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COURT UPDATE AT PRESS TIME: The Supreme Court rulings essentially eliminating the progress made over the past century in America are coming so fast and furious that it is difficult to keep up with them.
WASHINGTON—By an 11-10 party-line vote—Democrats and independent Bernie Sanders for, all Republicans against—the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved the Protect the Right To Organize (PRO) Act.
MIAMI—In all the verbiage surrounding the indictment of former Republican Oval Office occupant Donald Trump on 37 counts of espionage, not enough can be said of the danger posed by the judge assigned to the case, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.
WASHINGTON—Several unions—including both U.S. teachers unions—two AFL-CIO constituency groups, Worker’s Circle, and approximately 100 other citizens’ and progressive groups have formed a mass coalition to get voters to pressure Congress to change the Supreme Court.
LOS ANGELES—Get ready for tense showdowns between prepared unions and often-stubborn bosses: 15,000 Unite Here Local 11 members against 62 big hotels in Los Angeles and Orange County, Calif., and the Teamsters’ 340,000 UPS workers against the big shipper and its CEO, Carol Tomé.