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Domestic workers share stories today on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

July 31, 2017 By Marzena Zukowska

Despite being integral to the nation, Black women continue to make only 63 cents to every dollar that white men make.

This week in history: U.S. minimum wage rises to $7.25 an hour

July 24, 2017 By Special to People’s World

In an economy increasingly characterized by the service sector, a raise in the minimum wage affects the lowest-paid workers.

An alternative religious perspective on religious exemption laws

July 20, 2017 By Andrew Schloss

The labor movement needs to unite with people of faith and the LGBTQ community because religious exemption laws are bad for all three of these groups.

UAW vote at Nissan set for Aug 3-4; Union files more labor law-breaking charges

July 19, 2017 By PAI

"Over the past six days, Nissan has made it abundantly clear that it does not respect its Mississippi employees’ rights to vote in a free and fair election."

Union leaders skeptical about Trump’s “New NAFTA” negotiating objectives

July 19, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

Leaders of major industrial unions, and their allies in the war against job-losing so-called “free trade” treaties, reacted skeptically to Trump administration negotiating objectives for a “new NAFTA.”