Election Season Approaches

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
-Plato
There will be many important decisions to be made this election season, whether in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race between Bob Casey and Rick Santorum, the governor’s race between Ed Rendell and Lynn Swann, or […]

Quotables: Clarence Darrow

“With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.”
Click here to learn more about Clarence […]

Union Meeting Alert

The first general membership meeting of the fall will be this Sunday (September 24, 2006) at 10:30 a.m. For a list of upcoming meetings, click here or on the “MEETINGS” tab at the top of this page.

Quotables: Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as ‘right-to-work.’ It provides no ‘rights’ and no ‘works.’ Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining… We demand this fraud be stopped.”

Remembering…

Hard to believe it’s been five years since that horrible day. Many were lost, and unfortunately, many have been lost since. Some of them were our brothers and sisters; all of them were our fellow human beings.
Click here for some nice online tributes to many of the 9/11 victims.