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Teachers union leaders split as panel starts rewriting education law

April 17, 2015 By PAI

Leaders of the nation's two large teachers' unions are split on a bipartisan effort by a key Senate committee to rewrite the federal aid-to-education law.

Berkeley demonstration for $15 at site of 60’s Free Speech Movement

April 17, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

Low wage workers were joined by dozens of area unions and community organizations in a massive demonstration for $15 and a union.

Miners and farmers challenge Mexico’s copper giant

April 16, 2015 By David Bacon

"The government and Grupo Mexico are making history but backwards, taking away the right to strike and the right to industrial safety."

Housekeepers on strike at Chicago’s Monaco Hotel

April 16, 2015 By Special to People’s World

"I love my job, but it has been very difficult. I clean sixteen rooms every day. When I get home from work I feel pain all over my body."

Unions and environmentalists descend on DC to oppose fast track

April 16, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

The TPP would give firms and investors "rights and privileges" that make it safer to take production overseas to low-wage, labor and human rights violators.