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Chicago ordinance bringing laid-off hotel workers back to work stalls
May 28, 2021Union says workers who lost jobs due to the pandemic must be the first to be called back.
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California Assembly bill aims to remove derogatory term ‘alien’ from state law
May 28, 2021Assemblywoman Luz Rivas’s (D-Arleta) Assembly Bill 1096 was approved by the California Assembly Thurs., May 20, with bipartisan support and will now move on to the State Senate.
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GOP offers inadequate infrastructure plan that lets the rich off free
May 27, 2021Their plan makes it clear yet again that, for them, protecting the wealthy trumps fixing infrastructure.
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SEIU, pro-migrant advocates hail Biden’s Haiti decision, press for more action
May 27, 2021“It’s time for our elected leaders to answer the call: All immigrants, all workers must be respected, protected, and paid,” SEIU's Mary Kay Henry said.
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Transit workers, AFL-CIO mourn mass shooting at union meeting
May 27, 2021Perhaps it was inevitable in an era of mass shootings nationwide, but one finally hit the union movement personally.
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