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Gobernador Rosselló Nevares se Reúne con Importante Líder Sindical en la Capital Federal

Gobernador Rosselló Nevares se Reúne con Importante Líder Sindical en la Capital Federal

Washington, DC — El gobernador Ricardo Rosselló Nevares se reunió con el presidente de la Federación de Empleados de Gobiernos Estatales (AFCSME), Lee Saunders para escuchar sus comentarios y sugerencias sobre las medidas fiscales que tiene que tomar el Gobierno para cumplir con el Plan Fiscal certificado por la Junta de Supervisión Fiscal. Durante el cónclave, en el que asistieron además Elías…

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Rachael McRae, a fifth-grade teacher in central Illinois, was sitting on the couch the other day with her 4-month-old when she saw the email.

"He was having a fussy day," she says, "so I was bouncing him in one arm, and started going through my emails on my phone, just to feel like I was getting something done." In her spam folder, she found an email from an organization called My Pay, My Say, urging her to drop her union membership.

Last month, the Supreme Court in Janus v. AFCSME dealt a major blow to public sector unions. The court ruled that these unions cannot collect money, known as agency fees, from nonmembers who are covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Organizations on both sides across the country sprang into action.

Behind The Campaign To Get Teachers To Leave Their Unions

Illustration: LA Johnson/NPR

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Their actual reason was funnier 

Here’s a petition to tell AFL-CIO to drop cops from their unions. 

Ideally, reach out to your local AFL-CIO/AFCSME/Unions and affiliates and write or directly contact them and pressure them to drop police unions from their network

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California Proposition Assessment

Questions:

1. Proposition number, title, and election year

Proposition 21, Juvenile Crime Initiative Statute, 2000*

2. Summarize the proposition in your own words.

Specifically, I want to mention how this is the opposite of what I am advocating for, and this is what created the harsh background in the Juvenile Criminal System. This measure makes changes to laws for juveniles. Here is a list of what it does:

Requires more juveniles to be tried in adult court.

Requires that certain juveniles be held in local or state correctional facilities.

Changes the types of probation available for juvenile felons (in a worse direction).

Reduces confidentiality protections for juveniles.

Increases criminal penalties for certain serious and violent offenses.

3. What was the fiscal impact: how much would it cost to enforce?

State costs: Ongoing annual costs of more than $330 million. One-time costs of about $750 million.

Local costs: Potential ongoing annual costs of tens of millions of dollars to more than $100 million. Potential one-time costs in the range of $200 million to $300 million.

Next, search Ballotpedia** to answer the remaining questions.  

4. What were the election results? Do they surprise you?

It passed, which honestly was not surprising due to the way the whole proposition was addressed and worded. It heavily focused on getting rid of crime by arresting those who could get away with it: juveniles. So, to prevent more crime, people wanted to pass it.

5. Identify the proposition sponsors, interest group endorsements, and financial backers.  Are you surprised by any of the endorsements? Explain how this information can help voters understand the true intentions of the proposition.

$587,005 was spent supporting the measure. They didn’t specify who endorsed it, but the opposers ($431,829) are the following:

American Civil Liberties Union, $80,868.

AFCSME, $37,818

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, $27,500

They are more for civil liberty rather than being full on Juvenile-Justice-driven, but still, I think it makes sense who opposed it. Simply going to their pages might give voters a glimpse that they need to take into account some more information against the proposition. Also, they definitely provided information at the time about what they opposed, so it would compare to today with the No On *Blank* ads and such.

6. What were the arguments for and against the proposition?

One of the proposition’s big goals was not only preventing common crime, but giving harsher punishments for them. If a neighborhood is afraid of home-invasion robbery, carjacking, witness intimidation and drive-by shootings, they would lean towards voting for this.

Going off of the LA Times***, there was an understandable amount of opposition and even backlash for this proposition. Some of the arguments made in the article were that more teenagers than ever before would go to prison at younger ages. Some offenders as young as 16 would be tossed in with the adult criminal population without the benefit of treatment and education now provided in the juvenile justice system.

7. How would you have voted on the proposition and explain why.

I would have been opposed to this proposition because it strives to do the opposite of what I want to achieve with fixing my civil issue. This created what  the reparations that are being made today are trying to undo.

*linked to ballot

**linked to Prop 21 Ballotpedia page

***linked to LA Times article

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ABCUSD Rejects Unions, Excludes Project Labor Agreement in Bond Resolution

ABC Bond Resolution Rejects Unions, Inclusion of a Project Labor Agreement in Question @abcsupt

BY BRIAN HEWS

Hews Media Group-Community News has learned that the ABC Unified School District Board, led by President Soo Yoo, and a district that boasts large unions such as the ABCFT, AFCSME, and CSEA, does not plan to use a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) for its bond-funded infrastructure improvements.

The exclusion is contained in the Bond Resolution that will be considered at tonight’s…

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Democrats target union workers who regret Trump vote

DUBUQUE, Iowa (Reuters) – Inside Knicker’s Saloon, a factory worker hangout here, Jesse Oberbroeckling has just finished his shift at the John Deere plant when he reveals his regret.

Like many union workers, Oberbroeckling voted twice for former Democratic President Barack Obama before backing Donald Trump and other Republicans in 2016.

Now he has buyer’s remorse – and plans to support the Democratic challenger to Rod Blum, the Republican congressman in this blue-collar, eastern Iowa district.

“Trump is for the rich,” said Oberbroeckling, 37, sipping a rum-and-coke. “Blum’s for big business. They said they were for the workers, but they’re not.”

That sentiment should encourage Democrats, who saw their once-reliable labor vote help send Trump to the White House after he vowed to revive Rust Belt factories with trade tariffs and ailing coal mines with environmental deregulation. Now – with coal still struggling and Trump stoking a trade war – many union workers have soured on the president ahead of November’s midterm congressional elections, the Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows.

Between March 2017 and March 2018, union members’ approval of Trump fell 15 points, to 47 percent. In more than two dozen interviews with union members, many blasted Trump’s tax cut, arguing most of the benefits will flow to corporations and wealthy people.

A loose coalition of union leaders, Democratic strategists and political action committees (PACs) aims to seize on that shift by directing money and campaign workers to about 30 competitive races union-heavy districts. The party needs to gain 23 seats to retake the U.S. House of Representatives.

But falling support for Trump is no guarantee Democrats can restore the party’s historic dominance of the union vote. Nearly half of members polled still approve of the president, and their support for congressional Democrats has declined slightly from two years ago.

Forty-seven percent of union members polled would support a Democratic candidate in November; 34 percent favored a Republican. That compares to 51 percent favoring Democrats and 29 percent supporting Republicans in March 2016.

The 2018 poll was conducted online, in English, and included more than 1,400 union workers nationwide. It has a credibility interval of 3 percentage points, meaning results could vary in either direction by that amount.

Union membership has fallen by half since the early 1980s, to 10.7 percent of U.S. workers last year. But members can still sway close elections because they are concentrated in specific regions and vote at high rates. In the 2014 midterms, 52 percent of union workers voted, compared to 39 percent of others, according to a study by Demos, a liberal think tank.

“If we don’t win them back, we will never win here,” said Abby Finkenauer, the leading Democrat challenging Blum in Iowa’s 1st District.

Blum’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

TARGETING FARM, FACTORY TOWNS

Democratic strategists are targeting blue-collar enclaves of the Midwest, along with districts covering California farmlands, New York industry towns and Montana wilderness. They aim to trash the Republican tax cut, along with Trump’s failure to back a minimum wage and his attempt to repeal Obamacare.

In Iowa’s 1st District, dotted with farms and factories, Finkenauer tells audiences at union halls that her father was a union pipefitter-welder and that only a Democrat can improve their wages, health care and pensions.

Blum’s website says lower taxes and cutting business regulation will create jobs.

Ford O’Connell – a Republican strategist who was among the first to highlight how voter anger could propel Trump’s candidacy – said the party will appeal to union voters with his tariffs against China, anti-immigration efforts and the tax cut they argue helps all workers.

Democrats counter they are already recapturing labor votes, citing the March special election victory in Pennsylvania by Conor Lamb, who beat an outspoken opponent of unions. Trump won the same district in 2016.

Following Lamb’s victory, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) convened focus groups of voters who had supported both Trump and Lamb. Participants wanted candidates who support unions, boost jobs and wages and protect Medicare and Social Security.

Jesse Oberbroeckling, a member of the United Auto Workers union who works at a John Deere factory has a drink in Knicker’s Saloon in Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. March 29, 2018. REUTERS/Tim Reid

In interviews with Reuters, union members criticized the tax cut, along with Republican moves in some states – including Iowa – to curtail collective bargaining by public employees. And while Trump’s tough trade talk attracted many union workers to his campaign, some now worry his policies may protect some blue-collar jobs at the expense of others. Trump’s steel tariffs, for instance, could raise prices for the raw material used in factories supporting union jobs.

Reuters/Ipsos polling data shows union workers now view Democrats more favorably on key issues such as healthcare, the economy and taxes.

Ken Jones, a retired mechanic and Teamster union member, backed Trump because he believed Clinton was “crooked” – borrowing Trump’s signature insult – and that Trump might curtail illegal immigration, create jobs and fix Obamacare.

“Now I see he’s not going to do anything,” said Jones, of Oklahoma, who plans to vote Democratic this fall. “The working man don’t get nothing out of it. I never voted Republican until Trump, and it was the worst mistake I ever made.”

Other union members, however, continued to praise Republicans.

“The economy is doing better,” said Otis Evans, 47, of the United Auto Workers in Michigan. “Trump’s straightforward and candid.”

CAMPAIGN COLLAPSE

While union leaders backed Hillary Clinton for president, they failed to deliver rank-and-file votes.

Clinton won 8 percent more of the union vote than Trump, according to polling of union members by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).

That’s 10 percent less than Obama won in 2012 and a drastic drop from the more than 30-point advantage among union households that her husband, President Bill Clinton, enjoyed in 1992. In interviews, many union members cited a distrust of Hillary Clinton personally, rather than her specific policies, as one reason they backed Trump.

Unions still overwhelmingly back Democrats financially. In 2016, donations to state and national Democratic parties from several major unions – United Steelworkers, United Auto Workers, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFCSME), and the biggest unions in the AFL-CIO – totaled more than $1.5 million, according to a Reuters analysis of Federal Election Commission data.

Those unions donated nothing to Republicans that year, the analysis showed.

This year, the AFL-CIO will deploy campaign workers and political donations in 31 union-heavy congressional districts, along with a wider array of races in 14 battleground states.

The organization has revamped how it gauges its political effectiveness, said organizing director Julie Greene. In addition to traditional measures like tracking phone calls and door knocks, it will analyze qualitative data, such as the length and substance of member-to-member conversations.

The DCCC is sending organizers to three dozen House districts, where they are partnering with representatives of the two-million-member SEIU to emphasize labor issues in those campaigns.

Guy Cecil, president of Priorities USA Action, a Democratic “super PAC,” said it will finance Democrats in seven states. It is the first time the group, founded in 2011 to support Obama, has waded into midterm elections.

All these efforts are designed to prevent a repeat of 2016, said Steve Rosenthal, the AFL-CIO’s former political director and now a political consultant.

“There was a collapse of union support,” he said.

Slideshow (6 Images)

(For graphic on Trump support among union voters, click: tmsnrt.rs/2JSv3sW

Reporting by Tim Reid in Dubuque, Iowa and Joseph Ax in New York; Additional reporting by Chris Kahn and Grant Smith; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Brian Thevenot

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Democrats target union workers who regret Trump vote

DUBUQUE, Iowa (Reuters) – Inside Knicker’s Saloon, a factory worker hangout here, Jesse Oberbroeckling has just finished his shift at the John Deere plant when he reveals his regret.

Like many union workers, Oberbroeckling voted twice for former Democratic President Barack Obama before backing Donald Trump and other Republicans in 2016.

Now he has buyer’s remorse – and plans to support the Democratic challenger to Rod Blum, the Republican congressman in this blue-collar, eastern Iowa district.

“Trump is for the rich,” said Oberbroeckling, 37, sipping a rum-and-coke. “Blum’s for big business. They said they were for the workers, but they’re not.”

That sentiment should encourage Democrats, who saw their once-reliable labor vote help send Trump to the White House after he vowed to revive Rust Belt factories with trade tariffs and ailing coal mines with environmental deregulation. Now – with coal still struggling and Trump stoking a trade war – many union workers have soured on the president ahead of November’s midterm congressional elections, the Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows.

Between March 2017 and March 2018, union members’ approval of Trump fell 15 points, to 47 percent. In more than two dozen interviews with union members, many blasted Trump’s tax cut, arguing most of the benefits will flow to corporations and wealthy people.

A loose coalition of union leaders, Democratic strategists and political action committees (PACs) aims to seize on that shift by directing money and campaign workers to about 30 competitive races union-heavy districts. The party needs to gain 23 seats to retake the U.S. House of Representatives.

But falling support for Trump is no guarantee Democrats can restore the party’s historic dominance of the union vote. Nearly half of members polled still approve of the president, and their support for congressional Democrats has declined slightly from two years ago.

Forty-seven percent of union members polled would support a Democratic candidate in November; 34 percent favored a Republican. That compares to 51 percent favoring Democrats and 29 percent supporting Republicans in March 2016.

The 2018 poll was conducted online, in English, and included more than 1,400 union workers nationwide. It has a credibility interval of 3 percentage points, meaning results could vary in either direction by that amount.

Union membership has fallen by half since the early 1980s, to 10.7 percent of U.S. workers last year. But members can still sway close elections because they are concentrated in specific regions and vote at high rates. In the 2014 midterms, 52 percent of union workers voted, compared to 39 percent of others, according to a study by Demos, a liberal think tank.

“If we don’t win them back, we will never win here,” said Abby Finkenauer, the leading Democrat challenging Blum in Iowa’s 1st District.

Blum’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

TARGETING FARM, FACTORY TOWNS

Democratic strategists are targeting blue-collar enclaves of the Midwest, along with districts covering California farmlands, New York industry towns and Montana wilderness. They aim to trash the Republican tax cut, along with Trump’s failure to back a minimum wage and his attempt to repeal Obamacare.

In Iowa’s 1st District, dotted with farms and factories, Finkenauer tells audiences at union halls that her father was a union pipefitter-welder and that only a Democrat can improve their wages, health care and pensions.

Blum’s website says lower taxes and cutting business regulation will create jobs.

Ford O’Connell – a Republican strategist who was among the first to highlight how voter anger could propel Trump’s candidacy – said the party will appeal to union voters with his tariffs against China, anti-immigration efforts and the tax cut they argue helps all workers.

Democrats counter they are already recapturing labor votes, citing the March special election victory in Pennsylvania by Conor Lamb, who beat an outspoken opponent of unions. Trump won the same district in 2016.

Following Lamb’s victory, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) convened focus groups of voters who had supported both Trump and Lamb. Participants wanted candidates who support unions, boost jobs and wages and protect Medicare and Social Security.

Jesse Oberbroeckling, a member of the United Auto Workers union who works at a John Deere factory has a drink in Knicker’s Saloon in Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. March 29, 2018. REUTERS/Tim Reid

In interviews with Reuters, union members criticized the tax cut, along with Republican moves in some states – including Iowa – to curtail collective bargaining by public employees. And while Trump’s tough trade talk attracted many union workers to his campaign, some now worry his policies may protect some blue-collar jobs at the expense of others. Trump’s steel tariffs, for instance, could raise prices for the raw material used in factories supporting union jobs.

Reuters/Ipsos polling data shows union workers now view Democrats more favorably on key issues such as healthcare, the economy and taxes.

Ken Jones, a retired mechanic and Teamster union member, backed Trump because he believed Clinton was “crooked” – borrowing Trump’s signature insult – and that Trump might curtail illegal immigration, create jobs and fix Obamacare.

“Now I see he’s not going to do anything,” said Jones, of Oklahoma, who plans to vote Democratic this fall. “The working man don’t get nothing out of it. I never voted Republican until Trump, and it was the worst mistake I ever made.”

Other union members, however, continued to praise Republicans.

“The economy is doing better,” said Otis Evans, 47, of the United Auto Workers in Michigan. “Trump’s straightforward and candid.”

CAMPAIGN COLLAPSE

While union leaders backed Hillary Clinton for president, they failed to deliver rank-and-file votes.

Clinton won 8 percent more of the union vote than Trump, according to polling of union members by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).

That’s 10 percent less than Obama won in 2012 and a drastic drop from the more than 30-point advantage among union households that her husband, President Bill Clinton, enjoyed in 1992. In interviews, many union members cited a distrust of Hillary Clinton personally, rather than her specific policies, as one reason they backed Trump.

Unions still overwhelmingly back Democrats financially. In 2016, donations to state and national Democratic parties from several major unions – United Steelworkers, United Auto Workers, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFCSME), and the biggest unions in the AFL-CIO – totaled more than $1.5 million, according to a Reuters analysis of Federal Election Commission data.

Those unions donated nothing to Republicans that year, the analysis showed.

This year, the AFL-CIO will deploy campaign workers and political donations in 31 union-heavy congressional districts, along with a wider array of races in 14 battleground states.

The organization has revamped how it gauges its political effectiveness, said organizing director Julie Greene. In addition to traditional measures like tracking phone calls and door knocks, it will analyze qualitative data, such as the length and substance of member-to-member conversations.

The DCCC is sending organizers to three dozen House districts, where they are partnering with representatives of the two-million-member SEIU to emphasize labor issues in those campaigns.

Guy Cecil, president of Priorities USA Action, a Democratic “super PAC,” said it will finance Democrats in seven states. It is the first time the group, founded in 2011 to support Obama, has waded into midterm elections.

All these efforts are designed to prevent a repeat of 2016, said Steve Rosenthal, the AFL-CIO’s former political director and now a political consultant.

“There was a collapse of union support,” he said.

Slideshow (6 Images)

(For graphic on Trump support among union voters, click: tmsnrt.rs/2JSv3sW

Reporting by Tim Reid in Dubuque, Iowa and Joseph Ax in New York; Additional reporting by Chris Kahn and Grant Smith; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Brian Thevenot

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Democrats target union workers who regret Trump vote

DUBUQUE, Iowa (Reuters) – Inside Knicker’s Saloon, a factory worker hangout here, Jesse Oberbroeckling has just finished his shift at the John Deere plant when he reveals his regret.

Like many union workers, Oberbroeckling voted twice for former Democratic President Barack Obama before backing Donald Trump and other Republicans in 2016.

Now he has buyer’s remorse – and plans to support the Democratic challenger to Rod Blum, the Republican congressman in this blue-collar, eastern Iowa district.

“Trump is for the rich,” said Oberbroeckling, 37, sipping a rum-and-coke. “Blum’s for big business. They said they were for the workers, but they’re not.”

That sentiment should encourage Democrats, who saw their once-reliable labor vote help send Trump to the White House after he vowed to revive Rust Belt factories with trade tariffs and ailing coal mines with environmental deregulation. Now – with coal still struggling and Trump stoking a trade war – many union workers have soured on the president ahead of November’s midterm congressional elections, the Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows.

Between March 2017 and March 2018, union members’ approval of Trump fell 15 points, to 47 percent. In more than two dozen interviews with union members, many blasted Trump’s tax cut, arguing most of the benefits will flow to corporations and wealthy people.

A loose coalition of union leaders, Democratic strategists and political action committees (PACs) aims to seize on that shift by directing money and campaign workers to about 30 competitive races union-heavy districts. The party needs to gain 23 seats to retake the U.S. House of Representatives.

But falling support for Trump is no guarantee Democrats can restore the party’s historic dominance of the union vote. Nearly half of members polled still approve of the president, and their support for congressional Democrats has declined slightly from two years ago.

Forty-seven percent of union members polled would support a Democratic candidate in November; 34 percent favored a Republican. That compares to 51 percent favoring Democrats and 29 percent supporting Republicans in March 2016.

The 2018 poll was conducted online, in English, and included more than 1,400 union workers nationwide. It has a credibility interval of 3 percentage points, meaning results could vary in either direction by that amount.

Union membership has fallen by half since the early 1980s, to 10.7 percent of U.S. workers last year. But members can still sway close elections because they are concentrated in specific regions and vote at high rates. In the 2014 midterms, 52 percent of union workers voted, compared to 39 percent of others, according to a study by Demos, a liberal think tank.

“If we don’t win them back, we will never win here,” said Abby Finkenauer, the leading Democrat challenging Blum in Iowa’s 1st District.

Blum’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

TARGETING FARM, FACTORY TOWNS

Democratic strategists are targeting blue-collar enclaves of the Midwest, along with districts covering California farmlands, New York industry towns and Montana wilderness. They aim to trash the Republican tax cut, along with Trump’s failure to back a minimum wage and his attempt to repeal Obamacare.

In Iowa’s 1st District, dotted with farms and factories, Finkenauer tells audiences at union halls that her father was a union pipefitter-welder and that only a Democrat can improve their wages, health care and pensions.

Blum’s website says lower taxes and cutting business regulation will create jobs.

Ford O’Connell – a Republican strategist who was among the first to highlight how voter anger could propel Trump’s candidacy – said the party will appeal to union voters with his tariffs against China, anti-immigration efforts and the tax cut they argue helps all workers.

Democrats counter they are already recapturing labor votes, citing the March special election victory in Pennsylvania by Conor Lamb, who beat an outspoken opponent of unions. Trump won the same district in 2016.

Following Lamb’s victory, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) convened focus groups of voters who had supported both Trump and Lamb. Participants wanted candidates who support unions, boost jobs and wages and protect Medicare and Social Security.

Jesse Oberbroeckling, a member of the United Auto Workers union who works at a John Deere factory has a drink in Knicker’s Saloon in Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. March 29, 2018. REUTERS/Tim Reid

In interviews with Reuters, union members criticized the tax cut, along with Republican moves in some states – including Iowa – to curtail collective bargaining by public employees. And while Trump’s tough trade talk attracted many union workers to his campaign, some now worry his policies may protect some blue-collar jobs at the expense of others. Trump’s steel tariffs, for instance, could raise prices for the raw material used in factories supporting union jobs.

Reuters/Ipsos polling data shows union workers now view Democrats more favorably on key issues such as healthcare, the economy and taxes.

Ken Jones, a retired mechanic and Teamster union member, backed Trump because he believed Clinton was “crooked” – borrowing Trump’s signature insult – and that Trump might curtail illegal immigration, create jobs and fix Obamacare.

“Now I see he’s not going to do anything,” said Jones, of Oklahoma, who plans to vote Democratic this fall. “The working man don’t get nothing out of it. I never voted Republican until Trump, and it was the worst mistake I ever made.”

Other union members, however, continued to praise Republicans.

“The economy is doing better,” said Otis Evans, 47, of the United Auto Workers in Michigan. “Trump’s straightforward and candid.”

CAMPAIGN COLLAPSE

While union leaders backed Hillary Clinton for president, they failed to deliver rank-and-file votes.

Clinton won 8 percent more of the union vote than Trump, according to polling of union members by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).

That’s 10 percent less than Obama won in 2012 and a drastic drop from the more than 30-point advantage among union households that her husband, President Bill Clinton, enjoyed in 1992. In interviews, many union members cited a distrust of Hillary Clinton personally, rather than her specific policies, as one reason they backed Trump.

Unions still overwhelmingly back Democrats financially. In 2016, donations to state and national Democratic parties from several major unions – United Steelworkers, United Auto Workers, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFCSME), and the biggest unions in the AFL-CIO – totaled more than $1.5 million, according to a Reuters analysis of Federal Election Commission data.

Those unions donated nothing to Republicans that year, the analysis showed.

This year, the AFL-CIO will deploy campaign workers and political donations in 31 union-heavy congressional districts, along with a wider array of races in 14 battleground states.

The organization has revamped how it gauges its political effectiveness, said organizing director Julie Greene. In addition to traditional measures like tracking phone calls and door knocks, it will analyze qualitative data, such as the length and substance of member-to-member conversations.

The DCCC is sending organizers to three dozen House districts, where they are partnering with representatives of the two-million-member SEIU to emphasize labor issues in those campaigns.

Guy Cecil, president of Priorities USA Action, a Democratic “super PAC,” said it will finance Democrats in seven states. It is the first time the group, founded in 2011 to support Obama, has waded into midterm elections.

All these efforts are designed to prevent a repeat of 2016, said Steve Rosenthal, the AFL-CIO’s former political director and now a political consultant.

“There was a collapse of union support,” he said.

Slideshow (6 Images)

(For graphic on Trump support among union voters, click: tmsnrt.rs/2JSv3sW

Reporting by Tim Reid in Dubuque, Iowa and Joseph Ax in New York; Additional reporting by Chris Kahn and Grant Smith; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Brian Thevenot

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Nurses union buses in outsiders to overpower counter-protesters – Washington Examiner

Nurses union buses in outsiders to overpower counter-protesters Washington Examiner Not even half of the pro-union participants sported Holy Cross IDs or nurses‘ scrubs. While some were former Holy Cross nurses, others have worked for AFL-CIO, AFCSME, Teamsters and the Democratic National Convention, according to the rally’s …

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