California
Unions gear up for big election among California child care providers
February 12, 2020This workforce of mostly women of color, isolated in their own day care centers, will finally be able to take care of themselves—and each other.
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‘The Dinner Party Before the Revolution’: Jim Smith’s radical West Coast poetry
December 12, 2019Jim Smith is not a “poet’s poet” writing primarily for his peers in the literary Parnassus. His poems have a rough-and-tumble, earthy, proletarian grittiness that’s not afraid to get its feet dirty.
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Inequality and the iron law of decaying public services
November 19, 2019Chronically understaffed local fire departments simply don’t have the resources to handle Act #1 of what climate change has in store for us.
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Turning perceptions around: How California’s unions changed Californians’ minds about unions
November 19, 2019Unions have a public perception problem.
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University of California service & patient care workers strike over illegal outsourcing
November 15, 2019The latest strike was the sixth since the contract expired.
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