From the PA. AFL-CIO: Four Days Until Budget Deadline. E-Mail Your Legislators Now at: http://act.aflcio.org/c/236/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6779 – With only days remaining before the General Assembly breaks for their summer recess, some legislators in Harrisburg are trying to use these final hours…
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Lack of common sense prevails in prevailing wage debate: Editorial
By Patriot-News Editorial Board The Patriot-News – As legislative leaders try to round up votes in the state House for the badly-needed transportation funding bill, some recalcitrant Republicans have signaled that they might come aboard in return for passing a…
Hostess, but not its workers, makes a comeback
by Laura Clawson for Daily Kos Labor – Twinkies are coming back! The jobs of most of the workers who used to make Twinkies and other Hostess cakes, and their union, are not coming back. Which the Associated Press presents…
Editorial: The Day the music died along with the dreams and hopes of the children who played it
– Yesterday a report was published (See below) by Pat Loeb of CBS News regarding the final day of school where instrumental music teachers played a farewell concert because the entire classroom instrument education program has been eliminated due to…
Phillyfast Hunger Strikers Call for Mass Community Action
From Philadelphia Jobs With Justice – This has been an especially important week for education justice in Philadelphia. The #phillyfast hunger strikers are now on their sixth day without food or juice, still on Broad Street waiting for action from…
