By Kristen A. Graham – The School Reform Commission voted Thursday night to outsource more than 1,000 substitute-teaching jobs, awarding a $34 million contract to a Cherry Hill firm to recruit, hire, and manage the workers for two years. The…
Urgent Action! Fast Track Re-Vote Is Imminent
By The PA. AFL-CIO – Please call or email your member of Congress to Vote No on the Entire Trade Package which includes Fast Track and TAA We thank you for helping defeat the trade package on Friday June 12…
House Votes to Stand with Working Families by Not Advancing the Trade Package
By The PA. AFL-CIO – Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Rick Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Frank Snyder issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives Fails to Advance the package of bad trade bills Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Rick…
4th Annual Apprenticeship Awareness Day At the State Capitol
By The Pa. AFL-CIO – The Pennsylvania Apprentice Coordinators Association, in conjunction with the Building Trades Unions held the 4th Annual Apprenticeship Awareness Day in the Main Rotunda at the State Capitol Building on June 9. The Building Trades Unions,…
Bloomingdale to Legislature: Pay Your Bills!
By The PA. AFL-CIO PA. AFL-CIO President Bloomingdale was asked during his testimony on Senate Bill 1 before the State House Government Committee, that if S.B. 1 isn’t the solution to the pension debt what is the solution? Without hesitation…