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VOTING RIGHTS

Voting Rights Rally At Phoenix Church Draws Energy From March On Washington Anniversary

KJZZ

By Matthew Casey

August 30, 2021

Liz Shuler, the newly elected head of the country’s biggest union, spoke at the flagship event in the massive Pilgrim Rest church. “And like Congressman John Lewis said, in a democracy, say it with me, the vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have and we must use it,” said the president of the AFL-CIO. “In our house, the house of labor, voting rights and worker rights are one.”


CIVIL, HUMAN, AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS

AFL-CIO President calls on Delaware Executive Director to resign over racist and sexist comments

WDEL

By Sean Greene

August 30, 2021

The President of the AFL-CIO is calling on Delaware's Executive Director, who also is a State Representative, to resign over a racial slur for Asian women used in an accidental email exchange. Democrat Rep. Gerald Brady, who announced last month he would not seek reelection due to the incident, got the attention of AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. "I am sickened by the despicable remarks made by Executive Director Brady and call for his immediate resignation. The leadership team at the AFL-CIO and I are committed to ending discrimination and bigotry in all its forms. Every single union member must come together to root out hate—from inappropriate language to acts of violence. America’s labor movement must use our position of trust to lead by example."

IN THE STATES

Advocates plan campaign for Workers’ Rights amendment (Opinion)

Canton Daily Ledger

By Bill Knight

August 30, 2021

“For the first time, Illinois voters will have the chance to enshrine ironclad protections for working people in the Illinois Constitution,” said Illinois AFL-CIO President Tim Drea.

Nevada AFL-CIO elects first woman, Latina executive secretary-treasurer

Las Vegas Review-Journal

By Blake Apgar

August 30, 2021

Assemblywoman Susie Martinez, D-Las Vegas, will effectively be the head of organized labor in Nevada after a history-making vote last week. Martinez is the first woman and the first Latina to take on the role of executive secretary-treasurer of the Nevada AFL-CIO. “It’s very special to me because it just shows women, and especially women of color, that we should have a seat at the table,” she said during a phone interview Monday afternoon.

JOINING TOGETHER

Student workers at Hamilton College to vote on unionization, possibly a national first

Observer-Dispatch

By Amy Neff Roth

August 30, 2021

The campus tour guides and senior admissions fellows (who interview prospective students and provide comment for their files), all undergraduates, have filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, said Eric Kopp, a member of the students’ organizing committee, a senior admissions fellow and an intern at the Central New York Labor Council.