The Sexy Politico

Women Leading the Labor Movement: Mary Kay Henry

Mary Kay Henry is the first woman to lead Service Employees International Union. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a union...

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Labor or Unions

Women Leading the Labor Movement: Roberta Lynch

Roberta Lynch became Executive Director of AFSCME Council 31 in 2014. AFSCME Council 31 represents more than 90,000 active and retired state,...

Labor or Unions

Women Leading the Labor Movement: Frances Perkins

As a student at Mount Holyoke College, Frances Perkins, born in 1880, studied the working conditions in a factory. Perkins later remembered...

Labor or Unions

Women Leading the Labor Movement: Sara Nelson

Sara Nelson has served as the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO since 2014. The AFA represents fifty thousand...

Labor or Unions

This is Not Your Father’s Labor Movement

Once upon a time, the labor movement focused on organizing industrial trade jobs, jobs that mainly employed men. Stereotypical union representatives were...

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Elections

You Need to Vote

You need to vote. There isn’t more that I can say. This Supreme Court is inconsistently conservative, and the only way to...

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Elections

Midterm Elections are in Less than Five Months

The Midterm Elections are in less than five months in the United States. That means every member of the House of Representatives...

International Politics

Habemus papam: Electing a Pope

Recently there has been speculation that 85-year-old Pope Francis may be considering resigning the papacy due to health issues. Pope Francis’ predecessor,...