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Good Jobs First analysis: The corporate rich get richer

March 4, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

States and cities frequently shower firms with millions of dollars in tax breaks, all in the name of gaining - or keeping - jobs. The corporate rich get richer from it.

Today in women’s history: Suffrage supporters march in D.C

March 3, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On March 3, 1913 supporters of the right of women to vote marched in Washington D.C., disprupting the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson.

Navy hired company blocking union organizing rights

March 3, 2014 By PAI

An Australian ship building company in Mobile, Ala., hired by the Navy is forcing workers to follow bad construction plans and, at the same time, is blocking their effort to unionize.

Union leaders hail Obama infrastructure push

March 3, 2014 By PAI

"The president wants to push for public and private infrastructure investment, we say bring it on. Union workers stand ready to meet the needs of the largest project you can think up."

Government workers: “Raise our pay 4 percent, not 1 percent!”

February 28, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

A 4 percent hike would start to make up for the three years of federal pay freezes and increased pension contributions-without increased future pension payouts-that Congress imposed on federal workers.