At 6 am this morning, 40,000 Verizon workers walked off the job, and and just outside of Harrisburg on Union Deposit Road in Lower Paxton Township, roughly 150 Communication Workers of America Local 13000 members […]
There is a major labor dispute happening in Pittsburgh between Allegheny Technologies Incorporated and the United Steelworkers. In the beginning of August, ATI locked out over 2,000 USW members from the job. Two days ago, Strom […]
Knowing that an increase in the minimum wage in Pennsylvania is likely and probably imminent, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry went beyond scraping at the bottom of the barrel to chiseling their way […]
The Commonwealth Foundation’s latest attack on public sector unionism is part of a national offensive coordinated by the conservative state think tanks in the State Policy Network. The Commonwealth Foundation is one of nine think-tanks that have […]
Yesterday evening, the Associated Press reported that Governor Tom Wolf signed an executive order banning fracking in Pennsylvania’s state parks and forests. Pennsylvania’s state parks and forests have been treated like a political football over […]
Tom Corbett’s numbers have been in the shitter for most of his time in office, and anything that Chris Pack, the communications director for Tom Corbett’s reelection campaign, says or does won’t matter because of […]
In December 2012,State Representative Mike Fleck, a republican from rural Pennsylvania, publicly acknowledged that he was gay, which made him the first openly gay state representative to serve in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Then the […]
No one really saw this one coming did they? Pew released a study examining job growth from April 2012 to April 2013, and Pennsylvania is, once again, in the basement when it comes to […]
Nothing. On April 7, Josh Maxwell, a candidate in the democratic 74th House District primary, published an oped on the issues affecting higher public education in Pennsylvania and mentioned nothing, not a single word, about […]
This Pennlive editorial attacking the Commonwealth Foundation’s taxpayer subsidies is amazing. It’s a classic case of the Wingnut Welfare that is allowed to happen in this country. The Commonwealth Foundation is trying to destroy public […]
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