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Resumenes de artículos de Labor Notes de los EEUU, semana de 24 marzo, en español e inglés. Summaries of Labor Notes stories from the U.S. for the week of March 24, in Spanish and English. Please pass them on to your Spanish-speaking friends.

Until now, disunity had dogged the postal unions. Management used the separate bargaining to push concessions onto them one by one, and the unions worked at cross purposes in their lobbying too.

Usually elected officials are reluctant to buck the biggest employer in town, but in Richmond, California, the mayor and the city council majority have taken a bold approach with Chevron, suing the oil giant for harming local citizens.

An activist slate pledging to reenergize teachers to fight attacks on public schools has just won leadership of the second-largest teachers local in the country, in Los Angeles.

In Chicago, worker center organizers and advocates for rape victims have come together to combat sexual violence in the workplace.

While the federal government mulls a $10.10 minimum wage, Seattle is poised for $15. And in case the city council compromises too far, labor and community groups are preparing to get the job done by ballot initiative.