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D.C. fast food workers strike, wage complaints reach White House

July 19, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON - Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has taken the plight of the nation's low-paid fast food workers - specifically those who toil in eateries in federal buildings - straight to the top of the nation's political...

Today in labor history: S.C. hospital workers win union recognition strike

July 18, 2013 By Special to People’s World

For over three months, 400 African-American hospital workers, mostly women, walked off their jobs in protest over discrimination and the right to form a union.

Senate rules compromise avoids “nuclear” option

July 16, 2013 By John Wojcik

This comes after years of pressure by labor, financial reform, environmental and other progressive groups to allow up-or-down votes on executive nominees so the peoples business can finally get done.

“Liberation Music”: Defining an era of protest through jazz

July 16, 2013 By Anthony Mangos

The music is representative of the free style era that bore it, but there is nothing obsolete about this compilation. It illuminate a period when musical expression played an important role in progressive politics.

Unions speak out on Zimmerman verdict

July 16, 2013 By John Wojcik

Unions are lining up with civil rights groups and community organizations across the country and speaking out on the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin, an un-armed teenager.