Labor – Page 1133 – People's World

CWA: “We’ve had no choice but to fight”

July 12, 2011 By Teresa Albano

Carolyn Wade didn't go looking for a fight, but she's in the middle of a big one: some call it a war on workers.

GOP bashes labor board

July 11, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Ruling Republicans on the intensely ideological House Education and the Workforce Committee seized on a National Labor Relations Board proposal to streamline union election processes to once again bash the agency and organized labor.

Against the odds, CWA fights for “good jobs, strong communities”

July 11, 2011 By Teresa Albano

The Communications Workers of America is stressing "movement building" as its convention opens in Las Vegas this week.

Obama defends collective bargaining on Twitter

July 8, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Obama was using Twitter to go over the heads of the press corps, and to address people who don't read papers or watch TV but rely on social media.

Farm workers protest veto of Calif. card check bill

July 6, 2011 By John Wojcik

California's Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, vetoed a bill that would have allowed farm workers to use the card check method to unionize. Brown refused to meet with the farm workers and the 25 legislators that...