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Nursing home workers at 24 facilities across Pennsylvania vote to strike

Pennsylvania healthcare workers voted to send strike notices to the state’s three largest nursing home chains—Guardian Healthcare, Priority Healthcare, and Comprehensive Healthcare—as well as Shenandoah Heights Healthcare. The companies combined have 24 facilities across the state. An announcement from SEIU Healthcare says the strikes are related to “the companies’ failures

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FedScope database update helps unions expand membership

Last week, the Biden Administration released new data as part of its effort to encourage union membership at the federal level. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) added bargaining unit information to the FedScope database, the agency’s main public database. The new feature shows whether bargaining units are represented

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FLRA backs union’s decision to dump local

Last Thursday, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) agreed to a July request from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) to disclaim interest in representing AFGE Council 118. The local union represents officers at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The decision comes after a history of conflicting political endorsements

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Minnesota Union Seeks to Remedy Past Discrimination

A tentative agreement between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Minneapolis Public Schools would protect teachers who are members of a ‘underrepresented population’ from being laid off in order “to remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination.” The agreement states, “if excessing a teacher who is a member of a

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