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Workers press Biden to fight for $15 minimum wage

February 16, 2021 By Will Weissert And Alexandra Jaffe

Democrats have long promised an increase—support for a $15 minimum wage was including in the party’s 2016 political platform—but haven’t delivered.

Child slavery lawsuit targets Hershey, Nestlé, Mars and other chocolate giants

February 16, 2021 By Olivia Rosane

Child labor is a major and ongoing problem for cocoa production in West Africa. NORC at the University of Chicago found that 1.56 million children were harvesting cocoa in Cote D'Ivoire and Ghana during the 2018...

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.