– 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…
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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…
Protest to be held at the GAP Store at 34th and Walnut
– TODAY/Wednesday 5/15 at 1pm — A protest will be held at the Gap store at 34th and Walnut. The Gap purchases clothing made in Bangladesh, where the death toll from the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse now stands at…
Around the World: Garment workers permitted to form unions after more than 1,100 die
The Associated Press: Around the World – Bangladesh military says it is ending its search for survivors in the wreckage of an eight-story garment factory building that collapsed last month. Brig. Gen. Mohammad Siddiqul Alam Shikder says the army will…
