Labor
Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians may strike to prevent more suicides
June 7, 2019A gifted college student committed suicide last year after experiencing repeated delays and obstacles in her search for desperately needed mental health care.
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Baltimore’s John Hopkins Hospital says it will allow nurses to unionize
June 6, 2019In a win for nurses, the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has agreed to stop labor law-breaking.
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Bernie Sanders at Walmart shareholders meeting: “End starvation wages”
June 5, 2019This company, owned by the wealthiest family in America, can afford $15 an hour.
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GOP moves to ban teacher strikes in West Virginia
June 5, 2019West Virginia teachers and parents may have to hit the streets to defend their kids—again.
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California Democratic Party elects union leader Rusty Hicks as chair
June 4, 2019A low-key effective “union organizer to the core,” Rusty Hicks, is now running the California Democratic Party.
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