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The American Secular Union published over a dozen pamphlets on topics regarding separation of church and state between 1886 and 1928. [5] Following Ingersoll's death in 1899 various leadership changes occurred. The organization withered around 1919. [1]
Union affiliation by U.S. state (2023) [1] [2] Rank State Percent union members Percent change Union members Percent represented by unions Percent change Represented
The National Liberal League (1876 – c.1885) of the United States advocated separation of church and state and the freedom of religion. [1] The league evolved into the American Secular Union in 1884. The First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis grew directly out of the chapter there.
Secularists, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, the non-religious — the “Nones” — are on the rise in the United States, as well as in my home state of Iowa.
Miscellaneous U.S. federal government workers. 2012: AFGE: American Postal Workers Union (APWU) 1971 286,700 United States Postal Service workers other than letter carriers. APWU: International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) 1918 331,003 Professional firefighters and emergency medical service workers. 2021: IAFF: UNITE HERE: 2004 301,886 [4]
A person holds a placard reading "Project 2025 is un-American" as Anti-Trump protestors demonstrate on the first day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. July ...
Americans United has worked to uphold the federal law that bars non-profit groups, including houses of worship, from intervening in partisan politics. In 1992, the group reported a New York church, the Church at Pierce Creek, to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after the church ran newspaper ads telling people not to vote for Bill Clinton .
At the apex of union density in the 1940s, only about 9.8% of public employees were represented by unions, while 33.9% of private, non-agricultural workers had such representation. In this decade, those proportions have essentially reversed, with 36% of public workers being represented by unions while private sector union density had plummeted ...