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AFL-CIO to push economic agenda starting with January wage summit

November 13, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The AFL-CIO will strongly push its economic agenda, emphasizing job creation and raising workers' incomes, starting with a "wage summit" in January in D.C.

“We are dying to get paid!”: R.I.P. workers’ dreams

November 3, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Hundreds of workers and community members filled Los Angeles City Council Chambers on Oct. 29 and built a wage theft cemetery in front of City Hall.

Recycling workers say “enough!”

November 3, 2014 By David Bacon

Within days of each other last week, two groups of Northern California recycling workers declared they'd had enough of what they see as regimes of indignity and discrimination.

Postal unions plan national protests vs. closings

October 31, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The nation's four postal employee unions are uniting for the Nov. 14 protest against planned Jan. 2015 shutdown of 82 more distribution centers.

The roots of economic justice

October 30, 2014 By Rev. Jim Conn

Minimum wages should provide enough income for working families to put shelter over their heads, food on their tables and clothes on their backs.