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The United Health Professionals of New Mexico rallied outside University of New Mexico Hospital’s Sandoval Regional Medical Center on Monday calling for a 3% raise that every other employee received.

While the private sector has bounced back from pandemic job losses, public sector jobs still haven’t recovered, according to federal statistics. At an AFSCME hiring event for public service jobs in New Mexico Monday, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said the city is in desperate need of help.

The nation's largest public service employees union is rolling through Albuquerque as part of its national Staff the Front Lines bus tour. The AFSCME recruitment campaign is being held in over 20 cities this summer in response to what the union says is “chronic understaffing” in essential government positions nationwide. A local hiring event on Monday is part of the effort.

University of New Mexico faculty voted to unionize this week, which means labor relations in the future will be negotiated through two separate collective…

First responders who work on the front lines are worried that their collective bargaining rights may be on the line because of a pending case in front of…