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“No more bomb trains”: environmental groups sue over weak regulations

May 20, 2015 By Blake Skylar

"Another derailment and explosion of a train carrying oil. We need to get these exploding death trains off the tracks."

Sanders introduces Robin Hood Tax and free education bills

May 19, 2015 By Special to People’s World

"The Robin Hood tax, which can raise hundreds of billions of dollars every year paid by Wall Street speculators, is the perfect way to fund this program."

Call goes out for boycott of Driscoll

May 19, 2015 By Alex Farr

A work stoppage began March 17 in the San Quintín Valley, in Baja California, as workers called for a minimum daily wage of 300 pesos, about $20.

Labor steps up its crusade for undocumented workers

May 19, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

"We see 20 percent of our workforce being deported; half of Texas' construction workers are undocumented."

Rolling one-day strike closes Washington state schools

May 19, 2015 By Tim Wheeler

Thousands of union school workers in 60 districts across Washington are staging a "rolling one-day walkout" to protest the Republican-controlled State Senate's refusal to fully fund public schools.