In today’s news and commentary, unions speak out against ICE’s senseless killing of Alex Pretti, the EEOC continues concentrating power in its Republican Chair, and courts decide the reach of the EFAA.
Unions speak up in outrage over the senseless killing of Alex Pretti by ICE this weekend. As an intensive care nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Pretti was a union member of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), Local 3669. AFGE President Everett Kelley expressed “mourn[ing]” and “grie[f] for this member” and said Pretti’s death was “the direct result of an administration that has chosen reckless policy, inflammatory rhetoric, and manufactured crisis,” one whose actions were “designed to provoke confrontation.” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler likewise condemned the “senseless killing” of “a brother in our union family,” and reiterated that “American’s unions join the call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.” ICE killed Pretti the day after a general strike in Minneapolis, in which hundreds of businesses were closed to protest the presence of ICE in the city and thousands of demonstrators braved the cold in a show of solidarity.
Meanwhile, back in the nation’s capital, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) continues to concentrate power in the hands of its Republican Chair. As I wrote a few weeks ago, the EEOC was expected to rescind its voting procedures, placing all discretion on...
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