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Wisconsin Jobs Now (WJN) was a “liberal labor group” 1
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The Center for Labor Education and Research is a left-leaning labor advocacy organization based in Massachusetts that mostly acts as a parent organization operating multiple pro-labor union activism projects and local Massachusetts-based chapters or national labor-connected advocacy groups. The organization does not have a public-facing presence itself; most of its
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One Pennsylvania (or OnePA) is a left-of-center activist group associated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Its president, Gabe Morgan, is a vice president of 32BJ, an SEIU local union active throughout the northeastern United States; its executive director, Erin Kramer, is also a career SEIU organizer.
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For more information, see BerlinRosen (For-Profit) Valerie Berlin is a Democratic political strategist and operative based in New York City. She is a principal and co-founder of the for-profit consulting firm BerlinRosen, which she founded with business partner Jonathan Rosen.
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Jobs with Justice (JWJ) is a national coalition of worker centers and left-wing advocacy groups formed in 1987 by Larry Cohen, who would later serve as president of the Communications Workers of America labor union.
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The Fast Food Workers Committee (FFWC) is a labor union organized by and almost entirely funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as part of the Fight for $15 minimum wage and union organizing campaign.
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Christine Owens is the former executive director of left-leaning pro-labor union think tank National Employment Law Project (NELP), a position she held from 2008 until 2019. She was previously a senior policy analyst for “workplace equity issues” and the director of public policy for left-leaning labor federation the
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Jonathan Westin is a left-of-center political activist and community organizer who has led the organizing group New York Communities for Change (NYCC) since 2014. Westin previously worked as a community organizer for the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and has worked for NYCC since
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Civic Ventures is a Seattle-based 1 left-of-center policy advocacy group of “political troublemakers” that attempts to “build social change” 2
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The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union representing agricultural workers, mostly in the state of California. Cesar Chavez, a Mexican-American organizer and leader of the Chicano movement, founded the union; Chavez would become one of the best-known leaders of labor unionism in the 20th century through
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1 is an affiliate of the controversial and left-wing SEIU labor union, claiming to represent more than 50,000 workers in Chicago and ten other cities in the Midwest. 1
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The New York Times (NYT or Times) is a newspaper and digital media brand published by The New York Times Company. Founded in 1851, the Times has long been one of the most prestigious and highest-profile newspapers in the world.
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The Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO is a local labor federation and affiliate of the left-leaning AFL-CIO labor union federation. The organization claims to represent more than 250,000 workers who are members of affiliated local AFL-CIO labor unions. It supports a pro-union and broad left-leaning policy agenda at
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Change to Win (CtW) is a federation of labor unions and “strategic organizing center” closely associated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). It was initially created in 2005 when seven former AFL-CIO affiliated labor unions defected to form their own
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The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Institute is a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes left-of-center, redistributive policies such as government-controlled healthcare, rent control, increased taxation on businesses and wealthy individuals, decreased privatization of public services, and opposition to charter schools.
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32BJ SEIU (“32BJ”), founded in 1977, is the nation’s largest union of property service workers, with over 150,000 members in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Florida, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
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1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (UHE; sometimes styled SEIU Local 1199 or just 1199) is a large local union of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) representing employees of hospitals throughout the northeast United States. The union wields a great deal of political power in New York State and
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Organize Florida was an Orlando-based tax-exempt social welfare organization. It trained community activists and regularly organized protests in the Central Florida and Tampa Bay areas to advance social, economic, and environmentally left-of-center agendas throughout the influential Tampa-Orlando “I-4 corridor.” It had satellite offices in Tampa and Kissimmee, and frequently coordinated
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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest demonstration that took place in lower Manhattan, from September 17 through November 15, 2011.1 The New York “occupation,”
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Mary Kay Henry serves as the international president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Henry worked for the union almost continuously since 1979, 1 holding 18 different
