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Union leaders hail high court’s marriage equality ruling

July 1, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Union leaders hailed the Supreme Court's decision legalizing gay marriage, but added there is still opposition to equal rights for gay people.

Today in history: first U.S. postage stamps issued, and what that means

July 1, 2015 By Special to People’s World

On this date in 1847, the Post Office Department (now called the U.S. Postal Service), issued its first two postage stamps.

Nurses: court decision is a threat to public health and safety, workers’ rights

June 30, 2015

The case, Friedrichs v. CTA (California Teachers Association), involves a challenge supported by far right anti-union groups.

Union leaders applaud Supreme Court health care law ruling

June 29, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

By and large, leaders applauded the ruling keeping the ACA's federal individual payments for health care insurance subsidies for users of health care exchanges, state or federal.

AFL-CIO, ally protest deep cuts in House Labor-HHS money bill

June 26, 2015 By PAI

The legislation cuts employment and training funds, job services, job safety and health funding, kills health care quality evaluation and ACA funding of prevention programs.