Folks, union officials span the city limits daily encountering back alley construction projects run by shoddy non-union contractors who are often paying substandard wages to their non-union workers, who are lucky if they are getting benefits at all. Many of…
Petition to Eliminate the Philadelphia School Reform Commission. We need sports and counselors in our public schools
– Petition by Charles Norman Philadelphia – The SRC has made many bad decisions over the years that have put the School District of Philadelphia into an awful position. Next year if the budget stands as is there will be…
Say No To Right To Work For Less in PA
PhillyLabor.com – With all the talk about “Right To Work” legislation being right around the corner in Pennsylvania, the time has come to get everyone within the PA labor movement involved and organized to fight against such anti-union actions that…
A Message from John J. Dougherty, Business Mgr. of IBEW Local 98, About the Tragic Building Collapse in Center City Philadelphia.
All of us at IBEW Local 98 send our deepest condolences to the families who lost their loved ones in yesterday’s tragic building collapse in Philadelphia. We also ask that you keep in your thoughts and prayers the dozens of…
Non-Union Construction Co. is Demo Contractor on Collapsed Center City Building
6 Killed, At Least 13 Others Injured The construction company contracted to do the demolition on the building that collapsed last Wednesday at 22nd and Market St. in center city Philadelphia, killing 3 and injuring 13 others, was non-union construction…