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Richard Trumka

Richard Trumka was president of the 12.5-million-member AFL-CIO from 2009 until his death on August 5, 2021.

• AFL-CIO president: Call your senators now!
• Democrats better remember: Unions carried Pennsylvania’s 18th District

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Arlene Holt Baker

Arlene Holt Baker served as AFL-CIO Executive Vice President from 2009–2013.

• Super solidarity over Super Bowl weekend
• A Main Street and MLK Boulevard stimulus

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AFL-CIO Blog

• Why Labor Day matters
• Is a progressive revolution possible?

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Elena Mora

• Nursing home workers write their stories with “Loving Hands”
• Thankful for Thanksgiving

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Zoé Galletta

Zoé Galletta writes from New Brunswick, N.J.

• New Jersey moves to abolish the death penalty

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World Combined Sources

• Reps introduce New Way Forward Act to fight criminalization of immigrants
• This week in history: National POW/MIA Recognition Day

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People’s World is a voice for progressive change and socialism in the United States. It provides news and analysis of, by, and for the labor and democratic movements to our...

• General Motors’ 1991 Christmas Massacre: 21 plants, 74,000 jobs gone
• CPUSA calls on members to close the gap on People’s World fund drive

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PWW Editorial Board

PWW traces its lineage to the Daily Worker newspaper, founded by communists, socialists, union members, and other activists in Chicago in 1924. On the front page of its first edition,...

• Tale of two worlds
• Crystal Lee Sutton: Thunder in North Carolina

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