Posts By James Sheridan
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7.9KLabor or UnionsWomen Leading the Labor Movement: Mary Kay Henry
Mary Kay Henry is the first woman to lead Service Employees International Union. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a union...
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8.1KLabor or UnionsWomen Leading the Labor Movement: Roberta Lynch
Roberta Lynch became Executive Director of AFSCME Council 31 in 2014. AFSCME Council 31 represents more than 90,000 active and retired state,...
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Labor or Unions
Women Leading the Labor Movement: Frances Perkins
As a student at Mount Holyoke College, Frances Perkins, born in 1880, studied the working conditions in a factory. Perkins later remembered...
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Labor or Unions
Women Leading the Labor Movement: Sara Nelson
Sara Nelson has served as the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO since 2014. The AFA represents fifty thousand...
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Labor or Unions
This is Not Your Father’s Labor Movement
Once upon a time, the labor movement focused on organizing industrial trade jobs, jobs that mainly employed men. Stereotypical union representatives were...
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International Politics
Habemus papam: Electing a Pope
Recently there has been speculation that 85-year-old Pope Francis may be considering resigning the papacy due to health issues. Pope Francis’ predecessor,...
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11.9KGun ControlMemories of a Mass Murder
St. Valentines Day, February 14th, 2008. I had just arrived home after spending the morning at Northern Illinois University. A little while...
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Elections
Election 2022: Reckless vs Feckless
Reckless Republicans have been successful in propagating: and Meanwhile, feckless Democrats have failed to take effective action protecting against: and There has...
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Elections
E Pluribus Unum: Mitch Landrieu 2024?
If Joe Biden decides not to run for re-election in 2024, Mitch Landrieu might be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination....
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Political Education
Robert Jackson and the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
Following World War Two twenty Germans were charged with conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Sensitive to the...