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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
November 1, 2017
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COMMENTARY: Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South

By C.J. Atkins, People's World
ST. LOUIS

For decades, the South has been the Achilles heel of the labor movement. The Arkansas AFL-CIO is trying to move a national conversation on organizing in the region.

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 25, 2017
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AFL-CIO calls for break with ‘lesser of two evils’ politics

By John Wojcik and Mark Gruenberg, People's World
ST. LOUIS

The AFL-CIO convention called for a break with “lesser of two evil politics,” but came up short when it comes to projecting a clear path to how that will be accomplished.

Worker Power
October 22, 2017
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As AFL-CIO convention opens, Trumka emphasizes need to battle income inequality

By John Wojcik, People's World
ST. LOUIS

Income inequality and the wage gap are far more than simply unfair, according to Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO.

Worker Power
October 22, 2017
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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."

Government
February 25, 2015
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Wisconsin workers again battle Walker’s anti-labor steamroller

By Dominique Paul Noth, People's World
MADISON
Trashing his earlier promises to provide a fair hearing, the Republican leader of Wisconsin's state Senate labor committee rammed through a bill Tuesday that would make union shops illegal in the state.
Worker Power
September 5, 2014
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McDonald’s workers block streets during nationwide wage protests

By John Wojcik, People's World
CHICAGO
Fast food workers began strikes, protests and sit-ins in the streets in Chicago and more than 150 other U.S. cities and towns Thursday in their stepped-up drive for a $15 hourly wage.
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.
Worker Power
September 7, 2013

Young workers are hot topic at labor journalists conference

By Blake Deppe, People's World
LOS ANGELES
Young workers were the hot topic at a gathering of labor journalists in town to cover what many expect to be an historic AFL-CIO convention.

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Workers organizing

Workers are organizing through unions and other organizations to improve their lives. Union representation provides a voice on the job and the opportunity to improve wages, benefits and working conditions.

Update: Minneapolis school custodians vote to join SEIU 284

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Iowa workers choose to stay union

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Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South

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