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USA : Owner will close two unionized Food Emporium supermarkets in New York City

Source: Supermarket News

USA : Support Deirdre Chervenka Cunningham!! Support the IWW Star Tickets Workers Union!

Source: IWW

Port of Tacoma shut down again after second longshore worker death in a month

Sad report from today’s News Tribune. We will post updates as they are published.
Tacoma halted all operations this morning after another longshore worker died in an industrial accident at a port terminal.
Specific details of how the accident at the port’s APM Terminal were not immediately available. Port spokeswoman Julie Collins said the accident happened about 8 a.m.
The death is the second in less than two weeks at port terminals. Another longshore worker died March 12 while working on a container crane at Pierce County Terminal.
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Marshall Islands : Job losses likely in Marshall Islands as US sequestration take effect

Source: RNZI

American Samoa : Washington fiscal crisis bites American Samoa jobs

Source: RNZI

USA : An Interview With AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

Source: Express Milwaukee

USA : Paying a Fair Wage is Good Economics

Source: MN 2020

USA : 102nd anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire today

Source: Haaretz

USA : Epic railroad strike remembered at Camden Yards

Source: Baltimore Brew