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Pam says of AFSA, "As soon as we met the team, we knew we had found a home. They have been so instrumental as a resource and a feeling that we are not alone. As AFSA 151, we are part of a larger union family, and that means a lot when you are doing this work.”
Resolution to be introduced Sept. 10 calls on Congress and the President to act as new research highlights threats facing school leaders responsible for keeping students and staff safe.
Among the most significant findings, 56% of transgender, nonbinary and gender-expansive, or TGE, students surveyed by The Trevor Project said their school had at least one discriminatory policy or practice targeting LGBTQ+ students.

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National Nurses United, the activist and progressive nurses union that was the first to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 4 years ago, did it again.
Staff members at the Southern Poverty Law Center have formally filed election authorization cards to unionize.

In the first use of a 61-year-old Supreme Court decision, the Machinists (IAM) sued the National Labor Relations Board for throwing out their union recognition elect

The United States needs “a working-class media” to “recover” control of the national conversation about income inequality, class and race.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Saugus High School students and their families."