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Quill Pettway, 94: A giant laid to rest

January 20, 2015 By John Rummel And April Smith

Quill Pettway, labor organizer and civil rights pioneer was part of a generation of Communists and radicals who made Detroit's rich labor and civil rights history.

To honor of King they marched for lives in Los Angeles

January 20, 2015 By Eric A. Gordon

Over 3000 marchers and tens of thousands of observers lined up along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in solidarity with the theme Black Lives Matter.

Grapes of Wrath: California farmworkers fight to unionize

January 20, 2015 By David Bacon

No union can survive without being able to win contracts and thus being able to make substantial changes in wages and conditions.

Labor expects bold action from Obama tonight on overtime pay

January 20, 2015 By John Wojcik

Overtime pay has increasingly moved to the top of labor's agenda because millions of workers are working overtime and not getting paid for it.

Fifty years later it’s not too late for Dr. King’s dream

January 16, 2015 By William Spriggs

Dr. King wrote with an optimism that a nation that could produce such wealth could do better; he understood what many do not.