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Candidates Say Yes to Union Rights

The 19 presidential candidates who participated in the AFSCME Public Service Forum on Saturday disagreed on a range of topics, but they all agreed on o

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Labor Notes

  • Steward's Corner: How to Respond If a Member’s Work Authorization Is Challenged
    Steward's Corner: How to Respond If a Member’s Work Authorization Is Challenged August 15, 2019 / Guillermo Perez if(isset($entity->premium) and $entity->premium == 1) { echo "Print Only"; } ?>Every major union in the United States has immigrant members, documented and undocumented. Union activists and staff who represent these members need to be familiar with the ways these workers may be terminated—or worse still, detained—as a result of challenges to their authorization to work in the U.S. In 2017 the AFL-CIO came out with an invaluable toolkit of materials to assist unions in responding to these challenges. More on the toolkit later, but first a quick review of how challenges to work authorization typically happen. — Aug 15
  • Teachers Fighting for Public Schools Were Key to the Uprising in Puerto Rico
    Teachers Fighting for Public Schools Were Key to the Uprising in Puerto Rico August 15, 2019 / Mercedes Martinez and Monique Dols if(isset($entity->premium) and $entity->premium == 1) { echo "Print Only"; } ?>In the two months leading up to the uprising which ousted Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Roselló, educators celebrated hard-fought victories against the privatization of their education system. Struggles by teachers and families against school closures and charter schools helped pave the way for July’s unprecedented outpouring of protest (see box). By the end of the school year in June, it became clear that the struggle to stop charterization had largely won. There is only one actively functional charter school on the island. — Aug 15
  • NewsGuild to Rerun Presidential Election
    This fall the NewsGuild will rerun its hotly contested presidential election. In May incumbent Bernie Lunzer narrowly beat challenger Jon Schleuss of the L.A. Times local, 1,282 to 1,081. The NewsGuild, an affiliate of the Communications Workers (CWA), has about 20,000 members in the U.S. and Canada. — Aug 14
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