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Workers at Volkswagen Tenn. plant taking union recognition vote

February 12, 2014 By PAI

If the union wins, the victory would make VW the UAW's second plant in the Volunteer State, but its first successful organizing drive in years in the anti-union South.

Steelworkers’ president scores GOP for racist attacks on Obama

February 12, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Gerard ran down a range of progressive initiatives Obama has proposed during his five years in the Oval Office. Then he launched his blast at the GOP.

Today in labor history: first legal protest by slaves in New York

February 11, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On this date in 1644 the first "legal" protest by Africans in America occurred.

Sudan: Colonialism’s dead hand

February 11, 2014 By Conn Hallinan

Hopefully the recent ceasefire agreement between the warring parties in South Sudan will halt that country's downward spiral into civil war.

IBEW member hits the ice in Sochi

February 11, 2014 By IBEW

Journeyman electrician Ekaterina Pashkevitch is taking to the ice in Sochi, Russia, this week, playing center for the Russian women's Olympic hockey team.