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Nationwide, workers lead local movements to raise wages

March 19, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Working families across the country have been leading movements to raise wages at the state and local level.

Fast food workers protest wage theft

March 19, 2014 By John Wojcik And Art Perlo

Elected officials, clergy, community, and union members joined in a spirited protest outside the McDonalds in this city's Fair Haven neighborhood Mar. 18.

Mailman wonders how he made it through the winter

March 18, 2014 By John Dick

A National Weather Service meteorologist has given Metro Detroit the number # 1 ranking in its "misery index." And I deliver mail on foot, house to house, six days a week. That probably explains why I...

Today in women’s history: Betty Allen, steel town to opera, is born

March 17, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Growing up in a working class community, Elizabeth Louise (Betty Lou) Allen heard opera on the streets, from neighbors' radios.

Building trades unions: Remake the nation’s infrastructure!

March 14, 2014 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

With GOP opposition keeping the federal government from moving on Obama-backed legislation that would create massive numbers of jobs, the unions, at their legislative conference mapped out specific proposals to get the job done.