Labor
Workers walk in first major meatpacking strike in 40 years
March 17, 2026The strike against a big beef plant run by JBS Foods is over poverty wages and unsafe conditions on the job.
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Homecare workers pressure Hochul and Mamdani to end 24-hour workday
March 17, 2026Homecare workers are often assigned to patients who need “around-the-clock care,” resulting in 24-hour shifts that come with only 12 hours of pay.
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Chicago Teachers Union calls for May Day to be official day of civic action
March 16, 2026The union urges a protest against what it describes as Trump’s “rising authoritarianism.”
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Farmers see fertilizer price surge as Iran War blocks exports
March 16, 2026The latest from award-winning People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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Farm Workers to march on federal courthouse protesting Trump’s wage cuts
March 16, 2026Union says agribusiness owners will use the pay cut and visa expansion to cut every farmworker’s minimum pay, documented or not.
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