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The Fight Back Fund is affiliated with the Local 150 International Union of Operating Engineers, a union that benefits from building and development.

The center of the strike is in the Greater Toronto Area, where real estate speculators and banks have made a killing in recent years from astronomical prices for residential properties built by the strikers.

A labour strike involving more than 15,000 construction workers in Ontario is impacting high rise projects in Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph. 

Local members are part of an Ontario-wide job action.

Striking Stanford nurses and Oakland educators, as well as SoCal Kaiser workers, speak out in favor of a joint struggle against overwork, insuffient pay, and unsafe conditions.

Eight days before the opening of the Democratic state convention, Sen. Matt Lesser of Middletown made his expected entrance into the crowded race for the nomination to succeed Secretary of the State Denise Merrill. The last order of business on the second day of the two-day convention will be the endorsement of a nominee for secretary of the state, one of three statewide constitutional offices without an incumbent seeking reelection.

Giménez’s war chest dwarfs the combined holdings of his three Republican challengers.

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visits equipment training center in central Wisconsin.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visits equipment training center in central Wisconsin.