activism
Affordable housing a big election issue in Bay Area
October 11, 2016The measures are fueled by the rapid rise of housing costs in the nine Bay Area counties.
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Native demonstration against pipeline held at law offices in Bismarck
August 30, 2016Standing Rock Sioux and their allies demonstrated at the offices of the law firm, Fredrikson and Byron to protest the firm's representation of Energy Transfer Partners.
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Breakthrough: Private university graduate students can organize
August 24, 2016"We expect our relationship with the administration to be much easier; to establish a much more democratic process to determine our work conditions."
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Striking Walmart workers in China contact U.S. Walmart activists
July 29, 2016"We are going to stand our ground," Zhang Liya, a founding member of the workers' network, told the Chinese labor paper.
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At KGW-TV, unions take stand against ‘Uberization’ of news
July 28, 2016One company has a proposal to end union jurisdiction over union members' work, apparently in order to allow the station to use amateur footage.
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