Music of Resistance on May Day
MMP
| Apr 30, 10

 
In honor of International Workers Day, Crossroads presents veteran labor singer Anne Feeney and rising young songwriter Evan Greer of the Riot-Folk! Collective – joined by special guest Roy Zimmerman – celebrating multiple generations of community resistance through high-energy radical folk music on their fourth tour together. The concert will take place at 7:30 pm at Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street. Tickets are $20-30 and are available both at the concert and in advance from our website and at Last Word Bookshop at 220 South 40th Street. 

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PPA in the Wrong When Setting Rules for Taxis
Bryan Mercer
| Apr 29, 10

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has passed a decision clearly stating the PPA has acted outside of it's regulatory authority. The ruling found that the PPA has been operating for years without following proper procedure in regards to setting rules for the taxi cab industry. The decision effectively voids regulation created by the PPA since it's establishment in 2004, calling the PPA's rules "void and unenforceable."

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Victory for Temple Nurses!
milena velis
| Apr 28, 10

 
The nurses and technical professionals of Temple University Hospital just scored an important victory for themselves, for the labor movement, and for quality healthcare for everyone.
 
After nearly a month on strike, the 1,500 members of PASNAP scored major contract concessions on what Temple University Health Services had billed as their "last, best and final offer".
 

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Temple nurses and techs vote today on new contract
milena velis
| Apr 28, 10

The members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP) are voting today to ratify a new contract with Temple University Health Systems.
 
Hundreds of PASNAP members packed the Fraternal Order of Police hall at 13th and Spring Garden this morning to hear the details of the contract, with morale high after almost a month on the picket line.
 

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What the Temple Nurses Strike Means for Philly's Labor Movement
dina yarmus
| Apr 26, 10

PASNAP members fight for patients, themselves and you, cause you get sick too!

The strike by the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP) at Temple University Hospital marks an important moment in Philadelphia’s long history of labor struggle. Unlike previous strikes at Temple Hospital, such as the ones led by nurses in the 1970s, PASNAP members are up against a powerful anti-worker establishment.

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Taxi Workers Alliance on Trial
SChervenka
| Apr 23, 10

http://www.metro.us/us/article/2010/04/23/01/2204-85/index.xml   When the President of the Taxi Workers Alliance of PA was found not guily on all counts in a criminal trial, it wasn't over.  The Taxi and Limo Division of the Philadelphia Parking Authority refused to meet with him, and the organizing commitee, thus, refused to meet with them without Ron Blount.  Imagine Jim Ney, as the King of England, before  the war of independence, "We'll try him in our courts".

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WATCH: Temple University Hospital Nurses Strike Reaches Its Fourth Week: Growing Stronger
MMP
| Apr 23, 10

Video by Gustavo Martinez


The Temple nurses strike has now entered it's fourth week and on Wednesday community leaders from the NAACP, Temple Student Labor Action Project and Pennsylvania Federation of Teachers, among others, came out to support the striking nurses. Temple Watch reports that formal negotiations are to begin between the union and hospital on Saturday April 24, and on the same day there are plans for a massive rally at the Constitution Center at 4:30PM. 

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Ronald Blount, President of Taxi Workers Union, Found Not Guilty... Again
Todd Wolfson
| Apr 22, 10

On Thursday, Ron Blount President of the Taxi Workers Alliance (TWA) was found Not Guilty, on the charge of assault in Philadelphia Parking Authority's administrative court. This is the second time he has been tried and exonerated on the same charges.

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Cab Drivers, the PPA and the Case of Double Jeopardy
Todd Wolfson
| Apr 21, 10

 
by Milena Velis and Todd Wolfson
 
Update: Ron Blunt was found not guilty


Despite having already been exonerated on assault charges, Ronald Blount, President of the Unified Taxi Workers Alliance (UTWA) will stand trial for a second time this week on the same allegations. Back in October of 2009, in municipal court, a jury exonerated him in less than one hour. But that resounding decision has not deterred the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) from retrying Mr Blount for the same crime in their administrative court, Thursday April 22nd. 

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Desperate Because of Poor Nursing Care, Critical Care Patient Walks Out of Temple Hospital
Todd Wolfson
| Apr 20, 10

 
Over the weekend, a hospital patient came to the picket line pleading not to be sent back inside of the hospital due to reportedly bad nursing care.  In response to these troubling incidences, the union for nurses and healthcare professionals at Temple has filed a report with the Department of Health on Monday, April 19, 2010.

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