IBEW 459, which has more than 500 members on strike in Pennsylvania, has scheduled four (4) simultaneous Press Conferences/Rallies. They are asking their union brothers and sisters to join them in solidarity. It would be nice if each union could send two people.

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Approximately 550 members of IBEW 459 are on strike across our state. The union asked for our assistance. They are employees of First Energy/Penelec and negotiations are not going well. . The company is currently using supervisors and scab labor from Mississippi and Florida to conduct business.


A show of solidarity would be appreciated at any one of the four (4) Simultaneous Press Conferences in Erie, Clearfield, Johnstown, and Towanda at 5PM on July 8th. The locations will be determined and notices sent via our E-activists Center as soon as possible. If you did not receive an email from us this week please go to http://www.unionvoice.org/nwpaalf/join.html and sign up.


Another meeting is scheduled with members of labor and community supporters for July 1st to discuss the details of the strike and plans for the simultaneous Press Conferences . The meeting will be held at the IBEW 56 Hall at 185 Pennbriar Dr Erie, PA 16509.


You can help. Please plan on attending the Press Release. Thank You!

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The Northwestern Pennsylvania Area Labor Federation produces a quarterly newsletter for the delegates of the NWPA ALF, the ten (10) Central Labor Councils and their Affiliated Local Unions. You must sign in to view this article.

 

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When we talk to our elected or appointed officials in our area, it is helpful if we know if they are or have been a member of organized labor. The AFL-CIO has designed a form named the Target 5000 Survey that would make it easier for us to track those individuals and use them as our first point of contact at their level of public service, if needed.

 

We encourage members of organized labor who are seeking public office to also complete this form. Read more...

Click here to look up either find your elected officials or look-up the last 4-digits of your zip code.

The resource link below will connect you to a power point presentation developed solely to emphasis the importance of the Central Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations. Please take the time to view it.

Indeed, there is freedom in the capitalist countries, but for whom?  Of course not for the working people, who are forced to hire themselves out to the capitalists on any conditions just to avoid finding themselves in the ranks of the huge army of people who are ‘free from work’.”

-- Nikita S. Khrushchev; Former Soviet Russian premier; 1959

 

Quote sources:
Great Labor Quotations: Sourcebook and Reader, by Peter Bollen
The Great Quotations, by George Seldes
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

Eli Stein

From the UCS Labor Graphics Packet.
Info at: www.unionist.com/graphics.htm

  

 The Northwestern Pennsylvania Area Labor Federation (ALF) would like to take this opportunity to invite you to join us.  This invitation is extended to all local unions and AFL-CIO recognized Constituency Groups in the 19 Northwestern Pennsylania Counties in our jurisdiction.  Please take a few minutes to read more.....