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PhillyUnions.com Headline News June 3, 2009: Join Philadelphia Jobs With Justice to Support EFCA 6/3/09 5 PM Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice is holding a protest today, Wednesday June 3, at 5 PM at The Bellevue Hotel, 200 S. Broad St., to protest the Chamber of Commerce's campaign of lies against the Employee Free Choice Act. For full details about the event, please visit the Phila. JwJ web site at http://www.unionvoice.org/Phillyjwj/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=26046691. June 3, 2009: Stuff the Bus 2009 It's Time to Get on Board! Organized labor and the United Way of SE PA are joining forces again to help make a positive impact on the lives of school aged children living in shelters. This year our goal is to collect enough supplies to fill 2,500 book bags. We will deliver the book bags to shelters located in Philadelphia, Delaware, Bucks and Montgomery counties. Here are three suggestions on ways you may support this effort: * Send a monetary donation to support this effort. Checks made payable to the United Way of SE PA. What are we collecting? Book bags, notebooks, pens, pencils, rulers, erasers, three-ring binders, loose leaf paper, composition books, folders, glue sticks, crayons, calculators & flash drives. Stuff the Bus Hotline: 215.665.2641 Janet H. Ryder, Coordinator June 3, 2009: Office Space Available GCC/IBT District Council 9 has office space available for lease. Numerous combinations of square feet are available. Included items are off street parking, meeting room for up to 125 people (ideal for Executive Board, Shop Delegates and General Membership), ability for private bathrooms, wired for DSL internet, additional storage space. District Council 9's building is located at 1310 East Sedgley Ave. just off Kensington and below Erie Avenues. Call the Union Office and ask for Kurt Freeman at 215-533-9262. March 31, 2009: "Why Union?" -- Your Responses Last week we sent out an email newsletter asking "Why Union? Tell Us in 50 Words or Less." We wanted to hear from you, our union brothers and sisters, why you believe in the union concept and why you are proud to be union. We got some outstanding replies. Here are some of the best: "Being a member of Plumbers 690 allows me access to the best state of the art training available at no cost. The training available to me would cost my non-union competition thousands of dollars a year. I also have excellent health coverage and a pension and annuity that is not interrupted if I change employers. I am always assured that my Union would never allow me to work in an unsafe environment or be unfairly treated by an employer." "We can no longer ask the thousands of workers of the years gone by. The suffering silent who endured under unfair and sometimes brutal working conditions. They can no longer tell of their day to day struggles, the often brutal conditions and the tremendous courage it took to stand and fight for the union. Today we have a new generation, sadly silenced by ignorance. Ignorance of the hard fought gains of the previous generations. We have neglected to tell the stories and pass on the wisdom of the union battles lost and won of previous generations. More than ever we must energize, educate and empower this new generation about why Unions are absolutely vital to their families and the future." "There are a lot of misconceptions of what a union is supposed to be. In my opinion there have been quite a few people that thought getting into the union would be their way of getting a free ride. But the majority of members that I have had the experience of working with in my career have been conscientious of the fact that the better the effort made by them, the easier it is to get people to believe in unions. Unions work to protect our rights and to negotiate fair wages for us. Is it wrong that after working at our career for 30 or more years that we have a retirement fund--annuity--health care for our members? We work at a very hazardous profession. The safety requirements that are in place today came from the union side of labor. These companies are held to a higher standard than they were when I started in 1968. Many times I have witnessed non-union contractors violating OSHA Rules and wondered why they were not being watched and fined by OSHA. I am now convinced that we are held to a higher standard, because we as union workers made them create the standard. Should you be proud to be a union worker, do you speak up when someone says that the union wages are hurting this country? I hope so. Think of where you would be without your union. Would you have received the opportunity to train as you work, for a decent wage as an apprentice? Would you have the health insurance you have? Would you have an annuity, and a retirement fund that is to secure your future? Guess us old guys have too much to say, sorry about the fifty words. My father was a union carpenter for thirty years. He died of asbestosis. With today's safety conscious environment I feel comfortable that my two sons, Millwrights out of Lancaster PA, are safer and I am proud to hand down my union heritage to them." "My whole family were active union members and involved as officers of our union (insulators and asbestos workers) and I myself was a high school dropout. They afforded me the chance to get my high school diploma and get a good job with good wages and great benefits including a great pension and great skills and knowledge of something I would have never figured out on my own. Thank you Local 14 Phila. for the brotherhood." "I feel a great pride stepping on a job site as a union craftsman. I know that job is getting the best of the best with the skilled trades in our construction industry. In today's ever changing world, we are trained in so many different ways to continue to keep up with the technologies of tomorrow. We started this country united as one, so we should continue to build this country united as one with Union, skilled, professional tradesmen, trained to be qualified in today's ever changing construction industry. Brotherhood and fraternal fellowship have proven to keep us united as workers, instead of as strangers." "The rich can not get richer if the little guys like me are not working, and working for fair wages and benefits. It has to trickle up. This way we all have money to spend. The more we spend the more people it takes to make the things we need and want. If the people at Walmart had a union and could afford to buy a house and spend more money at Walmart, I think Walmart could get even bigger. PS: That goes for all the other companies. This country would be booming." "Unions give us strength through unity: the voice and the power necessary to demand a place at the political table and a rightful share of the fruits of our labor. Real democracy is impossible when working people are an underclass, or nothing more than commodities to use and throw away." Thank you all for your great responses! February 25, 2009: SavePFD.com - Sounding the Alarm on Dangerous Cuts to the Phila. Fire Dept. Philadelphia Fire Fighters' Union Local 22 urges all Philadelphia area residents and union members and families to visit our new web site, SavePFD.com, to learn about the dangerous impact of Mayor Nutter's cuts to the Fire Department and what you can do about it. This is a critical situation that directly affects your safety and that of your family. Thank you. February 25, 2009: Phila. Art Museum Security Guards Need Your Help "Mrs. Harrity, The Museum Must Obey The Law." The Philadelphia Museum of Art used to treat its security guards right. In 1994, the security guards that protect our city's most priceless artifacts earned $14/hour and were protected by a union. Then, during a budget crisis like the one that we now face, then Mayor Ed Rendell sub-contracted them. Overnight, more than 100 good, union jobs disappeared and were replaced with jobs that paid poverty wages, lacked any meaningful health care, career opportunities, fair annual raises, job protections or pensions. A decade of exploitation has not deterred the guards' desire for justice and fair treatment. Last year security guards at the museum began organizing and agitating for the basic human right to take time off to recover from illness or injury without being penalized. Last year, one week after Labor Day, a representative of museum CEO Gail Harrity announced that for the first time in 14 years the security officers would have paid sick leave. Soon after this victory the guards had signed up a majority of their co-workers on union recognition cards. Now they need your help to make museum leaders do the right thing by 1) publicly recognizing the PSOU as the voice of the guards at the museum; 2) publicly making a plan to comply with the Philadelphia prevailing wage law; 3) publicly insuring that workers will play a role in the process of bringing the museum into legal compliance. We need to make sure that our city government enforces the worker protection laws that they pass and that our city's institutions do not shirk their responsibilities to normal working people. Please visit the following site for full details and to take action: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/museum_guards/explanation February 24, 2009: Comey Classes, Int'l Women's Day Celebration, More For detailed news and information about the All Star Labor Classic, St. Joseph's 2009 Comey Institute Spring Class Schedule, the International Women's Day Celebration 2009 and more, please visit the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO's news page at http://phillyunions.com/aflcio/index.php?pageid=news. June 20, 2008: Union Hotels This is to inform you of UNITE HERE!'s request that for any functions or conferences scheduled in the Northeast section of Philadelphia requiring use of a hotel, to please patronize the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel located at 9461 Roosevelt Blvd. The main phone number is 215-671-9600 and the General Mgr. is Lori Simpson. If a full list of union Philadelphia hotels is needed please call UNITE HERE! Local 274 at 215-751-9770 or visit the union hotel guide link at http://www.unitehere.org.
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