– In a victory for American jobs and fair pay, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld Department of Labor wage rules requiring non-agricultural foreign workers be paid prevailing wages. Under Labor Department rules, employers requesting authorization…
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Philly Labor is dedicated to providing news, information, and alerts to the Philadelphia area labor/union community for the purpose of providing a centralized resource that keeps our entire workforce informed and up to date on union affecting issues and situations….
VW Officials Fight Back In Support of Unionizing; Volkswagen official threatens to block expansion if workers won’t unionize
– Volkswagen’s top labor representative threatened today to try to block further investments by the German carmaker in the U.S. South if its workers there are not unionized, Reuters reported today. “I can imagine fairly well that another VW factory…
Anti-Worker Bill HB 1507 Gets Pushed Back Another Week; Keep the calls coming, Keep the fight up
– 32BJ members and other union members are speaking out against anti-worker bills in Harrisburg and politicians are listening. Because of the thousands of phone calls and door knocks that SEIU and other union members have made, we were able…
Union Members Urge Boycott As NE Phila. Food Plant Is Shuttered
By Steve Tawa — Area elected officials and union members gathered today outside the former Nabisco and Kraft bakery in Northeast Philadelphia to protest the company decision to close the factory by early next year. Word that Mondelez International is…
