By The ASSOCIATED PRESS – Gov. Tom Wolf is blasting Republican lawmakers over a plan to force piece-by-piece override votes of his budget bill veto, saying GOP leaders can’t negotiate in good faith while staging what he calls an unconstitutional…
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State GOP Leadership In The Senate And House Continue To Hold Up Progress On Budget Agreement
By The PA. AFL-CIO – The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO reiterates its call to the Republican leadership in the Legislature to stop playing politics and get back to work now in passing a responsible budget that solves Pennsylvania problems. Every day that…
Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Supports College Scholarship Athletes Rights To Form Their Union
By The PA. AFL-CIO – The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO joins with the United Steelworkers in reiterating their full support for greater protections for scholarship athletes despite the decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to decline jurisdiction, for the time…
Christie Vetoes Bills to Fund New Jersey Pension
By The Communications Workers of America – New Jersey Democrats trying to undo damage done to the state’s public-employees’ pension system met a familiar roadblock, Gov. Chris Christie wielding a veto pen. Christie vetoed two bills that would have injected…
Philly Vet, 89, Joins “Stop Staples” Campaign
By June Cohen – An 89-year-old Philadelphia veteran is the latest supporter of the Stop Staples campaign. A group of activists from the Philadelphia PA Area Local were handing out flyers in front of a Staples store in Springfield, PA,…
