By Jackie Tortora We’ve all seen the charts. As union membership rates go down, so goes the middle class and people’s ability to bargain for living wages and a voice on the job. David Madland and Karla Walter from the…
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10 Things to Know About the Employment Non-Discrimination Act
By Winnie Stachelberg and Crosby Burns | It currently is perfectly legal in America to fire someone for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT. Rather than being evaluated on their skills, qualifications, and ability to contribute to the…
Tell Congress: “Don’t mess with the 40-hour workweek. Hands off my overtime!”
Congress is trying to push through legislation that would allow employers to stop giving workers overtime pay. Click Here (http://nysaflcio.org/overtime/) To Sign and SHARE PETITION: Hands off my 40 hour work week! The House of Representatives has renewed its decades-old…
A Story Worth Re-Posting – Why Does Mayor Nutter Hate Unions So Much?
Ask AFSCME DC’s #33 & #47, the Philadelphia Fire Fighters’ Union and the Philadelphia Police Department/FOP — is there any city union or just any union in this city that Mayor Nutter doesn’t have a problem with? Here’s a little…
New PhillyLabor.com Website Live
PhillyLabor.com is proud to announce the launch of our brand new website here at www.phillylabor.com which will provide all kinds of new features to our Philadelphia area labor community including daily union news updates via our PhillyLabor News Blog, links…
