Bus strike ends in Pr. George's Washington Post ...Tommy Ratliff, president of Teamsters Local 639, said union members voted 93 to 12 to approve a three-year contract with Veolia Transportation...
China Said to Widen Its Embargo of Minerals New York Times ...China mines 95 percent of the world’s rare earth elements, which have broad commercial and military applications, and are vital to the manufacture of products as diverse as cellphones, large wind turbines and guided missiles...
Will Bankers go to Jail for Foreclosure-gate? Time ...law enforcement officials are investigating whether banks and their employees broke federal law in the handling of foreclosures...
The Perfect Storm (opinion) robertreich.org ...An unprecedented concentration of income and wealth at the top; a record amount of secret money flooding our democracy; and a public becoming increasingly angry and cynical about a government that’s raising its taxes, reducing its services, and unable to get it back to work...
The Wall Comes Tumbling Down The Nation ...an agreement (was reached) with the 4000-memberCoalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to implement a penny per pound pay raise—which stands to increase workers’ annual earnings from about $10,000 to as much as $17,000—and establish a code of conduct that includes an external complaint resolution system, shade and protective equipment in the fields, and a worker-to-worker education process on their rights under the new agreement...
