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by Marilyn W. Thompson
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by ProPublica
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 02:59 PM PST
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Yesterday I talked to a strike captain from the SEIU at the strike. They have no strike fund, they’ve never gone on strike before. A van load of scabs was brought in early in the morning, they’re getting paid 80 dollars an hour to scab. This morning I...
by Somchai
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on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 06:17 AM PDT
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wage theft noun the practice by an employer of not paying the proper wages due to a worker or workers, especially through paying inordinately low salaries or failing to abide by employment law and regulations. What is Wage Theft? Wage theft occurs when...
by TexDem
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on Fri Jul 14, 2023 at 07:30 AM PDT
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Bus drivers shuttle America’s children to schools where cafeteria workers feed them and teacher aides assist students who need the most help. And their pay is notoriously low. School support staffers earn, on average, about $25,000 a year in Los...
by Associated Press
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on Wed Mar 22, 2023 at 03:14 PM PDT
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The fact is that unions give people a ticket to the middle class. Big businesses dominate the economy. For example, the top four domestic airlines collected 41 percent of the industry’s revenue 10 years ago; today they collect 65 percent. It’s the same...
by Dem
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on Wed Sep 21, 2022 at 06:16 PM PDT
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Cara Zelaya, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off ●...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Aug 30, 2022 at 05:40 AM PDT
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*Indebted to Raw Story, which had the exclusive this morning.* First off, 2020 election loser and Capitol-insurrection promoter Donald John Trump has a known history of encouraging physical retaliation against peaceful protestors when speaking at his...
by Clio2
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on Wed Jul 27, 2022 at 07:09 AM PDT
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Daniel Donner, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Jun 21, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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As we celebrate the recent win by Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, we thought it only fitting for The Good Fight column to speak with the international president of the two million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Mary Kay...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Tue Apr 12, 2022 at 07:41 AM PDT
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Thu Jan 27, 2022 at 05:00 AM PST
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Wed Jan 19, 2022 at 05:00 AM PST
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Jan 18, 2022 at 05:00 AM PST
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Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D. PA) has long been a great ally for the LGBTQ community in Pennsylvania. Now that he’s running for Governor, Shapiro sat down with The Philadelphia Gay News last week and laid out both his record and his agenda to...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Tue Nov 16, 2021 at 11:04 PM PST
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This week’s U.S. Supreme Court rocket docket hearing �on Texas’s abortion ban demonstrated that the court might not be ready to turn citizens into vigilantes when it comes to enforcing their ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Sat Nov 06, 2021 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Every once in a while, I like to watch Jordan Klepper’s humor on the Daily Show. The comedic segments on MAGA rallies, and the people he interviews always tickle my funny bone. In one particular clip, Klepper and others were asking people, “when was...
by Jeff Heinle
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on Thu Oct 21, 2021 at 11:10 AM PDT
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Aug 17, 2021 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Big news today from The New York Times :
by poopdogcomedy
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on Tue Aug 03, 2021 at 03:44 PM PDT
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A group of more than a dozen major labor unions is urging the Department of Education to cancel student debt for people who have worked public service jobs for a decade or more. Their main point of contention is the fact that the current Public Service...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Apr 02, 2021 at 07:44 AM PDT
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Morning Digest: Rhode Island has a new governor, but a hard fight looms if he wants to say in office The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Wed Mar 03, 2021 at 05:00 AM PST
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It’s been a tough few weeks for gig economy workers, who were already at the bottom of the economic totem pole: A few weeks ago, the grocery store chain Albertson’s announced that it was laying off its unionized delivery workers and instead...
by Blue Tuesday
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on Wed Feb 03, 2021 at 09:26 PM PST
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