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Today in labor history: California school workers organize union

August 9, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On Aug. 9, 1927, 10 school custodians met in Oakland, Calif., to form what was to become the 230,000-member California School Employees Association, representing school support staff throughout the state.

Doesn’t feel like shared sacrifice to Detroit’s pensioners

August 7, 2013 By John Rummel

"We have retirees who are in their eighties and nineties - are they supposed to get a job?"

For striking Laborers at Cretex, preserving pensions is key

July 30, 2013 By Steve Share

"I've never stood up for anything in my life, but this is too much to give up."

Unions scramble to aid victims in Detroit bankruptcy filing

July 26, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON - Union leaders, both in Detroit and nationally, blasted the decision of Detroit's state-appointed financial czar to file for bankruptcy for the 750,000-person Motor City, even as they scrambled to try to help their members...

Patriot Coal walkout on talks forces miners to consider strike

June 13, 2013 By Press Associates

TRIANGLE, Va. (PAI) - Workers at Patriot Coal Co., which is now undergoing bankruptcy reorganization, will have to prepare for a strike authorization vote after firm managers walked out of talks on a settlement on June...