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Congress Hotel strike ends, fight of hotel workers goes on

May 31, 2013 By Special to People’s World

With the 10th anniversary of the Congress Hotel strike approaching, Unite Here Local 1, the union representing Chicago's hospitality workers, announced the end of strike on May 29.

Mississippi Nissan workers go global in fight for justice

May 31, 2013 By John Wojcik

UAW President Bob King, and actor Danny Glover are in Johannesburg where that country's Metalworkers union has come out fighting for the right of 5,000 Mississippi Nissan workers to organize a union.

Striking Walmart workers’ caravan heads for firm’s headquarters, annual meeting

May 31, 2013 By Press Associates

A group of more than 100 Walmart workers from stores in Northern California, Miami, Boston, Denver and elsewhere started an extended strike on Memorial Day against the retail mega-monster.

Today in labor history: Farm Workers win after 17-year boycott

May 29, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On May 29, 1996, the United Farm Workers of America reached agreement on a contract for 450 lettuce harvesters, ending a 17-year-long boycott.

Union protests Obama’s nomination of Pritzker

May 28, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Saying Hyatt Hotel magnate Penny Pritzker destroys jobs, Unite Here members crowded into the back of a Senate hearing room to show the union opposes her nomination as U.S. Commerce Secretary.