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7 stories published here. This is what we have covered, not everything that happened.
- UNITED STATES · THE STORY15,000 nurses struck.
All four ratified.The longest nurses' strike New York City has had. - UNITED STATES · THE STORYFive counts. No trial.
No verdict, ever.Dropped by the government, ended by the judge. - UNITED STATES · THE LEDGERIt was a crime
to ask for more.Philadelphia, 1806: eight shoemakers, tried for combining. - UNITED STATES · THE LEDGERMost Americans like unions.
Few are in one.For forty years, one went up. One went down. - UNITED STATES · THE STORYNo to a union, twice.
Then, yes.Their first deal got 96 of every 100 votes. Here is what it pays them. - UNITED STATES · THE RULEPassed 51 to 38 in 2019.
Repealed 94 to 2.In between: a bribery trial, and a verdict. - UNITED STATES · THE STORYThey struck all three
at once. Nobody had.Six weeks later: 25 percent, and the two-tier system gone.
For a country-level measure of perceived public-sector corruption, Transparency International publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index. We link it rather than quote a score: it measures perception, our stories track outcomes, and putting a number of theirs beside reporting of ours would imply we had measured the same thing.