Decades-long debates surrounding D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam statehood have been reignited. What s the best option? Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY
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The decades-long conversation around statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico has been ramping up in Congress. A bill granting statehood to the District of Columbia passed in the House of Representatives on April 22, though it faces slim odds in the split Senate.
Meanwhile, the U.S. territory Puerto Rico has two current options: the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act and the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act.
Introduced in March by Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., the Statehood Admission Act would grant the island statehood.
Cámara aprueba enmiendas a la Reforma Laboral que las minorías consideran insuficientes
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Cámara aprueba enmiendas a la Reforma Laboral
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Shahriar SheikhBahaei, Ph.D.
Dr. SheikhBahaei’s interest in neuroscience stemmed from the usual combination of an aptitude for science and a medical problem (stuttering) that brought him into bioscience at a young age. Dr. SheikhBahaei received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he worked with Dr. Bob Zucker on the regulation of neurotransmitter release and Dr. John Rubenstein (UC San Francisco) on development of GABAergic neurons in basal ganglia. Dr. SheikhBahaei completed his doctoral studies in Neuroscience (2017) jointly under NIMH/NINDS – University College London (UCL) Graduate Partnership Program where he worked with Drs. Jeffrey Smith (NINDS) and Alexander Gourine (UCL). His graduate studies were on how astrocytic networks control activities of respiratory motor circuits within the brainstem. After short postdoctoral research at NINDS, Dr. SheikhBahaei became an Independent Research Scholar in 2019. In collaboration with the lab
Workers’ Health Care Restored After Union Bosses Back Down
Labor execs threatened to withhold benefits to pressure university employees The University of Puerto Rico / YouTube Screenshot Graham Piro • May 1, 2021 4:58 am
Employees at the University of Puerto Rico triumphed over union officials who allegedly threatened to withhold their health care benefits for opting out of the union.
The workers at the taxpayer-funded university accused the union of refusing to give employees permanent health insurance until they signed union membership cards authorizing the past deduction of membership dues. The union capitulated and allowed the employees to access the health care plans in the face of the legal challenge, which will now continue as the workers try to recover more than a decade s worth of dues seized by the union.