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San Jose kicks off campaign to raise minimum wage

August 15, 2012 By Henry Millstein

A lively crowd of around 200 labor and community activists, gathering at IBEW Local 232 headquarters, kicked off a campaign to raise the minimum wage in San Jose.

Big union win for security guards

August 15, 2012 By Don McIntosh

Four enormous security companies have agreed to recognize the SEIU -- and begin negotiating a union contract -- for about 500 Portland-area security guards.

Today in labor history: Panama Canal, built by 75,000, opens

August 15, 2012 By Special to People’s World

On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened, after 32 years of construction and an estimated 28,000 worker deaths.

Unions: The folks who brought you summer vacations!

August 14, 2012 By Steve Share

These avid outdoors folk speak about the importance of their union job, which allows them the financial resources and the vacation time to go hunting and fishing.

Today in labor history: Roosevelt signs Social Security Act

August 14, 2012 By Special to People’s World

On this day in1935 FDR signed the first Social Security Act into law. In the aftermath of the Great Depression during which poverty encompassed 60 percent of the senior population, Social Security was a major plank...