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Labor launches campaign to raise wages across America

February 18, 2014 By John Wojcik

We are declaring here and now that the labor movement is going to focus like a laser beam on raising wages for all American workers, union and non-union," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters today.

NLRB OKs rules to streamline union election procedures

February 7, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Union leaders welcomed the NLRB's proposals. The right wing House GOP and the National Retail Federation screamed.

In Mexico, independent glassworkers’ union fights for members

February 7, 2014 By Emile Schepers

It takes courage and persistence to be a member of a democratic union in Mexico, to fend off exploitative bosses, repressive officials and corrupt labor "leaders" as shown by the struggle of the SUTEIV.

Marxist economist Richard Wolff draws overflow crowds

February 4, 2014 By Ed Rampell

They flocked to hear the unapologetically self-avowed "Marxian economist" who has long toiled in the obscurity of academia and left circles.

Today in labor history: The International Labor Organization founded

January 30, 2014 By Special to People’s World

After the devastation of WWI, a commission was established to pursue a vision based on the premise that universal, lasting peace can be established only if it is based on social justice, and the ILO was...