By Dale Mezzacappa – Gov. Wolf has asked Marjorie Neff to take over as the chair of the School Reform Commission, ousting Bill Green from that role. “The School District of Philadelphia is in dire financial straits, and our children…
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PA. AFL-CIO Condemns Passage Of Privatization Of Wine & Spirits Which Will Destroy 5,000 Family Sustaining Jobs
By The PA. AFL-CIO (Measure passes the House by a final vote of 114 in favor, to 87 opposed) – Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Snyder today condemned the passage of the privatization of Pennsylvania’s Wine and Spirits which…
SugarHouse accused of spying on union supporters with surveillance cameras
By Jared Shelly – The management at SugarHouse Casino is being accused of using its surveillance cameras to spy on union supporters. The Unite Here Local 54 union has filed a document with the National Labor Relations Board making the…
Union Veterans Council, AFL-CIO, Expresses Opposition To TPP
By The PA. AFL-CIO – In an e-mail Tuesday, J. David Cox, Sr. – Chair of the AFL-CIO Veterans Council and International President of AFGE – appealed to union veterans to speak out against Fast Track. A bill to “fast…
Richard Trumka: AFL-CIO Will Make Raising Wages for All Workers a Priority
BY David Moberg – The yardstick labor unions—and potentially a strong majority of American working or middle class voters—will use to judge candidates for president and lower offices next year is simple, said AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka at the winter…
