GOP – Page 85 – People's World

Pro-union rallies spread, message deepens

February 28, 2011 By Jean Paul Holmes

For many who feel the country has been hijacked by corporate power the union democratic model is appealing.

Ohio fights attack on labor

February 21, 2011 By Rick Nagin

Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, the state AFL-CIO and its affiliates have called for a massive turnout for a rally Tuesday at the Statehouse in Columbus to protest a Republican bill to repeal collective bargaining for...

Fight over Social Security is on

January 31, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The 112th Congress is barely under way and a fight has already broken out - on partisan lines, of course - over Social Security and Medicare.

Filibuster curbs defeated

January 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

A campaign backed by organized labor, to curb the power of Senate minorities to halt virtually every piece of legislation by filibustering, went down in flames in the tradition-bound chamber on Jan. 27.

Push to regulate firearms gains steam

January 26, 2011 By Dan Margolis

The intern who rushed to aid Rep. Gabriel Giffords, D-Ariz., after during the Jan. 8 Arizona shootings, traveled to New York today to offer his assistance to Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which has ramped up activities...