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    ‘Second-Class Citizens’: Union VP Slams Boeing As St. Louis Strike Drags On

    September 27, 2025 // That organization includes thousands of Black workers who make up between 15 and 20 percent of the membership. “Some of these guys are strike captains,” Bennett said. “But they’re pillared into the community too. When you go on strike, it’s not just about the workers and their families. It’s about the entire community. The mom-and-pop shops. The little restaurants. Our guys stop at the store every day, get a cup of coffee, and maybe get a bite to eat. It’s having a negative impact on those communities.

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    Opinion: Minimum Wage Changes Spell Trouble for Virginians

    February 8, 2024 // The Virginia House of Delegates voted in favor of bill HB1 that would increase the states’ minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026. If enacted the minimum wage increase would lead to job loss between 34,600 and 57,700 jobs An increase to a $15 an hour minimum wage would cost the state of Virginia over 83,000 jobs in the three years following enactment.

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    Opinion: Handcuffing Freelancers Is Bad For Economy And Small Business

    June 3, 2022 // Addressing the increasing economic uncertainty, rising inflation, and declining consumer confidence requires a pro-growth economic response from Washington D.C. The right policy focuses on broad-based deregulation to reduce costs on businesses, encourage entrepreneurship, and incent greater economic activity

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    Janus hasn’t stopped unions from wielding power over school closures

    January 25, 2022 // Pandemic-induced school closures underscored the conflict of interest between teacher unions and students. Strong union districts had less in-person instruction, which hit minority communities in urban centers especially hard. The power to determine the mode of instruction belies the notion that the U.S. Supreme Court put public-sector unions on a road to extinction with its 2018 decision in Janus v. AFSCME.

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