Planning underway for labor rally in Philadelphia
Looks like plans are heating up for the labor rally scheduled to be held next weekend in Philadelphia, in advance of the Democratic and Republican conventions.
Planning underway for labor rally in Philadelphia
Catherine Lucey
Looks like plans are heating up for the labor rally scheduled to be held next weekend in Philadelphia, in advance of the Democratic and Republican conventions.
Here's a press release about an event Monday to announce special guests:
WORKERS STAND FOR AMERICA ORGANIZERS TO STAGE PRESS CONFERENCE IN HOST CITY OF PHILADELPHIA ON MONDAY, AUGUST 6TH; MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT AND NATIONAL SPEAKERS' TO BE ANNOUNCED
WHO: Pat Gillespie, Building Trades Business Manager; Liz McElroy, Secretary-Treasurer of the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO; John J. Dougherty, Business Manager of IBEW Local 98; Pete Matthews, President of District Council 33, and other Philadelphia labor leaders.
WHAT: Philly's labor leaders will announce details of the Workers Stand For America rally on Saturday, August 11th on Eakins Oval on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, including the star-studded lineup of musical acts and national speakers. The rally, a middle-class summit, is expected to draw 30,000 people to the Parkway.
WHEN: Monday, August 6, 2012 at 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: IBEW Local 98 Union Hall, 1719 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia.
SOUND/VISUALS: South Philly native and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Charlie Gracie, one of the musical artists scheduled to play the Workers Stand for America rally, will play two of his rockabilly classics at the end of the press conference to help promote the national middle-class summit on August 11th.
Nobody cares.— Mr. Smith- Workers stand for America. Gillespie and Co stand for extortion.— SirEdward
I hope that they realize that as PROUD Reagan Democrats were voting Republican they were voting against the very government that gave them contracts to repair AND maintain water mains.
— Cuddles
pat gillespie stands for a racist, all-white, suburban union- I hope that Unions realize, again, that to support the least of us elevates the whole of us.
— Cuddles - It is being billed as "Entitement-Palooza", celebrating the destructive practice of feeling entitled to artifically inflated compensation paid for by consumers & taxpayers.
It would be nice if all hotels within a 90 mile radius fixed room rate prices at $900 per night for each hotel room. This would give these union leeches & losers a taste of their own medicine. I mean, are hotels not entitled to earn a "living wage" by organizing to set prices for thie rproduct artifically higher than their true market value??? Uniosn would certainly & willingly cough over $900 per night for a hotel room at the Holiday Inn, correct???
Thankfully, unions are dead and getting more dead with each passing day. Their destruction to the wallets of consumers & taxpayers is coming to a rapid close. Long, long, long overdue.— kelprod2 - OH BOY, THE CIRCUS IS COMING TO TOWN!!!!— Dadair1
- Who has the t-shirt concession?— tr88
- I'll show up if a lunch is provided.— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
- Hey kelprod2, your stupidity is showing. Without Unions, you would still be working 24/7 for peanuts, and living in company homes. You would have no Middle class that can afford cars and homes and good food. You would get no paid holidays or vacations. You would be a slave.
Rest assured the Labor Movement will not die, because some of us are not afraid of corporate America.
John Schmitt, proud Teamster— jschmitt1950 - Wrong! Kelprod2 has said he/she/IT is a member of the 1% in this country. Kelprod2 could care less about the middle class. Whether or not the middle class can afford cars, homes. etc is a non-issue for Kelprod2. And if any thing Kelprod2 would be a slave owner. — CommonSense in Philly
- i guess they can use their 3 hour breaks to protest.— palmyra21
- If Philly cared more about people than they did for maintaining the failure that is the DNC machine, they would run these thugs and extortionists out of town at the point of pitchforks.— tr88
- Well, where is the RNC in Philly? Why is it such a weak, if nonexistent entity? Perhaps the RNC could get some of it's people elected if they would offer up a believable candidate. The last mayoral election your party gave us Karen Brown! Seriously, did you actually expect people to vote for that dimwit? Better yet, did you vote for her? — CommonSense in Philly
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