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Southern Poverty Law Center employees vote to join union

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Employees of the  Southern Poverty Law Center civil rights organization have voted to unionize.

The organization announced Monday that employees voted to join the Washington-Baltimore  local of The News Guild-Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO. A supermajority of employees this fall requested representation by the union. 

Karen Baynes-Dunning, the interim president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center,  said employees have spoken through the process and they will move forward as one SPLC.

 

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