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United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is a labor-union-backed organizing effort focused on college campuses that attacks major clothing brands involved in university licensing agreements that manufacture clothing overseas. It was founded in the late 1990s.
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Non-profit
The New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice is a left-of-center advocacy and political organizing group based in New Orleans, Louisiana that works on ethnic interest issues and labor-union-aligned employment policy. The organization was formed in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina strike in 2005 which flooded and depopulated New
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Non-profit
Good Jobs First (GJF) is an advocacy organization supporting left-of-center economic policy heavily funded by labor unions and left-wing institutional foundations. Left-wing activist Greg LeRoy founded GJF in 1998.1 GJF
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Labor Union
SEIU 775NW (also styled SEIU 775 or SEIU Local 775) is the northwestern local branch of the national Service Employees International Union (SEIU) that represents home healthcare providers, nursing home employees, and adult day health care workers, mainly in Washington State and Montana.
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Non-profit
The Alliance for Public Schools Foundation (APS Foundation) is a teachers’ union-funded advocacy group opposed to school choice initiatives in Florida. It operates in four Florida counties: Hillsborough County, Orange County, Pinellas County, and Volusia County. The organization focuses on local and state policy, urging people to sign petitions, and
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For-profit
Project New America (also known as the Majority Institute) is a for-profit left-of-center research and strategy hub that works on polling voters and analyzing their beliefs. It works for numerous left-liberal activists and organizations. Its products are bundled as a subscription service and delivers analysis and demographic information about voters
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Non-profit
ALIGN: Alliance for a Greater New York advocates for left-of-center and left-wing economic policies. Formed in 2011 through the merger of the advocacy groups New York Jobs and Justice and Urban Agenda, ALIGN focuses on the three issues of “Economy, Environment, and Equity.” “Theory of Change” ALIGN: Alliance for a
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Non-profit
Not to be confused with DC Fiscal Policy Institute, a division of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities focusing on the District of Columbia. The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) is a labor union-supported think tank based near Albany, New York that advocates pro-labor union and other left-of-center policies
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Labor Union
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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Person
Terry McAuliffe is a Democratic Party politician and fundraiser1 most notable for serving as the 72nd Governor of Virginia.
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Movement
The “Fight for $15” is a corporate campaign principally orchestrated and funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which seeks to unionize the quick-service franchise restaurant industry and raise the federal minimum wage by more than double to $15 per hour, using the slogan “$15 and a union.”
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Non-profit
Citizen Action Illinois (styled Citizen Action/Illinois) is an Illinois-based advocacy group that promotes left-of-center social and economic policies both in Illinois and across the U.S. The organization is heavily funded by government worker labor unions, especially American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) District Council 31.
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Labor Union
Workers United, SEIU is a labor union and division of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) that was founded in 2009 as a result of the dissolution of the merged labor union Unite Here. In March 2009, fifteen regional joint boards of Unite Here voted to leave the
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Non-profit
The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) is a left-of-center advocacy organization that focuses on racial and immigration policy issues. The organization was founded in 2006 to mobilize African-American activists on behalf of liberal expansionist immigration issues. The organization provides training and mobilization assistance to a variety of left leaning
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Non-profit
Our Oregon is a labor union-funded advocacy organization that aims to institute left-wing economic policy in the state of Oregon, specifically to promote the expansion of government education and government control of healthcare. The group is a major supporter of left-wing ballot initiative campaigns, providing over $1.4 million to ballot
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For-profit
Change.org is a website that hosts petitions generally related to politics or public policy. Any individual can create a petition on the website, though specific petitions can be promoted based on paid sponsorship or staff discretion. Change.org claims to be the “world’s largest nonprofit-owned platform for social change.”
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Labor Union
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was a labor union that focuses on representing people who work in media such as television, radio, theater, and recording studios. It merged with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) in 2012, creating SAG-AFTRA, which has approximately 160,000 members.
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Person
James P. Hoffa is the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, commonly known as the Teamsters Union. He is the son of James R. “Jimmy” Hoffa, the mid-20th century leader of the same union who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1975. In February 2020, Hoffa announced that he
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Non-profit
The Working Families Alliance is a 501(c)(4) political organization headquartered in Newark, New Jersey and affiliated with the Working Families Organization, a left-wing political organization and offshoot of New York’s labor union-backed Working Families Party. Working Families Alliance is aligned with labor unions like the American Federation
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Non-profit
The AFL-CIO Working for America Institute is an arm of the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the United States, that promotes workforce training and apprenticeship programs. The organization describes itself as a national workforce intermediary organization that promotes union organizing and programs by engaging with the
