Labor

International groups to Iran’s new president: End trade union repression

August 5, 2013 By Committee for Defence of Iranian Peoples Rights

CODIR's call for action has brought together major UK trade unions.

Today in labor history: Workers’ rule crushed in Hungary

August 5, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On August 7, 1919, the Republic of the Councils of Hungary in Budapest was crushed by foreign reactionaries.

Corporate ineptitude in Navy contract looms over union drive

August 5, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Corporate ineptitude on a big U.S. Navy shipbuilding contract is looming over the latest organizing drive among Austal shipyard workers there.

Immigration reform advocates speak out at AFL-CIO headquarters

August 5, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

People all over the U.S. must pressure the GOP-run U.S. House to approve comprehensive immigration reform.

Today in labor history: first general strike in Canada held

August 2, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The first general strike in Canadian history was held in Vancouver on this day in 1918, organized as a 1-day political protest against the killing of draft evader and labor activist Albert "Ginger" Goodwin.