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Today in labor history: Report on equal pay for women

April 29, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The special representative to the National War Labor Board issued a report setting forth provisions respecting wage rates for women working in war industries.

Senate immigration bill: big advances, real dangers

April 23, 2013 By Emile Schepers

Numerous groups are working out their point-by-point analyses of the Senate bill, which is more than 800 pages long.

Senate immigration bill hailed

April 16, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Last week's unprecedented march on Washington D.C. to "Keep Families Together" through immigration reform has borne its first fruit, immigrant rights activists are saying.

“Stop breaking up families, immigration reform now,” demand protests

March 25, 2013 By John Bachtell

The civil disobedience at Federal Plaza was one of 10 actions that took place around the country organized by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement.

Minimum wage workers press Senate for hike

March 22, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON - For seven years, Carolle Fleurio has been a cook at a family restaurant in Stockbridge, Ga., and even though she enjoys the job, she told a Senate panel here, it's tough to raise a...