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Minnesota health care workers beat down right wing court challenge

August 21, 2014 By Barb Kucera

If Service Employees win, it would be the largest union election and organizing victory in Minnesota history and one of the largest in the U.S. in the last several years.

Trumka: Workers “confused, angry, frustrated, scared”

August 20, 2014 By PAI

But the mass movement of low-wage workers, fighting for better wages and working conditions and the right to organize, is helping show the way out of the morass.

NLRB slams Postal Service for Staples privatization deal

August 20, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

And half the U.S. Senate now opposes U.S. Postal Service management's plan to close 82 more distribution centers.

Today in Labor History: Wildfire kills 78 firefighters

August 20, 2014 By Special to People’s World

It is believed to be the largest fire in U.S. history and the deadliest until the September 11 attacks in 2001

Today in labor history: 19th amendment, securing right to vote for women, ratified

August 18, 2014 By Combined Sources

America's woman suffrage movement was founded in the mid 19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements.