By The PA. AFL-CIO

– Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Snyder joined in leading a broad coalition of unions, business groups and state legislators of both parties in support of passage of transportation infrastructure funding to invest in all modes of Pennsylvania’s transportation systems including mass transit, roads and bridges and all other transportation modes.

The coalition is comprised of over 70 labor unions and business organizations representing thousands of workers and employers calling on passage of transportation and transit funding in the fall voting session.

We all agree that this needs to get done now to put Pennsylvania back to work modernizing and rebuilding our crumbling bridges roads and mass transit systems to provide a safe and efficient system for now and the future of Pennsylvania,” President Bloomingdale said.

“The longer the delay the more it will cost in terms of lost jobs, lost lives and lost business due to unsafe, inefficient and unreliable highways, bridges and rail systems,” Secretary-Treasurer Snyder added.

The coalition delivered a letter to Governor Corbett and all members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly urging them to act now to solve the state’s transportation funding crisis.

Pat Gillespie, Business Manager of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council and Phil Ameris, Business Manager of Laborers District Council of Western Pennsylvania also spoke in support of a robust funding without strings attached to the plan.

Source: http://www.paaflcio.org/?p=2827