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A Boy Scout survey includes scenarios designed to gauge attitudes of adult leaders and parents on whether the organization should end its policy banning gays.
Andy Richards, new media strategist at the AFL-CIO, sent the following message to working family activists:It’s been a long winter for locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers. Workers have been locked out for nearly 19 months from their jobs because of the greed of CEO David Berg and company board members.Luckily, the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled recently that workers were entitled to receive unemployment benefits under state law. This has been a lifeline for American Crystal Sugar workers.
Afro-Colombians are far likelier than other Colombian workers to earn less than the minimum wage and to be employed in jobs where they cannot form unions to improve their working conditions. And all of this exclusion “has a strong current of racial discrimination under it,” said Agripina Hurtado, the newly elected president of the Afro-Colombian Labor Council (Consejo Labor Afrocolombiano). A quarter of Colombia’s population is Afro-descendant, yet Afro-Colombians comprise more than three-quarters of the country’s poor.
In March 2012, AFT helped lead a public-private partnership to help struggling McDowell County, W.Va., and the participants were hopeful that things could be turned around economically and educationally. A year later, the Reconnecting McDowell project has begun to show that investment in communities can change people's lives.
Four people have been shot dead at a car wash and a barber shop in upstate New York, state police told NBC affiliate WKTV.
Police in upstate New York late Wednesday remained in a tense standoff with a man suspected of killing four people and injuring two more, according to authorities.
For your morning health care read, check out these new stories from Think Progress and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP):CBO May Have Undershot Medicare’s Future Deficit Reduction By Over $300 BillionProjected Medicaid Spending Has Fallen by More Than $200 Billion
A Utah couple claimed they swallowed razor blades hidden inside store-bought doughnuts, but police say their story had a hole in it — the couple planted them.
To understand how Danny Stewart, Peter Mercurio and their son Kevin became a family of three, you have to go back 12 years to the 14th Street A/C/E subway station in Chelsea.
As Women’s History Month continues, it’s important to highlight the often unsung heroes—or heroines—doing great work that continues to push the union movement forward, like domestic workers and groups advocating on their behalf. For many of us, domestic workers are the backbone of our household, providing general family care, housekeeping and home health care. They are responsible for some of the most vital and intimate work in our nation, and yet the law does not guarantee them the same protections they guarantee our families.
