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Today in eco-history: Michigan struck by deadly F5 tornado

April 3, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Known as the Hudsonville-Standale Tornado, it was part of a large, deadly outbreak of 49 tornadoes that affected the Great Plains, parts of the South, and the upper Midwest.

GOP goes after NLRB yet again

April 3, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

In yet another right-wing attack on the NLRB, top Republicans unveiled legislation to lengthen union recognition election campaigns.

U.S. secretly built “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest

April 3, 2014 By Desmond Butler And Jack Gillum

The U.S. built a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks.

SEIU’s Henry: Unions need new approaches to attract youth

April 3, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The nation's unions need new approaches to recruit and retain younger workers, Service Employees President Mary Kay Henry says.

Unions, small farmers mobilize in Paraguay under U.S. eye

April 2, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Paraguayan labor federations and small farmer organizations launched a general strike on March 26. Some 90 percent of workers in Asuncion honored the strike.