PhillyLabor.com announces Business to Labor networking program; bringing business and professional services providers together with organized labor Unionized workers and the unions who represent them are a target market for the providers of a wide range of goods and services….

Injured Workers Advocacy Program (IWAP) Introduces Financial Gap Assistance Program for Injured Workers
In an effort to help alleviate the financial hardship workers face when injured on the job, the Injured Workers’ Advocacy Program (IWAP) is introducing the ground-breaking financial Gap Assistance Benefit for injured workers. “Part of our mission,” noted Joe Dougherty,…
Petition To Tell Mayor Nutter not to let Gov. Corbett make Philly the next Detroit. Defend families, teachers, and public schools
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has two votes on the School Reform Commission—votes he hasn’t been using to defend Philadelphia’s public schools. He and Gov. Tom Corbett have failed Philadelphia students and families and now they are holding schools hostage for…
Saturday, August 24th, 2013: Unions Join MLK 50th Anniversary Rally, Renew Call for Jobs and Freedom
By Bruce Vail – Unions are strongly backing a march in Washington, D.C., to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I have a…
American Workers Have Seen A Lost Decade In Wage Growth
By Alan Pyke – American workers have suffered a “lost decade” of stagnant or falling wages. Despite productivity gains of nearly 25 percent from 2000 to 2012, “wages were flat or declined for the entire bottom 60 percent” of the…