workers rights – Page 63

First Energy: Locks out workers, blacks out customers

January 14, 2014 By John Wojcik

It was just after sunrise only three days before Thanksgiving, that security guards clamped locks on the gates at FirstEnergy in central Pennsylvania, barring 150 workers from their jobs.

At Nissan and beyond, workers’ rights are civil rights

January 14, 2014 By Tyson Jackson

Thanks to the works of those who came before us, this new generation is equipped with the knowledge of how to make change, and it is become more and more apparent what we need to fight...

Today in labor history: SNCC founder Julian Bond was born

January 14, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Today people from around the country and globe are wishing the long time civil rights giant, Julian Bond, a very happy birthday.

Workers’ rights hardly mentioned by justices at High Court hearing

January 14, 2014 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

Supreme Court justices began hearings on National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, a case that could determine whether it is legal to stop the ability of workers to exercise their right to form a union.

Protesting poverty wages lands them in jail

December 3, 2013 By Matthew Voges

At the intersection of Snelling and University Avenues in St. Paul, Minnesota, 26 were arrested on Black Friday afternoon, Nov. 29, for protesting poverty wages.