Labor

Today in labor history: Bread and Roses strike

January 11, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1912 the "Bread and Roses" textile strike began in Lawrence, Mass.

Letter Carriers slam new federal report on postal service

January 10, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

A new federal report on the financial ills of the U.S. Postal Service is a reiteration of previous justifications for huge agency prepayments of future retirees' health care costs.

Today in Labor History: Greed and the Pemberton Mill disaster

January 10, 2013 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

Labor Secretary Solis resigns, Trumka lauds her service

January 10, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who repeatedly declared herself "the new sheriff in town" on behalf of workers the last four years, resigned her position on Jan. 9.

Today in Labor History: Tenant farmers sit down in highway

January 9, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1939, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union led 1,700 farm families in the Missouri Highway Sit-down.