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Overcoming company hurdles, 6,000 Amazon workers start union recognition vote

February 16, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

If workers here go union, it will mark a double breakthrough for organized labor in two notoriously hostile environments: Amazon and Alabama.

Impeachment: 57-43 Senate majority—but not enough—votes to convict Trump

February 13, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Many of the 43 voting for acquittal were as guilty of the insurrection as the former president himself.

Historians say CNN wrong to compare Communists to Trump’s coup plotters

February 12, 2021 By Special to People’s World

CNN has its history wrong when it comes to equating the Trump coup to the 1948 Communist conspiracy trials, say a group of prominent academics.

Poor People’s Campaign targets Manchin in drive for $15 minimum wage

February 12, 2021 By Special to People’s World

The Moral Monday fight for a $15 per hour minimum wage is going to the streets next week.

COVID hits Antarctica, scientists extremely concerned for its wildlife

February 12, 2021 By Michelle Power And Meagan Dewar

Given the general ubiquity of coronaviruses and the rapid saturation of the global environment with the COVID-19 virus, it's paramount we explore the risk for it to spread from people to other animals.