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Workers say city services are vital to public safety

April 4, 2013 By Marilyn Bechtel

City workers gathered in front of City Hall April 2 with a message for City Council members starting to discuss a new two-year budget.

Today in labor history: Memphis 1968, we remember

April 4, 2013 By Special to People’s World

An assassin's bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers.

Sixteen arrested in W.Va. after 11,000 march on Patriot Coal

April 2, 2013 By John Wojcik

The actions, organized by UMWA, were in support of the union's campaign to save health care for retired miners and win better wages, benefits and working conditions for miners on the job.

Southwest Airlines ground crews walk picket lines

March 29, 2013 By Marilyn Bechtel

OAKLAND, Calif. - Southwest Airlines ground workers took to the picket lines in 16 cities March 28, to protest contract proposals they say would compromise the airline's tradition of outstanding customer service.

Southwest Airlines: not so luvly to employees

March 29, 2013

Since the union's contract with Southwest Airlines became amendable, workers say the company has stalled in negotiations and brought an ever-increasing list of demands for cuts.