Author: rachel c

Support the Employee Free Choice Act

September 7, 2008

Posted by rachel c under 2008, Elections, Jobs, Labor, Politics, Poverty, Uncategorized, Voting Rights

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A caller on the Thom Hartmann show last week said that card check neutrality (when an employer agrees to remain neutral when their employees form a union — what the Employee Free Choice Act would guarentee for all workers) is really analogous to voter registration. I like that.

Opponents of employee free choice often frame card check agreements as if an employer is agreeing to mandate that its workers join a union. That’s just not the case– only workers can organize a union. The “neutrality” is that the employer just agrees to not interfere as they practice that choice, that vote. The employer agrees to honor democratic freedom in the workplace.

Indeed, unions are the only institution for workplace democracy

1) Sign the online petiion:

2) Read this interesting Op-Ed from today’s paper, an employer who supports the Employee Free Choice Act:

http://www.pittsburghpost-gazette.com/pg/08246/908668-432.stm

Dem. Attorney General Forum - Sun. Jan. 29 - @KathleenGKane & @PatrickMurphyPA to attend
ATTORNEY GENERAL FORUM SET FOR EAST END

A forum for Democratic attorney general candidates will be held on Sunday, January 29, 2012 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM in the Wightman School Community Building, 5604 Solway Street, in Squirrel Hill.

The event is co-hosted by the 14^th Ward Independent Democratic Club and the 14^th and 7^th Ward Democratic Committees.

Democratic attorney general candidates Kathleen Kane and Patrick Murphy will be attending and candidate Dan McCaffrey has been invited to participate. Come join us. It’s free and we’ll have good food. Audience members will pose questions, and the candidates will have an equal opportunity to inform voters of their views. The panel discussion will begin at 2:00.

This will be the first Pittsburgh-area forum for candidates vying for the Democratic Party’s nomination for attorney general. The primary election will be held on April 24.

With more than 18,000 registered Democrats, the 14th Ward is the largest ward in the City of Pittsburgh and second largest in the state. More people voted in the 2010 general election in the 14th Ward than in 22 Pennsylvania counties. The ward includes all or part of Squirrel Hill, Point Breeze, North Point Breeze, Regent Square, Park Place, and Swisshelm Park. The 7^th Ward covers Shadyside.

The 14^th Ward club is not affiliated with the Democratic Committee of Allegheny County. It formed in 1964 and is the longest standing independent Democratic club in the country.
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Chelsa Wagner Elected As Secretary of A+ Schools Board
She is one busy lady. The A+ Schools board has also added some politically connected names to their board.

Here is the press release from A+ Schools:

New Officers, Members Elected to A+ Schools Board of Directors

PITTSBURGH, PA – Jan. 17, 2012 – The Board of Directors of A+ Schools, Pittsburgh’s community alliance for public education, has elected Judy Johnston as its new chair. Johnston, an educational leadership consultant, replaces Sala Udin, president of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership, who will serve on the Board’s Executive Committee as immediate past president.

The Board also elected Tracey Reed Armant, a consultant and parent, to succeed Johnston as the new vice chair. Chelsa Wagner, Allegheny County controller, was elected as secretary and Jim Turner, training division director of OnHand Schools, Inc., was re-elected treasurer. Susan Brownlee, executive director of the Fine Foundation, was elected to serve as an at-large executive committee member.

Six new directors were elected to two-year terms ending Dec. 31, 2013: Jackie Dandridge, a college and career advisor with NEED and retired Pittsburgh teacher; Amanda Godley, a professor in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh; Allyson Lowe, chair of the political science department at Carlow University; Sabrina Saunders, director of education and youth development at the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh; State Rep. Jake Wheatley, D-Hill District; and Roslynne Wilson, director of grant funded programs at Community College of Allegheny County.

Directors rotating off the Board due to term limits are Esther Bush, Joe Costa, Robert Germany, Saleem Ghubril, Janay Hall, Nancy Israel and Fred Thieman.

A+ Schools is an independent community advocate for improvement in public education. Its vision is a community mobilized to improve public education to produce successive generations of young people who thrive and who build their families and futures in Pittsburgh. Its purpose is to be a community force advancing the highest educational achievement and character development for every public school student in Pittsburgh. For more information, contact A+ Schools at412-697-1298 or visit www.aplusschools.org.

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