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Sensata workers, job losses, to star in new film

October 19, 2012 By Special to People’s World

The workers, who will lose their jobs to China thanks to Mitt Romney's Bain Capital, will star in a new film about their struggle.

Calif. ballot measure would fund public education

October 19, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

In a scenario possible only under California's bizarre budgeting process, the state's general services budget is now in the hands of a ballot measure to temporarily tax high personal incomes to fund education.

Labor going all out as election nears

October 19, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Unions are on full mobilization status as they rev up their final push in the 2012 election battle.

Romney crowd calls outsourced Sensata workers “communists”

October 18, 2012 By John Wojcik

What happens when you try to get Mitt Romney's attention at a campaign rally? The Republican's jeering tea party supporters call you communists.

Today in labor history: African American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery

October 18, 2012 By Special to People’s World

On October 18, 1775, Phillis Wheatley - the first African-American poet and the first to publish a book - was freed from slavery. She was sold into slavery during childhood and transported from West Africa to...