
Speaker at PW luncheon: "We won't turn our backs on workers"
The March 20 People's World luncheon honoring workers in the struggle was held at the Clean Carwash Workers Center in South Central Los Angeles.

Wash. mill town workers march for Bernie
"It's time to win Washington State and the rest of the West for Bernie Sanders!'

Calif. lawmaker introduces bill to let “Gig Economy” workers organize
Uber and Lyft undercut taxis while underpaying drivers and refusing to pick up workplace expenses.

Unionists cheer as railroad adminstration proposes two-person train crews
This is seen as a big win for rail workers, their unions, their members and rail safety.

Easter Rising 1916: Labor and the Irish independence struggle
An unexpected commotion disrupted routine in a busy city center on an April morning one hundred years ago.

What’s the value of this man’s work?
His name is Kwaku Agyeman, and he has a job pushing wheelchairs for airport passengers who otherwise would have a hard time getting around.

Immokalee Farmworkers: Boycott Wendy's for human rights abuses
The coalition wrote Wendy's a decade ago, saying the chain should pay decent wages and stop human rights abuses in the fields, following guidelines of the coalition's Fair Food Program.

Layoffs continue as newspaper workers continue fight for fair wages, job security
"They've been treating the workforce like something they can just ignore."

This week in women’s history: Militant furriers strike successfully in 1926
Some 10,000 women workers in the needle trades, mostly Jewish and Italian, took to the New York City streets to demand higher wages.

Nation’s top labor leader calls Trump an “anti-American bigot”
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka challenged Donald Trump's appeal to working class voters.

