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The Department for Professional Employees (DPE) is a coalition of 23 national unions representing over four million highly skilled, white-collar employees. DPE unions include professionals in over three hundred separate and distinct occupations in many sectors including: health care and education; science, engineering and technology; journalism, entertainment and the arts; public administration and law enforcement. The DPE is the largest association of professional, technical and administrative support workers in the U.S.
 

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Items of Interest
Take the AFL-CIO Ask A Working Woman Survey
Editorial: Six Votes, Then and Now
Working Life (High and Low)
How Private Health Coverage Works: A Primer – 2008 Update
A Decade of Decline - The Erosion of Employer-Provided Health Care in the United States and California, 1995-2006
Teachers’ Work Patterns: When Where and How Much Do U.S. Teachers Work?
Hollywood Producer Set to Make Shows for Xbox
Editorial: The Political Specter at Justice
How Government Adds to Ranks of Uninsured
The Private Sector’s Tramping in Iraq
Editorial: New Hope for the Rich
Editorial: A Prescription for Flu Shots
Nurses’ Health: A Survey on Health and Chemical Exposures
Higher Education Gap May Slow Economic Mobility

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Welcome: President Almeida's messageProfessional and technical workers are today the fastest growing occupational groups in our nation. Their explosive growth over the past two decades has brought into sharp focus a host of work/life problems and challenges faced every day by these hard working individuals. Lack of respect on the job, excessive hours of work, inadequate pension, health care and other benefits, insufficient time for family commitments, and job insecurity are but a few of their pressing issues. More...

Breaking News
05/01/2008 Members of smaller actors union ratify TV deal with studios - USATODAY.com*
04/25/2008 Nurses want fair union organizing
04/24/2008 Group of CVMC nurses files papers to unionize
04/17/2008 Lawmakers, Unions Protest Tanker Deal
04/16/2008 Broadway to Begin Labor Talks
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Organizing
Organizing victories among DPE affliates.
Apr 2008 AFSCME
Apr 2008 IBEW
Apr 2008 IFPTE
Mar 2008 UAN
Feb 2008 UAN
   
Issues & Trends
Nov 2007 President Almeida on Lou Dobbs Tonight (CNN)
Aug 2007 DPE Executive Director David Cohen on Lou Dobbs Tonight (CNN)
Apr 2007 President Almeida on PBS' Nightly Business Report
Mar 2007 President Almeida on Lou Dobbs Tonight (CNN)
Mar 2007 Journalists Receive Human Rights Award
   

DPE unions represent these workers

The Department for Professional Employees (DPE) comprises 23 unions representing four million professional, technical and administrative support workers in hundreds of occupations. Over 350 are listed here. Click on your occupation to see if it is represented. With unions organizing professionals everyday, this list is constantly expanding. Workers in your occupation may be represented by one or more of our affiliates. To learn about our affiliates, we invite you to take a look at the affiliate profiles.


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