By Jane Von Bergan – Outside a West Virginia courthouse, the families of the dead waited for Don Blankenship, the former chief executive of Massey Energy Inc., about to be sentenced for a mining disaster that killed 29 miners at…
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4/13 – TODAY IN PHILLYLABOR RADIO: Michael Hersch, Director, JLC, Wayne Burton, Pres., PARA, David Bezar/Brett Elam of Thrive Financial and Laura Wentz, Pres. Philly CLUW.
– This Week’s Featured Guests On Today In PhillyLabor Radio Are Michael Hersch, Director, JLC, Wayne Burton, Pres., PARA, David Bezar/Brett Elam of Thrive Financial and Laura Wentz, Pres. Philly CLUW. Topics – Jewish Labor Committee Discussion, Retirees Corner: Social…
Verizon workers issue strike threat for 6 am Wednesday
By Jane VonBergen – More than 39,000 Verizon employees from Massachusetts to Virginia plan to go on strike at 6 a.m. Wednesday, the union leaders said Monday. “Unless this company reconsiders its shameful demands… our members will be on strike,”…
Einstein Registered Nurses Vote To Unionize
By Harold Brubaker – Registered nurses at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia have voted to unionized, the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses & Allied Professionals said Saturday. The vote Friday, 463 to 343 in favor of joining the union, was the…
Philly School district offers fix for lack of maintenance workers (Brief PhillyLabor Editorial Included)
By Tom MacDonald – Prompted by a January boiler explosion in a Philadelphia school that injured a worker, City Council held a hearing on maintenance in city schools. The explosion prompted an inspection of boilers in Philly schools; 98 percent…
