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Senate filibuster deal a capitulation, says Common Cause

January 24, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Today's announced "compromise" on Senate filibuster reform is in fact a capitulation by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Mali and chickens

January 24, 2013 By Conn Hallinan

The vision that Conrad's character Marlow describes is of a French frigate firing broadsides into a vast African jungle, in essence, bombarding a continent.

Today in labor history: Jackie Robinson inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame

January 24, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball

Target endangers workers by locking them in at night

January 24, 2013 By Steve Share

"Sometimes I am told to work cleaning the store all night long," said Marco Tulio Perez, who cleans a Twin Cities Target store.

Teamsters forced to authorize bus driver strike

January 24, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

The unyielding bargaining stance of a private school bus company forced bus drivers into unanimous strike authorization votes.