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Steelworkers oppose using Chinese steel for Verrazano Bridge repairs

July 22, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Another local transit agency is repairing another big well-known U.S. bridge using Chinese steel, and thus not U.S. steel or steelworkers.

President Obama: Trayvon Martin could have been me (video)

July 19, 2013 By Susan Webb

"Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," President Obama said Friday in remarks at the White House.

Detroit’s bankruptcy problem rooted in capitalism

July 19, 2013 By John Rummel

Blame for Detroit's decline, and solutions Governor Rick Snyder and his appointed Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr proposed in today's bankruptcy press conference, left key players in that decline blameless.

Today in labor history: Soldiers flee striking Pittsburgh workers

July 19, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1877 during the Great Railroad strike, workers in Pittsburgh forced soldiers sent to quell the job action to flee the city.

D.C. fast food workers strike, wage complaints reach White House

July 19, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON - Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has taken the plight of the nation's low-paid fast food workers - specifically those who toil in eateries in federal buildings - straight to the top of the nation's political...