By The PA. AFL-CIO – Governor Corbett held a news conference on Tuesday, June 17 threatening to hold up passage of a state budget unless legislators approve a badly flawed pension Bill that even the Bill’s co-sponsors admit won’t provide…
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Rally To Keep Philadelphia Gas Works Public
Join us for a rally at City Hall on Thursday, June 19, to make sure Council knows as they break for summer recess that Philadelphians want them to Keep PGW Public! Join community groups, environmental groups and labor allies in…
Letter from PFT president Jerry Jordan to the Philadelphia Delegation in Harrisburg in opposition to NB 1722
– The following letter in opposition to NB 1722 was sent to every PA Legislator in the Philadelphia Delegation: On behalf of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, I write to you to once again express the Federation’s vehement opposition to…
50,000 lose jobless benefits for not signing up on Pa. employment site
By Holly Otterbein – More than 50,000 Pennsylvania residents have lost unemployment benefits since last summer because they failed to meet a new state requirement to register on a job-listings website. Advocates for the unemployed attribute the problem to technical…
SEPTA’s trains rolling again, but labor dispute far from over
By Jared Shelly – Commuters expressed a collective sigh of relief Monday morning, as SEPTA’s Regional Rail trains were running on schedule. A weekend strike by 400 workers was short-lived after President Barack Obama forced the creation of a presidential…
