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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 17, 2021Contact: Robert P. Alvarez(916) 690-9896robertalvarezpineda@gmail.com Institute for Policy Studies Employees Form Union Staff at the Institute for Policy Studies were unanimous in their decision to unionize with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. Management quickly agreed to voluntary recognition.Washington D.C. — The staff of the Institute for Policy Studies, the nation’s oldest multi-issue …

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Evan Yeats is our newest staffer at WBNG who joined us in March 2021. Originally from Iowa, Evan has lived in DC since 2008. His first union membership was at AFSCME, working as an overnight police dispatcher while in college. After a stint as an award-winning radio reporter in Eastern Iowa, he became a labor …

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Yesterday’s violence at the US Capitol building was a direct attack on our democracy and our democratic institutions, carried out by armed insurrectionists wielding symbols of hate, and encouraged by the sitting President of the United States. Before being allowed to peacefully leave the building, the terrorists scribbled a message on one of the building’s …

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ROANOKE, Va. — Journalists of The Roanoke Times and Laker Weekly are united in denouncing The Roanoke Times’ recent news coverage of a wrongful termination suit brought against the newspaper by a former human resources worker who alleged a current newsroom manager sexually harassed her and others. The Roanoke Times coverage of the lawsuit, which …

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Today, the staff of the Indivisible Project, an organization built to work for and support thousands of grassroots groups across all 50 states in the fight for real progressive change, formed a union.