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The article explores the immigration crisis at the Mexico-U.S. border and its potential impact on the 2024 presidential election. It highlights the significant increase in asylum seekers crossing the border, with over 300,000 people arriving in December 2023 alone. The broken asylum system, lengthy court processes, and busing of migrants to cities and states contribute to the crisis. The text suggests potential changes that the Biden administration could make to address the issue, including limiting admissions, screening asylum seekers at the border, and federal government involvement in initial placement. The article also discusses the Biden administration's broader immigration policies, which aim to restore pre-Trump levels of legal immigration and prioritize the well-being of unauthorized individuals. [Extracted from the article]

In this outpouring of gratitude, an army of low-paid workers in the gig economy of day laborers, nannies, cleaners, and delivery workers went unnoticed - even those who performed that most essential of tasks, delivering food to people during a lockdown. Keywords: Worker's Justice Project; informal economy; gig economy; deliveristas; DoorDash; Grubhub; living wage EN Worker's Justice Project informal economy gig economy deliveristas DoorDash Grubhub living wage 23 29 7 06/07/23 20230501 NES 230501 Editor's Note In the winter 2023 issue of I New Labor Forum i , columnist Kressent Pottenger exposed the harsh and demeaning conditions food delivery workers have endured for the privilege of earning a subminimum wage plus tips. Alliances with other worker centers connected delivery workers and helped them build their organizing capacity. In California, several units of grocery store delivery workers (regular employees of those stores) have joined the United Food and Commercial Workers and gained improvements: I Are the deliveristas thinking about affiliating with a union?. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: collective bargaining; racism; trade unions; union democracy; journalism; organizing EN collective bargaining racism trade unions union democracy journalism organizing 52 58 7 02/20/21 20210101 NES 210101 Graph: Newspaper Guild of PittsburghJon Schleuss speaks at a rally in support of workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in September 2020. His election, in December 2019, largely reflected the anxiety of union members about job security and - more broadly - the state of their union and the future of journalism. Collective bargaining, racism, trade unions, union democracy, journalism, organizing. [Extracted from the article]

And, because the very wealthy members of museum boards are constantly in and out of the galleries, museum workers see economic and social inequality up close and personal. A half century ago, in 1971, staffers at New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) organized an independent union known as PASTA, the Professional and Administrative Staff Association. In July 2021, workers at the Whitney Museum won union representation by a vote of 96-1, and on August 15, a unit of about 130 workers at the Brooklyn Museum voted overwhelmingly for the union. [Extracted from the article]