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Trumka: Workers “confused, angry, frustrated, scared”

August 20, 2014 By PAI

But the mass movement of low-wage workers, fighting for better wages and working conditions and the right to organize, is helping show the way out of the morass.

NLRB slams Postal Service for Staples privatization deal

August 20, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

And half the U.S. Senate now opposes U.S. Postal Service management's plan to close 82 more distribution centers.

Labor joins community at Ferguson march

August 20, 2014 By Nicholas James

As the mile-long column marched down the main street of Florissant, whole families poured from their doors and joined the procession: the peoples' struggle is the workers' struggle.

Closing of unionized plant becomes charged issue in Connecticut elections

August 15, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The right wing Republican nominee accused the workers of causing the plant closing, what happened next was a lulu.

Today in labor history: Roosevelt signs Social Security Act

August 14, 2014 By Special to People’s World

In the aftermath of the Great Depression during which poverty encompassed 60 percent of the senior population, Social Security was a major plank of Roosevelt's "New Deal."