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‘Timing and momentum are everything’
A veteran Kentucky union activist believes the United Auto Workers’ landslide victory at the Chattanooga, Tenn., Volkswagen plant bodes well for the union succeeding next month at the Mercedes Benz assembly and battery factories near Tuscaloosa, Ala. “Timing and momentum are everything,” said Kirk Gillenwaters, a Louisville UAW Local...
Kentucky’s GOP legislature has a racism problem
If there is a photo that defines Kentucky’s 2024 regular session, it is a smiling Secretary of State Michael Adams signing House Bill 5 — a sprawling, data-questionable, pro-incarceration bill with an unknown, sky’s-the-limit budget, overriding the governor’s veto — in the capitol rotunda, surrounded by more than two dozen applauding supporters and lawmakers. All white.
Workers Memorial Day is this Sunday
Organized labor observes April 28 as Workers Memorial Day because “each day, more than 340 workers are killed and more than 6,000 suffer injury and illness because of dangerous working conditions that are preventable,” the AFL-CIO explains. The voice of history, the subject I taught in a community...
Court divided over constitutionality of criminal penalties for homelessness
The Supreme Court on Monday was divided over a challenge to the constitutionality of ordinances in a southwest Oregon town that fines people who are homeless from using blankets, pillows, or cardboard boxes for protection from the elements while sleeping within the city limits. The city argued that the ordinances merely bar camping on public property by everyone, while the challengers contended that the laws effectively make it a crime to be homeless in the city and therefore violate the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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