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Welcome - The People's World is launching its new website; yes, like the little engine that could, we are a daily again, in a bigger, better and more powerful format, reaching tens of thousands of readers through the ever-widening medium of the Internet.

Fired hotel housekeepers reject Hyatt ‘job offer’

Hyatt offered to "rehire" fired Boston hotel workers: but take a look at the strings attached!

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Labor organizing workers with social media

Labor unions are increasingly using the Internet as an organizing tool with an eye to building among younger workers.

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Unite-Here says: Sí se puede, yes we can!

Video: About 200 hospitality workers and supports arrested in Chicago civil disobedience. Park Hyatt Chicago, Sept. 24, 2009.

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Resurrection Health Care workers vow: ‘We’ll win our union’

Solidarity is the word on the picketline as over 8,000 Chicago  hospital workers fight to organize a union.

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New AFL-CIO leaders set fighting tone

The AFL-CIO's  new leadership launches a national tour pressing for a public health option and passing the EFCA.

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Labor tells G-20 to save planet and its workers

PITTSBURGH — It was clear at a rally here last night that the labor and environmental movements are more united now than ever before as they put forward demands on leaders of the G-20 nations that they believe are needed to rescue both workers and the planet.

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Detroit fights for access to fresh food

DETROIT — This is a city in crisis whose residents get hit from many angles. The city’s unemployment rate (officially near 30 percent) alone would spell catastrophe for any population.

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Wells Fargo guilty of crimes against workers, rally charges

CHICAGO – Hundreds of labor, faith based and community leaders rallied here in front the downtown corporate offices of Wells Fargo Sept. 24 calling the bank guilty of criminal actions aimed at working people.

Labor journalists to look behind the scenes before G-20

Two weeks before the G-20 summit opens in Pittsburgh to discuss the global economic crisis, labor journalists from across the country will be in the Steel City to document what’s really going on with workers without the hype.

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