New Today -- 13 August 2018

Perspective

UPS pays out $700 million to stockholders: An object lesson in the operation of capitalism

UPS announced its corporate handout the same day that the Teamsters national conference voted to endorse contracts for UPS workers that enforce poverty-level wages and introduce major new concessions.

News & Analysis

Autoworkers call for united struggle with UPS workers against low-pay and part-time jobs

Autoworkers expressed their support for the widespread opposition among UPS workers to the sellout contracts agreed to last Thursday by a national meeting of Teamsters officials.

World markets brace for impact of Turkish lira crisis

Washington police mobilize to protect handful of neo-Nazis

Spanish Amazon worker, fired for injury, faces prospect of homelessness

Fifteen workers hospitalized after explosion at US Steel mill south of Detroit

UK National Health Service pay deal fuels growing rebellion against unions

Workers and youth in UK speak out against continued persecution of Julian Assange

US: The "public charge" rule's effects on legal immigrant families

Baltimore police officer resigns after video of vicious assault sparks outrage

NFL players national anthem protests resume at first preseason games

Coca-Cola workers in Alabama on strike for better wages, health insurance

Right-wing extremist acquitted in the bombing of a German train station

International artists' visa refusals highlight UK government's "hostile environment" against migrants

Australian prime minister delivers an anxious speech on relations with China

Sri Lankan unions sell out railway workers and call off strike

Death toll rises to almost 400 after another Indonesian earthquake

Science

NASA spacecraft launched for close-up study of the Sun

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