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The ACLU of Illinois Seeks a Playbook for Acceptable Progressive Union Busting

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, unionbusting, unions / By max cyril

The staff union and management are locked in a battle over who can be included in the union. Aunion fight that is playing out in Illinois highlights how progressive organizations can use technical objections to the scope of a proposed union to effectively pursue union-busting while maintaining plausible deniability that they are doing so. This effort …

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In the Shadow of Covid, ACLU Joins Non-Profit Unionization Surge

Leave a Comment / Pandemic, unions / By max cyril

The Covid-19 pandemic has posed many serious and dangerous challenges for workers everywhere?—?not just for workers on the job, but for workers trying to exercise their right to organize. But there have also been unexpected bright spots on this front over the past year, including a boom in union drives at nonprofits around the United States. One …

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LGBTQ groups vow to extend landmark court ruling beyond workplace

Leave a Comment / LGBT, Supreme Court / By max cyril

Justice Samuel Alito warned that the ruling “is virtually certain to have far-reaching consequences,” in his dissent from the 6-3 decision. The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that federal anti-discrimination law extends to gay and transgender workers could usher in a new era of expanded rights for LGBTQ people in areas from housing to health care. …

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Senators are letting themselves off the hook with sexual harassment bill, women’s rights groups say

Leave a Comment / sexual harassment / By max cyril

Sexual harassment in Congress is a scandal—and it would probably be a lot more of one if Congress hadn’t written its own rules for dealing with allegations in secret. But since the #MeToo movement has shined a light on sexual harassment, the House of Representatives has managed to pass a decent bill. The Senate … hasn’t, …

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Can federal workers blatantly discriminate against LGBTQ people? Jeff Sessions isn’t sure.

Leave a Comment / Federal Government, LGBT / By max cyril

During Wednesday’s Justice Department Oversight Hearing, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the Department of Justice’s new “religious freedom” guidance. In particular, Durbin was concerned about how the guidance might enable anti-LGBTQ discrimination, asking Sessions to respond to several hypotheticals. “Could a social security administration employee refuse to accept or process spousal …

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Trump’s transgender military ban met with backlash

Leave a Comment / Transgender, Uncategorized / By max cyril

President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited directive Friday evening that bans transgender people from enlisting in the U.S. military and bans the Department of Defense from providing military treatment to current transgender service members. The directive follows an announcement Trump made on Twitter last month, blindsiding the defense secretary and the public more broadly — and like last time, …

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