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ALEC Corporations Are Leaders in Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Since 2000, corporate members of ALEC piled up almost $150 million in fines, penalties, and court settlements in cases involving racial and age discrimination and harassment. Read the rest of this item here. Louisiana Senator Sharon Hewitt, ALEC’s Legislator of the Year, Voted “No” on Equal Pay for Equal Work As “Legislator of the Year,” ALEC chose a woman who made opposition to pay equity one of her signature issues, in the state where women have the most to gain from equal pay protections. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC’s New Union-Busting Toolkit Illustrates the Goal Is to Bankrupt Unions Not Protect Workers ALEC’s post-Janus toolkit inadvertently sheds light on the real aims of the group’s union-busting activities. Read the rest of this item here. Broad Coalition Calls on Corporations to Drop Funding for ALEC Over Horowitz Speeches Washington State Rep. Matt Shea keeps his leadership post in ALEC despite circulating a white nationalist manifesto calling for a violent Christian holy war. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck Bill’s author never met the threshold for election that he is demanding for union recertification. Read the rest of this item here. Michigan GOP Defies Voters, Rams ALEC, Koch Priorities Through Lame-Duck Session Unconstitutional voter restrictions, lower wages, less health care, donor secrecy, and union-busting add up to an agenda only the Koch brothers would love. Read the rest of this item here. AT&T Drops ALEC for Hosting Hate Speech AT&T joins Verizon in rush to the exit after ALEC featured a far-right speaker at its annual meeting. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Embraces Trumpism, Climate Catastrophe, and School Privatization at Policy Summit ALEC state legislators, lobbyists, and Koch operatives return to Washington, D.C. for ALEC’s States & Nation Policy Summit to promote an agenda only fossil fuel companies could love. Read the rest of this item here. Verizon Dumps ALEC, Denounces Speaker as Racist Verizon has decided to quit the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) following a public outcry over the corporate lobby group’s hosting of David Horowitz as a prominent speaker at its annual meeting in New Orleans in August. Read the rest of this item here.