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Aug 30th, 2016

“I’m in a union. You’re welcome.” How having strong labor unions helps everyone who works earn more

Millions of Americans today earn less than their predecessors did 40 years ago, adjusted for inflation, and a big reason for that is declining private-sector union membership —...

“Our tuition dollars fund racism and injustice”: California students protest university labor outsourcing

More than 50 students are staging a sit-in in the office of University of California, Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks. The protest, which was organized by the school’s...

Napolitano’s newest headache: “Outright bullying” and “patient deaths”

Four months after former Obama Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano took the helm of the massive University of California system, unions representing 35,000 U.C. employees are...