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Catholic Church not practicing what it preaches on labor rights

August 14, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Despite the church's pro-union doctrines, embraced in Catholic Social Thought for more than 120 years, those leaders often act just like corporate executives when it comes to labor relations.

45,000 workers march in support of Second Bill of Rights

August 13, 2012 By Ben Sears

The 45,000 workers and their allies came to hear labor leaders, community activists, and elected officials voice their frustration with politicians' failure to address the needs of working people.

“No justice, no pizza,” says AFL-CIO

August 10, 2012 By Susan Webb

The AFL-CIO has endorsed a nationwide boycott of Palermo's Pizza in response to the company's "blatant disregard of its workers' choice to form a union."

Today in labor history: Air Line Pilots Assocation founded in Chicago

August 10, 2012 By Special to People’s World

A five-man Central Executive Council was established, dues were set, and the official motto became "Schedule with Safety."

Today in labor history … no more Hiroshimas or Nagasakis

August 9, 2012 By Special to People’s World

The United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan today Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the only two cases of using a nuclear weapon against civilians.