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Labor Union
For the union into which HERE merged, see Unite Here. Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) is a defunct union that represented workers in the hospitality industry. In 2004 HERE merged with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) to form Unite Here. HERE possessed
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Government Agency
The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
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Labor Union
The 1199SEIU League Training and Upgrading Fund (LTUF) is a left-of-center management fund operated by 1199 SEIU, one of the largest local unions of the SEIU, representing much of the Northeast United States. LTUF provides resources to union members such as training videos, healthcare resources, and child care
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Person
Tom Lopach is a longtime Democratic political operative. As of 2020, he is the CEO of the Voter Participation Center (VPC) and its sister group Center for Voter Information (CVI), two left-of-center voter-outreach organizations which run voter mobilization campaigns in competitive states to support Democratic candidates. Lopach has
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Non-profit
Farmworker Justice Fund is an advocacy organization that seeks to promote left-progressive organizing and labor unionism among migrant and seasonal farm workers. Farmworker Justice Fund was founded in 1981. 1 In 1996, Farmworker Justice
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Non-profit
The New York Communities Organizing Fund Incorporated (NYCOFI) is a left-of-center fundraising group that advocates for laws to restrain landlords from evicting tenants even if rent has not been paid.
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Non-profit
The Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) supports and works with organizations across the United States-Mexico border that focus on liberal expansionist immigration legislation within the United States. It is a program of the Equality Alliance of San Diego County (commonly known and referred to as Alliance San Diego), a
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Non-profit
Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) is an American nonprofit progressive political advocacy organization. Founded in 1996, the organization bills itself as “the strategy center for the progressive movement.” 1 The organization signed a petition
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Non-profit
Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) is a left-of-center political advocacy organization, which mainly advocates and lobbies for increases to the Arizona minimum wage and legislation that restricts and regulates the flexibility of labor for Arizona employers. The group also campaigns for liberal expansionist immigration policy. LUCHA has also
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Labor Union
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1021 is a Northern California-based local union of the SEIU, representing service employees, nurses, other healthcare workers, and government workers. Like its parent organization, SEIU 1021 is very politically involved, particularly in left-of-center circles. It consistently supports and endorses Democratic, left-progressive, and outright-socialist candidates
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Labor Union
Service Employees International Union Healthcare Pennsylvania (SEIU Healthcare PA) is a “mega-local” of the SEIU labor union, representing services employees, nurses, other healthcare workers, and government workers in the state of Pennsylvania. Like its parent union, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania is politically involved in left-of-center circles. It consistently supports and
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Non-profit
Pennsylvania Spotlight is a pro-labor union organization in Pennsylvania. The organization focuses on opposing center-right organizations working in the state, accusing them of being funded by out-of-state billionaires. It also supports left-wing causes, primarily labor unions.
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Labor Union
The SEIU (Service Employees International Union) Illinois State Council is the state-level governing body for Illinois-based SEIU locals. SEIU Illinois State Council consists of 11 local unions, the largest being SEIU Healthcare Illinois-Indiana-Missouri-Kansas, a local spanning Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas, claiming 92,000 members.
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Non-profit
Raise Up Missouri was a left-of-center nonprofit created in 2017 to support the successful campaign to raise Missouri’s statewide minimum wage in 2018 (Proposition B). The proposal set the state’s minimum wage increase to $12 per hour by 2023.
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Non-profit
The Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the New Venture Fund, a leading “dark money” pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor, to promote sweeping changes to the elections process, including state laws that automatically register voters at state agencies.
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Labor Union
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 503 is an Oregon-based government worker union and local affiliate of the controversial SEIU labor union. SEIU 503 represents care-workers, nonprofit employees, and public workers throughout Oregon. SEIU 503 actively pushes for left-of-center economic policy and aggressive unionization in Oregon, leading the
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Non-profit
The National Vote At Home Coalition is the lobbying arm of the National Vote at Home Institute; together, the organizations are known as Vote at Home. The National Vote at Home Coalition works to lobby for the nationwide adoption of a mail-balloting system through the regulatory and legislative processes.
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Non-profit
One Illinois Media is a left-of-center nonprofit journalism project focused on Illinois. The project has taken six-figure funding from the Illinois Education Association government worker labor union,
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Non-profit
The North Star Fund is a grantmaking foundation that supports left-leaning organizations in New York City and the Hudson Valley of New York. Since its founding in 1978, it has made more than $60 million in grants to more than 2,000 organizations and claims, “If you see a group of
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Person
Peter Ward is the president of the New York Hotel Trades Council (HTC), vice-president of the New York State AFL-CIO, and has been described as one of the most powerful labor leaders in New York due to his union’s efforts in political organizing.