Labor

First Energy: Locks out workers, blacks out customers

January 14, 2014 By John Wojcik

It was just after sunrise only three days before Thanksgiving, that security guards clamped locks on the gates at FirstEnergy in central Pennsylvania, barring 150 workers from their jobs.

At Nissan and beyond, workers’ rights are civil rights

January 14, 2014 By Tyson Jackson

Thanks to the works of those who came before us, this new generation is equipped with the knowledge of how to make change, and it is become more and more apparent what we need to fight...

Today in labor history: SNCC founder Julian Bond was born

January 14, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Today people from around the country and globe are wishing the long time civil rights giant, Julian Bond, a very happy birthday.

Today in labor history: Tompkins Square Riot

January 13, 2014 By John Wojcik

The NYC police, on Jan. 13, 1874, overran a demonstration by thousands of unemployed in Tompkins Square Park in the neighborhood now called the East Village.

Today in labor history: The Pemberton Mill disaster

January 10, 2014 By Special to People’s World

In the worst industrial disaster in Mass. state history, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapsed on January 10, 1860, trapping 900 workers, most of them recent immigrants, many women and children.