Congress

Year-end legislative rush may produce little for workers

December 11, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Congress' year-end rush to approve a massive spending bill for the rest of fiscal 2015, and to extend a hodge-podge of special tax breaks, may produce little for workers.

“I can’t breathe” march on Washington to protest police killings

December 9, 2014 By Tim Wheeler

The storm will hit this week when eight mothers of unarmed Black men killed by police will testify Dec. 10 in a House hearing sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.

Nuclear deal with Iran would be historic achievement

November 18, 2014 By Rep. Jim McDermott

Like all compromises, there may be parts of this deal that some Americans may like and others may not like.

Today in labor history: Socialist denied seat in Congress

November 10, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1919 Victor Berger, the first socialist elected to the U.S. Congress was denied his seat.

U.S. to push worker rights trade case vs. Guatemala

September 24, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Saying the Guatemalan government did not live up to its own worker rights commitments, the Obama administration will push its trade case against the Central American nation.