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The Union Members Who Voted for Trump Have to Be Organized—Not Ignored

Leave a Comment / unions, Vote / By max cyril

Although President Donald Trump will be leaving the White House, progressives must reckon with the fact that 74 million people?—?almost a third of whom came from households making under $50,000—voted for him. It is alarming that so many working-class people would vote against their class interests, but perhaps most alarming of all are the union members who were drawn …

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In Conference Call, Romney Urged Businesses To Tell Their Employees How to Vote

Leave a Comment / election / By max cyril

In a June 6, 2012 conference call posted on the anti-union National Federation of Independent Business’s website, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney instructed employers to tell their employees how to vote in the upcoming election. Romney was addressing a group of self-described “small-business owners.” Twenty-six minutes into the call, after making a lengthy case that President Obama’s first term …

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Check Laws to Learn if You Can Take Time Off to Vote

Leave a Comment / workplace issues / By max cyril

Each American citizen 18 years old or older has a right to vote and most—not all—have the right to take time off to vote. Thirty-three states have laws on the books requiring employers to give workers time off to cast a vote. The District of Columbia and 17 states do not. With so much at stake in Tuesday’s …

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The Union Members Who Voted for Trump Have to Be Organized—Not Ignored

In Conference Call, Romney Urged Businesses To Tell Their Employees How to Vote

Check Laws to Learn if You Can Take Time Off to Vote

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