Regional News:

• California Supreme Court will rule on boycott leafleting at a mall -- SF Chron yesterday -- A divided California Supreme Court debated Tuesday whether a mall can prohibit union members and others with gripes about retailers from leafleting shoppers to urge a boycott.
• Bra check upsets court visitor -- Spokane Spokesman -- (Now they have gone too far) A Bonners Ferry woman says she was humiliated when security guards at the federal courthouse in Coeur d'Alene told her she'd have to remove her underwire bra to get inside.

   

National News:

• Starbucks and IWW settle -- Seattle Times -- Starbucks and the Industrial Workers of the World reached a settlement agreement this week over unionizing efforts at a Starbucks store in Grand Rapids, Mich.

• Activists test Canada border policy -- Seattle PI -- Peace activists Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright have been arrested in the U.S. while protesting the Iraq war, but they never dreamed that would prevent them from entering Canada.

• Possible salmonella contamination prompts Kraft to recall white chocolate -- LA Times -- Possible salmonella contamination prompts Kraft to recall white chocolate (Hey, it's about chocolate!)

• Once Again We’re Driving What’s Not Made Here -- NY Times -- NOW that the Big Three automakers are shrinking their labor costs — removing what they have so frequently described as the biggest obstacle to selling more cars in this country — they should be able to regain market share. Right? Well, not exactly....

• GM Deal Clears Way For Thousands Of Lower - Wage Hires -- NY Times -- will be able to replace roughly a quarter of its factory workers with lower cost hires under the tentative contract reached last week with the United Auto Workers union.

• GM Deal Advances but Dissenters Persist UAW Local Votes To Ratify Contract -- Washington Post -- Critics of a tentative labor contract between General Motors and the United Auto Workers are stepping up a long-shot bid to derail the agreement, even as some GM workers began voting to ratify the deal.

• Airline Delays Worsen, Complaints Rise --NY Times -- With one in four domestic flights arriving late this year, the airline industry is hearing from passengers and the government that patience is wearing thin.

• A.C.L.U. Goes to Supreme Court Over Wiretaps -- NY Times --the A.C.L.U., said, “The president continues to claim the authority to violate any law that regulates his ability to gather foreign intelligence, and that is a dangerous claim that should not go unreviewed by the court.”

• U.S. Brings Charges Against Two Restaurants for Firing 22 Deliverymen -- NY Times -- In March, the deliverymen began complaining that they were sometimes paid only $120 for a 75-hour workweek .... Soon after the deliverymen complained ... the restaurants fired them.

• Chaos Coming -- Washington Post Editorial -- The immigration policy -- Would employers facing large fines really fight to keep workers -- even perfectly legal ones -- whose documents were marred by a discrepancy?