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America’s labor movement: Time for a new track on trade policy

February 26, 2015 By John Wojcik

"As a teacher I've always placed a premium on what we know, and what we know is that there hasn't been a trade deal yet that benefitted the American people."

Nurses welcome veto of Keystone XL bill

February 25, 2015 By John Wojcik

"The miniscule number of jobs it would create are far outweighed by the enormous damage that this project creates to our health and in accelerating the climate crisis."

Speaking for millions, union leaders declare “it’s our turn”

February 25, 2015 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

A group of the nation's top union leaders, looking dead serious, filed silently in and up to the front of the press room at the Westin Hotel in Atlanta.

Wisconsin workers again battle Walker’s anti-labor steamroller

February 25, 2015 By Dominique Paul Noth

Trashing promises to provide a fair hearing, the Republican leader of Wisconsin's state Senate labor committee rammed through a bill that would make union shops illegal.

Today in people’s history: 1199 opposes the Vietnam War

February 24, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Fifty years ago, on this day in 1965, District 1199 Health Care Workers became the first labor union in the United States to formally oppose the Vietnam War.