(Scroll Down Below The Story for a PhillyLabor.com Editorial Reply) By Brad Bumsted HARRISBURG — House and Senate leaders are negotiating a plan with the governor’s office that eventually could phase out state-owned liquor stores and expand private sales of…
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President Bloomingdale Calls For Raising The Minimum Wage To Ensure Dignity And Create Jobs
By The PA. AFL-CIO President Bloomingdale, speaking Monday morning on WITF’s Radio Smart Talk told listeners that “Now is the time to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage – to provide dignity for all workers, and to put more money back into…
Scalia’s golden chance to kill unions: A Supreme Court case to be heard this month could deal another major body blow to the U.S. labor movement…
By Josh Eidelson – A Supreme Court case to be heard this month could deal another body blow to the embattled U.S. labor movement. The case, Harris v. Quinn, offers the court’s conservative majority a chance to make so-called right…
Obama Administration Stays Quiet as Boeing Strikes Major Blow to Pensions
By Mike Elk – On Friday, yet another nail was put in the coffin of the defined-benefit pension in America. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the percentage of U.S. private-sector retirement plans with defined benefits fell by half…
Wisconsin Lawmaker Wants To Take Away Workers Weekends
By Bryce Covert Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R) is pushing to undo the state’s law that employers have to provide their employees with at least one day off a week, the Huffington Post reports. The Huffington Post obtained an…
