By Harold Brubaker – Registered nurses at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia have voted to unionized, the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses & Allied Professionals said Saturday. The vote Friday, 463 to 343 in favor of joining the union, was the…
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Philly School district offers fix for lack of maintenance workers (Brief PhillyLabor Editorial Included)
By Tom MacDonald – Prompted by a January boiler explosion in a Philadelphia school that injured a worker, City Council held a hearing on maintenance in city schools. The explosion prompted an inspection of boilers in Philly schools; 98 percent…
AP-GfK Poll: Americans overwhelmingly view Trump negatively
By JULIE PACE and EMILY SWANSON, The Associated Press – WASHINGTON (AP) – For Americans of nearly every race, gender, political persuasion and location, disdain for Donald Trump runs deep, saddling the Republican front-runner with unprecedented unpopularity as he tries…
Hillary and Bernie to address AFL-CIO this week in Phila.
By Jane M. Von Bergen – Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will woo Pennsylvania’s labor leaders this week at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO’s convention in Philadelphia. More than 700 labor leaders and delegates will gather in Philadelphia Tuesday,…
Here’s why a workers’ comp ‘reform’ bill (HB 1800) is just an attack on workers’ rights: Sam Pond
By Samuel H. Pond Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing. Samuel H. Pond Across the country, in state houses largely influenced by insurance industry interests, there is an insidious attack on workers’ rights masquerading as “workers’ compensation reform”. These sham…
