Labor – Page 1165 – People's World

Justice bus rolls to stop wage theft

November 21, 2009 By James Thompson

HOUSTON — The Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center assembled a group of 30 labor activists to ride the Justice Bus here to bring attention to wage theft.

‘Health care or food?’

November 21, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

"The company wants to make us pay $350 a month for our family health care; for me that would mean a 10 percent wage cut."

U.S. students win ‘new day’ for Honduran workers

November 19, 2009

In a big victory for a U.S. student campaign, Russell Athletics, the largest supplier of team uniforms and apparel, agreed to reopen a Honduran factory that it shut down after its workers formed a union.

Feeling heat, U.S.-China firms say they’ll build turbines here

November 19, 2009 By Susan Webb

Under pressure from the nation’s biggest manufacturing union, a U.S.-China energy partnership said it would build a factory here, creating 1,000 jobs.

AFL-CIO head denounces Honduras elections

November 18, 2009 By Emile Schepers

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has weighed in on the planned November 29 elections in Honduras, with an open letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.