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National Domestic Workers Alliance Seeks Fair Care Pledge Campaign Manager
Position Summary: In January 2015, the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network, launched the Fair Care Pledge, a groundbreaking new campaign aimed at raising standards for domestic workers. Five months later at the Clinton Global Initiative America, we joined forces with the largest global care marketplace, Care.com, to further…
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Bangladesh Police Open Fire on Protest Against Coal Power Plants
By Michael O’Neil, for Trade Unions for Energy Democracy In the Chittagong district of Bangladesh, thousands of villagers held what they described as a peaceful protest over multiple days at the construction site of twin coal-fired power plants. The plants, costing $2.4 billion, are backed by Chinese companies and the project had just commenced leveling farmland to prepare for…
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Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa Seeks Executive Director (Iowa City)
The Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa is a dynamic, diverse workers’ center based in Iowa City, Iowa with a track record of winning groundbreaking campaigns for workers’ rights and civil rights. Our members are low-wage and immigrant workers, speaking nearly a dozen languages, who lead our organization with the support of a strong…
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Alliance for Downtown New York Seeks Coordinator, Technology Projects
The Coordinator, Technology Projects will report directly to and support the Chief Technology Officer in every facet of his role to help keep the Downtown Alliance and Lower Manhattan technologically forward thinking. Responsibilities include both internal facing, providing and ensuring a high level and high quality of technology service for our employees, and external facing,…
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