Unions hit GOP "verification" scheme
AFL-CIO President Trumka and Service Employees Secretary-Treasurer Medina are blasting the GOP's latest anti-worker gambit: Forcing firms to use a faulty employee verification scheme, called "E-verify."
Service employees join suit vs. Georgia's anti-immigrant law
Call Georgia's anti-immigrant law "racial profiling" that threatens to turn Georgia into "a police state."
New Yorkers join in taking back May Day
The sun was shinning as 10,000 New Yorkers celebrated International Workers Day last Sunday, May 1.
Workers take back May Day
Across the country on May 1, tens of thousands of workers, led by the presidents of the nation's largest unions, reclaimed May Day as an American holiday.
May Day demonstrations demand both worker and immigrant rights
Hundreds of thousands across the nation marching and rallying will be fusing the fight for workers' rights and the fight for immigrant rights.
Meet Eliseo Medina, SEIU's first Latino sec.-treas.
The People's World interviewed Eliseo Medina, widely known as a highly successful organizer and immigrant rights advocate recently elected as the first Latino international secretary-treasurer with SEIU.
Labor pushes for the swing vote
Pollsters are reporting that the "swing voters," most of them working-class moderates and even some conservatives, are now ready to vote against all incumbents, even if it means putting the GOP back in power.
Unions join religious leaders in Arizona law protests
PHOENIX (PAI)--Unionists joined religious leaders on July 29 in mass protests against Arizona's draconian anti-immigrant law.
Farmworkers to Colbert Nation: “Take our jobs”
United Farm Worker union president takes the immigration issue to Stephen Colbert with a "Take Our Jobs" campaign.
Philly taxi drivers protest immigrant detentions
Taxi drivers protest underhanded tactics and immigration arrests of 25 drivers by local parking authority working in collusion with federal immigration officials.
