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January 19, 2021
The national board of entertainment union SAG-AFTRA votes overwhelmingly to have its Disciplinary Committee look into whether member Donald J. Trump— in the union because of his show “The Apprentice” — violated the union’s constitution when his incitement of insurrection at the nation’s capitol Jan. 6, 2021 led to the threatening and endangerment of journalists, many of whom are the union’s members. 2021
January 11, 2021
Margo St. James, a sex worker who in 1973 formed what she described as a union for prostitutes, dies at age 83 in a Bellingham, Wash. nursing home. When a newspaper reported she had been a madam, according to The Washington Post, she demanded a retraction, declaring: “I was never management.” 2021
January 8, 2021
The AFL-CIO calls for the resignation of President Donald Trump following a mob attack on the U.S. Capitol two days earlier by hundreds of his supporters. 2021