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San Francisco labor celebrates two heroic women workers

December 6, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The public is invited to join the San Francisco Labor Council in celebrating two outstanding workers and mothers, Teresa Mina and Lupe Chavez, who have fought for their families and all immigrants, amazing true life stories...

Syd Hoff and A. Redfield: Two sides of the same coin

November 14, 2013 By Chris Elliott

An almost unknown dimension of his amazing career, discovered by his heirs only after his death in 2004, was Hoff's work for left-wing periodicals in the '30s.

Today in labor history: Death of unionist Karen Silkwood

November 13, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Her life was featured in Silkwood (1983), an Academy Award-nominated film based on an original screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen.

Author calls for fight to prevent extinction of the college prof

October 17, 2013 By Larry Sillanpa

Today only a few universities are faculty drive. Harvard and the University of Chicago are among them and are among the best institutions in America. So what happened?

Today in labor history: National Association of Letter Carriers founded

August 29, 2013 By Special to People’s World

With sixty carriers attending from eighteen states, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) was founded in a meeting hall above Schaefer's saloon in Milwaukee, on August 29, 1889.