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Local union organizers have scored another victory at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts after winning two votes on Friday to unionize all hourly clinical staff like nurses and mental health specialists who assist with patient care.

It’s not at all unusual to feed prisoners animal-grade food to save money. It happens all across the country every single day.

A nod in the direction of a ceiling on CEO pay has just come from an unlikely source: the two finalists in the 2022 French presidential election.

Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle's decision exemplifies how completely former President Donald Trump and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell broke the judicial selection process to place conservative ideologues in the federal judiciary.

In this new collection, the author's second, the poet, writes reviewer Simonds, "eruditely sets out to unite the Western literary canon with its omissions and oppressions."

Political economy and new maps of power in 2022

Some public sector unions fear that if single payer was enacted in New York insurance options for their members would be reduced and that the lure of joining unions could be curtailed if members no longer had the advantage of generous health plans.

In this piece, I want to discuss the political climate and experience of revolutionaries of the 1960s to better understand today’s political landscape and what I think could be some useful directions forward for the battles we are engaged in now.

The resolution says funding will primarily come from the federal government, “using a combination of the Federal Reserve, a new public bank or system of regional and specialized public banks, public venture funds..."

Protesting wartime food shortages, thousands of women in 1917 protested with food riots and boycotts.