PWW Labor http://www.pww.org The paper of working-class news and opinion since 1924. The People's Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo is a national, grassroots weekly newspaper. Features coverage and analysis of worker's rights, peace, equality, social and economic justice, democracy, civil liberties, women's rights, environmental protection and more. en-us http://www.pww.org/images/pwwlogo.gif http://http://www.pww.org Title Steelworkers vow to fight racism, elect Obama http://www.pww.org/article/view/13312/ Fri, 03 Jul 2008 14:31:14 EDT LAS VEGAS — Over 3,000 Steelworker delegates filled the Las Vegas Bally Hotel convention center last week with raring-to-go enthusiasm for “taking back America for working people” in the 2008 elections. One delegate described it as more like a strike vote than a convention. “The membership is fired up and ready to go. We don’t have to be rallied by the leadership, they just need to turn us loose and tell us where to be,” she said. Workers at auto plant keep McCain at a distance http://www.pww.org/article/view/13304/ Wed, 01 Jul 2008 21:11:35 EDT Only a handful of auto workers at the Lordstown, Ohio plant showed up for a meeting that management arranged for those who wanted to meet Republican presidential candidate John McCain when he toured the plant June 27. <br> Union takes a stand against ‘cruelty’ http://www.pww.org/article/view/13301/ Wed, 01 Jul 2008 20:49:47 EDT FARMERS BRANCH, Texas — The Unite Here union struck a blow June 24 against some particularly vicious anti-immigrant ordinances in place in a Texas town. <br> AFL-CIO officially endorses Obama http://www.pww.org/article/view/13286/ Wed, 01 Jul 2008 14:05:00 EDT The AFL-CIO officially endorsed Barack Obama for president on June 26. THIS WEEK IN LABOR: June 28, 2008 http://www.pww.org/article/view/13280/ Tue, 30 Jun 2008 16:27:20 EDT <b>House backs paid leave for federal workers</b> <br> <br> <b>Supreme Court kills company neutrality law</b> <br> <br> <b>Mine safety mandates yet to be instituted</b> <br> <br> <b>Working mothers hit McCain on sex discrimination bill</b> <br> <br> Unions’ election drive means TV, money and troops http://www.pww.org/article/view/13275/ Tue, 30 Jun 2008 16:05:00 EDT A mother holds a baby boy on her lap. She says: “Hi, John McCain, this is Alex, he’s my first. Workers Correspondence – Candidates who value families will win in November http://www.pww.org/article/view/13267/ Tue, 23 Jun 2008 17:15:00 EDT The candidates who demonstrate to voters that they value families will win in the November elections. That’s quite a reversal from the 1980s, when the conservative agenda began to be packaged as “family values.” Labor’s historic ’08 election drive means TV, money and troops http://www.pww.org/article/view/13255/ Sun, 21 Jun 2008 18:51:37 EDT Dramatic TV ads are only part of what AFSCME has in its arsenal for the election battle. The union plans to mobilize more than 40,000 of its own members as activists in the fall campaign for Obama and will commit $50 million to campaign activity. Cleveland labor: ‘Now is the time to unite’ http://www.pww.org/article/view/13253/ Fri, 19 Jun 2008 16:44:54 EDT CLEVELAND — Delegates to the North Shore (Cleveland) AFL-CIO Federation of Labor erupted in cheers and applause when President Loree Soggs, referring to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, opened his report to the June 11 meeting saying, “We now have a candidate.” World labor group hits U.S. on worker rights http://www.pww.org/article/view/13247/ Fri, 19 Jun 2008 13:44:27 EDT The International Trade Union Congress, which met June 9-11 in Geneva, assailed the lack of workers’ rights in the United States, and called on the World Trade Organization to take up the issue at its biannual review of U.S. trade policy.