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Union Wave Expands to Family and Children's Service of Ithaca
WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO Communications Workers of America posted the following news release:
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Union Wave Expands to Family and Children's Service of Ithaca
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ITHACA, N.Y. - Yesterday, clinicians and support staff at Family and Children's Service of Ithaca announced that they have formed a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). A supermajority of eligible staff has signed union authorization cards, indicating their desire to form a union with CWA.
The workers are seeking voluntary recognition from management, a streamlined pathway to union
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WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO Communications Workers of America posted the following news release:
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Union Wave Expands to Family and Children's Service of Ithaca
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ITHACA, N.Y. - Yesterday, clinicians and support staff at Family and Children's Service of Ithaca announced that they have formed a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). A supermajority of eligible staff has signed union authorization cards, indicating their desire to form a union with CWA.
The workers are seeking voluntary recognition from management, a streamlined pathway to unionrecognition endorsed by the federal labor board that allows workers to sign union authorization cards to demonstrate their decision to form a union. The workers join a growing movement of healthcare workers in Tompkins County who have organized unions this year at Cayuga Medical Center and local clinics.
"Workers across healthcare industries are facing increasing pressure to meet the demands of insurance companies at the expense of client care. Our choice to unionize reflects our belief that a new model for providing community-based mental health care is possible, without sacrificing the dignity and well-being of workers," said Calyx Steiner, a clinician with Family and Children's Service of Ithaca. "We feel that sustainable working conditions will allow people to build long-term careers meeting the needs of our community."
"We need to be able to protect our own wellbeing so that we can continue to do our critical work to care for the mental health of community members here in Tompkins County," said Kate Cardona, a clinician with Family and Children's Service of Ithaca. "For us to offer our clients a sense of hope, agency, self-efficacy, and the possibility of change, we must also experience these ourselves in our workplace."
Represented workers include clinicians, nurses, intake clinicians, behavioral health care coordinators, facilities workers, outreach workers, and clinic administrative coordinators. The workers provide mental health care and social services to the Ithaca community.
About CWA : The Communications Workers of America represents working people in telecommunications, customer service, media, airlines, health care, public service and education, manufacturing, tech, and other fields.
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Original text here: https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/union-wave-expands-family-and-childrens-service-ithaca
National Nurses United identifies Alameda Hospital at risk of service cuts, closure due to federal cuts in Medicaid and Medicare
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, March 19 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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National Nurses United identifies Alameda Hospital at risk of service cuts, closure due to federal cuts in Medicaid and Medicare
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RNs condemn health care cuts that fund ICE/CBP terror campaign
The nation's largest union of registered nurses, National Nurses United, is sounding a "RED ALERT" warning to hundreds of communities nationwide that face a drastic reduction in quantity and quality of health care services as a result of H.R. 1, the Republican bill passed last year.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, March 19 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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National Nurses United identifies Alameda Hospital at risk of service cuts, closure due to federal cuts in Medicaid and Medicare
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RNs condemn health care cuts that fund ICE/CBP terror campaign
The nation's largest union of registered nurses, National Nurses United, is sounding a "RED ALERT" warning to hundreds of communities nationwide that face a drastic reduction in quantity and quality of health care services as a result of H.R. 1, the Republican bill passed last year.Nurses condemn these cuts to health care funding and denounce the funnelling of this money into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which have unleashed a deadly, illegal, and cruel terror campaign across the country.
On Saturday, March 21, nurses will make a stop on the "RED ALERT" tour at Alameda Hospital in Alameda, Calif. The Alameda stop is the first Bay Area stop on the nationwide tour. This event is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. See below for a complete schedule of activities.
Alameda Hospital is financially vulnerable to the looming Medicare and Medicaid cuts.
* Medicare and Medicaid are responsible for 84 percent of Alameda Hospital's net patient revenue.
* Alameda Hospital has operated at a deficit for six of the last eight years, suffering a loss of more than $110 million from 2018 through 2025.
* Alameda Hospital is part of the Alameda Health System (AHS). AHS released an analysis projecting that, due to Medicaid cuts, it could lose up to $100 million in 2027 and $150 million in 2028.
"We must fight back against these health care cuts that put our patients' well-being in real danger," said Mawata Kamara, a registered nurse at AHS's San Leandro Hospital. "It is sickening to think money that should be spent on caring for our community is being used to target people instead. That's not what I want my tax money to go towards. All that money going to ICE needs to be channeled back into our community and our hospitals. We have to educate each other and come together in solidarity to create a society where everyone can get the health care they need."
More information on the financial vulnerability of Alameda Hospital in Alameda and potential impacts on patient care are available here.
Nurses condemn the pending cuts to Medicaid and Medicare that undermine patients' health and well-being and are used instead to pay for armed and masked marauding ICE and CBP agents that terrorize communities across the nation. Nurses mourn the loss of those who have been killed by immigration officers, those who have died in ICE/CBP custody, and condemn the wanton actions of federal agents who have injured so many. In light of these deaths and other atrocities, NNU is calling for the abolition of ICE.
Nurses know things do not have to be this way, and they are offering a new path forward.
In Alameda, nurses will join with community leaders to put forward a vision for a healthy society and encourage community members to join this grassroots movement. The Red Alert stop is designed to be both educational and fun and includes no-cost wellness checks, music, family entertainment and free tacos.
What: Nurses' 'RED ALERT' bus tour stop
When: Saturday, March 21, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
\- 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Free Wellness Checks
\- 11:50 a.m.: Performance with singer/actor Brendan Hines
\- 12 p.m. : Speaker program
\- 1 p.m.: Performance with Zo1 & B. Deveaux of the Kingmakers of Oakland
\- 1:20 p.m.: Drag story hour with Black Benatar
Where: Alameda Hospital, 2070 Clinton Ave., Alameda, Calif.
Speakers include: NNU President Cathy Kennedy, RN; NNU President Mary Turner, RN; Mawata Kamara, RN; Keith Brown, Alameda Labor Council; Lara Kiswani, executive director, Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC); Benyamin Chao, California Immigrant Policy Center; Vinnie Bacon, chair of Alameda County Progressive Democrats
"RED ALERT" tour offers the union nurse vision for how to make America healthy:
H.R. 1, which Republicans and President Trump pushed, cut more than $1 trillion in federal funding to health care to give billionaires tax breaks and militarize immigration enforcement. In response to this unprecedented attack on public health, registered nurses will be taking their alternative vision for a healthy society directly to the patients and working-class communities they serve.
"The billionaire class and their Republican puppets are gutting public health protections to make themselves richer and militarize our neighborhoods, with zero regard for working people and families struggling to survive," said NNU President Mary Turner, RN. "Nurses refuse their deadly agenda. We're taking the wheel and bringing our vision for a healthy society directly to patients and communities who will bear the brunt of Republican policies. We invite everyone who has felt abandoned by the political system to join us and build real working-class solidarity."
The "RED ALERT" tour aims to build the power and community support needed to save more than 600 vulnerable nonprofit hospitals from slashed services or closure. Not just Medicaid patients will suffer; without community hospitals, all patients have no way to heal from the illnesses and injuries they experience due to the conditions of their everyday lives.
Cuts to services and staffing are also detrimental. Patients experience longer ER wait times, increased travel time for care, worse health outcomes (including death), and a loss of jobs at the hospital, which is often the biggest community employer.
Nurses are calling for the restoration of our health care system by passing the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, which reverses the $1 trillion cut to Medicaid and other health programs that were gutted by H.R. 1.
Nurses know it will take a mass mobilization to create the changes needed to build a society that takes care of everyone's needs. We see the Red Alert Tour as an important step in building the grassroots movement to make this vision for a healthy society a reality.
National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States with more than 225,000 members nationwide. NNU affiliates include California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, DC Nurses Association, Michigan Nurses Association, Minnesota Nurses Association, and New York State Nurses Association.
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Original text here: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nnu-identifies-alameda-hospital-at-risk-of-service-cuts-closure-due-to-federal-cuts
NABTU Issues Statement on Resolution Copper Mine Land Exchange
WASHINGTON, March 19 -- The AFL-CIO North America's Building Trades Unions issued the following statement on March 17, 2026, by President Sean McGarvey on the Resolution Copper Mine land exchange:
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NABTU STATEMENT ON RESOLUTION COPPER MINE LAND EXCHANGE
Today, North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey released the following statement:
"We have waited a long time to see the Resolution Copper Mine project move forward, and today marks a major milestone. The completion of the land exchange is a significant step toward making Resolution Copper a reality, one that
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WASHINGTON, March 19 -- The AFL-CIO North America's Building Trades Unions issued the following statement on March 17, 2026, by President Sean McGarvey on the Resolution Copper Mine land exchange:
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NABTU STATEMENT ON RESOLUTION COPPER MINE LAND EXCHANGE
Today, North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey released the following statement:
"We have waited a long time to see the Resolution Copper Mine project move forward, and today marks a major milestone. The completion of the land exchange is a significant step toward making Resolution Copper a reality, one thatwill deliver good-paying jobs for the local community and provide our country with the minerals it needs to meet rapidly rising demand.
"This project will be built under a project labor agreement, ensuring that the most highly skilled workers in America are the ones driving it forward. It's a model for how collaboration between developers and labor can create a middle-class sustaining workforce, support communities, and help our nation compete. When we work together, we can tackle big challenges, build responsibly, and deliver long term economic benefits for the region and the country."
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About NABTU: North America's Building Trades Unions is an alliance of 14 national and international unions in the building and construction industry collectively representing over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the United States and Canada. Each year, our unions and signatory contractor partners invest over $2.5 billion in private-sector money to fund and operate over 1,900 apprenticeship training and education facilities across North America that produce the safest, most highly trained, and most productive, skilled craft workers anywhere in the world. NABTU is dedicated to creating economic security and employment opportunities for its construction workers by safeguarding wage and benefits standards, promoting responsible private capital investments, investing in renowned apprenticeship and training, and creating more construction career pathways to the middle class for women, communities of color, Indigenous people, veterans, and the justice-involved. For more information, please visit nabtu.org.
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Original text here: https://nabtu.org/press_releases/nabtu-statement-on-resolution-copper-mine-land-exchange/
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Linda McMahon's Illegal Transfer of Student Loans to Treasury Will Raise Costs: Weingarten
WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers issued the following news release:
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Linda McMahon's Illegal Transfer of Student Loans to Treasury Will Raise Costs: Weingarten
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WASHINGTON -AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Department of Education announced it was shifting responsibility for its $1.7 trillion loan portfolio to the Treasury Department:
"Americans are already struggling to afford groceries, rent and child care-and this move, alongside the many others Secretary McMahon has made, will probably make
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WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers issued the following news release:
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Linda McMahon's Illegal Transfer of Student Loans to Treasury Will Raise Costs: Weingarten
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WASHINGTON -AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Department of Education announced it was shifting responsibility for its $1.7 trillion loan portfolio to the Treasury Department:
"Americans are already struggling to afford groceries, rent and child care-and this move, alongside the many others Secretary McMahon has made, will probably makethings worse. The shifting of Education Department programs elsewhere has only increased the bureaucracy and red tape the secretary says she wants to slash. And this one includes an indefensible provision that saddles borrowers with the cost of the reshuffle.
"For over a decade, the AFT has been fighting for greater transparency and major fixes to the broken student loan system to help student loan borrowers. But from day one, the Trump administration has made this harder, not easier, siding with private collection agencies and unleashing wage garnishment and Department of Justice referrals on the most vulnerable.
"I am calling on McMahon to state publicly that not one additional dollar will be billed to student loan borrowers as a result of this move, and that all existing discharge obligations will be honored in full. The AFT will use every tool at our disposal to ensure that happens.
"College should be more affordable. This administration has made it less so."
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Original text here: https://www.aft.org/press-release/linda-mcmahons-illegal-transfer-student-loans-treasury-will-raise-costs-weingarten
Farm Workers Rally Against AEWR Rule Change Before Injunction Hearing
KEENE, California, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The United Farm Workers issued the following news release:
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Farm Workers Rally Against AEWR Rule Change Before Injunction Hearing
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Fresno, CA. -Hundreds of farm workers from California, Georgia, Washington, and Texas rallied at federal court on Wednesday afternoon to support a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration rule that undercuts the jobs and wages of U.S. farm workers and expanding the exploitative H2A agricultural guestworker program.
The United Farm Workers and the UFW Foundation hosted the rally outside the first hearing
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KEENE, California, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The United Farm Workers issued the following news release:
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Farm Workers Rally Against AEWR Rule Change Before Injunction Hearing
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Fresno, CA. -Hundreds of farm workers from California, Georgia, Washington, and Texas rallied at federal court on Wednesday afternoon to support a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration rule that undercuts the jobs and wages of U.S. farm workers and expanding the exploitative H2A agricultural guestworker program.
The United Farm Workers and the UFW Foundation hosted the rally outside the first hearingin their lawsuit against the wage cuts. The plaintiffs specifically requested the court issue an injunction that would block the wage cuts from being implemented while the suit proceeds. Farm workers from all over the country came together to oppose the Department of Labor rule that lowers their wages from $3-7 hourly, depending on the state.
According to the government's own estimate, the wage cuts transfer at least $2.46 billion annually from workers to employers and would represent one of the largest wealth transfers from workers to employers in U.S. agricultural history.
"The Trump Administration made their intentions clear. They are looking to let growers steal over 2 billion dollars from farm workers," said UFW President Teresa Romero. "The Trump wage cut is going to drastically reduce wages of farmworkers across the country and threatens to displace existing American farm workers. Our lawsuit is to say NO to the Trump Wage Cuts. I want to recognize the courage of the individual farm workers who joined this lawsuit to sue the the Trump Administration with us. Instead of cutting workers wages, we should be honoring farm workers with the dignity and respect they deserve. "
"We are committed to defeating the administration's efforts to cut farm worker wages," said UFW Foundation CEO Erica Lomeli Corcoran. " By callously cutting U.S. farm workers' wages and expanding the H-2A temporary guest worker program, the Trump administration is doing the bidding of large corporate agriculture. And they're doing it at the expense of hard-working Americans who will be unable to afford groceries, rent, and other basic needs for survival because of these cuts. We stopped the first Trump administration from doing this in 2020 and we intend to do the same this time."
"It's important for all farm workers to know that this wage cut doesn't just impact workers on H2A visas -it impacts all of us." said plaintiff Isabel Panfilo, a U.S.-born farm worker from Oxnard. "I pick strawberries at a company that also hires H2A workers. Last year, I made over 19 dollars an hour at the company. This year, I went back to the same job. I'm doing the same tasks picking strawberries I did last year. But this year, they are paying us $16.90 per hour, the state minimum wage. I make over 2 dollars less an hour now. This makes it very difficult for me to make ends meet, to help my family, to achieve the American Dream."
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Original text here: https://ufw.org/farm-workers-rally-against-aewr-rule-change-before-injunction-hearing/
AT&T Mobility Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO Communications Workers of America posted the following news release:
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AT&T Mobility Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
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Over 95 percent of AT&T workers covered by the Orange Mobility contract vote to strike if necessary for higher wages, job security, and more.
WASHINGTON, D.C - AT&T Mobility Orange workers, represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), today have overwhelmingly voted to give CWA President Claude Cummings the authority to call a strike if negotiations between CWA and the telecom company fail to reach
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WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO Communications Workers of America posted the following news release:
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AT&T Mobility Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
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Over 95 percent of AT&T workers covered by the Orange Mobility contract vote to strike if necessary for higher wages, job security, and more.
WASHINGTON, D.C - AT&T Mobility Orange workers, represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), today have overwhelmingly voted to give CWA President Claude Cummings the authority to call a strike if negotiations between CWA and the telecom company fail to reacha fair agreement.
The strike authorization vote comes as CWA's contract with AT&T, covering approximately 9,000 Orange Mobility workers, is set to expire at midnight ET on Friday, March 20, 2026.
While AT&T spends millions of dollars on a new headquarters office and corporate sponsorships like the NCAA March Madness tournament, the company is rejecting proposals at the bargaining table almost as quickly as they are proposed. In response, workers across the country are holding the company accountable for its broken promises on a wide range of issues that directly impact workers every day, from job security, work-life balance, wages that meet the real cost of living, benefits that do not bankrupt, and protections on the job.
"Mobility workers are on the frontlines for a multibillion-dollar corporation, working on the sales floor, in homes, and out in the field to connect customers to the rest of the world," said District 1 Vice President Dennis Trainor. "The results of the strike authorization vote send a clear message to AT&T Mobility management: our members know the value of their labor and are united, informed, and prepared to reject corporate greed and do what it takes to win the strong contract they deserve."
The current union contract for CWA members at AT&T Orange Mobility-formerly Cingular-covers workers in customer service, telesales, retail, technical support, and other positions across 37 states. AT&T workers and union members will continue to work with their current contract in place, as CWA continues negotiations with AT&T.
cwa-union.org @cwa-union
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Original text here: https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/att-mobility-workers-vote-authorize-strike
AFGE President Slams Congress for Leaving Town Without Paying DHS Workers
WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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AFGE President Slams Congress for Leaving Town Without Paying DHS Workers
Union demands action as DHS employees face third missed paycheck while Congress heads home for another break.
WASHINGTON - With Congress preparing to leave Washington for its April district work period at the end of next week, the American Federation of Government Employees today called out lawmakers for failing to pass a measure that would reopen the Department of Homeland Security
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WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Government Employees issued the following news release:
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AFGE President Slams Congress for Leaving Town Without Paying DHS Workers
Union demands action as DHS employees face third missed paycheck while Congress heads home for another break.
WASHINGTON - With Congress preparing to leave Washington for its April district work period at the end of next week, the American Federation of Government Employees today called out lawmakers for failing to pass a measure that would reopen the Department of Homeland Securityand pay tens of thousands of federal employees who have worked without a paycheck for more than a month.
The House and Senate have been in session together for just 11 days since DHS funding lapsed on Feb. 14. No agreement is in sight. And on March 27, about 47,000 TSA officers, 22,000 FEMA employees, 8,900 Coast Guard civilian staff, and hundreds of Border Patrol administrative personnel will miss another paycheck.
AFGE sent letters today to members of the House (https://www.afge.org/globalassets/documents/generalreports/2026/afge-house-of-rep-letter-03.19.2026.pdf) and Senate (https://www.afge.org/globalassets/documents/generalreports/2026/afge-senate-letter-on-dhs-employee-pay-march-19-2026.pdf) demanding action before lawmakers leave the Capitol.
"The House and Senate have had weeks to fix this and they have barely been in the same building," said AFGE National President Everett Kelley. "Members of Congress have walked past our TSA members at airport security checkpoints more often than they've met to negotiate an end to this stalemate. Those officers deserve to be paid for the work they do to keep those members safe. The least Congress can do for these patriotic American workers is act before legislators leave town for the weekend, or, worse, head off on a weeks-long recess."
AFGE members and leaders have repeatedly urged both Republicans and Democrats to reach an agreement. Transportation security officers feel like their lawmakers have abandoned them, despite the fact they continue to show up without pay.
"A TSO selling plasma to keep the lights on is unconscionable," Kelley said. "Tens of thousands of families turning to food banks because Congress refuses to do its job is a national disgrace. This is a profound moral failure, and the American people should know who's responsible for it.
"The time for excuses is over," Kelley said. "Pass a measure to reopen DHS, pay these workers, and don't go home until you do."
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Original text here: https://www.afge.org/link/6a4b2259bf73499da51cef4617a43271.aspx
