BY Shaun Richman – The captive audience meeting, “management’s most important weapon” in an anti-union campaign, is finally being challenged in a petition to the National Labor Relations Board that could help re-balance the scales in union representation elections. Held…
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Union Membership On The Rise In Pennsylvania
By the PA. AFL-CIO – Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows workers represented by a labor union grew by 50,000 in the last year When it comes to declining union membership in the United States, Pennsylvania is bucking the national…
Take Action! Stop Paycheck Protection Now!
By The Pa. AFL-CIO – For the past several years, union members have been fighting hard against anti-union legislation that seeks to silence public workers in Pennsylvania. The so-called ‘Paycheck Protection’ bill follows the same strategy that Governor Walker used…
Labor peace breaks out for Post Bros. project
by Jane M. Von Bergen, Inquirer Staff Writer. @JaneVonBergen – For five months in the middle of 2012, Philadelphia’s building trades laid siege to the Goldtex construction site just north of Center City, where two brothers in their 30s decided…
Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO Bulletin
By The Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO Stop the Harrisburg right wing’s plan to pass “paycheck protection” bill in State House The Republican leadership in Harrisburg is again trying to foist the so-called “paycheck protection” bill on Pennsylvania’s workers. This bill would…
