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AFL-CIO leaders: GOP suing Obama to conceal its non-agenda

August 1, 2014 By John Wojcik

Republican House Speaker Boehner is pushing a lawsuit against Obama to deflect attention from the fact that there are unmet needs in this country and his party has no agenda.

Kellogg’s lockout of bakery workers headed for court

July 25, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The NLRB seeks a court injunction ordering Kellogg's to take the workers back and bargain in good faith with their BCTGM, locked out last Oct.

In LA and Illinois, unions fight legal battles vs. pension cuts

June 3, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The LA pension case affects 20,000 present municipal workers and the Illinois case affects 621,000 workers and retirees.

NLRB heads to court to stop Kellogg’s lockout of Memphis workers

April 11, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The decision to head for court “recognizes Kellogg’s illegal positions and iron-fisted conduct were so destructive to these workers’ rights ."

Today in labor history: The International Labor Organization founded

January 30, 2014 By Special to People’s World

After the devastation of WWI, a commission was established to pursue a vision based on the premise that universal, lasting peace can be established only if it is based on social justice, and the ILO was...