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Apr 04 2024
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Another Starbucks in Chicago wins union vote, becoming the 23rd location in Illinois to unionize
Starbucks employees at a Gage Park location voted to unionize, making it the 23rd store in Illinois to organize, as a nationwide labor movement continues among the coffee chain’s workers. Twelve employees at the location on 5807 S. Western Ave., which opened late last year, voted unanimously to join Starbucks Workers United, according to the union in a Thursday announcement. Starbucks Workers
Chicago Sun-TimesApr 19 2024
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Biden hits Trump for inheriting wealth amid union speech
As he addressed workers at a conference for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, a big labor group that has endorsed his reelection bid, the president worked to contrast his upbringing from that of his predecessor. “Some folks learn very different lessons growing up than you and I did,” the president said. “They learn, and my opponent learned, the best way to get rich is
The HillApr 16 2024
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Time Machine: Cedar Rapids’ Old Union Depot
It was ‘a foul blot, an insult, a monument to greed,’ The Gazette decreed As I wrote in a November 2014 Time Machine, “The Cedar Rapids Union Depot was a small, unattractive building that hardly suited a growing city.’ Plans for that first union depot began when the Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad ran a rail line through Cedar Rapids in June 1859, bringing passenger service to the city
Cedar Rapids GazetteApr 18 2024
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Jill Biden to address teachers during Friday convention in Bloomington
First lady Jill Biden will make a brief visit to Minnesota on Friday evening. Biden’s office says she’ll be speaking at an Education Minnesota convention in Bloomington. She’s visiting Minnesota on a multi-state trip that will continue through the weekend. After Friday’s event, she’ll head to Colorado and Tennessee for speaking appearances. Her last trip to Minnesota was in June, when she made
Pioneer PressMar 24 2024
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Lowcountry Teacher Advocates to hold conference pushing for raise in teacher pay
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A coalition of advocates for educators will be coming together Monday to push for better compensation for teachers. Organized by the Lowcountry Teacher Advocates, the Educator Compensation Advocates will be hosting a press conference downtown highlighting what they are calling an “urgent need to prioritize continuous efforts to provide fair compensation for teachers
Live 5 WCSCApr 19 2024
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Volkswagen workers in Tennessee could change the trajectory of unions in the South
NPR Fact CheckApr 11 2024
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A union leader brings an equity focus and lessons from organizing to SPS board
Editor’s note: This is the first of two Q&As with Seattle Public Schools’ new board members. Up later this week: Sarah Clark. Joe Mizrahi’s approach to education and equity was shaped by his public school experience in San Diego County, Calif., as the first-generation child of a refugee family. But he’s also seen public schooling through the lens of his parents, both public school teachers
The Seattle TimesApr 14 2024
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Elderly witch saved from execution in 1880 by teacher
The middle of Oklahoma is a long way from Salem, Mass., and it had been more than 200 years since the witch trials. But an elderly Seminole Indian woman was condemned to death as a sorceress in Wewoka in 1880 and came within two hours of facing a firing squad. She had been accused of causing a long-sick woman to choke to death -- by blowing on a piece of bread given to the ill victim, who
Tulsa WorldApr 19 2024
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California teacher dies in 140-foot fall at Arizona hiking trail
A California teacher died in a hiking accident on a steep and difficult mountain trail near Sedona, Arizona, this week, authorities said. The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office identified the woman as Zaynab Joseph, 40, of California, who it said was staying with her family at an Airbnb in Sedona. Joseph was hiking with her husband and 1-year-old child on Bear Mountain, about 9 miles west of
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