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...relatively high-wage manufacturing jobs overseas, leaving behind less mobile, low-paying ones such as health-care aides, security guards and janitors. But it may have got a new burst of energy when the Change to Win Federation, made up of seven labor unions that split from the AFL-CIO last year to focus more directly on the lives of low-wage Americans, officially launched its first national initiative on April 24. Dubbed Make Work Pay!, the campaign aims to convince the public in 35 U.S. cities that all Americans who work hard deserve to earn a wage they...
...acknowledged that it had recently ceased efforts to register voters because of what it calls the law's draconian fines against organizations (other than political parties) for submitting forms late. The League of Women Voters of Florida joined several other pubic interest and labor groups, including the Florida AFL-CIO, in challenging the constitutionality of the law, which went into effect Jan. 1. They are asking the U.S. District Court to immediately suspend the fines - which the groups say could bankrupt their voter registration budgets...
...seen the lawsuit and therefore could not comment. Other voter registration advocates say they also fear that one of the underlying political intents of the law - which was passed by the Republican-majority Florida Legislature - is to dilute and discourage Democratic voter registration, since groups like the AFL-CIO are thought to register more working-class and minority voters...
...political parties are exempt from the law "because we rarely have a problem with political parties. It didn't matter what side you were on. We were not going to penalize them." But Weiser of the Brennan Center calls that position "discriminatory. The League of Women Voters and AFL-CIO have been forced to shut down their operations. It's not only burdensome but discriminatory. That's problematic - and unconstitutional...
...Thursday afternoon, he said, he received a phone call from Allen McWade, the business manager of AFL-CIO Local 877, the union that represents Harvard’s shuttle drivers. According to Garvey, McWade told him that he had until 1 p.m. the next day to resign, or the University would fire...