Amendu Evans reports on the effort of SEIU to gather support for Health Care. Recently they rallied at the District Office of Sen. Robert Casey. This is the latest action in their yearlong campaign. 

The Wall Street Journal ran an article summing up some of the job losses that defined this recession - and that many of these jobs will never return. Unlike recessions past, when workers were temporarily laid off and then brought back on the job, this time around marked high rates of permanent layoffs and the disappearance of whole sectors of work. Real estate and construction took some of the hardest hits, with over 1.6 million construction jobs lost - a fifth of the 7.2 million lost since December 2007.

Florida Farmworkers visited Aramark's headquarters in Philadelphia
earlier this month to call for justice and dignity for the people who
pick the tomatoes Aramark buys. The event was part of the Fair Food
Solidarity Tour, a national campaign with the United Workers of
Baltimore, Maryland, who work in the service sector. Amendu Evans
brings us an interview with Gerardo Reyes of the Coalition of Immokalee
Workers.

Unified Taxi Workers Alliance (UTWA) went into action. We met with the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA)’s Taxicab and Limousine Division (TLD) first, then with some of PPA’s Board. Stu Bykofsky wrote an article in the Daily News. We collected evidence from drivers experiences and GPS records.

The PPA’s response was: It doesn’t exist; Drivers are driving away when being ticketed; You are accusing us of being criminals; and your evidence is insignificant compared to the amount of drivers there are.