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Advertisement Wim Conklin has served as Country Program Director for the Solidarity Center Cambodia for the past five years and has worked on international labor programs in South and Southeast Asia since 1994. In recent years he has also worked closely with garment workers and their employers and the hotel industry. Both sectors have been severely punished by the COVID-19 virus, which has escalated in Cambodia with authorities scrambling to rollout the government’s vaccination program. Conkl...

Billy Bragg, Lucy Dacus, Will Butler of Arcade Fire, and more artists have been tapped by the Working Families Party for a new conversation and performance series that begins tomorrow, International Workers Day (May 1), to raise awareness for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act). A number of other artists—including Toshi Reagon, Aloe Blacc, Thursday, Kyp Malone, and Anti-Flag—will perform labor songs as part of the ongoing Jammin’ for Jobs series. The events will take place ...

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 | Sacramento, CA Mario Ramírez Garcia, 10, listen as his teacher addresses the class during distance learning in the bedroom he shares with his sister on April 23, 2021. Anne Wernikoff / CalMatters About twice a week, the $9.99 per month internet connection falters. It’s often as Mario Ramírez finally wrangles his kids into their seats — the fourth-grader studies in t...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Biden agenda pushes jobs, families, equality, wage hikes, and unions April 29, 2021 12:28 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. flank President Joe Biden as he addresses a joint session of Congress, April 28, 2021. | Melin...

Longtime labor leader Hetty Rosenstein has joined the Murphy for Governor 2021 team, Gov. Phil Murphy’s reelection campaign announced Wednesday. Rosenstein, who recently retired as state director for New Jersey for the Communications Workers of America after 14 years in the post and 40 years with the union, will serve the campaign as senior adviser for progressive coalitions and outreach. “It would be an understatement to say that Hetty Rosenstein is a force of nature for organized labor an...

About twice a week, the $9.99 per month internet connection falters. It’s often as Mario Ramírez finally wrangles his kids into their seats — the fourth-grader studies in the bedroom he shares with his 12 year-old sister, who studied in her parents bedroom —  in time for virtual class.  The screens freeze — sometimes during online tests. At times the little one bursts into frustrated tears as they wait for their connection to resume, precious class time slipping away.  ...

Aaron Favila / AP WASHINGTON (PAI)—From coast to coast, demands for passage of the PRO Act, the most pro-worker labor law overhaul in 86 years, will take center stage at May Day marches, teach-ins, and events, preceded by other pro-PRO Act actions that began on April 26. The AFL-CIO reports more than 700 events are planned, and that count may be low, as individual unions check in with their own marches and meetings. And five big Bay Area labor councils joined together for a May Day march in S...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Reactions to Chauvin guilty verdict: Only a first step to justice April 22, 2021 11:00 AM CDT By PAI Celebrations broke out nationwide after the verdict was read. Here, the scene outside AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington. | AP WASHINGTON—The overwhelming reaction to the Minne...

Print this article Demands for diversity and economic fairness apparently stop at the front door of some newspapers in the nation’s largest media chain, Gannett. In an unusual report on 14 Gannett papers by six reporters from some of those same newspapers, the company that is woke on the raging issues of race and fairness overwhelmingly favors whites in pay and job security. “Our analysis of salaries in 14 newsrooms at Gannett, the largest newspaper company in the U.S., found pay dispariti...

By Bertin Lefkovic | April 25, 2021, 9:55 pm | in Edward Edwards When Lisa McCormick ran against United States Senator Robert Menendez in the 2018 Democratic primary election, her campaign’s alleged usage of bogus signatures was probably one of the worst kept secrets in progressive politics.  Anyone and everyone who followed the race knew that neither she nor her diminutive (I vaguely remember someone else referring to him in the past as Lilliputian...