After threatening to strike on June 8, the union’s main focus was unity and solidarity heading to the bargaining table. It worked, and they secured wage hikes of up to 33 percent and ended a two-tier wage system.
“This is a revolutionary step forward for Pennsylvania that closes off a major threat to American self-government: foreign-influenced corporate political spending,” said MarchOnHarrisburg Executive Director Rabbi Michael Pollack.
“We can’t forget that democracy is not a spectator sport – it’s the difference between maintaining progress in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights and losing them,” said Fairness Pennsylvania State Director Sarah Hammond.
The PAC just endorsed 16 Pennsylvania candidates running for the state Senate and House.
Student climate justice activist Eliana Atienza shares how the campus organization is working to create change at the University of Pennsylvania.
The updated guide from the Brennan Center and All Voting is Local also notes existing laws prevent election deniers from disrupting elections by harassing, intimidating, or improperly influencing voters.
As the holiday has become mainstream, University of Pennsylvania Professor Kristen R. Ghodsee says #IWD has grown further away from its “socialist roots” and has “lost any association with its radical past.”
In Bucks County, around 71,000 workers would benefit from the wage hike, which accounts for 21 percent of the workforce.
Women’s Law Project Senior Staff Attorney Christine Castro says this provides “an opportunity to finally slam the door shut on the Medicaid ban” and “really safeguard the reproductive freedoms and autonomy rights of Pennsylvanians.”
It started well before the pandemic and continues today. A key reason is experiences of racism within the larger school district that affect Black teachers across the system, but manifest differently depending on their schools’ locations.
The U.S. Department of Energy is dangling $750 million for the buildout of a hydrogen hub around Philadelphia. But the looming Trump presidency and strong economic headwinds endanger its prospects.
Lake Angela was moved by her own experiences with schizophrenia and the stories of the treatment patients in her dance therapy groups faced at the psychiatric institution.
The move to erase attention to anti-bias and culture in schools is grounded in denial that concerns about systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc., are real.
The Coalition to Shelter & Support the Homeless provides the county’s unhoused individuals with more than 1,000 bed nights each year.