ULA Class Participation

Thanks to the activists of our affiliated local unions, I am proud to announce the Union Leadership Academy Class participation has increased.  We also have a few people ready to receive their certificate of completion of 4 course earning the equivalent of one life skills credit for college. They will receive them at the December 16th NWPA ALF meeting in Franklin. We have had 21 participants in one class, the next class was significantly smaller, but our class on Negotiation Strategies & Tactics if all who are registered attend will have 28.

As a result of the increased participation, we will begin planning the next two rounds of educational classes. One group will deal with computers and the other with ULA topics. We are looking for suggestions of topics. In the computer category the following were suggested: Excel, MS Word, Powerpoint, Publisher, and Social Networking(Twitter, blogging, facebook and etc.).

Please respond back with your suggestions and ideas of which of the classes you would be willing to attend.

The Hard Work of Our Volunteers Give Us Reason to Be Proud...

The Northwestern Pennsylvania area Labor Federation has 10 Central Labor councils within our jurisdiction. We are proud to announce that as of 9/2/09, Five of those ten now have a LaborWeb site being administered by volunteers who serve as website administers:

Beaver-Lawrence CLC- Sarah Dudash and Denise Cox http://pa.aflcio.org/BeaverLawrence/

Butler CLC - Kathleen Treme` and Donna Weckerly http://pa.aflcio.org/ButlerCLC/
Erie-Crawford CLC - Rosanne Gangemi and Jim Longley http://pa.aflcio.org/ErieCrawfordCLC/
Indiana-Armstrong-Clarion CLC - Ken and Matt Black http://pa.aflcio.org/IndianaCLC/

Venango CLC- David Daubenspeck and Brian Crawford http://pa.aflcio.org/VenangoCLC/


In addition we have updated our website http://pa.aflcio.org/nwpaalf

And a  few local unions and another CLC have recently created their own websites:
Roofers Local 210- Jack Lee webmaster http://www.rooferslocal210.org/

IBEW 201- Eric hoover and Patty are webmasters http://www.ibewlocal201.org/
Alleghany County CLC- Barb serves as web administrator http://www.pittsburghaflcio.org/
We are proud of the work they are all doing. please take a few minutes to check out the various sites. If your local union or CLC is interested in establishing a website or e-activist center let us know, we would be delighted to help.

Health Care Reform Meeting with Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper

Friday, September 4 – 11am

Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper


Special Guests:

• Wendell Potter (Former CIGNA Executive)

• John Malone (CEO Hamot Medical Center)
  

Our Congresswoman and her special guests willl be discussing health. Join us as we attend and ask questings to get to the reality of the proposed healthcare legislation.

 Below is a link to the interview of Wendell Potter by Bill Moyer:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07312009/watch.html

What do you think makes a good blog?

We want your input, tells us what you think would make this blog better?

Health Care Fairness

Do you think it is fair?

The People in American pay for the health care of our elected officials. Yet the elected officials have no health care plan for the people in America.

Joshua Atkinson discusses the WFTK

Joshua Atkinson from IBEW 1637 discusses the

value and user firendliness of the AFL-CIO's

workingfamiliestoolkit.com.

Pennsylvania SB 25 & Alternative Energy (Fuel) Sources

Special Senate Bill 25 will reclassify tires as a source of renewable energy. This would enable any company in PA that uses tires to create energy to sell the energy they produce directly to local businesses. Without the reclassification they would only be able to sell any electricity produced to the GRID.

There are Tire-Derived-Fuel (TDF) Companies/Plants in many states in the continental United States.

What you think of the idea of reclassifying tires as a source of renewable energy?