justice
Four labor/community leaders receive Hershel Walker Peace & Justice Award
May 27, 2016Four organizers and activists were honored at this year's awards event sponsored by the People's World.
Read moreWomen’s rights group hails and right wing slams new overtime rule
May 23, 2016The Economic Policy Institute estimates 12.5 million workers will be newly eligible for overtime pay or see their existing rights strengthened, including 6.4 million women.
Read moreNew York City protesters demand justice for slain Honduras activist Berta Cáceres
May 11, 2016Advocates call for an independent investigation, as well as an end to U.S. military aid and military training in Honduras.
Read moreOn May Day
April 29, 2016It's often forgotten, but May Day, the original, real, workers' holiday, originated in the U.S.
Read moreLabor Dept. to coal mine owners: Pay black lung victims’ claims, then appeal
April 29, 2016The old appeal policy left hundreds of thousands of coal miners, disabled from black lung disease, usually without a penny of benefits before they died.
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