By The PA. AFL-CIO – Vote will blow a huge hole in the budget, and eliminate 5,000 family-sustaining jobs. – In what was an expected move today, the PA State Senate voted in favor of House Bill 466, which would…
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Senate Bill 1 Passes House – Promises To Gut Pensions And Cost Taxpayers
By The PA. AFL-CIO – The push for so-called pension reform has been a red herring for conservative lawmakers for years. By deliberately sabotaging the system through under-funding, and then misrepresenting to the public the dire state of the resulting…
State Senate Follows House Lead, Passes Budget That Severely Fails The People Of Pennsylvania
By The PA. AFL-CIO – With disregard for public opinion, with disregard for facts, and with disregard for the basic responsibilities of State Government outlined by our Constitution – the extreme conservative wing of the Republican Party has now passed…
Urgent Action! State Legislature Spends Final Days Of June Playing Politics And Attacking Workers
By The PA. AFL-CIO – With Pennsylvania’s State Budget deadline looming, the Legislature has opted to spend these final days playing politics and reviving old discredited attacks on workers instead of working to pass a real budget plan. The GOP…
No Strike: Newspaper Guild, PMN Reach Tentative Agreement
By Joel Mathis – There will be no Philadelphia newspaper strike after all. On Friday night — after an exhausting 11-hour negotiating session with a federal mediator, and 25 hours before their contract was set to expire — the Newspaper…
