Yes, today, Tuesday, 5/21/13 is election day in Pa and specifically the Municipal Primary. Today’s Philadelphia based races include the election for Judges of the Municipal and Common Pleas Courts, DA, Traffic Court and City Controller. As is historically the…
Reminder: This Tue, May 21, 2013 is Election Day. Make Your Voice Heard and Your Vote Count!
A message to union members and families throughout the Philadelphia region and everywhere: In order to maintain the union standards and wages that we have fought so hard to obtain over many generations, it is vital that each and every…
Grinding To A Halt: Take Action! To Let The NLRB Do Its Job
– By The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Anti-worker politicians in Washington and their corporate donors are striking at the rights of workers. Again. They’re threatening to shut down the National Labor Relations Board, the independent agency that protects workers’ rights, by holding…
L and I, Police Show Up at Post Brothers Goldtex VIP Party
– By Victor Fiorillo 5/16/2013 – It’s been a long, hard road for the Pestronk brothers’ (aka Post Brothers) development of the Goldtex site at 12th and Vine streets. There have been shoving matches, picket lines formed, slashed tires, and…
Through Union Ties: Remembering 9/11 Victim Peter Ortale as Spire Tops Off New Trade Tower
– With the recent celebration of the the Spire being placed atop One World Trade Center by union iron workers signifying the culmination of a job well done by all of the union workers who were there both as first…