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Fight for $15: CPUSA Convention highlights fight for a living wage

June 17, 2014 By Blake Skylar

At the Peoples World panel on June 13 called "Working for a Living: New Challenges," workers who have been part of the Fight for 15 campaign to raise fast food wages made their voices heard.

Portland, Oregon dumps Walmart bonds

May 22, 2014 By PAI

"A city's investments should reflect the values of its taxpayers, and Walmart is consistently out of step with Portland values."

Want a better world? Get on board with the new labor movement

May 21, 2014 By Sam Webb

Deep-going social change in a progressive, left and socialist direction doesn't just "happen." It requires, first of all, real, active, and politically far-seeing social movements on the ground.

U.K.: Performers condemn woes facing the entertainment arts

May 21, 2014 By Morning Star

Stage and screen performers face funding cuts to the arts, chronic low pay and the dearth of black and ethnic minority representation.

America’s top hospital gets failing grade in treatment of its workers

May 16, 2014 By Jim Baldridge

Hospital workers were on the march in the pouring rain earlier this month at John Hopkins Hospital saying: "America's Number One Hospital - Keeping Workers in Poverty."