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Today in eco-history: Wilderness explorer John Muir born
April 21, 2014Muir was a wilderness explorer and was the first Euro-American to explore Glacier Bay. In 1882 John Muir co-founded the Sierra Club with Professor Henry Senger, a philologist at UC Berkeley.
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Players and Northwestern to battle at NLRB after Apr. 25 vote
April 21, 2014College football players who want to unionize and their foe, Northwestern University, filed their written arguments with the NLRB on Apr. 16.
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Study: 57 percent of poultry workers suffer ergonomic ills
April 21, 2014NIOSH found what UFCW called "a drastic level of injury" to workers even at the present speeds.
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Autoworkers drop appeal of election loss at Chattanooga VW plant
April 21, 2014Union President Bob King says, they will concentrate on a probe by congressional Democrats of political interference that led to the Valentine's Day defeat.
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As crisis builds, Ukrainians face May 25 election
April 21, 2014This election is largely a contest of powerful business tycoons who made their fortunes out of the breakup of the old Soviet Union and the privatization of state enterprises that followed.
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