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Power, intimidation and jobs at play in VW union vote

February 18, 2014 By Stewart Acuff

Before observers and commentators blame "backward or racist southerners" for voting no, it is useful to look at this narrow vote in the context of power and intimidation.

The sun shone on massive North Carolina Moral March

February 10, 2014 By David Bender

The march, organized by the NAACP, labor unions, and religious leaders, amounted to a dramatic comeback of the Moral Monday protests that drew the nation's attention here over the last year.

Today in black history: “Jail-No-Bail” campaign began in S.C.

February 7, 2014 By Special to People’s World

SNCC leaders staged a Jail-No-Bail sit-in in solidarity with the imprisoned CORE activists. The sit-in re-energized the movement in Rock Hill, SC.

At Nissan and beyond, workers’ rights are civil rights

January 14, 2014 By Tyson Jackson

Thanks to the works of those who came before us, this new generation is equipped with the knowledge of how to make change, and it is become more and more apparent what we need to fight...

Today in Labor History: 1934 textile workers strike begins

September 18, 2012 By Special to People’s World

The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in U.S. labor history at the time, involving as many as 500,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S.Southern states.