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The Trump Administration has been slashing government in a variety of areas, including the Environmental Protection Agency. Region 5 of the EPA covers the Great Lakes area and includes Washtenaw County. The layoffs have the potential to impact the agency’s ability to steward the environment around the world’s largest body of fresh water. And the impact on public health could be significant. Loreen Targos is Executive Vice President of the American Federation of Government Employees-Local 704, which represents about 1,000 EPA workers. She spoke with WEMU's David Fair and Michigan League of Conservation Voters executive director Lisa Wozniak about employee cuts and the implications.

Workers at Bobcat Bonnie’s and Keystone Bar in downtown Ypsilanti have organized a union, causing the bar chain to close both locations for the foreseeable future. Ana Longoria reports.

A few dozen union activists and others marched at a construction site in Ann Arbor on Wednesday calling for a boycott of United Electrical Contractors. WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert has the story.

The Ann Arbor Tenants Union has launched a campaign to end waitlist fees in the city and across Michigan. WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert has this report.

University of Michigan residential staff students are looking to unionize. As WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert reports, organizers from the ResStaff Allied Organization, or RAO, have collected over 100 union authorization cards.

Earlier this week, the University of Michigan lecturers’ union announced it was circulating a strike pledge petition among its members. Today, lecturers and allies will be holding a rally and march seeking a new deal ahead of the end of the school year. We hear more from WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert.

Residents at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, or WMed, are becoming the latest in the state to vote to unionize. Colin Jackson has more.

The union representing Ypsilanti police officers has passed have taken vote of no confidence in the city’s police chief. WEMU’s Taylor Bowie has more.

Another 600 Michigan Medicine employees have received union recognition. WEMU’s Taylor Bowie has more.

An additional 1,300 healthcare employees at Michigan Medicine have joined a union for health professionals. WEMU’s Taylor Bowie reports.