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Election is biggest union organizing victory in the South in decades

September 17, 2014 By Special to People’s World

New American Airlines passenger service agents vote big for union representation.

Your vote – it’s your right – not a privilege!

August 29, 2014 By Connie Leak

For working women the results of the November 2014 election will determine much about your life on and off the job.

Nightmare begins as GOP takes over Senate

August 29, 2014 By PW Editorial

A GOP takeover would transform the Senate to reflect the concerns of people who have nothing but scorn and contempt for working people, democracy or any type of good government.

Today in labor history: Workers take part in protest against bank

August 15, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1963, in East St. Louis, Illinois, 200 people - 170 of them female, and majority African-American - engaged in a sit-in protest.

Today in labor history: Zeigfield Follies chorus girls form union

August 11, 2014 By Special to People’s World

It happened on August 12, 1919. The chorus girls in his Ziegfeld Follies formed their own union, the Chorus Equity Association.