By Daniel Denvir – Gov. Tom Corbett will soon choose a new chairperson of the School Reform Commission (SRC). Angry teachers, students and parents will likely (and probably rightfully) eventually find themselves screaming at this person. If Corbett makes a…
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A Fight Builds Over Multi-Employer Pensions. Unions are stepping up to oppose a likely bill in Congress to slash benefits.
BY Cole Stangler – As Congress inches toward proposing legislation that would arguably enable the most significant changes to private pension law in decades, opposition from organized labor is slowly mounting. In addition to the Machinists, the first union to…
Happy Veterans Day To All Who Have Served Our Country From PhillyLabor.com
– On this Veterans Day 2013, we honor those who have served in our United States Armed Forces and protected our country so that we may all experience the freedoms we enjoy today! Generations of Americans, many of them brothers…
Election 2013s Biggest Winner? Labor Unions! Voters across the country pushed union-backed candidates into office this election cycle
By Maya Rhodan – Who won this election cycle? Union leaders say they did. Across the country, candidates backed by unions triumphed over their counterparts, while ballot measures broke in favor of the unions that had campaigned for them as…
Union protesters to target Yuengling. Beermaker said to support right-to-work legislation.
By Sam Kennedy – Labor groups are planning to protest Saturday in front of beermaker D.G. Yuengling and Son in Pottsville. At issue, according protest organizers, is owner Dick Yuengling Jr.’s support of so-called right-to-work laws. “We find it incredibly…
