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Today's AFL-CIO Daily Brief: AFL-CIO Tour Bus Races Through Derby City with BOSK Workers Ahead of Their Landmark Election

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Lexington Herald-Leader: Who’s the most cringe member of the Ky Congressional delegation? We have a new winner.

Lexington Herald-Leader: Who’s the most cringe member of the Ky Congressional delegation? We have a new winner.

By LINDA BLACKFORD

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WLKY: Kentucky House passes bill revamping jobless benefit rules after impassioned debate

WLKY: Kentucky House passes bill revamping jobless benefit rules after impassioned debate

Another leading opponent of the bill, state AFL-CIO President Bill Londrigan, warned that the proposed changes in the bill could delay overhauling Kentucky's outdated technology for processing jobless claims.

By STEPHON DINGLE

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Lexington Herald-Leader: Union representing KY American Water workers to strike, alleges unfair labor practices

Lexington Herald-Leader: Union representing KY American Water workers to strike, alleges unfair labor practices

By BETH MUSGRAVE

A labor union representing 68 Kentucky American Water employees will go on strike beginning Friday evening, union officials said late Thursday.

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Forward Kentucky: Wait – now we need to teach the “good side” of the Holocaust?!?

Forward Kentucky: Wait – now we need to teach the “good side” of the Holocaust?!?

By BRUCE MAPLES

Well, it finally made its way from Texas to Kentucky. We finally have a bill that says we have to teach the “good side” of the Holocaust.

And of Jim Crow. And of slavery. Of internment camps, and beatings of union workers, and the Trail of Tears.

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