People's World

People's World is a daily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker. Published by Long View Publishing Co., People's World reports on the movements for jobs, peace, equality, democracy, civil rights and liberties, labor, immigrant, LGBT and women's rights, protection of the environment, and more.

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Worker Power
October 26, 2017
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A new Bill of Rights for American workers is born

By Eric Gordon, People's World
ST. LOUIS

In a country of “the too rich and the rest of us,” says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, we need a new Workers’ Bill of Rights. Fittingly, that was Resolution 1 at the federation’s recently concluded national convention, “a tool,” as Cecil Roberts of the United Mine Workers put it, “to support our organizing and our political work.”

Worker Power
October 22, 2017
Photo of AFL-CIO delegates

AFL-CIO delegates join with Black Lives Matter protesters

By Chauncey Robinson, People's World
ST. LOUIS

In an act of powerful solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, delegates attending the AFL-CIO’s 2017 national convention walked out of the America’s Center Saturday to join local BLM activists who had been refused entry by convention center management. The unions had invited BLM activists to speak.

Community
September 29, 2015
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Barber connects voting rights, labor rights

By Larry Rubin, People's World
RALEIGH

The Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP and leader of the Moral Monday and Forward Together movement, said: "The labor rights movement and the voting rights movement are interconnected. We must be smart enough to hook up. If we do, we can change this nation."

Community
September 8, 2013
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Labor takes a look behind the kitchen door

By Blake Deppe, People's World
LOS ANGELES
The second-largest private sector industry in America, which is rapidly growing and has become a cornerstone of the U.S. economy, has a big problem: Its workers are paid unlivable wages and typically cannot eat the very food they are putting on customers' tables.

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