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The GOP’s blind hate of union members

March 5, 2015 By Leo Gerard

To Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker, America's labor union members are the same as murderous, beheading, caged-prisoner-immolating ISIS terrorists.

Unionists storm Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers vs. fast-track

March 5, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Several hundred unionists fanned out over Capitol Hill on Mar. 4 to lobby lawmakers to vote against so-called "fast-track" trade promotion authority.

Activists conduct peaceful disobedience to aid formerly incarcerated

March 5, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

The Labor Council's statement called incarceration "a labor issue," and urged Alameda County to "be a leader and a model in California"

Today in women’s history: Rosa Luxemburg born in 1871

March 5, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Rosa Luxemburg, born on March 5, 1871, in Zamość, Poland, was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist of Polish-Jewish descent.

Organizers say it’s possible to grow unions in the South

March 5, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

People remember Norma Rae, whose iconic struggle to organize a union at J.P. Stevens in the 1970's in Roanoke, N.C. was the stuff of a major Hollywood movie.