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May 14, 2026

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Reader Comments: Voting Rights Still Need Protection; Those Accompanying Trump on His Trip to China; The Art of the Deal - Now Iran; 2026 Future of Care Work Convening - Protecting Care in Times of Disruption - Conference; Cartoons and more...

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May 27, 2024

Organizing One of the Largest Black Led Unions in the United States

Keith Kelleher The Forge

A follow-up to “How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever”, this article captures the contract fight that followed and the genius and fortitude required to create one of the most important unions in U.S. history.

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February 19, 2024

How Four Black Women Changed Homecare Organizing Forever

Keith Kelleher The Forge

Forty years ago in Chicago, McMaid workers sparked a movement.

December 10, 2023

Labor Leader AI-Jen Poo Confronts ’The Biggest Driver of Economic Inequality That Nobody Talks About.

Jessica Goodheart Capital & Main

Care for children, the elderly and disabled is among the lowest-paying industries. Poo thinks federal investment could become reality.

May 10, 2021

UE Fought for Child Care as “Infrastructure” as Far Back as WWII

United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of American (UE) UE

“An adequate child program must be made available to every child of working mothers, regardless of race, creed or color.”

November 13, 2017

California’s Homecare Crisis: Raising Wages is Key to the Solution

arah Thomason and Annette Bernhardt UC Berkeley Labor Center

Unless California’s homecare crisis is addressed and workers’ wages are increased, the elderly and people with disabilities will not get the care they require, homecare workers will continue to live in poverty, and the public cost of long-term care will increase.

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August 31, 2014

Organizing The Organized Is Now Key To Union Survival

Steve Early CounterPunch

Virtually all labor organizations face the expanded challenge of recruiting and maintaining members in already unionized workplaces where the decision to provide financial support for the union has, for better or worse, become voluntary.

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February 10, 2013

Homecare Workers Union Pulls Challenge Of Fresno Co. Election Won By SEIU

Barbara Anderson Sacramento Bee

A challenge to a bitterly fought election for 10,000 Fresno County homecare workers has ended with the withdrawal of a complaint that was set for a hearing Wednesday.

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