OCEA Media Brief: Amazon workers vote to join NY union

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LABOR UNIONS

The Washington Post: Amazon workers vote to join a union in New York in historic move

Workers voted Friday to unionize a Staten Island Amazon warehouse, a historic decision that marks the first successful U.S. organizing effort at the e-commerce giant and a major victory for the domestic labor movement.

CBS Minnesota: Film of Prince at age 11 discovered in archival footage of MLP 1970 teachers strike

Deep in the WCCO film archives are hundreds, if not thousands of opportunities to travel back in time. And on one reel a treasure lay hidden, untouched, for 52 years.

 

ORANGE COUNTY

Voice of OC: Fullerton Council members pick new election map

Fullerton City Council members this week picked a new voting map that will impact city elections for the next decade or so, but some say the city officials failed to take into account testimony from one major stakeholder group: the residents.

Publication Date: April 5, 2022