Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO President, Patrick Eiding Celebrates 2012 Labor Day Parade with Words of Encouragement in the Face of Challenges – “It’s true, the challenges are great: Unemployment is still dangerously high; state and local budgets are strained so services…
NEWS
Voter ID Debacle — Labor’s Top Stories of 2012
In what many contend was motivated by Republican efforts to suppress the traditionally Democratic minority vote in order to affect the Nov 2012 presidential election. Voter ID Legislation was introduced by national GOP leadership on the premise of avoiding wides…
Tragedy in New Port, Courageous Teachers – Labor’s Top Stories of 2012
Words can not adequately express the extent of the devastation incurred by the victims, the families, the entire town of New Port Connecticut and all of America on that dark day in December just a couple weeks ago when a…
“Right To Work” Laws Pass in Michigan — Labor’s top Stories of 2012
Dec 2012 – In spite 12,000 protesting unionized workers protesting at the Republican-led state House of Representatives, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R), without public input, successfully executed his effort to enact anti-union “Right To Work” Legislation in the state of…
The Great Walmart Walkout — Labor’s Top Stories of 2012
For the purpose of protesting Walmart’s unfair labor practices and retaliation against workers, on the biggest shopping day of the year, workers and community members participated in over 1,000 actions across the country as part of a rolling series of…
