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Steelworkers oppose using Chinese steel for Verrazano Bridge repairs

July 22, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Another local transit agency is repairing another big well-known U.S. bridge using Chinese steel, and thus not U.S. steel or steelworkers.

Today in labor history: Soldiers flee striking Pittsburgh workers

July 19, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1877 during the Great Railroad strike, workers in Pittsburgh forced soldiers sent to quell the job action to flee the city.

Three unions call for Obamacare redo

July 19, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON - The presidents of the Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers and Unite Here have asked congressional Democratic leaders to redo the 2010 health insurance law to prevent firms from converting workers from full-time...

Minimum wage workers teach economics to the economists

July 18, 2013 By Dominique Paul Noth

A working father with a high school education, Marvin was one of 18 minimum wage workers gathered at a South Side job center to discuss the need for higher pay.

Today in labor history: S.C. hospital workers win union recognition strike

July 18, 2013 By Special to People’s World

For over three months, 400 African-American hospital workers, mostly women, walked off their jobs in protest over discrimination and the right to form a union.