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“Look beneath the shine,” say Nissan workers

January 14, 2013 By John Rummel

The Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan held a press conference to emphasize how the auto giant is unfairly treating its 3,300 workers at its Canton, Mississippi plant.

Wisconsin dairy workers lose their livelihoods

January 14, 2013 By Joseph Zimmermann

Wisconsin is the state known as 'America's Dairyland', but this month it ran out of milk.

Labor Secretary Solis resigns, Trumka lauds her service

January 10, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who repeatedly declared herself "the new sheriff in town" on behalf of workers the last four years, resigned her position on Jan. 9.

Today in labor history: New Orleans slave uprising

January 8, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The revolt consisted of somewhere between 300-500 people.

The mailman learns from Bob Moore the whole grain guy

January 7, 2013 By John Dick

I did not start my career as a letter carrier until I was 41 years old. Before that, I spent the majority of my working life as a self-employed small businessman.