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Irish unions battle minimum wage cuts

September 20, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Can you imagine battling the Great Recession by cutting the minimum wage?

More AFL-CIO Convention coverage here than anywhere else

September 19, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Many of our hardest working union sisters and brothers just completed the most important AFL-CIO convention in history.

Wall Street Journal blind to Supreme Court’s impact on union membership

September 19, 2013 By Jess Levin

The Wall Street Journal editorial board suggested the decline in union membership is due to lack of employee interest, but ignored some facts.

Labor to “play heavily” in state elections next year

September 18, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Organized labor, with its community allies, will "play heavily" in state gubernatorial and legislative races next year, its top two political operatives say.

“Mr. Clean” gives guest workers a dirty deal

September 17, 2013 By Rossana Cambron And John Wojcik

America's unions are going to bat for foreign workers who toil in America, in conditions that approximate slavery. And Dwight Allen, a 41-year-old "guest worker" laboring in Florida apartment buildings says he is sure glad they...