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Today in labor history: Harvey Milk elected to office

November 3, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon

On this day in 1977 Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was the first openly gay person elected to public office in California.

“We are dying to get paid!”: R.I.P. workers’ dreams

November 3, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Hundreds of workers and community members filled Los Angeles City Council Chambers on Oct. 29 and built a wage theft cemetery in front of City Hall.

Recycling workers say “enough!”

November 3, 2014 By David Bacon

Within days of each other last week, two groups of Northern California recycling workers declared they'd had enough of what they see as regimes of indignity and discrimination.

Wisconsin’s Walker worries as workers organize

October 31, 2014 By Joseph Zimmermann

In U.S. elections, incumbent governors have an 80 percent chance of being re-elected. So why is Scott Walker having such a difficult time convincing voters to give him a second term?

Labor making intensive final push for Election Day, Nov. 4

October 31, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Backed by radio ads from the AFL-CIO and several top unions, workers and their allies mounted a final intensive political push in the week before the Nov. 4 election.