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Trumka urges white working-class men to back Warren in Mass.

September 28, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Using unusually strong language, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka waded into the neck-and-neck Massachusetts U.S. Senate.

St. Lawrence Seaway opened June 26, 1959

June 26, 2012 By Special to People’s World

Today in labor history: The 189-mile-long St. Lawrence Seaway opened

U.S. intransigence on Cuban Five prisoners a high stakes game

May 22, 2012 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

With appeals all but exhausted, the only hope for relief of unremitting judicial abuse of the Cuban Five lies with President Barack Obama.

U.S. last in unionization among developed countries

November 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The U.S. is dead last among 21 top developed nations in both unionization rates and union coverage of the workforce and it's not because of globalization or high technology.

British trade unionists come out for Cuba and the Cuban Five

September 21, 2011 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

From the vantage point of Cuban solidarity activists in the U.S., U.K. trade unionists deserve special credit because they've taken the lead in speaking out for the Cuba Five in Britain.