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Nearly $19 billion for bridges, roads and more: Here’s what Pa. could get in Senate infrastructure b

The U.S. Senate has approved a bill directing $1 trillion toward highways, bridges, expanding broadband and a host of other areas, and...

White House: Pennsylvania would receive billions from infrastructure bill

Washington — The bipartisan infrastructure deal advanced by Congress would deliver to Pennsylvania an additional $11.3 billion in federal...

Collapsing union pension plans win long-sought help from rescue package; How Pa. benefits

Washington — Tucked in the Democrats’ massive coronavirus stimulus package was a long-awaited solution for a financial ticking time bomb:...

Pa. projected to receive billions in American Rescue Plan money

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Nearly 2 trillion dollars will be pushed out from Washington, D.C. to the states as part of the American Rescue...

Biden gets late boost with key union endorsement

News Source Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden got a late boost in the White House race Friday when he scored the endorsement of a...

Labor Department Curbs Announcements of Company Violations

News Source For years, the Labor Department has made a practice of issuing sternly worded news releases calling out companies deemed by...

Trump issues sweeping order for tens of thousands of career federal employees to lose civil service

News Source President Trump this week fired his biggest broadside yet against the federal bureaucracy by issuing an executive order that...

Labor chiefs called 'emergency' session over Trump's election threats

News Source WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka planned to convene an "emergency meeting" of the heads of major labor unions on...

Over 125 mayors across Pa. announce they're backing Biden for president

News Source At least 33 mayors who serve in cities and boroughs in Pennsylvania that Donald Trump won in 2016 will endorse Democrat Joe...

New union offers subscription-based benefits to central Pa. restaurant workers

News Source A newly founded Harrisburg-based union is offering central Pennsylvania restaurant workers, who are independent of a union, a...

Trump administration sued over decision that could cut wages for more than 200,000 farm workers

News Source The Trump administration announced in September it was suspending the Farm Labor Survey, which provides the base wage...

Could 750,000 Pennsylvania Health Care Workers Turn The Election?

News Source Streets flooded with protesters, police precincts in flames, socially distanced lines at polling places, and grim reapers at...

Biden delivers pro-labor speech, blasts Trump in visit to Erie

News Source Standing in front of a rack of copper and PVC pipe outside of a local union training facility, former Vice President Joe...

Unions predict a Great Awakening during a Biden presidency

News Source Reversing America's decades-long decline in union membership, however, will be a difficult task for even the most...

U.S. accused of violating international labor laws, forced-labor protections in new complaint

News Source Leaders representing a large number of U.S. trade unions filed a complaint with the United Nations’ labor agency Wednesday,...

Trump halts COVID-19 relief talks until after election

News Source WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday called an abrupt end to negotiations with Democrats over additional...

Philadelphia's Largest Council of Construction Unions Endorses Joe Biden

News Source A council that represents thousands of union construction workers in Philadelphia has endorsed former Vice President Joe...

Pennsylvania unions warn that workers can't survive four more years of Trump

News Source This week, two major labor unions representing nearly a million American workers endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe...

Biden scores big union wins on train trek through Western Pennsylvania

News Source It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood Wednesday for former Vice President Joe Biden as he ventured deep into what was...

Trump’s Jobs Record Fell Short of Promises Even Before the Virus

News Source When Donald Trump ran for president, he boasted he would be the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Now, as a...