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A reception that includes cookies and hot cocoa will be held Monday from 3 to 4 pm. It will be served at the City Museums side door. The light exhibit was designed by Bill Conrow and is sponsored by the IBEW 1547 Juneau Unit, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, ALCAN Electrical & Engineering and the Friends of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum. The lights were hung by employees from CBJ Community Development, CBJ Parks and Recreation, and the Zach Gordon Youth Employment in the Pa...

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Workers at the Oregon State Legislature took the first step towards forming the first union of legislative staff in the country Dec. 8—turning in signed union authorization cards saying they want to be represented by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 89. The bargaining unit will consist of about 110 employees who work for both Democratic and Republican legislators. Oregon’s 90 legislators—60 in the House and 30 in the Senate—generally have just one staff perso...

By Jacob Perasso December 21, 2020 Militant/Ved DookhunMembers of New York State Nurses Association picket Albany Medical Center during Dec. 1 strike demanding more staff to ensure safety and for the health of patients, higher pay. ALBANY, N.Y. — Hundreds of nurses organized by the New York State Nurses Association struck Albany Medical Center here Dec. 1. Many picketed the entire day, dressed in red and carrying signs reading, “On...

SOUTH BEND — The challenges for ex-offenders trying to re-enter the job market are daunting. One of Michael Anderson’s first setbacks came a short time after being released from a four-year prison stint, as he recently started the process of getting a driver’s license. Not being able to drive would make it difficult for him to get to job interviews, not to mention back and forth to work if and when he’s hired. He hopes potential employers will not hold his ex-offender status...

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Iowa City, Iowa — Nina B. Elkadi It’s six a.m., and the elementary school gymnasium has come to life. The hum isn’t from school children. Classes, held in person in Iowa City this fall despite the pandemic, have been canceled for election day; instead, the murmur resonates from my fellow precinct election officials, all of whom sport thin, white hair. The average age of the poll workers, including me, is 83. When I introduce myself to my precinct chair, he reaches for a handshake...

Dividing. and i think what we saw with this comment yesterday i think reveals to a lot of people f. youre not a billionaire, you dont live in a gold plated trump tower, youre somehow interfere. whether its black people from africa or black people in the united states or brown people who are here who want to assimilate and come into the country or white working class people. we talked about this a lot. and i think even here during the campaign. if you go back, president trump was discriminating a...