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HARRISBURG, PA, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate both announced the introduction of Protecting the Right to Organize Act in Congress. Our pro-union U.S. Senator Bob Casey is a co-sponsor as well as the following pro-worker congressional members: Rep. Michael Doyle, Rep. Connor Lamb, Rep. Matthew Cartwright, Rep. Susan Wild, Rep. Mary Scanlon, Rep. Madeleine Dean, Rep. Dwight Evans, Rep. Brendan Boyle, and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick. We look forward to adding more co-sponsors in the future.
On behalf of the 700,000 workers of our Commonwealth s union movement, the officers of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, President Rick Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Frank Snyder, released the following statements:
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO applauds this commitment to our future prosperity. Budgets are a statement of priorities, and our priority has always been the working people who make up our Commonwealth. In response to Governor Wolf s address today, the officers of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, President Rick Bloomingdale, and Secretary-Treasurer Frank Snyder, made the following statements in response: The pandemic has made it clearer than ever that Pennsylvanians need a budget that invests in our communities and our future. Our Commonwealth is in a position that requires a reckoning of decades of disinvestment, neglect, and apathy. The most vulnerable have had to bear the brunt of the devastation. We fully support raising the minimum wage and building financial security for working families.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Reporting from the New York Times has uncovered Congressman Scott Perry s significant role in the efforts to subvert and undermine our country s democracy. The officers of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Rick Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Frank Snyder made the following statements: Representative Scott Perry must resign or be removed from office immediately. He has been a mouthpiece for propaganda. For months, Scott Perry spread disinformation and conspiracy theories, stoking the flames of discord. His loyalty is with a would-be authoritarian and an extremist movement. Scott Perry didn t blindly follow orders; his actions weren t a response to incitement. He was an active leader in a conspiracy to commit sedition. He has forfeited the honor of serving this country, stated Rick Bloomingdale.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Executive Council, President Rick Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer Frank Snyder, and our Vice Presidents released the following statement on the passing of Ted Kirsch, former President of AFT-PA and Vice President of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO: Pennsylvania s Labor Movement mourns the loss of our union brother and Labor Leader Ted Kirsch. Ted joined our executive council in 1988 and served as vice president for 31 years, retiring in 2019. In his 17 years as President of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and 12 years as President of the American Federation of Teachers – Pennsylvania, he led educators across the Commonwealth in the fight for their students and their workplaces. Throughout his life, Ted held a deep solidarity with union brothers and sisters in the Histadrut, Israel s General Federation of Labor, and the Israeli people.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Today, the Pennsylvania delegation of the Electoral College met in Harrisburg to cast our Commonwealth s 20 electoral votes for President-elect Joe Biden. Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Rick Bloomingdale was proud to serve as an elector and Secretary of the Electoral College. Labor leaders Ryan Boyer, Business Manager of Laborers District Council of the Metropolitan Area of Philadelphia and the Vicinity, and Daisy Cruz, Mid-Atlantic District Leader of 32BJ SEIU, also served as electors.
The officers of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, President Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Frank Snyder issued the following joint statement: Democracy is not easy, and for it to work, it must include all of us. We worked to make sure that people could safely cast their votes in the middle of a public health crisis. We rallied and came together to ensure that every vote was counted. Today we mark another m