By Bryce Covert – Federal workers’ pay has been frozen for three years, but in President Obama’s budget proposal for next year, he included a 1 percent raise that would occur by default if Congress didn’t pass legislation mandating other…
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Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Calls On Corbett Administration To Stop Misleading Voters On ID Law
By The PA. AFL-CIO – Over the summer, the Commonwealth Court heard arguments during a 12-day trial challenging the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s Voter ID law. The law, passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Corbett in the spring of…
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on GOP Shutdown and Debt Ceiling
October 17, 2013 Finally — after more than two weeks of government shutdown, with hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work and billions of dollars in avoidable losses — Republican leaders have stood down. While it is good news…
As PA waits for decision, judge who originally upheld Voter ID recants
by Randy LoBasso – Pennsylvania’s Voter ID law is stuck in limbo, and most experts on the issue don’t see the courts sorting it out, completely, within the next year or two. While we’re waiting, though, it would help everyone…
Tom Corbett Under Fire For Knowingly Jeopardizing Students, Pressured By Civil Rights Groups On Phila. School Funding
By Joy Resmovits Ten high-profile civil rights leaders are pressuring Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) to intervene in the sorry state of school funding in Philadelphia. The national and local leaders — including the NAACP’s Ben Jealous and the Leadership…
