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WASHINGTON—Senate right-wingers, all of them Republicans, blocked a debate and vote on the Equal Rights Amendment. In a vote that got tangled up with abortion rights, Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
FORT VALLEY, Ga.--In a big win for the Steelworkers and a big break in the normally union-hostile South, workers at the Blue Bird school bus company plant in rural Fort Valley, Ga., voted for the union on May 12, 697-435.
RALEIGH, N.C.—Gov. Roy Cooper, D-N.C., now the state’s sole state governmental bastion against radical right-wing extremism, has gone on the road to preserve full abortion rights in the Tar Heel State.
NEW YORK—Starbucks workers seeking to unionize the giant coffee chain have had a busy and hectic time, centered around a May Day march on its Manhattan headquarters to demand the firm sit down and bargain contracts with workers at unionized stores, as a group.
CINCINNATI—By a two-to-one ratio among voters, Teamsters Local 100 won the union recognition vote among 1,100 DHL Express ramp and tug workers at the air cargo firm’s biggest hub, the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport.