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In The Name Of Freedom, Thank You For Your Courage, Thank You For Your Sacrifice and Thank You for Your Service!

In Solidarity

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– “On behalf of the 100 unions who belong to the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO and the 150,000 Philadelphians we represent, I want to congratulate our governor-elect, Tom Wolf, on his victory tonight. I say his victory, but this was really a victory for all Pennsylvanians.

“Over the last four years Pennsylvanians learned what Tom Corbett stood for – and tonight, Tom Corbett learned that Pennsylvanians won’t stand for a governor who spends four years attacking working families and setting Pennsylvanians against each other.

“To Governor Tom Corbett, or to any other enemies of working families, take this election as a warning: the labor movement in Philadelphia is wide awake and watching, and we will not allow any attack on our rights without an appropriate response.

“I’m proud of the thousands of Philadelphia’s union members who volunteered to get out the vote during the course of this year’s campaign. Their hard work made this victory possible. All Philadelphians are looking forward to working with Tom Wolf as our governor — a governor who is committed to fighting for Pennsylvania’s working people and to uniting Pennsylvania for the common good.”

Pat Eiding,
President Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO

Source: http://www.pa.aflcio.org/philaflcio/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=724b0a9a-4549-4017-b8ce-d6fc782be6d4

From The PA. AFL-CIO

– President Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Snyder express their deepest gratitude and appreciation to the thousands of union volunteers across Pennsylvania who spent many evenings and weekends helping educate and mobilize working families in a history making victory for Governor-elect Tom Wolf and on behalf of all of our endorsed candidates.

“Tom Wolf’s historic victory is shared by millions of working men and women across Pennsylvania. We look forward to working with the new administration to chart a course for Pennsylvania that is built upon respect for working people and respect for the value and dignity of the work they do,” President Bloomingdale said.

“By no means is this the end to the challenges we face but some of the worst threats we have faced will recede for the time being giving us the opportunity to pursue a pro-active legislative strategy of raising incomes protecting pensions and improving living standards for working families. All of these goals will require our continued focus, resolve, and effort,” President Bloomingdale said.

Secretary-Treasurer Snyder credited our Labor 2014 Member to Member Program as the best in America thanks to the hard work of thousands of volunteers who made the phone calls, did the door knocks, and distributed the flyers at their work-sites.

“We have the latest and most advanced voter targeting technologies but it is meaningless without the thousands of volunteers across Pennsylvania that deliver the message about the issues and the candidates,” Snyder said.

Source: http://www.paaflcio.org/?p=5630

– Transport Workers Union Local 234 members have voted in favor of ratifying a new, two-year contract with SEPTA.

It’s been a week since SEPTA officials and union leaders reached the agreement, avoiding a strike that would have affected buses, subways and trolleys.

Workers will get a five-percent raise for the duration of the contract.

Union leaders encouraged TWU members to vote yes for the new deal.

Voting for the union’s three bargaining units took place in 20 locations and concluded at 7 p.m. Friday.

The voting results:

City: 2,478 voted in favor of the contract, 791 voted no

Frontier: 144 voted in favor to 23 opposed

Red Arrow: 61 voted in favor, 40 cast no votes

Source: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/11/07/union-members-vote-in-favor-of-new-2-year-contract-with-septa/

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