News – Page 2017 – People's World

Trump administration seizes phone records and emails of Times reporter

June 8, 2018 By John Wojcik

This is the most direct attack on the press by the Trump administration since it took office.

Miners: Tax cut for coal firms threatens black lung benefits

June 8, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

"The impacts of black lung disease are debilitating and, in the most serious cases, fatal."

As Republicans resist, labor tackles comprehensive immigration reform

June 8, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

While Republicans wheel and deal in secret with most of them trying to sabotage immigration reform, the labor movement is tackling the issue out in the open.

SOAR honors immigrant strikers murdered at “Little Steel” strike

June 7, 2018 By Bruce Bostick

For eighty years these working-class heroes laid in their graves in Massillon unnoticed, their sacrifices not celebrated.

GOP tax law weakens Social Security and Medicare

June 7, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

“Sixty-six percent of voters are more likely to back candidates who support expanding and increasing Social Security benefits, compared to only 18 percent who are less likely.”