Labor

Teachers, AAUP boards approve ‘historic affiliation’

March 8, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg

Deal solidifies what had already become extensive cooperation between the two organizations.

Black workers’ struggles inform labor history

March 4, 2022 By April Sims

Yesterday and today, uplifting Black workers ‘transforms misery and despair into hope and progress.’

Jobless rate falls in February, 654K jobs are added

March 4, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg

Unemployment now matches pre-pandemic figures.

Labor Against the War: Activists condemn invasion, call for immediate ceasefire

March 3, 2022 By Special to People’s World

No to invasion, no to NATO expansion, no to the profits of the war industry.

1,300 Hershey’s workers in Virginia voting on unionization

March 2, 2022 By PAI

Key issues in the organizing drive are back-breaking hours and a two-tiered pay structure, particularly onerous for workers in southwestern Virginia, a relatively poor area which has seen an exodus of factory jobs over the last...