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AFT’s Weingarten lays out new models for unions

January 15, 2015 By Special to People’s World

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten today laid out a framework for a renewed American labor movement.

AFL-CIO opens Civil and Human Rights Conference in Atlanta

January 15, 2015 By Mike Hall

Today kicks off the AFL-CIO's 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference in Atlanta.

A steelworker’s thoughts on “democracy”

January 15, 2015 By Bruce Bostick

The fight for democracy is central to all of our struggles. However, these struggles are separated from the issue of "who controls the wealth" only at our ultimate peril!

GOP-controlled House votes to undo Obama’s orders on immigration reform

January 15, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Yesterday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill that would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

California lawmakers seek to restore social services funds

January 14, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

Many Democratic state legislators are eager to restore the massive funding cuts suffered by human services programs in recent years.