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Longtime Union Leader Prepares to Step Back From a Movement Under Threat

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By Rebecca O'Brien
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Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, traveled to Alaska in March to meet local union leaders pushing to reinstate a pension system for state employees. Alaska had closed its public retirement program in 2006, after it ran up a multibillion-dollar shortfall. But 20 years later, state agencies have double-digit vacancy rates, a crisis of public-sector employment that has compromised safety and services.
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Trump Administration Drops Subpoena Demanding List of Jews From Penn

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By Alan Blinder Verified, Rebecca O'Brien
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The Trump administration has abandoned its quest to force the University of Pennsylvania to turn over names of Jewish people on campus, according to a court filing Thursday. The retreat by the administration does not resolve the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's long-running inquiry into concerns about antisemitism at Penn. But the government's decision to drop the subpoena appears to spell the end, at least in Penn's case, of a politically volatile and legally fraught tactic.
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Nike Was the Poster Child for Diversity Efforts. That Made It a Trump Target.

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By Rebecca O'Brien, Kim Bhasin Verified
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In May 2024, Andrea Lucas, a commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, sent a 26-page memo to several agency officials, arguing that Nike, the world's largest sportswear company, had systematically discriminated against white employees and job applicants for years. Nike had set targets for diversity in its U.S. workforce, wrote Lucas, who was appointed to the commission by President Donald Trump during his first term.
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