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Unions keep up pressure on Verizon

May 16, 2016 By Barb Kucera

As support spreads nationwide for the 39,000 striking Verizon workers, CWA reveals the company has a massive offshoring operation in the Philippines.

Lack of OSHA inspectors, plus corporate greed: a recipe for worker abuse

May 16, 2016 By Matt Murray

This week a new report from Oxfam showed the ugliness of corporate greed in America's food processing plants.

This week in LGBTQ history: Supreme Court decides on Colorado’s Amendment 2

May 16, 2016 By Special to People’s World

Twenty years ago, on May 20, 1996, a landmark victory was won at the United States Supreme Court in Romer v. Evans.

Philippines elects “Trump of the East” as new president

May 13, 2016 By C.J. Atkins

He claims to be a "socialist" while threatening to kill trade unionists and courting big investors at the expense of the poor in his home city.

Brazil: President Rousseff ousted by Senate, Temer names right wing Cabinet

May 13, 2016 By Emile Schepers

The accusation was that Rousseff's government had filled budget shortfalls in 2014 and 2015 by shifting money from the central bank to cover social welfare programs' needs.