All posts tagged "Featured"
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3.2KLabor or UnionsWomen 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,...
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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...
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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...
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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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2.5KElectionsYou 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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2.0KElectionsMidterm 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...
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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,...
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4.4KGun ControlMemories of a Mass Murder
St. Valentines Day, February 14th, 2008. I had just arrived home after spending the morning at Northern Illinois University. A little while...
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4.3K1Gun ControlBlaming Mental Illness
I am writing this for those who feel silenced by stigmatizing rhetoric that is being passed around online, so their voices can...
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Elections
Election 2022: Reckless vs Feckless
Reckless Republicans have been successful in propagating: and Meanwhile, feckless Democrats have failed to take effective action protecting against: and There has...