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News Round-up

A quick round-up at the end of a short week. Stay warm out there, folks!

  • Major west coast ports partially shut-down this week thanks to a 9-month contract dispute between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and port ownership, Pacific Maritime Association, over the issue of overtime. If a resolution isn’t reached, we could be seeing a total shutdown of the ports, the first since 2002.
  • How much is too much for adjunct pay? SEIU is fighting for $15k per course and the labor and academic world are abuzz
  • In what the Polish government has called an illegal action, 5,400 coal-workers at Jatzrebska Spolka Weglowa SA are continuing their two-week strike, demanding the dismissal of Chief Executive Officer Jaroslaw Zagorowski.
  • How can farming promote racial justice? Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow

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