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    News Article ● Labor Unionization Unions

    Young, educated and unionized: Hill staffers at vanguard of white-collar labor movement

    June 1, 2023 //

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    News Article ● Labor Unionization Unions

    NY legislative staffers aren’t the only ones fighting to unionize

    March 22, 2023 // New York legislative staff have a similar problem. The Taylor Law, or the Public Employees’ Fair Employment Act, compels state and local public employers to recognize unions, wrote Ken Girardin of the watchdog think tank the Empire Center. But under the Taylor Law, public employee unions within New York state cannot legally strike. Girardin also argued in a report for the Empire Center that NYSLWU would not be covered under the Taylor Law either way, writing that it “would raise numerous practical and constitutional issues.”

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    News Article ● Labor Unionization

    Video game workers found their voices in the pandemic. Could unions be next?

    March 22, 2022 //

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