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CENSUS 2020: Why Pennsylvania Needs A Complete Count

“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons . . . The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. Read More

Martin Luther King Day- Remembering a Workers’ Champion

Our union sisters and brothers have long honored the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose life was tragically cut short in Memphis TN where the civil rights leader was support striking AFSCME sanitation workers. Labor Unions remember and pay tribute to the fight for civil rights and Dr. Read More

Today in Labor History – The Palmer Raids

In January 1920, U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer initiated a series of raids targeting supposed “radicals” and “anarchists”. This first ‘Red Scare’, more than 6,000 individuals, mostly immigrant labor activists, were rounded up, imprisoned, and some were even deported. J. Read More