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WASHINGTON—With all their talk about how horrified they are with Israel’s destruction of Gaza and killing of 30,000 civilians there, many Democrats had no problem getting together with Republicans to allow an amendment filed on Feb.12 by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind.-Vt., to die.

WASHINGTON—Going five years without a raise, because your boss won’t bargain a new union contract, has its costs. For flight attendants at Southwest Airlines, represented by the independent Association of Professional Flight Attendants, it means—if you’re a first- or second-year attendant--s...

WASHINGTON—Donald Trump is playing stall ball again, this time at the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump isn’t directly challenging a three-judge appellate court panel ruling that he’s a regular citizen, not president anymore, and thus can’t use presidential immunity forever to deny a federal crimina...

WASHINGTON —Service Employees President Mary Kay Henry, a fighter for workers of color and low-income workers nationwide, announced February 6 she will retire at the SEIU Convention in May after 14 years of leading the two-million-member union.

WASHINGTON—The choice in the 2024 general election is between democracy and dictatorship, not just between Democratic President Joe Biden and presumed Republican nominee Donald Trump, the White House denizen whom Biden beat four years ago.

WASHINGTON—In a setback for Donald Trump’s foes—and for the U.S. Constitution, too—most U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared hostile to tossing him off presidential ballots.

LOS ANGELES —Los Angeles-based Teamsters Local 630 is lobbying for consumers to boycott the Smart & Final food chain, after its Mexican-based owner, a $13 billion company, decided to close two warehouses in Southern California, open a third in Rancho Cucamonga, and make all 600 workers involve...

WASHINGTON—This time Bernie Sanders is pulling no punches. The carnage the Israeli military has inflicted upon civilians in Gaza is so appalling that he wants to cut off all U.S. military aid to Israel—offensive and defensive.

KIEV, Ukraine—Even as U.S. President Joe Biden declares Ukraine is a frontline democracy amidst its war with Russian invaders, Ukrainian unions would sharply differ with him.

WASHINGTON—Hundreds of auto workers gathered for their legislative conference here this week talked with one another and some of those talked with People's World about politics. They made one thing clear: They will only back a pro-labor president.