Louisiana – Page 6 – People's World

Union means everything on New Orleans docks

July 18, 2011 By John Wojcik

As they operate the cranes and forklifts at this famous port, workers here say they are 100 percent behind the fight for union rights being waged across the country.

Six years after Katrina, unions determined to rebuild their communities

July 15, 2011 By Blake Skylar

NEW ORLEANS - As a reporter in this city, you can't help but hear the stories about Hurricane Katrina - even six years after the disaster.

On the Bayou, BP oil spill hasn’t gone away

July 15, 2011 By John Wojcik

Eric Guzman carries himself like any healthy 35-year-old, but his eyes tell you he's been through what only someone much older would normally have experienced.

Union Summer interns work to save endangered shipyard

July 14, 2011 By Blake Skylar

"We're a pretty good team," says Sarah Mandel, one of a group of young interns working here to stop the Avondale shipyard from closing.

Upper Big Branch miner describes scene at blast

March 24, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

On that dismal day in West Virginia history, when the Upper Big Branch mine exploded, a son of one of the miners, Eddie, went from person to person asking: "Is there any word?"