Labor – Page 579 – People's World

Your mailman talks about St. Patrick’s Day and workers who vote Republican

March 11, 2011 By John Dick

St. Patrick's Day marks the 41st anniversary of the Great Postal Strike of 1970. The key to our dismal conditions then was this: we had no collective bargaining rights.

Teachers need strong unions

March 11, 2011 By Dick Meister

Teachers need the firm right to collective bargaining no less than Wisconsin's other public employees, no less than the public employees of every other state.

Shame! GOP takes away rights in blink of eye

March 10, 2011 By Teresa Albano

Republicans rammed through a bill that would undo 50 years of labor rights in Wisconsin.

Latinos condemn Wisconsin anti-worker bill

March 10, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

Twenty leading national Latino organizations have come together to oppose growing attacks against the rights of workers in Wisconsin and other states.

Video: South Chicago fights polluting plant

March 10, 2011 By Scott Marshall

Over a hundred angry demonstrators from Chicago's southeast side rallied at the Illinois state building to protest plans for construction of a coal gasification plant in their neighborhood.