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Unite Here: Organizing to change lives

July 22, 2014 By Joelle Fishman

Having organized over 10,000 new members in the past year, delegates enthusiastically agreed to organize at least 10,000 new members every year until their next convention in 2019.

Changing the balance of power between Capital and Labor

July 21, 2014 By David Mirtz

The private appropriation of socially produced wealth is capitalism's central mechanism.

AFSCME helping 12,000 Chicago cab drivers unionize

July 17, 2014 By John Wojcik

Over 1,000 delegates to the 41st AFSCME International Convention told the 12,000 cab drivers of this city who are trying to unionize that they are not alone.

Today in labor history: Pullman strike leader murder sparks huge protest funeral

July 17, 2014 By Special to People’s World

During the Pullman strike, Charles Leonard, a representative of Omaha Railway murdered Charles Luth, a railroad switchman and union activist.

AFL-CIO student interns organize on Tobacco Road

July 17, 2014 By Kenneth Quinnell

AFL-CIO Union Summer interns have joined members of the FLOC in a drive to organize thousands of North Carolina tobacco farm workers.