Fight for $15: CPUSA Convention highlights fight for a living wage
At the Peoples World panel on June 13 called "Working for a Living: New Challenges," workers who have been part of the Fight for 15 campaign to raise fast food wages made their voices heard.
Labor comes out on top in San Jose primaries
In San Jose, working people, and city workers in particular, have faced an antagonistic city government for the past eight years.
Latest GOP scheme to kill Saturday mail delivery killed in Congress
In a joint letter to lawmakers, the leaders of the nation's four postal workers' unions called the House GOP's scheme "outrageous and misguided."
House GOP approves hiring of lawbreakers as federal contractors
The House GOP majority rejected a Democratic attempt to aid low-wage workers by ending federal government hiring of contractors who violate the law.
Working Families Party, citing “historic coalition,” backs Cuomo re-election bid
In spite of deep anger and skepticism about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's sincerity, the Working Families Party has endorsed his re-election bid.
House Dems side with labor on trade pact
"Labor rights are now government-to-government in trade pacts, while corporate rights get to go over the top of governments."
Life of General Gordon Baker, Jr. celebrated in Detroit
The life of General Gordon Baker, Jr. was celebrated with a huge outpouring of many hundreds this past Saturday.
U.S. ranks with Haiti, Iran and Mexico on workers rights
"We cannot and we will not stand silent while workers are impoverished through the supply chains of big business and attacked by their own governments."
Thousands to lobby North Carolina lawmakers Tuesday to repeal rightwing laws
The Forward Together Moral Movement from across North Carolina will demand that state legislators rescind laws they say are hurting the state's most vulnerable.
