News – Page 3881 – People's World

Is Myanmar at a crossroads?

April 26, 2011 By Brian McAfee

So far 2011 is proving to be an eventful year for Myanmar, formerly known as and still generally called Burma.

Airline unions create international alliance

April 26, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Fourteen unions from eight nations, all representing groups of airline workers, created an international alliance to strengthen themselves and their members against increasingly trans-national airline combinations.

Does labor law protect critical ‘tweets’?

April 26, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

A 30-month struggle by The News-paper Guild of New York with one of the world's big wire services, Thomson-Reuters over "tweets" critical of working conditions.

Florida labor fights “paycheck protection”

April 26, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Florida's labor movement is fighting against a bill, supported by the state's Chamber of Commerce and legislature, that would strip public sector unions of their right to engage in political activity.

Reject terrorism, extradite Posada

April 26, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The time is overdue for justice-minded people to organize to secure terrorist Luis Posada's extradition to Venezuela.