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Caregiving matters: International Women’s Day in Los Angeles

March 11, 2015 By Rossana Cambron

The global theme of this year's Mar. 7 annual International Women's Day event was "A Living Wage for Mothers and All Caregivers."

Remembering Vietnam: landmark protest will be commemorated May 1-2

March 11, 2015 By Tom Hayden

A march on the 50th anniversary of the first national protest against the Vietnam War will be held over Apr. 29- May 2 in Washington D.C.

Ed Gomes elected as country’s first Working Families state legislator

March 9, 2015 By Joelle Fishman

"As the first elected on the Working Families Party, I support the Women's Economic Agenda and the Everybody Benefits Coalition."

Activists conduct peaceful disobedience to aid formerly incarcerated

March 5, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

The Labor Council's statement called incarceration "a labor issue," and urged Alameda County to "be a leader and a model in California"

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.