Labor

Official October jobless rate drops 0.1 percent

November 14, 2014 By PAI

The unemployment rate fell 0.1 percent in October, to 5.8 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.

28 arrested so far in sit-down strikes at California Walmarts

November 14, 2014 By Combined Sources

The group was joined by hundreds of Californians who rallied outside the store in Pico Rivera, the site of the first Walmart strikes in 2012.

Today in labor history: Official claims “Robin Hood” was communist plot

November 13, 2014 By Special to People’s World

The episode seems silly in retrospect. What was not so silly, however, was the political repression Communists faced.

Walmart workers begin first in-store sitdown strike in company history

November 13, 2014 By Combined Sources

"I'm sitting down on strike today to protest Walmart's illegal fear tactics and to send a message to management and the Waltons that they can't continue to silence us!"

AFL-CIO’s Samuel: Expect congressional attacks on workers rights

November 13, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Expect wide and various attacks on workers rights from a totally Republican-run 114h Congress, AFL-CIO Legislative Director Bill Samuel warns.