Labor – Page 588 – People's World

It’s official: jobless rate in January at 9 percent

February 4, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Unemployment dropped in January by .4 percent to 9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. It was the second straight .4 percent monthly decline in the official rate. That was the only good news in...

Right-wing “blizzard narrative” is anti-worker snow job

February 2, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky

As a massive winter storm pounds much of the country, the tea party/Republicans are pushing a disastrous narrative: strangle vital public services, like snowplowing, then blame public workers and their unions.

Union elections ahead at United

February 2, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The merger of Continental Airlines into Chicago-based United Airlines, creating the newest mega-carrier, will set off a round of union recognition elections among the combined carrier's 55,000 workers

Demonstrations, nationwide strike rock Egypt, world labor voices solidarity

February 1, 2011 By Dan Margolis

A general strike, to continue until Mubarak's government falls, has been called by the newly formed Federation of Egyptian Trade Unions.

OSHA backtracks on documenting ergonomic injuries

February 1, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Responding to what it called complaints by "small business," the Occupational Safety and Health Administration retreated from even the mild ergonomics proposal it had planned for later this year.