Labor

National Labor College to close

November 15, 2013 By PAI

"I am saddened to report that the Board of Trustees directed me and the college's officers to develop a plan to close the college," said the institution's president.

Today in labor history: Phone workers call for union

November 14, 2013 By Teresa Albano

The National Federation of Telephone Workers - later to become the CWA - was founded today in New Orleans in 1938.

Supreme court wrestles with outlawing card check and other union rights

November 13, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Some right-wing anti-union moves ran into an apparently skeptical U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 13.

Today in labor history: Death of unionist Karen Silkwood

November 13, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Her life was featured in Silkwood (1983), an Academy Award-nominated film based on an original screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen.

Black Friday Walmart strike wave already underway

November 13, 2013 By John Wojcik

"I want people to be able to live better, you know, like the commercial says; nobody lives better now except for the Waltons."