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Learning From a Union Win in Richmond
Over the summer, Laborers Local 804 won a breakthrough tentative collective bargaining agreement with Richmond Public Schools [RPS]. The Local represents over 200 school bus drivers. The win came after passage of a Virginia law allowing municipal public employees the right to organize and the union reinstating five fired bus drivers, known as the RPS5. …
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The ‘DEI’ Canard in Southern Legislatures
Many Southern state legislatures have ramped up attacks on diversity efforts over the past five years, as they have become favorite targets of conservative commentators and culture warriors. These attacks prefigured and in many ways laid the groundwork for the broader assault on DEI currently being waged at the federal level by President Donald Trump…
