The Oklahoma Senate and State House have passed a $6,000 pay raise and it appears that teachers’ unions in the state are divided about whether to engage in a potentially illegal walkout on Monday, April 2nd.
The offer is $4,000 less a year than teachers initially requested and
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Karina Moreno and Mike Elk went down to spring training in Bradenton, Florida to file this dispatch for the Guardian:
For nearly 130 years, young men like Astudillo have been trying to break into the big leagues in baseball at spring training – their annual chance to impress the owners of
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Yesterday, the Oklahoma House passed a bill that would give teachers and public employees a $6,000 dollar a year raise.
The bill was paid for by increasing taxes on oil and gas production in the state as well as increasing taxes on hotel costs, tobacco, and consumer usage of
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Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian on how unions views on immigration are changing as they help their members fight deportation:
Under the banner #FreeHugo, his union went all out on his behalf, holding rallies around the country to stop his deportation.
The pressure
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PITTSBURGH, PA. – To many national political observers, Conor Lamb’s victory in the #PA18 election result may seem like a shock. However, the district, which has 70,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans, has long been home to socially conservative, union-supporting, and independent-minded voters known to flip tickets.
As the
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