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Food Chain Workers Alliance Seeks Lead Organizer Covering New York
The Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA) is a bi-national coalition of 33 worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food, organizing to improve wages and working conditions for all workers along the food chain. FCWA members organize locally and collectively to build a system that values and respects food…
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Announcing: Digital Media Rising
In 2015, the Writer’s Guild of America, East, had their first victory organizing in digital media when writers at Gawker Media voted overwhelmingly to form a union. Five years later, it is clear that the Guild’s first organizing victory at Gawker Media was the spark that lit a fire of media workers joining unions across…
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Prof. Kafui Attoh on Structural Racism in Mass-Transit Policing
The protests over the past week and a half have laid bare many of the excesses of the police and called into increasing question what their role in our cities is and should be. In a recent Streetsblog post, SLU professor Kafui Attoh explained why the protests have in particular laid bare the structural racism…
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Joseph S. Murphy Scholarship for Diversity in Labor Virtual Celebration (6/10)
REGISTER HERE Join us for The 8th annual Diversity in Labor Scholarship Awards Celebration! This year’s virtual event will take place tonight, June 10 from 5pm to 6pm. We will introduce our newest Diversity Scholarship recipients and recognize this year’s Rising Leader honorees. Our special guest speaker for the evening is New York City Public…
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