Over 1,000 union members merged on the Municipal Services Building Friday to send a message to Wall Street. The gathering was one of 200 happening around the country as part of AFL-CIO’s Good Jobs NOW program.
Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO President Pat Eiding hosted the event, highlighted by speeches from National AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka and State...
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Archive for March, 2010
‘BANKS, PAY FOR JOBS!’: 1000 Unionists Rally For AFL-CIO
Brady Rejoices In Health Bill’s Passage
Congressman Robert A. Brady said he proudly voted to send President Barack Obama’s landmark legislation to reform the nation’s health care system.
Brady announced the bill will stop insurance company abuses, bring down the deficit, rein in health costs for families and small businesses, create up to 4 million new private-sector jobs over the next...
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POLS ON THE STREET: Will Street Run Again?
Mayor Frank Rizzo was a two-term Democrat Mayor of this city. He tried for an encore as a Republican one term later, but died before he reached the General Election that would have pitted him against Mayor Wilson Goode.
Now rumors are abounding about Mayor John Street’s making a possible return. That’s the hope of...
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Petition Challenges Roil The Courts
BY JOE SHAHEELI/ Political blood has been shed – not the red stuff that spills from the body, but the kind that gets relegated to the wastebasket, in the form of nominating petitions thrown out by the courts.
It spells the end of the political careers for the majority of those whose petitions were found...
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ANOTHER OPINION: The Politics Of Health
BY JOHN ZOGBY/ With the passage of health-care reform, battle lines are firmly drawn for the congressional elections in November.
This will be a classic ideological war, the likes of which we have rarely seen in the US. Republicans not only refused to vote for this package, their opposition was passionate and, at times, shrill.
Democratic...
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SNOOPER: What About This Tax?
SNOOPER’S “DILEMMA”: Whew – I had a proprietor, who happens to own a few SHOPRITE STORES, ask an important question: “Someone please tell me HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO COLLECT THIS TWO-CENTS-AN-OUNCE tax on SODAS? I already had a few other STORE OWNERS ask me the same question. They told me this is going...
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WILL ‘PUNK PARENTS’ FACE THE LAW? Senator Makes His Case Before The Good Kids
BY TONY WEST/ Young persons who repeatedly violate the law may wind up in court for their misdeeds. If a measure now being considered in the State Senate comes to pass, some of their parents may wind up standing before a Judge as well.
State Sen. Anthony Williams introduced SB 99, which provides for “liability...
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Food-Service Workers Slam Aramark With $2M Suit
BY RORY McGLASSON/ Aramark has been throwing a curve ball to its 3,000 employees working at the Sports complex in South Philadelphia when it comes to paying proper wages, according to a lawsuit set to be filed against the food-service giant.
Food- and beverage-service employees who work for Aramark at Philadelphia’s sports stadiums have gone...
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‘Ward Wars’ Will Be Decided By Judges
More than enough nominating petitions for Democrat committeepersons have been filed to indicate there are leadership wars underway in at least 10 wards.
The wards were the conflicts are most obvious are 2, 7, 12, 19, 33, 55, and 63.
Wards 1, 18 and 28 show some interference, but not enough to give the incumbent ward...
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Minorities Learn How To Win DRPA Contracts
It took a bit of muscle-flexing and vocal participation in two Delaware River Port Authority board meetings to get a meeting of the minds, but 2nd Ward Leader and developer Ed Nesmith managed to pull it off.
His persistence, coupled with a group of Philadelphia minority contractors, got the ear of John Estey, board chairman,...
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