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Nigeria elections approach amid economic distress and terror attacks

January 16, 2015 By Emile Schepers

Nigeria is in the news again because of vicious attacks by the extremist jihadi group Boko Haram in the country's Northeastern state of Borno.

Delta flight attendants file for IAM representation

January 15, 2015 By Mike Hall

Nearly 12,000 Delta Air Lines flight attendants have signed authorization cards seeking union representation by the Machinists.

AFT’s Weingarten lays out new models for unions

January 15, 2015 By Special to People’s World

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten today laid out a framework for a renewed American labor movement.

AFL-CIO opens Civil and Human Rights Conference in Atlanta

January 15, 2015 By Mike Hall

Today kicks off the AFL-CIO's 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference in Atlanta.

A steelworker’s thoughts on “democracy”

January 15, 2015 By Bruce Bostick

The fight for democracy is central to all of our struggles. However, these struggles are separated from the issue of "who controls the wealth" only at our ultimate peril!