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Labor’s top organizer sees long fight ahead

May 14, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Labor groups, Latinos, African-Americans, women, and students must unite in a years-long campaign to restore and reclaim workers rights.

Home care workers win union rights

May 11, 2012 By Joelle Fishman

Home care workers hugge and cheered when the State Senate voted in favor of granting home health care and child care workers collective bargaining.

Caterpillar workers strike against take back contract

May 10, 2012 By John Bachtell

Nearly 800 workers at a Caterpillar plant have been on strike since May 1 after the company refused to back off a far reaching concessionary contract proposal.

Twin Cities hospital strike vote scheduled

May 10, 2012 By Barb Kucera

Members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota will vote whether to authorize a strike at eight Twin Cities hospitals.

OSHA warns bosses on summer heat

May 10, 2012 By Special to People’s World

There's a very simple way for employers to avoid having their workers keel over from heat exhaustion or die from heat stroke: "Water, rest, and shade."