Jobs – Page 189 – People's World

Oregon workers petition for jobs, safety net

January 5, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

With the jobless rate in the Rose City at 10.6 percent or 38,402 workers unemployed, the labor movement and its allies are fed up and fighting back.

Job loss not so bad?

January 4, 2011 By Thomas Riggins

Most people would assume that losing your job would have grave psychological effects, but a recent study claims otherwise - what's up with that?

Job creation nowhere on GOP agenda

January 3, 2011 By John Wojcik

On a different planet, perhaps, an incoming Congress would now be plowing its way through the pages of jobs plans - but not this one.

Class warfare looms in 2011

December 28, 2010 By PW Editorial Board

We've already gotten a harbinger of the class warfare that the emboldened Republican right will wage against the people when the new Congress convenes in January.

Living wage advocate: laws have positive impact

December 22, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg

If you walk into Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) next year, you won't find a McDonald's. They refused to pay their workers a living wage, and dropped out of the bidding for a restaurant concession at...