West Virginia Senate outlaws public employee strikes as state demands schools reopen
On Monday, West Virginia’s upper legislative chamber passed a bill which changes state law, outlawing work stoppages and other collective action by public employees. The measure threatens that “participation in a concerted work stoppage” can be used to terminate workers.
The bill is not just retribution for the massive statewide strikes of 2018–19, but is aimed at intimidating workers, and particularly educators, who are becoming increasingly radicalized and opposed to the deadly reopening of schools and nonessential workplaces. The passage of the bill directly followed the announcement by Republican Governor Jim Justice that schools will fully reopen for in-person instruction starting next month.
Librarians, archivists, curators seek to unionize at University of Michigan
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 26, 2021
The Lecturers Employee Organization pickets outside Mason Hall before a Graduate Employees Organization press conference on the University of Michigan Diag on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020.
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ANN ARBOR, MI The University of Michigan’s Lecturers’ Employees Organization union has opened up member voting on a resolution to bring librarians, archivists and curators into its ranks.
This would include librarians, archivists and curators from all three UM campuses, which is intentional because they are all part of one university, according to Meredith Kahn, a librarian for gender and sexuality studies at UM in Ann Arbor.
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Alphaeus Hunton: A life devoted to equality, liberation, and internationalism February 26, 2021 2:42 PM CDT By Tony Pecinovsky
Alphaeus Hunton, second from left in the foreground, along with Petitioners Julian Mayfield, Alice Windom, W.A. Jeanpierre, and Maya Angelou Make, deliver a petition to the U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana, in 1963. | New York Public Library
In a November 1950 article in Paul Robeson’s newspaper
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