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HOUSTON—Prolonged protests continued the first week of June as the state of Texas formally grabbed control of Houston’s schools—a white Republican takeover of a majority-students-of-color school district in a predominantly Democratic city.
LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK —With a 98% “yes” vote, SAG-AFTRA members authorized their board to call a strike if bargaining with their bosses, the nation’s TV, movie, and streaming video moguls, doesn’t produce a new contract.
WASHINGTON—By an 8-1 vote, the right-wing-dominated U.S. Supreme Court has curbed the right of the nation’s workers to strike by allowing companies to sue unions in state courts whenever they wish for alleged “damage” strikers cause, overruling the National Labor Relations Board even if it i...
NEW ORLEANS—Is the AFL-CIO moving towards an early endorsement of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for re-election? Considering statements by and interviews of union leaders at the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists convention here recently and other evidence, the answer could...
WASHINGTON — Watergate Deputy Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks has a simple, pithy phrase to sum up Donald Trump’s ever-increasing constitutional and legal troubles. “I think he’s toast,” she says.