Help Make It A Great Year Of Progress And Growth For Our Unions And For All Working Families

By The PA. AFL-CIO

President Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Snyder again express their thanks and appreciation to all of our unions and our allies for coming together in unity and strength throughout this past year in meeting the many challenges that we all faced. Let’s continue building unity and solidarity among our ranks and in our public outreach efforts to even better serve and promote the rights and the well-being of all workers.

Thanks to your activism, we were able to stop paycheck deception legislation from gaining the support for holding session days, and passing a bill before Governor-elect Wolf was sworn into office. Your quick response – phone calls, e-mails and text messages – helped to prevent this bad legislation from becoming law, in a maneuver that would have involved an outgoing lame duck governor.

However we need to be ready to act should this threat rise again. Even with a new governor who supports working families and has pledged to make sure working families have a level playing field we will need to work just as hard in 2015 as we did in 2014 to prevent bad legislation from passing the legislature. We cannot rely on someone else to fight all of our battles. We need to continue standing together and building even greater solidarity not only to defeat bad legislation, but also to move a pro-active legislative agenda that creates good jobs, increases wages and retirement security, and expands our middle class.

2015 is a new start with more optimism to build on the progress we have already achieved through our collective strength. We will also have to continue fighting to defend what we already have. Nobody can do this for us; we have to do it for ourselves and our families.

Source: http://www.paaflcio.org/?p=5711