News – Page 2852 – People's World

NLRB official: Mercedes breaks labor law at Alabama auto plant

August 8, 2014 By PAI

The UAW effort in Alabama is part of the union's new focus on organizing autoworkers at foreign "transplant" plants in the South.

Wildfires grow while budget to fight them is depleted

August 8, 2014 By Blake Skylar

The U.S. Forest Service's annual budget for fighting wildfires is rapidly dwindling; in fact, it may run out by the end of the month: the fires, on the other hand, will keep burning.

British MPs cry when they tour North Carolina tobacco farm

August 8, 2014 By Mike Hall

Two members of the British Parliament got a first hand look at the deplorable working conditions that thousands of tobacco workers in North Carolina endure.

U.S. covert operation against Cuban youth condemned

August 8, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

USAID hired young people from Peru, Costa Rica, and Venezuela to pose as tourists in Cuba to befriend young Cubans and try to convert them into anti-government activists.

The doctor will see you now at Plumbers Local 98’s union hall

August 8, 2014 By Marty Mulcahy

Plumbers Local 98 has joined those forward-thinking building trades unions on the cutting edge that take control of their healthcare challenges.