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Labor roundup: Teamsters sue after chemical attack on strikers in Peoria and New Jersey

During picketing by Teamsters on strike against Airgas, company employees or contractors intentionally “released unknown hazardous gases into the atmosphere which formed a dense white cloud which enveloped the area of picketing and surrounded, engulfed and blanketed the employees” in…

The Lion’s Den: How long must our levee be dry?

DANIEL MCCLOUD

Twenty years on from Hurricane Katrina, the betrayal of our most vulnerable continues today

“So, bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
And them good ol’ boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
Singin’, “This’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die”
— American Pie (Don McLean)