By The PA. AFL-CIO Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO 42nd Constitutional Convention will be held in Philadelphia beginning Tuesday, April 5th through Thursday, April 7th, 2016 at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel at 17th and Race Streets. National, state,…
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Sign the petition—tell the Senate to do its job; Support a fair nomination process and a timely vote for the next Supreme Court nominee.
By Organizing for Action – Sign the petition—tell the Senate to do its job Our Supreme Court is too important to be held hostage by the same partisan gridlock that has caused government shutdowns. President Obama is taking…
Proposal: city workers surrender pensions, get cash buyout
By Claudia Vargas – City Controller Alan Butkovitz thinks he has a solution for Philadelphia’s staggeringly underfunded pension fund: buyouts. Butkovitz is proposing that the city offer up-front cash payments to retirees, who, if they took the option, would surrender…
Proposal: city workers surrender pensions, get cash buyout – City Controller Alan Butkovitz thinks he has a solution for Philadelphia’s staggeringly underfunded pension fund: buyouts. Butkovitz is proposing that the city offer up-front cash payments to retirees, who, if they…
Minority-owned contractor gets big job for Democrats
By Jane M. Von Bergen – Angelo R. Perryman was a 32-year-old African American working in construction in Detroit when contractors building the Convention Center tapped him for a key job in the early 1990s. As part of a mandate…
