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Health advocates including A Better Balance, March of Dimes and American Civil Liberties Union are advocating for the passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

SAUNDERS: Labor Day 2023 — Celebrating the Union Difference and Building Tomorrow’s Public Service Workforce

by Lee Saunders August 29, 2023August 30, 2023

This Labor Day, we honor the sacrifice of all working people. And we affirm that life is better in a union.

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Matching Teachers’ Funds Raises Questions of Public Charter School Unions

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. February 27, 2023March 1, 2023

Non-tenured part-time and full-time faculty members called off a strike after reaching a tentative agreement with Howard University. The agreement is still subject to a ratification vote by the contingent professors, who are members of SEIU Local 500. Faculty members and students have been holding protests on campus, such as this rally with professor Cyrus Hampton addressing supporters in front of the administration building on Sept. 7. (Courtesy of Chanel Cain/HUNS)

Adjunct Faculty Members Across D.C.-Area Colleges Increasingly Unionizing

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. September 14, 2022September 15, 2022

Howard University Hospital

Howard University Hospital Staff Threaten Strike Over Low Pay and Staffing Issues

by Jamila Bey April 7, 2022April 8, 2022

Rory Gamble (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)

Black Experience, Stacy M. Brown

Rory Gamble Named First African American President of UAW

by WI Guest Author March 13, 2020December 21, 2021

Richard Binder (right), a professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth and Georgetown universities, speaks about Metro's sick-leave policy outside the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 headquarters in D.C. on April 28. (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer)

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Metro Union Rails Against Agency’s Sick-Leave Policy

by William J. Ford April 28, 2017October 30, 2020

Tamia Small (left), a member of Project Retail, waits to collect a petition being signed by a member of the Amalgamated Transit Union-Local 689 at Metro headquarters in Northwest on Nov. 17. /Photo by William J. Ford

Prince George's County, William J. Ford

Workers, Union Reps Slam Metro Budget Proposal

by William J. Ford November 25, 2016October 30, 2020

Black Workers Could Save Dying Unions

by Reporter II June 6, 2015October 30, 2020

Los Angeles Becomes Latest US City to Favor $15 Minimum Wage

by Washington Informer May 20, 2015October 30, 2020

‘Right-to-Work’ Laws Depress Union and Non-Union Wages

by NNPAFreddie April 28, 2015October 30, 2020