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☆ Opinion | The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Too much life enters this house,” Tillie Olsen, the writer, labor activist and mother of four daughters, wrote in a letter to the poet Anne Sexton. Olsen and Sexton were among the early recipients of a paid fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. In some ways, remarkable progress has been made for American women since then — at the time, for example, it was perfectly legal to fire a woman for getting pregnant. (In other ways, we have returned to the 19th century.) The book made me ponder whether some of the conflicts that parents feel between their family responsibilities and other parts of their lives can be fully resolved.

Persons: ” Tillie Olsen, Anne Sexton, “, lunchpacking —, Olsen, Sexton, Maggie Doherty’s, Radcliffe’s, Mary Ingraham Bunting, Maxine Kumin, Barbara Swan, Marianna Pineda Organizations: Radcliffe Institute for Independent, Art Locations: midcentury America, Doherty’s

☆ Norfolk CEO: Believe Ancora is violating the Railway Labor Act
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNorfolk CEO: Believe Ancora is violating the Railway Labor ActNorfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to discuss the ongoing fight with Ancora and respond to proxy advisor firm Glass Lewis siding with the activists ahead of the May 9th vote. Plus, Shaw updates on the progress the railroad is making on its operations to its operating ratio.

Persons: Alan Shaw, Ancora, Glass Lewis, Shaw Organizations: Norfolk, Railway Labor, Norfolk Southern

☆ How a Loss in the Emergency Abortion Case Could Become a Win for Biden - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Mary Ziegler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But a decision in the second case, on access to emergency abortions, may have much more profound consequences, both for November’s election and the ongoing struggle over reproductive rights. At issue is whether EMTALA requires physicians to offer emergency abortions even when state abortion bans — including those enacted after the overturning of Roe — do not permit them. The Biden administration brought suit against Idaho in federal court, arguing that federal law does pre-empt state policy on the matter. In such states, emergency rooms “are so scared of a pregnant patient, that the emergency medicine staff won’t even look. They just want these people gone,” Sara Rosenbaum, a health law and policy professor at George Washington University, told The A.P.

Persons: Roe —, Biden, —, ” Sara Rosenbaum Organizations: Labor, Biden, Associated Press, George Washington University Locations: Idaho

☆ Live Updates: Supreme Court to Consider Access to Emergency Abortions
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Abbie Vansickle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

A hospital emergency department in Jackson, Mississippi, one of several states with bans that outlaw most abortions, allowing it to save a woman’s life, but not to prevent severe health consequences. The abortion case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday centers on a federal law requiring emergency medical care for any urgent condition, but its specific mention of one condition — pregnancy — will matter most. The law requires that emergency departments provide stabilizing care not only to patients facing imminent death, but patients whose health would otherwise deteriorate. There were alarming cases involving pregnant women in labor jettisoned from private hospitals before their babies could be born. “I remember a young woman in labor who was sent to Parkland from another hospital — a religiously-affiliated hospital,” he said.

Persons: ”, Dr, Ron Anderson, “, Sara Rosenbaum, Rosenbaum, Roe, Wade, EMTALA Organizations: Labor, Parkland, George Washington University Locations: Jackson , Mississippi, Idaho, Texas, Dallas, Parkland, ”

☆ Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar again in the spotlight fighting the conservative Supreme Court on abortion
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —For the fourth time since she became the federal government’s top Supreme Court advocate, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar is arguing an abortion-related case. When Prelogar argues before the Supreme Court, she is arguing in front of several alumni of the US Office of the Solicitor General. She also clerked for her current boss, Attorney General Merrick Garland, when he was a DC Circuit judge, before her Supreme Court clerkships. She went on to litigate Supreme Court cases for private firms and worked on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Likewise, the abortion case Prelogar argued last month could have significant consequences for federal power.

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☆ Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over emergency abortions
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Tierney Sneed | John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The court’s far-right wing, perhaps in an attempt to keep those two justices on their side, framed the case as a federal overreach into state power. Turner, Idaho’s attorney, shot back that mental health could essentially open a loophole. Conservatives have long opposed allowing exceptions to strict abortion bans for mental health. Justice Samuel Alito, a fellow conservative, picked up on that same theme, repeatedly pressing Prelogar to explain whether the Justice Department views mental health as a way around Idaho’s abortion ban. That is exactly the kind of political influence that the Supreme Court, especially under Roberts, has generally tried to avoid.

Persons: Biden, Elizabeth Prelogar, Roe, Wade, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, Prelogar, ” Prelogar, “, Roberts, Barrett –, Barrett, teed, Joshua Turner, Sonia Sotomayor, Turner, Elena Kagan, ’, Alito, CNN Sotomayor, ”, Clarence Thomas, EMTALA, Neil Gorsuch, ‘, Samuel Alito, ” Alito, –, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Trump, – Gorsuch, Kavanaugh Organizations: CNN, Justice, Labor, Liberal, Republican, Supreme, Department, Wade, Idaho, energizing Democratic, Food and Drug Administration, GOP Locations: Idaho, Wisconsin

☆ 5 Takeaways From the Supreme Court Arguments on Idaho’s Abortion Ban
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Pam Belluck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The abortion case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday featured vigorous questioning and comments, particularly by the three liberal justices. At issue is whether Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion is so strict that it violates a federal law requiring emergency care for any patient, including providing abortions for pregnant women in dire situations. Here are some takeaways:The case centers on whether Idaho’s abortion ban violates federal law. Idaho’s ban allows abortion to save the life of a pregnant woman, but not to prevent her health from deteriorating. The federal government says it therefore violates the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, which was enacted nearly 40 years ago.

Organizations: Labor Locations: Idaho

☆ Two Lawsuits, in Texas and Idaho, Highlight Fight Over Emergency Medicine Law
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Abbie Vansickle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the weeks after the Supreme Court dismantled a constitutional right to abortion in 2022 and returned the issue of access to the states, a new series of court battles began. After the Biden administration announced it would protect access to abortion under emergency situations through a decades-old federal law, conservative states pushed back, leading to dueling lawsuits in Texas and Idaho. Those cases created a divide among federal courts, known as a circuit split. It intensified pressure on the Supreme Court to settle whether the law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, pre-empts state abortion bans, shielding doctors who perform emergency abortions in efforts to stabilize the health of a pregnant woman. After Roe fell, the Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance to hospitals, including those in states with abortion bans, that federal law mandated that pregnant women be allowed to receive abortions in emergency rooms so long as doctors believed the procedures were required for “stabilizing treatment.”

Persons: Roe, ” Organizations: Biden, Labor Act, Department of Health, Human Services Locations: Texas, Idaho

Organizations that are usually focused on climate, housing or immigration are regularly protesting Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, which followed the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack and has killed more than 33,000 people, according to local officials. Labor activists are calling for a cease-fire. Black clergy leaders have appealed directly to the White House. Young Americans are using online tools to mobilize voters and send millions of missives to Congress. And an emerging coalition of advocacy groups is discussing how to press its case at the Democratic National Convention this summer.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Democratic, Labor, House . Young, Convention Locations: Gaza

☆ Why Abortion Is Back at the Supreme Court - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Melissa Murray | Kate Shaw | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In his majority opinion in the case overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the high court was finally settling the vexed abortion debate by returning the “authority to regulate abortion” to the “people and their elected representatives.”Despite these assurances, less than two years after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, abortion is back at the Supreme Court. In the next month, the justices will hear arguments in two high-stakes cases that may shape the future of access to medication abortion and to lifesaving care for pregnancy emergencies. These cases make clear that Dobbs did not settle the question of abortion in America — instead, it generated a new slate of questions. The first case, scheduled for argument on Tuesday, F.D.A. At issue is the law’s interaction with state laws that severely restrict abortion, like an Idaho law that bans abortion except in cases of rape or incest and circumstances where abortion is “necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.”

Persons: Roe, Wade, Samuel Alito, Dobbs, America —, ” Organizations: Jackson, Health Organization, Supreme, Alliance, Hippocratic, Food, Labor Locations: America, Idaho

☆ Why Power Eludes the French Left
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Elisabeth Zerofsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As transit walkouts snarled traffic and sanitation strikes caused trash to pile up in the streets, the protests were ridiculed abroad. Why must the French, among the best-protected workers in the Western world, make such a racket over two years of work? But for the demonstrators, this missed the point: It is because French workers put up a fight that they are protected. France has always been a vanguard of leftist politics. How it fares says much about where the left may be headed and the headwinds it faces, not just in France but throughout the West.

Persons: Samira Organizations: Writers Guild of America, United Auto Workers, UPS Teamsters, National Health Service Locations: Teleperformance, France, United States, Britain

Alphabet's Waymo robotaxi unit won approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand service to parts of Los Angeles and the Bay Area, according to a notice posted to the regulator's website on Friday. "Waymo may begin fared driverless passenger service operations in the specified areas of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Peninsula, effective today," the release said. In mid-February, Waymo initiated a voluntary recall filing notice with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, saying it would fix software issues. The latest notice applies to the commercial ride-sharing service Waymo One. WATCH: Crowd burns Waymo in San Francisco

Persons: Alphabet's, Waymo, Apple, Elon Musk's Tesla, Cruise robotaxis Organizations: California Public Utilities Commission, San, National, Traffic Safety Administration, California Department of Motor Vehicles, General Motors, Cruise, Palo Locations: Los Angeles, San Francisco Peninsula, Phoenix, California, Palo Alto, San Mateo County, San Francisco

☆ 2023 was year of the strike. Here’s what’s possibly ahead in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The 33 strikes last year is roughly double the average of 16.7 major strikes a year over the course of the last 20 years. A separate database of all work stoppages by Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations shows that there were 451 work stoppages in 2023, up 9% from the 2022 total. So the major strikes of 1,000 or more account for less than 10% of the overall number of strikes. So many of the major strikes and contract negotiations that occurred in 2023 will not occur again in 2024. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a chance of some major work stoppages this year.

Persons: Joe Biden Organizations: New, New York CNN, Labor Department, Bureau of Labor Statistics, SAG, Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, General Motors, Ford, Anheuser, Busch, Teamsters, CNN, Molson Coors, Hollywood, Writers Guild of America, Boeing Boeing, Boeing, Max, Alaska Airlines, Professional, American Airlines, Labor, Railway Labor Locations: New York, America, Fort Worth , Texas, Canada, Hollywood, Washington

The number of U.S. workers on strike more than doubled last year. But about half of 2023's total striking workers were on the picket line for more than a month, Thursday's report notes. And the amount of strikes and lockouts with a first contract demand more than doubled compared to 2022, the Labor Action Tracker found. According to Thursday's report, accommodation and food services saw more work stoppages than any other industry last year, accounting for 33.4% of the total strikes and lockouts. But the information industry had the highest number of striking workers and strike days — making up for 34.5% of all workers on strike and 83.8% of strike days.

Persons: Johnnie Kallas, “, ” Kallas, Alexander Colvin Organizations: — Auto, Labor, Cornell University, University of Illinois, Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, U.S . Bureau of Labor Statistics

☆ Over 500,000 workers went on strike in 2023 — double from last year
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The report finds that, in 2023, there were 470 work stoppages — 466 of which were strikes. In total, around 539,000 workers were involved in work stoppages last year. And while most work stoppages involved workers in unions, around a fifth were actually helmed by nonunion workers — meaning they had less protection than their unionized counterparts. A common misperception around strike activity, he said, is that union leaders are pushing workers to go on strike when they don’t want to. “Unions are more willing to use the strike weapon after it being pretty quiet for quite a while,” Colvin said.

Persons: uptick, ” Alex Colvin, —, Colvin chalks, ”, Colvin, Shawn Fain, that's, ” Colvin, they're, Uber, “ Organizations: Service, UAW, Labor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Employment Relations School, University of Illinois, Business, Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, Cornell, SAG, of Labor Statistics, — Locations: Hollywood

☆ Flight attendant who was on Alaska Airlines when door plug blew out is now picketing for ‘living wage’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —Steve Maller, a flight attendant for nearly 20 years, was one of the flight attendants on the Alaska Airlines flight 1282 when a door plug blew out. But he did say he’s also proud of how the flight attendants on board responded. “We have flight attendants who live in cars because they can’t afford to live where they’re based,” she said. A flight attendant wears a pin reading,' Flight Attendants Save Live!' He said many are already walking out — and the steady flow of flight attendants leaving Alaska every month worries him.

Persons: Steve Maller, Maller, Ben Minicucci, ”, ” Maller, “, he’s, He’s, haven’t, don’t, Joe Raedle, Julie Hedrick, we’re, We’re, Ondrea Wallace, she’s, Wallace, we’ve, Joe Biden, Nam, Sara Nelson, Biden Organizations: New, New York CNN, Alaska Airlines, of Flight, National Transportation Safety, General Motors, Ford, Railway Labor, United Airlines, Miami International Airport, —, Association of Professional, Association of Flight, CWA, Transport Workers Union, American Airlines, Railway Labor Act, O'Hare International, AFA, United, Alaska Air Locations: New York, Alaska, Portland , Oregon, Portland, Alaksa, United, Southwest, Chicago, ”

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed Friday says that a woman who died last February shouldn't have been discharged from a Tennessee hospital, forced to leave despite her pleas for more help and unassisted by security guards and police during a medical emergency. Security officers at the hospital called police Feb. 5, 2023, saying that Edwards had been evaluated and discharged, but she was refusing to leave. The lawsuit filed in Knoxville names three officers who were later disciplined by the city's police department, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. But she is rebuffed by officers and hospital security guards who become frustrated with her inability to step up into the van and tell her she is faking her incapacity. “This was an emergency medical condition that began and worsened on hospital property and that was unequivocally preventable and treatable,” the lawsuit states.

Persons: Lisa Edwards, Edwards, she’s, ” Edwards Organizations: —, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Knoxville Police Department, Knoxville News Sentinel, Covenant Health, Fort Sanders Regional Medical, Labor, Rehabilitation Locations: KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Tennessee, Knoxville, Knox, U.S

☆ Labor unions, with power and popularity rising, are still trailing on one big battle
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Natalie Rose Goldberg | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

High-profile strikes by writers and actors against Hollywood brought the union power to the mainstream as pictures of celebrities holding picket signs flooded social media. But one big win continues to elude labor: the need to translate its rising popularity into an increase in rank-and-file union membership, which has stagnated in recent decades. It's not a lack of support from the public that's holding unions back from making more progress in growing their ranks. Even before the big wins of 2023, polling conducted in recent years showed rising union popularity, with support at its highest level since 1965, according to 2022 data from Gallup. 'The Great Reset'In 2023, it was a banner year for American workers who support the labor movement.

Persons: Biden, —, Heidi Shierholz, I've, Thomas Kochan Organizations: United Auto Workers, UAW, Local, Chrysler Corporate, Division, Hollywood, UPS, Teamsters, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Union, Economic Policy Institute, Gallup, AFL, CIO, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cornell, ILR, SAG, Writers Guild of America Locations: Ontario , California, American, Michigan, America

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will share the stage on Tuesday in Virginia as they campaign for abortion rights, a top issue for Democrats in an election expected to feature a rematch with Donald Trump, the former Republican president. Biden and Harris will be joined by their spouses, first lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff. Harris was in Wisconsin in Monday to mark the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. “In Texas, you are forced to carry that pregnancy, and that is because of Donald Trump overturning Roe v. Wade,” Dennard said. Although he is a longtime supporter of abortion rights, he mentions the issue less often and sometimes avoids using the word abortion even when he discusses the issue.

Persons: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Biden, Harris, Jill Biden, Doug Emhoff, Roe, Wade, Trump, “, ” Harris, ”, Austin Dennard, ” Dennard, there's, they've, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, ” Trump, Jamal Simmons, ” Simmons, Amanda Seitz Organizations: WASHINGTON, Republican, U.S, Supreme, OB, Labor, of Health, Human Services, Associated Press, South, Gov, Fox News Locations: Virginia, Wisconsin, America, Texas, “ In Texas, Roe, Oklahoma, South Carolina

☆ CSU faculty end strike after reaching tentative agreement with management
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Melissa Alonzo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Faculty members at California State University (CSU), the largest public university system in America, have ended their one-day strike after reaching a tentative agreement with management. The union represents 29,000 members including professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches, across the 23 campuses of Cal State. Our members have won a Tentative Agreement … that includes raising the floor for our most vulnerable faculty, safer workplaces & expanded parental leave,” it said. “The agreement enables the CSU to fairly compensate its valued, world-class faculty while protecting the university system’s long-term financial sustainability,” she added. Thousands of Cal State faculty began striking on Monday, the first day of spring semester classes for much for the university system’s 450,000 student.

Persons: …, “, Mildred García Organizations: CNN —, California State University, CSU, California Faculty Association, CFA, Cal State, United Auto Workers, Hollywood, Starbucks, Cornell University, Industrial and Labor Relations Locations: America, California, Southern California

On the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that enshrined a woman’s right to an abortion, Biden and Harris announced new rules and guidance about contraceptives and abortion and a national tour by Harris to call attention to the issue. Biden and Harris, as well as Democrats down the ticket are positioning themselves as the protectors of abortion rights and casting the Dobbs decision that left abortion access to the states as harmful to women. And Democrats have seen a series of victories in races and credit their position on abortion rights with getting voters to the polls. But, ballot measures to ensure abortion rights were passed in California, Michigan, Vermont while voters in Kansas, Kentucky and Montana voted down proposals that would have rolled back protections. Democrats hope the issue will propel Biden and Harris to victory in 2024.

Persons: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Roe, Wade, Biden, Harris, Xavier Becerra, Dobbs, ” Biden, “, Donald Trump Organizations: Democratic, Affordable, of Health, Human Services, Labor, Republican Locations: Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Kansas, California, California , Michigan , Vermont, Kansas , Kentucky, Montana, Wisconsin

The complaint came a little more than a year after Biden's administration informed hospitals that they must provide abortion services if the mother’s life is at risk. At the time, President Joe Biden's administration said EMTALA supersedes state abortion bans that don’t have adequate exceptions for medical emergencies. It also underscores the uphill legal battle reproductive rights advocates when pushing back against state abortion bans. According to the complaint, Statton learned she was pregnant in early 2023 and soon began experiencing severe pain and nausea. The Supreme Court earlier this month allowed Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies, while a separate legal fight continues.

Persons: Jaci Statton, Statton, Joe Biden's, Biden, Roe, Wade, Jaci, “, “ EMTALA, ”, Rabia Muqaddam Organizations: U.S . Department of Health, Human Services, Republican, Department of Health, Labor, Centers, Medicare, Services, Health, Reproductive Rights, Associated Press Locations: Oklahoma, Idaho , Tennessee, Texas, Idaho, New Orleans

☆ What to Know About the Federal Law at the Heart of the Latest Supreme Court Abortion Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Pam Belluck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One of the newest battlefields in the abortion debate is a decades-old federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known by doctors and health policymakers as EMTALA. The issue involves whether the law requires hospital emergency rooms to provide abortions in urgent circumstances, including when a woman’s health is threatened by continuing her pregnancy. The Biden administration is in the middle of legal battles over the law with the states of Texas and Idaho. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Idaho case. Enacted by Congress in 1986, EMTALA (pronounced em-TAHL-uh) requires hospitals across the country to guarantee all patients a standard of emergency care, regardless of whether they have insurance or can pay.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Labor Locations: Texas, Idaho, United States

☆ For Labor Unions, 2023 Was the Year of the Strike—and Big Victories
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Kate Bronfenbrenner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

2023 was a remarkable year for the U.S. labor movement. The country experienced a surge in strikes unlike anything in recent memory. According to Cornell ILR’s Labor Action Tracker, as of Oct. 31, there were 354 strikes in 2023 involving roughly 492,000 workers—nearly eight times the number of workers involved in strikes for the same period in 2021 and nearly four times the number for the same period 2022.

Persons: — Organizations: Cornell ILR’s Labor

☆ Idaho asks Supreme Court to let abortion law that penalizes doctors to take full effect
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Ariane De Vogue | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Idaho asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow its state abortion ban that imposes penalties on doctors who perform abortions to take full effect despite federal requirements for emergency room doctors. But a district court blocked the law in hospital emergency rooms that receive Medicare funding, holding that the state law interferes with a federal Medicare statute. The United States sued, claiming that a provision of a federal Medicare statue – the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) preempts Idaho’s law in emergency rooms. The federal law requires hospitals to provide stabilizing care to emergency room patients regardless of their ability to pay. Now the state, represented by a conservative legal group that opposes abortion, is asking the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to put the district court ruling on hold while appeals play out.

Persons: ”, preempts, Lynn Winmill, “, Dobbs, Erin Hawley, Alliance Defending Freedom, EMTALA Organizations: CNN, Idaho, Idaho’s Defense, United, Labor, Court, of, Alliance Defending Locations: Idaho, United States, of Idaho, Idaho’s, “, Texas

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