge rules coal company can eliminate retirees' health care, union contract
Southwest Airlines takes mechanics union to court, citing slowdown
As Many as 5 Socialists Could Join Chicago City Council
Huawei Said to Be Preparing to Sue the U.S. Government *
Pressed by Climate Activists, Senate Democrats Plan to ‘Go on Offense’ *
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Friday, March 1, 2019

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Scientists criticize Australia’s ‘questionable’ climate policy
A sick-out to support the striking teachers
Activists Win Dismissal of Lawsuit Filed by Dakota Access Pipeline
Union at King Soopers, City Market chains seek better wages in contract fight
Kanawha judge rules parts of WV right-to-work law unconstitutional
New York City Council Passes Legislation to Help Workers in Private Trash Industry
Strike Wave Wins Raises for Mexican Factory Workers
One, two, … many Green New Deals
The War on AMLO
An Isolated Trump Hunkers Down Against Climate Science *
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Thursday, February 28, 2019

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House Democrats unveil bill to expand healthcare nationwide
Bernie Sanders Jumps Into a Union Fight
Union workers and King Soopers heading back to the table
Auto workers' union sues GM to keep three plants open
The charter bosses lose again at CICS
Lesbophobia Past and Present
Wildfires Rag in Britain After Record Temperatures *
28 Women Dragging Suitcases March for Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland *
Ohio city votes to give Lake Erie personhood
Captured Indian pilot to be released
US and North Korea leaders leave early, cancel planned ceremony
White House Bars 4 U.S. Journalists From Trump’s Dinner With Kim *
Israelis May Have Committed Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza Protests *
Oregon to Become First State to Impose Statewide Rent Control *




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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

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Boeing Board to Add Nikki Haley, Who Helped Fight Union Drive
UE Locals 506, 618 Strike 'For the Jobs Our Communities Deserve' in Erie
California’s biggest state worker union kicks off contract talks
Graduate student and postdoc unions begin negotiations with Columbia
Grocery workers contract dispute
Cooling cloud banks could vanish
Bill Jenkins, Who Tried to Halt Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Dies at 73 *
Oakland teachers are fighting for the future
Iceberg twice the size of New York City is set to break away from Antarctica
UK faces chaotic Brexit or extension of article 50
Ocasio-Cortez rebukes Ivanka Trump 'as a person who actually worked for wages'
Labor For Sustainability Special Bulletin On Green New Deal
Two African-American Women Are Headed for Runoff in Chicago’s Mayor Race *
United Methodists Tighten Ban on Same-Sex Marriage and Gay Clergy *
Extreme Weather Can Feel ‘Normal’ After Just a Few Years, Study Finds *


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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

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EU Considers 21-Month Delay If May Can't Get Brexit Done
Emissions Now 10x Higher Than When Arctic Had Crocodiles And Palm Trees
Low Wage, Not Low Skill: Why Devaluing Our Workers Matters
Labor Fights Over the City's New Energy Agency Are Just Getting Started
Stop & Shop Workers’ Union Votes To Authorize Strike
Union Workers at Erie GE Negotiate to the Wire with Wabtec
Workers at the forefront of minimum wage victory press on for union rights
White House to set up panel to counter climate change consensus
The climate is changing – why aren’t we?
Hugo Blanco: From Trotskyism to Indigenous Vitality
Kia loses, union wins, in latest bonus ruling
Gaza protesters call on Palestinian leader to quit
AOC delivers impassioned response to critics
Chicago, Seeking a New Mayor, Sees Black Residents Voting With Their Feet *






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Monday, February 25, 2019

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Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill ‘Medicare for All’ *
The Green New Deal Is Better Than Our Climate Nightmare *
The Power of a $15 Minimum Wage *
Black women’s labor market history
Union representing Stop & Shop workers votes to authorize strike
Worked to Death at FedEx
Growing threat from far right upsurge
GE Unions Vote 'Overwhelmingly' to Authorize Strike


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Friday, February 22, 2019

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Satellite spies signs of slavery from space
 Dams can reduce natural greenhouse gases
TUED Bulletin 83 — February 21, 2019
Trump and the World Economy
Teacher Strikes Boost Ed Funding in WV, Other States
For a fighting ecological trade-unionism
Trump’s ‘national emergency’ power grab
Southwest Airlines blasts labor union
Pollution casts shadow over New Mexico’s booming dairy industry
Hyundai workers to go on strike
Chilean Dockworkers Organize Month-Long Strike
The Subways Should Be Free
Peace Treaty, and Peace Prize, for North Korea Appear to Tempt Trump *
Labor’s Hard Choice in Amazon Age: Play Along or Get Tough *
Emmett Till’s Murder, and How America Remembers Its Darkest Moments *
Green New Deal Technologically Possible. Political Prospects Another Question *


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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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