by Clyde Weiss – It’s a piece of reporting making big waves. In the current issue of Rolling Stone, writer Matt Taibbi lays bare the sordid system by which politicians looted public pensions to finance other priorities, then blamed the…
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Rally with USW Strikers at Crown Holdings HQ For Fair Wages and Against Corporate Greed!
“Crown Holdings, which is headquartered here in Philadelphia, is one of the world’s largest metal-container companies. Despite doubling its profits in 2012, Crown forced the 120 members of USW Local 9176 in Toronto and Ontario out on strike a month…
In the fight for equality, women in the tech industry can learn from the Successes Women Have Had in the Labor Movement
Via The Coalition For Labor Union Women (CLUW) In an article at Alternet, Brigid O’Farrell takes a look at the problem of sexism in the tech industry and suggests that women in tech could learn from the successes women have…
Picket in Center City with AFGE Members to Demand an End to the Shutdown of the Federal Government.
Today, Wednesday October 9th: There will be an Informational picket in Center City with AFGE members to Demand an End to the Shutdown of the Federal Government. WHEN/WHERE: 12:00 Noon, Today at the Wanamaker Building, 100 E Penn Square (across…
Stand Up! 800,000 Of Our Union Brothers And Sisters Are Locked-Out
By The PA. AFL-CIO – Amid all the talk about the Government shutdown, it is all too often lost in the discussion that this is, at its core, a LOCK-OUT that has forced 800,000 workers off the job indefinitely. Many…
