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Samantha Winslow
Samantha Winslow is a staff writer at Labor Notes.
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Views Sunday, August 02, 2015 Organizing Is the Key to Public Sector Unions' Survival When news broke that the Supreme Court would hear Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, headlines instantly projected the worst, calling it “The Supreme Court Case That Could Decimate American Public Sector Unionism,” “An Existential Threat,” and even “The End of Public-Employee Unions?”... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 06, 2015 Safety Is Life-or-Death, Say Refinery Strikers Thousands of oil refinery workers are on strike over health and safety, demanding stronger measures to protect workers and surrounding communities from refinery hazards. Workers cite outsourcing, short staffing, and forced overtime that produces dangerous fatigue —in a job where mistakes can be... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 01, 2014 Supreme Court Deals a Blow to Home Care Workers Unions were bracing for the worst: a Supreme Court decision that could have created a national “right to work” policy for the entire public sector. That didn’t happen. The court’s decision in Harris v. Quinn this morning was narrower. But it will still be a hard hit on the unions that have staked... Read more |
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Views Sunday, September 22, 2013 In Chicago and Philadelphia, Closing Schools and Funding Charters Twelve thousand Chicago children are walking new, often longer, routes to school this fall—after Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed 47 schools, almost all in poor Black and Latino neighborhoods. Read more |