Labor

Missouri janitors fight poverty wages

November 21, 2012 By Tony Pecinovsky

The janitors wore giant back and white photos draped around their chests and back as they marched and chanted "What's disgusting? Union busting! What's outrageous? Poverty wages!"

Farmworkers, allies demand Publix sign agreement with Immokalee workers

November 21, 2012 By Ben Markeson

More than a dozen actions were planned at Publix stores mostly in Florida, along with actions around the country.

Nurses strike, again, for patient safety and nursing standards

November 20, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

One-day strikes affected seven Summit hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area, involving up to 3,200 nurses and several hundred medical technicians.

Today in labor history: “Scab” used for the first time

November 20, 2012 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1816 the term "scab" was coined by the Albany Typographical Union in reference to strike breaking.

USPS hiring freeze hurts veterans, postal workers say

November 20, 2012 By Don McIntosh

While the USPS was closed on Veterans Day, Portland, Ore. postal employees used their day off to say that if USPS really wants to honor veterans, it should hire them.