SPLC staff vote to unionize

A majority of Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) staff across 11 offices in five states and Washington D.C. have voted to join the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. "We celebrate this momentous victory, which comes after nearly nine months of tireless organizing,” said the SPLC Union Organizing Committee. "This is a historic moment in the history of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and in the history of labor organizing in the Deep South.” The vote was 142 to 45. The SPLC Union is the third largest unit in WBNG and the union’s largest non-profit unit. Read more here 

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