Jobs – Page 51 – People's World

Liberal election victory in Canada holds lessons for Americans

October 26, 2015 By C.J. Atkins

Liberals campaigned on making investments in infrastructure to create jobs, raise income taxes on the richest Canadians to fund services for those at the bottom, and democratize the political system.

NYC union pension systems to invest $150m in affordable city housing

October 23, 2015 By PAI

Union labor will build the housing in an economically targeted investment program in all five boroughs.

AFL-CIO’s veep: With others unions can change the nation

September 29, 2015 By Larry Rubin

"The union movement should join with others who are saying 'instead of building more prisons, we should be creating more jobs and offering more job training.'"

Job fatalities rise in construction, oil, and gas

September 23, 2015 By PAI

"Far too many people are still killed on the job -- 13 workers every day taken from their families tragically and unnecessarily."

Is nation’s gain Wisconsin’s loss?

September 22, 2015 By Dominique Paul Noth

It was Scott Walker himself whose continued bragging about how he had taken away the rights of workers in his home state that actually did him in.