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Senate GOP votes to kill NLRB union elections rule, Obama promises veto

March 6, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

By a 53-46 party-line vote, the GOP-run Senate voted to kill the NLRB's planned union elections rule update.

Remembering women’s history: Lucy Parsons

March 6, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Lucy Ella Gonzales Parsons, a working-class leader and spouse of one of the Haymarket martyrs, died March 7, 1942 in Chicago.

Unionists storm Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers vs. fast-track

March 5, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Several hundred unionists fanned out over Capitol Hill on Mar. 4 to lobby lawmakers to vote against so-called "fast-track" trade promotion authority.

Organizers say it’s possible to grow unions in the South

March 5, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

People remember Norma Rae, whose iconic struggle to organize a union at J.P. Stevens in the 1970's in Roanoke, N.C. was the stuff of a major Hollywood movie.

Silicon Valley rises up for low-wage workers

March 3, 2015 By Henry Millstein

Over 200 labor, religious, and community activists packed historic McDonnell Hall here today to launch Silicon Valley Rising.