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Judge to hear case against USPS deal with Staples

July 15, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

"If the NLRB sustains the allegations in the complaint, it could effectively end Staples' foray into the mail business."

Is the labor movement split over the 2016 presidential election?

July 14, 2015 By John Wojcik

There has been an unprecedented amount of unity around the AFL-CIO's raising wages agenda, pushing the major candidates for the same thing.

Today in labor history: Ode to a labor troubadour, Woody Guthrie

July 14, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

He wasn't afraid to tackle the problems that workers and unionists faced, while bucking up their spirits, by singing about the people, you and me.

Labor leaders meet with Bernie Sanders

July 14, 2015 By Special to People’s World

"We thought it was important to hear his ideas: how he plans to take on the big-money interests that are strangling our political system and our economy."

American Federation of Teachers endorses Hillary Clinton

July 14, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Weingarten put the union's endorsement in the context of scrapping the Bush-era No Child Left Behind and its teach-to-the-test penalizing of students and schools.