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The People Who

Unions: Brought You This Weekend Top 10 Labor Unions

Unions Make Possible Collective Bargaining

by Sheila Mason, Demand Media The National Education Association of the United States With 3.2 million members, the NEA (nea.org) is the nation’s largest union and represents public school teachers, administrators, substitute educators, higher education faculty members, education support professionals, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers. The union was founded in 1857 and merged with the American Teachers Association in 1966.

The Service Employees nternational Union Janitors formed what became the SEIU (seiu.org) in 1921 in Chicago. With 2.1 million members, the SEIU is the United States’ largest health care, property services and public services union.

The SEIU represents janitors, security officers, superintendents, maintenance workers, local and state government workers, public school employees, bus drivers and child care providers.

The American Federation of Teachers With more than 1.5 million members, the AFT (aft.org.) represents early childhood educators, pre-K through 12thgrade teachers, paraprofessionals and other school-related personnel, higher education faculty and staff, government employees, and nurses and other health care professionals. The AFT was founded in 1916 in Chicago.

Labor unions are legally recognized as representatives of workers in many industries in the United States. Their activity today centers on collective bargaining over wages, benefits and working conditions for their membership, and on representing their members in disputes with management over violations of contract provisions. Larger unions also typically engage in lobbying activities and supporting endorsed candidates at the state and federal level.

Most unions in America are aligned with one of two larger umbrella organizations: the AFL-CIO created in 1955, and the Change to Win Federation which split from the AFL-CIO in 2005. Both advocate policies and legislation on behalf of workers in the United States and Canada, and take an active role in politics. The AFL-CIO is especially concerned with global trade issues, such as child laborers in an Indian glass works.

In 2010, the percentage of workers belonging to a union in the United States (or total labor union “density”) was 11.4%, compared to 18.3% in Japan, 27.5% in Canada and 70% in Finland. Union membership in the private sector has fallen under 7% – levels not seen since 1932. Unions know employer-incited opposition has contributed to this decline in membership.

The most prominent unions are among public sector employees such as teachers, police and other non-managerial or non-executive federal, state, county and municipal

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters The Teamsters union (teamster.org) represents airline employees, bakery and laundry workers, food processors, construction workers, freight employees, port workers, rail workers, tankhaul drivers and warehouse workers. The union has 1.4 million members and dates to 1903, when two rival unions joined forces in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees AFSCME (afscme.org) is the nation’s biggest public services employees union, tallying 1.3 million members. It has nurses, corrections officers, child care providers, EMTs and sanitation workers among its ranks. In 1932, a group of state employees founded what would become AFSCME in Madison, Wisconsin.

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Founded in 1979, the UFCW (ufcw.org) represents grocery store workers, packinghouse employees, food processor workers, drugstore employees, poultry processing plant workers, retail store workers and factory workers.

The UFCW has 1.3 million members.

The United Steelworkers Headquartered in Pittsburgh with more than 1.2 million members, the USW (usw.org) counts as members, aluminum, steel and other metal workers; oil and chemi-

cal plant workers; rubber workers; pharmacy workers; health care workers; pulp paper and forestry workers; and construction workers. The union dates to 1942.

The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America Commonly known as the United Auto Workers, the UAW (uaw.org) counts 990,000 members and represents autoworkers as well as employees at colleges and universities and in the gaming industry and health-care field.

Autoworkers formed the UAW in 1935 in Detroit, where the UAW maintains its headquarters.

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers With 720,000 members, the IAM (goiam.org) represents fabrication workers, workers in aerospace and automotive repair, city employees and truck assemblers. The union traces its roots to machinists in Atlanta who voted to form a trade union in 1888.

The IAM has its headquarters in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Formed in 1891 in St. Louis, the IBEW (ibew.org) represents workers in a variety of fields, including utilities, construction, telecommunications, broadcasting, manufacturing, railroads and government. The IBEW has 675,000 members.

employees. Members of unions are disproportionately older, nions Mmale and residents of the Northeast, the Midwest, and California.

Union workers in the private sector average 10-30% higher pay than non-union in America after controlling for individual, job, and labor market characteristics. Because of their inherently governmental function, public sector workers are paid the same regardless of union affiliation or non-affiliation after controlling for individual, job, and labor market characteristics.

The economist Joseph Stiglitz has asserted, “Strong unions have helped to reduce inequality, whereas weaker unions have made it easier for CEOs, sometimes working with market forces that they have helped shape, to increase it.”

The decline in unionization since the Second World War in the United States has been associated with a pronounced rise in income and wealth inequality and, since 1967, with loss of middle class income. of the U.S. workforce has fallen in recent decades, from 20.1 percent in 1983, the first year comparable data is available, to 11.8 percent in 2011, according to the Labor Department, with the number of wage and salaried workers belonging to unions at 17.7 million in 1983 and 14.8 million in 2011. Membership numbers for the 10 largest labor unions in the U.S. are reported by the unions. The unions have headquarters in Washington unless otherwise noted.

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Rick Bloomingdale, President, Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Administrative reforms initiated by our United States Dept. of Labor will raise the wages and improve the lives of millions of hard-working people across the United States and in Pennsylvania. The changes are part of the President’s economic initiatives to level the

playing field for working families and do not require an act

by Congress.

A significant reform will extend overtime protections to an estimated 5 million additional workers – including 200,000 in Pennsylvania. Employers will no longer be able to simply designate employees as managerial even when their duties are nearly identical to the employees they manage.

This rule change, along with increasing the income threshold in which salaried workers are covered by overtime protections, will raise the wages of more workers, many of whom are 35 and under. The income threshold hasn’t been updated since the 1970s. At that time, over 65% of salaried employees were entitled to time-anda-half pay for overtime while today, only 11 % are eligible.

Another significant action is the Administrative Interpretation released in July by the US Labor Dept. which will help end the misclassification of “employees” as contractors or what is often referred as the overuse of 1099 hiring.

The misclassification of workers is a growing problem that, according to a recent study by Temple University law Prof. Jennifer Lee, results in cheating workers out of millions of dollars in wages every week. Lee’s study estimates that workers in Pennsylvania lose between $19 million and $32 million every week due to wage theft. Many of these workers, who are misclassified, don’t believe they are entitled to the minimum-wage and overtime protections, when in fact, they are. Some of these workers are earning

piece rates below the minimum wage and are not paid when traveling between job work sites. The Administrative Interpretation notes that the critical determination in independentcontractor misclassification claims is whether a worker is genuinely in business for himself or herself.

Just as important is legislation introduced by State Sen. Christine Tartaglione and State Rep. Patty Kim, which contains strong anti-wage-theft protections and companion legislation that raises Pennsylvania minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.

Pennsylvania is standing alone, and not for a good reason, as the only state in the region not to have raised the minimum wage above the federal rate of $7.25 per hour.

Twenty-nine states have done

so. Raising the minimum wage will not only boost the wages of 1.2 million Pennsylvania workers; it will provide an additional boost to local economies especially in rural areas of our state. We must pressure the leaders in the State Senate and the State House to let their members vote to raise the minimum wage. Gov. Wolf supports the increase and so do over 70% of Pennsylvanians.

As we continue to push for these and many other policy changes which will raise the wages of millions of working Pennsylvanians, we also salute the thousands of workers across Pennsylvania who have just recently formed their unions for a stronger voice on the job. Their success along with a growing union presence in Pennsylvania’s (Cont. Page 6)

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by Rick Bloomingdale, President, Pennsylvania AFL-CIO This Labor Day we recognize the incredible achievements of America’s working people and celebrate all those who make our country run.

Many of us will be busy enjoying the parades, the picnics and the various celebrations and events that bring family and friends together.

All across our state, working people are coming together to change public policies and working conditions to restore the value of work and to rebuild our middle class. Joining us are many of our allies and supporters who share our values and beliefs and who once again want to see our nation and our state prosper and become stronger both economically and politically.

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Labor Day Message 2015

Saluting All Unions Members And Their Families

LABOR DAY

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... State AFL-CIO (Cont. From Page 5) economy will help raise the standards for every working family in Pennsylvania.

In a huge victory, nearly 1,000 workers at the Letterkenny Army Depot in South Central Pennsylvania formed their union with the Machinists to bring stability, decent wages and benefits, and a voice to their workplace. Another enormous success for thousands of Pennsylvania’s home-care workers and the people they care for across Pennsylvania, is the 89% support of home-care workers in forming their union with United Home Care Workers of Pennsylvania, a partnership of AFSCME and SEIU. As a result, this partnership is now 20,000 members stronger.

Another key victory, adding to our strength, is the support of the Adjunct Faculty at Community College of Allegheny County, who in July voted overwhelmingly to form their union with the American Federation of Teachers.

They are joining the full-time faculty at CCAC which have been union members for over 40 years. We also congratulate over 1,000 service and technical workers at the Allegheny General Hospital who also overwhelmingly formed their

union with SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania.

They join the 1,200 registered AGH nurses, RNs and service workers at Canonsburg Hospital and Allegheny Valley Hospital in further strengthening their voices to continue providing quality care for their patients.

We also encourage community support for our friends and our neighbors, members of the Communications Workers of America and the United Steelworkers, as they continue to stand up for good jobs, defending their retirement security and their health care. Their struggle is ours because what they are fighting for is what all of us want to achieve for ourselves and our families. All of us deserve to make more than a decent living, we deserve a decent life.

It’s time America’s economic policies put people and families first, instead of the interests of a handful of wealthy and well-connected corporate CEOs. We need to change the debate from “what is good for the economy” to “what is good for America and working people.”

Enjoy the Labor Day holiday and please remember to buy Pennsylvania- and Americanmade products every time you shop.

City Offices Closed, Services Limited All City of Philadelphia offices will be closed and City services curtailed on Labor Day, Monday, Sep. 7 – a legal holiday.

Trash and recyclables will not be collected on Monday. Streets Commissioner David J. Perri urges residents, whose normal collection is on Monday, to set out their rubbish and recycling for collection on Tuesday, Sep. 8. Trash and recycling collections will be one day behind for the remainder of the week.

All City District Health Centers are closed on Labor Day, as are all branch offices of the Department of Licenses and Inspections; the North and Northeast Municipal Service Centers; the Marriage License Bureau; all Dept. of Recreation facilities; the Free Library of Philadelphia and all of its branches and the executive offices of the Philadelphia Parking Authority, as well as its Violations branch, at 9th & Filbert Streets.

Lights On Capitol Bldg. Honor Unions Red were the lights shining this week from the Lt. Gov. Mike Stack’s balcony in front of the State Capitol as a tribute to the youth baseball team from Red Land, York County, which reached the finals of the Little League World Series over the weekend.

“During their entire run through the Little League World Series, Red Land cap-

tured the attention of Pennsylvania and had the entire state cheering them on. They made us proud. I’m having the balcony lights glow red to mark the terrific performance of these young players and their coaches,” the Lieutenant Governor said.

Red Land won the United States championship on Saturday, and then lost in the final game Sunday to the interna-

tional champion from Japan.

The balcony was also red for the team on Sunday night.

The Lieutenant Governor’s balcony is commonly lit in various colors to mark special occasions or to call attention to worthy causes.

For the coming month, the Capitol balcony lighting is scheduled to salute Labor Day and the unions Sep. 7 with red, white and blue colors.

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Congressman Brendan F. Boyle Saluting All Union Members Happy Labor Day Hrs: Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Our Opinion We Are Unions, We Are One! Save for some brief dark moments in the history of organized labor, the headline above says it all. Long before the modern labor movement, Philadelphia’s own Benjamin Franklin said, as he signed the Declaration of Independence, “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” In union there is strength.

The 13 states formed a union. They didn’t split, didn’t divide, and didn’t go another way. Today, that Union grew into the United States of America.

Today’s unions are battling for their survival on every conceivable front. If they take one step forward with positive legislation at city, state and federal levels … before they can celebrate, they witness immediate attempts to take away the recognition of their rights.

In the worlds of commerce, they witness and battle against manipulations of their respective industries by the huge international conglomerations with which they must now deal.

For the most part, unions have managed to stay together in such battles, not succumbing to the bait of better deals if they make separate pacts to abandon their quest for basic human rights in the workplace.

As we end Labor Day 2015, look at the political changes coming in 2016. Labor leaders need to further assess their individual unions’ needs and, in cases, understand the importance of accepting majority rule when it comes to supporting those candidates who will do labor the most good. That good is the opportunity to continue to serve the individual laborer, assuring him or her decent, family-sustaining wages.

ANOTHER OPINION

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Short-Changing Our Girls

by Thomas Henry Massaro The Clinton Global Foundation addresses the sordid reality that in many third-world countries with a minimal economy, girls and young women are least likely to have access to a resourced elementary or high school.

That sad reality almost assures that girls and young women in those struggling and/or corrupt nations will be immersed in economic adversity and dignity-deficiency for the rest of their lives ... alongside their impoverished children.

Former President Bill Clinton frequently addresses, cares for and brightly seeks to stimulate economic development and cultivate higher-wage employment or self-employment for young women in underdeveloped nations in Africa, South America and Asia. He

magnanimously seeks to uplift those lives, within those impoverished villages and dehydrated nations. But this initiative was overseen by the daughter of President and Hillary Clinton ... the kind, conscientious and widely educated Chelsea Clinton.

Let’s not scan the globe to pinpoint where the worldwide Clinton Global Foundation seeks to extend the short-circuited education of girls and young women.

In Philadelphia, approximately 40% of our highschool students in our substantially under-resourced high schools drop out every year. The 40% high-school dropout rate in Philadelphia is third-worldish – in a city raving about a score of high-tech, 40-70-story cranes growing and assembling skyscrapers.

In the long impoverished

and neglected 7th City Council Dist., with six public high schools and a high percentage of parents and students who speak English as their second language, the public highschool dropout rate has approximated 70%!

Let’s do more to resource our under-resourced elementary and high schools in our city with an average of a 40% high-school drop-out rate.

Our very conscientious and highly capable SRC School Superintendent Dr. William Hite must be rid of a barebones, below-minimum SRC budget. Too many of our under-supplied public schools are wholly without guidance counselors, security, nurses, librarians and computer labs.

These deficiencies diminish the extent of an adequate public education.

If we soon boost our public-school resources and academic achievement, Dr. Hite can more quickly reduce or prevent a high-school dropout (Cont. Page 50)

Sep. 5- Sharon Booker hosts Fundraiser at Jacque Whaumbush’s house, Pa. State Committee Black Caucus, 967 Clyde La., 2-5 p.m.

Sep. 5-7- Polish American Festival at Nat’l Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, on Ferry Rd., Doylestown, Pa. Saturday, Sunday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

Sep. 7- Tri-State Labor Day Parade & Family Celebration starts at Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 19 Union Hall, 1301 Columbus Blvd., 8 a.m. Parade goes to Penn’s Landing for Family Fun Festival.

Sep. 8- State Rep. Vanessa Brown hosts Senior Services Open House at A to Z Care, 5050 Parkside Ave., Su. A, 123 p.m. Affordable Care Act, housing, disabilities, health and Safety, end-of-life issues, LIHEAP, constituent services.

For info (215) 879-6615.

Sep. 8- Asian American PAC and Business Owners host Fundraiser for Councilman David Oh at Saigon Maxim Restaurant, 612 Washington Ave., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Drink specials, $3 beers, $4 wines, $5 cocktails, Light hors d’oeuvres.

1-hour complimentary open bar 5-6 p.m.

Sep. 11- Irish Boxing is held at Cannstatter Volksfest Verein, 9130 Academy Rd., starting 7:30 p.m. 10 bouts sanctioned

by USA Boxing featuring Philly vs. Belfast. For $25 advance tickets or sponsorship opportunities Fred Druding, Jr. (215) 221-2374. Tickets at door $30. For tickets John Gallagher (215) 920-8791 or Charley Sgrillo (267) 237-0746.

Sep. 12-13- 1st Annual Miles Gray, Jr. Memorial Championship Tennis Tournament is held at 33rd & Susquehanna Ave., starting 10 a.m. $25 Singles, $35 Doubles. For info strawberrymta@aol.com.

Sep. 12- Chapel of 4 Chaplains hosts Appreciation Picnic for

donors & friends at Chapel, 1201 Constitution Ave., Navy Yard. Food, beer, wine, soft drinks, kids’ activities. For info (215) 218-1943.

Sep. 12- Celebrate “50 is Great Birthday Bash” with Sheriff Jewell Williams at Sheraton Phila. Downtown Hotel, 17th & Race Sts., starting 8 p.m.

Sep. 13- Derek Green holds Jazz on the Lawn at 1039 W. Allens La., 3-6 p.m. Host Committee $2,900, $2,500, $1,500; Sponsors $2,000, $1,500, $1,000; tickets $150.

For info Kelly Bauer kbauer@advantagepep.com or (610) 217-3751.

Sep. 13- Snapshots of the Swedes Who Stayed: “United Stockholms of America”, featuring photography of Charlie Bennet, opens at American Swedish Historical Mus., 19th & Pattison Ave. Reception 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 14- State Rep. John Taylor hosts Monday Night Football at Romano’s Catering, 1523 E. Wingohocking Ave., (Cont. Page 50)

workers in most parts of the commonwealth, most working people in our city don’t belong to a union.

But does that mean that Philadelphia’s unions are only interested in the 1/5 of workers here whom we represent? Nothing could be further from the truth.

Unions have fought for overtime laws, workplace safety laws, and Social Security. We’ve fought for family leave and expanded access to healthcare.

We’ve fought for fair trade deals, and opposed the socalled “free trade” schemes like NAFTA that have undermined America’s manufacturing base and cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs.

We’ve called on government to invest in public schools and public infra-

Patrick J. Eiding, President, Phila Council AFL-CIO

structure. Today, the mostpressing problem facing America’s workers is simple: Working people in America are no longer being paid a fair wage for a fair day’s work. Over the last 50 years, American workers’ wages have stagnated, barely rising above the inflation rate. Meanwhile, the wealthy have seen their wages skyrocket.

Fifty-years-ago, the aver-

age CEO of an American company made 20 times what his average worker made. Today, that CEO earns 300 times more. According to the Pew Research Center, over the last 15 years, pay for 9 out of 10 Americans has continued to stagnate, or even shrunk. For the top 10%, wages have risen by nearly 10%.

This situation isn’t just unjust. It’s terrible for the nation as a whole. For generations, the American economy has been driven by consumer spending. We can’t have an economy that works for all of us by consistently depriving 90% of the nation’s consumers of the fruits of their labor.

So while organized labor continues to help workers organize unions at

their workplaces so they can access the proven power of collective action and collective bargaining to win what they deserve, the AFL-CIO has also launched a national Raising Wages campaign. I’m proud that Philadelphia is one of 15 cities that have taken on this campaign.

America’s unions are fighting to raise the minimum wage, and to win laws guaranteeing workers the right to paid sick time.

We’re also fighting for implementation of new Department of Labor rules that will expand access to overtime pay for salaried workers.

In Philadelphia, after helping to win the landmark Paid Sick Leave bill in City Council, the AFLCIO is fighting to win

higher wages for workers across the board. Dozens of unions – some bringing members from as far as Ontario, Canada – have turned out to support Philadelphia’s fast food workers going on strike for a $15/hour wage and a union contract from huge corporations like McDonalds. We’ve stood on the picket line with non-union, minimum-wage workers at the Philadelphia International Airport, demanding that their employers respect the city’s Living Wage ordinance. We’ve organized rallies to raise our state’s minimum wage, and met with legislators about bills to raise that minimum and to improve enforcement of it. We even recently organized a

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One of the great privileges of serving as President of the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO is leading the annual Labor Day parade up Columbus Avenue. Rain or shine, I’m always proud to look back from the head of the parade and see so many groups of union members marching with their brothers and sisters, celebrating the achievements of America’s working people.

The fact is, though, that the majority of working people in our area are not members of unions. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 14% of Pennsylvania’s workers are represented by unions.

Even though Philadelphia’s workers are more likely to be union members than

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AFSCME DISTRICT COUNCIL 33 WE ARE PROUD TO SUPPORT THE PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL AFL-CIO and participate in the

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28th ANNUAL TRI-STATE LABOR DAY PARADE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th, 2015 PETE MATTHEWS BETTE MACDONALD President Secretary-Treasurer

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State Sens. Pat Browne (RLehigh) and Larry Farnese (D-S. Phila.) and Reps. Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny) and Tom Killion (R-Delaware) have introduced the Pennsylvania Fairness Act. The legislation (SB 974 and HB 1510) would update Pennsylvania’s current nondiscrimination law – originally written in 1955 – to ensure that all citizens regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, disability and now – sexual orientation, gender identity and expression – can participate in and contribute to the state’s economy.

It is currently legal in Pennsylvania to fire someone and deny them housing or business services solely on the basis of the person being gay or transgender.

Browne said, “Promoting inclusion and eliminating discrimination fosters growth in Pennsylvania’s economy by

ensuring that the Commonwealth is able to attract employees from a highly skilled workforce and, in particular, appeal to members of the innovative millennial generation.”

Frankel said, “This new bill is an opportunity for Pennsylvania to stand up against discrimination in support of basic human rights and economic growth. Our work over several years has brought us to this point and we believe the bipartisan support now expressed for this legislation will advance the bill.”

A recent survey of Pennsylvania residents showed 73% incorrectly believe discrimination against gay and transgender people in the workplace and in housing and business services is already illegal. The same study found 78% of Pennsylvanians are in support of updating the current Human Relations Act to include protections for gay

and transgender people.

Farnese said, “Updating Pennsylvania’s nondiscrimination law is important not only from a basic civil-rights standpoint, but will directly and positively impact Pennsylvania’s competitive ranking for economic development. This new legislation reflects the importance of encouraging the best and most-diverse pool of highly skilled employees to live and work in Pennsylvania.”

Killion said, “All 23 of Pennsylvania’s Fortune 500 companies already have sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression nondiscrimination policies.

The time is right for the state to support our job creators with a policy that provides uniformity and certainty.”

The legislation also has the support of a growing business coalition that is comprised of employers throughout the state.

“Dow’s employees are our greatest asset. That is why inclusion is simply the right thing to do as both a matter of fairness and as a business imperative,” said Peter Gudritz, senior manager for state government affairs, The Dow Chemical Co. “Dow is committed to working with the public and private sectors in Pennsylvania to ensure the state remains welcoming and economically competitive.

This is why we strongly support the Pennsylvania Fairness Act.” Audrey Russo, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, said, "Pennsylvania businesses are engaged in a highly competitive war for talent. This legislation not only provides basic protections for our employees, but it also showcases Pennsylvania as a Commonwealth that is serious about attracting the world’s most diverse and creative workforce.”

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The AFL-CIO exists to represent people who work. The mission of the AFL-CIO is expressed in our Constitution: The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations is an expression of the hopes and aspirations of the working people of America.

We resolve to fulfill the yearning of the human spirit for liberty, justice and community; to advance individual and associational freedom; to vanquish oppression, privation and cruelty in all their forms; and to join with all persons, of whatever nationality or faith, who cherish the cause of democracy and the call of solidarity, to grace the planet with these achievements.

We dedicate ourselves to improving the lives of working families, bringing fairness and dignity to the workplace and securing social equity in the Nation.

The AFL-CIO envisions a future in which work and all people who work are valued, respected and rewarded. While the AFL-CIO represents millions of working people who belong to unions and have the benefits of union membership, the labor federation embraces all people who share the common bond of work.

Work is what we do to better ourselves, to build dreams and to support our families. But work is more than that.

Work cures, creates, builds, innovates and shapes the future.

Work connects us all.

The AFL-CIO is an organization of people who work. We help lead a movement for social and economic justice in America and the world.

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forum, moderated by the AFL-CIO’s national President, Richard Trumka, and myself where workers described their experiences of having been cheated of their wages by unscrupulous employers – a problem that a Temple

University study estimated costs Pennsylvania’s workers between $19 million and $32 million every week.

I’m confident that we’re going to prevail in the Raise the Wage campaign.

And when we win, most of the workers who benefit

won’t be union members.

Why would organized labor dedicate so much time and energy and money to a campaign that’s not only about our members?

The answer is simple, and it’s the whole reason for organized labor in the

first place: Solidarity.

Union members are members of this community.

Every single day, union members and workers who aren’t in unions are together in the workplace.

We’re together on buses, and in restaurants, and at the movies, and at

ball games and the doctor’s office. Working people, union and non-union, really are in the same boat.

Organized labor is dedicated to raising the standard of living and protecting the rights of all working people. That’s

what we’ve done for generations, and we intend to keep doing it for generations to come.

And that solidarity among all workers is the greatest thing we’ll be celebrating as we march up Columbus Boulevard on Labor Day.

With the UNIONS USW Demands Fairness From Steel The United Steelworkers sponsored a national day of action for a fair contract with ArcelorMittal, with rallies and marches scheduled throughout yesterday at facilities in four states: West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.

Steelworkers participate in additional actions scheduled through the rest of the week in conjunction with a series of events targeting US Steel.

In June, the union began negotiating new master agreements both companies, which employ about 30,000 unionrepresented workers combined. Both contracts are scheduled to expire on Sep. 1.

“We recognize that this is

a difficult time for the steel industry,” said USW International President Leo W. Gerard, “but we also recognize that for generations, these have been good, middle-class jobs that have allowed workers to care for their families and support their communities.

“It is important that we make sure that remains true for our generation and for those who come after us,” he said.

The USW represents 850,000 workers in North America employed in many industries that include metals, rubber, chemicals, paper, oil refining and the service and public sectors, including approximately 17,000 workers at US Steel and 13,000 at ArcelorMittal.

Welcome Tri-State Labor Day Parade And Family Celebration Join the Philadelphia waterfront for a Labor Day celebration of America’s workers and labor movement on Sep. 7.

The parade up Columbus Boulevard will gather at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 union hall, 1301 S. Columbus Boulevard, at Washington Avenue, at 9:15 a.m.

The parade will step off

at 10:00, and from 11:00 to 2:00 will be at the Penn’s Landing Great Plaza (Columbus at Market) for food, fun, games, makeand-take crafts, kids’ activities, and live music.

Contact your local union or affiliated organization about the parade and attendance at the Penn’s Landing event, or call (215) 665-9800 with questions.

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million in 1983. In 2013, the percentage of workers belonging to a union in the United States (or total labor union "density") was 11.3%, compared to 20.1% in 1983.[1] From a global perspective, the density in 2010 was 11.4% in the U.S., 18.4% in Germany, 27.5% in Canada, and 70% in Finland. Union membership in the private sector has fallen under 7% — levels not seen since 1932.

In the 21st century the most prominent unions are among public sector employees such as city employees, government workers, teachers and police. Members of unions are disproportionately older, male, and residents of the Northeast, the Midwest, and California. Union workers average 10-30% higher pay than non-union in the United States after controlling for individual, job, and labor market characteristics.

Although much smaller compared to their peak membership in the 1950s, American unions remain a

political factor, both through mobilization of their own memberships and through coalitions with like-minded activist organizations around issues such as immigrant rights, trade policy, health care, and living wage campaigns. Of special concern are efforts by cities and states to reduce the pension obligations owed to unionized workers who retire in the future. Republicans elected with Tea Party support in 2010, most notably Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, have launched major efforts against public sector unions due in part to state government pension obligations along with the allegation that the unions are too powerful. States with higher levels of union membership tend to have higher median incomes and standards of living. It has been asserted by scholars and the International Monetary Fund that rising income inequality in the United States is directly attributable to the decline of the labor movement.

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favor cast by the Democrats and the two by the Republican board members. It is likely the decision will be challenged in court.

The majority in favor of the decision made it known they understood the workplace has evolved to the point where more US workers than ever are employed through temporary staffing agencies.

In another ruling, hundreds of union organizing elections have been given a speedy time table.

The new process had cut down the time whereby elections can be held from five to three weeks. Their streamlined process is welcomed since it limits frivolous litigation from

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labor disputes.

The US Dept. of Labor has long contended companies have been misclassifying employees as independent contractors.

Doing so enabled them to avoid paying taxes, overtime pay, and other benefits.

It also made impossible for them to address job conflicts by referring to a union for support.

Unions have long complained to the NLRB, businesses, those employees in these classifications were treated by employers as they did full time employees. But they refused to treat them as such.

The decision came down on a 3-2 ruling, split along party lines with the three votes in

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Labor unions are legally recognized as representatives of workers in many industries in the United States.

Their activity today centers on collective bargaining over wages, benefits, and working conditions for their membership, and on representing their members in disputes with management over violations of contract provisions. Larger unions also typically engage in lobbying activities and electioneering at the state and federal level.

Most unions in the United States are aligned with one of two larger umbrella organizations: the AFL-CIO created in 1955, and the Change to Win Federation which split from the AFL-CIO in 2005. Both advocate policies and legislation on behalf of workers in the United States and Canada, and take an active role in politics. The AFLCIO is especially concerned with global trade issues.

In 2013 there were 14.5 million members in the U.S., compared with 17.7

Temporary and contract workers finally have gotten the opportunity to pursue their ambitions to unionize.

Last week a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board finally made that possible and in doing so, has evened the field between fast food, franchise, and contract workers and their employers long exempt from unionization efforts.

The NLRB ruling came in the case of sanitation workers, and provides an interpretation in how labor disputes can be handled.

With more employees finding they’ve been cast in the role of contract or part time workers, they’ve also found they were unable to seek help in

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Philly AFSCME Councils Endorsed Kenney

Members of AFSCME District Councils 33, 47 and 1199C members and officers enjoyed acknowledgment from Jim Kenney for their support in his successful primary run for Mayor in Democratic primary.

AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders At NAACP Convention

AFSCME President Lee Saunders said some folks want to take us back to 1915. He said, “They’re rolling back our rights, disturbing our public education and cutting job training.

They’re buying elections, redistricting our communities to dilute our strength and even tossing out our votes.”

Local 5 Elevator Constructors is grateful for all the hard work and dedication from all our brothers and sisters that have made the labor movement as strong as it is today!

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HAPPY LABOR DAY! “Your Fight Is Our Fight” Supporting and defending Collective Bargaining for All Workers.

Create and Protect Good Jobs Stop the Attacks on Working Families.

Educate - Mobilize Organize, Now! For a Better Future

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Frank Snyder, Secretary-Treasurer

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Things are happening at the Port of Philadelphia and ILA Local 1291 is proud to be part of it all!

No one can miss all the great things going on at the Port right now: we’re deepening our shipping channel to 45 feet. We’re moving forward with Southport, which will establish up to three brand new maritime operations on the waterfront. We’re aggressively attracting new cargoes while continuing our dedication to our existing business. And we here at ILA Local 1291 are proud to be at the center of everything, helping our many allies in the maritime industry to make this Port all it can be now and in the future!

As we make continued progress, the ILA wants to take a moment to thank and salute those allies, because without everyone working together, all would be lost! So, we want to use this opportunity to acknowledge these fine individuals and organizations: The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority PRPA’s many fine terminal operators The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Our fellow unions and their hardworking memberships Governor Tom Wolf Lieutenant Governor Mike Stack

US Senators Bob Casey and Patrick Toomey Congressman Bob Brady State Senators Larry Farnese and John Sabatina State Representatives Bill Keller and John Taylor And our many other allies in government

And, last but not least, the fine membership of ILA Local 1291, who safely, quickly, and expertly move the world’s cargoes every day!

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Let’s all continue to move forward!

Sincerely and In Unity, Boise Butler III, President • Jack Hatty, Vice President • Martin Mascuilli, Secretary Treasurer Sonny Howlett, Business Agent • John Cook, Business Agent • Keith Browning, Recording Secretary

International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1291 / A.F.L.-C.I.O., Port Administration Building, Suite 101, 3460 N. Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19134, (215) 425-5822, Fax: (215) 425-6938, E-mail: ACCUNION@aol.com

AFSCME DC 47 Local 2186 President Alfred Jones, Local 2187 President Jacqueline Marshall, Joanne Strauss, PHA, PHA Dir. Kelvin Jeremiah, DC 47 President Fred Wright, Dc 47 Business Agent Mike Bonetti, and Local 2186 VP Donnell Martin pose for a picture with celabratory balloons after PHA Board approved new contract with union.

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WOMEN gathered to discuss politics and get better acquainted at the Women of Labor Luncheon at DC 47. Several brothers also came out in support of their sisters.

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specialists, customer response technician, department staff assistant’s and housing and building inspectors and Local 2187 represents 56 PHA employees. The prior collective bargaining agreement between PHA and DC 47 local 2187 ended Mar. 31, 2014.

The Master Agreement expired Mar. 31, 2002.

PHA and Local 2187 amicably reached an Agreement; and the terms of that Agreement were considered reasonable, practical and supportable from both operational and budgetary standpoint; and the PHA’s Board of Commissioners approved the terms of the Memorandum of Agreement and authorized the President and CEO to execute and implement a renewal of CBA consistent with those terms.

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The Collective Bargaining Agreement between PHA and District Council 47, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Local 2186 which covers PHA’s 18 buildings maintenance superintendents, superintendents of emergency non-routine maintenance, superintendents of emergency non-routine roofing, and utility equipment supervisors, expired Mar. 31, 2014.

The parties reached a five year agreement. The Agreement provides for general wage increase, changes in employee health care contributions/rates and certain work rule changes.

DC 47 is the representative for Administrative Technicians, clerk typists, command center dispatchers, command center technicians, contract control

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PROUDLY MANAGING PENNSYLVANIA’S INTERNATIONAL SEAPORT

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Philadelphia Regional Port Authority Moving Forward!

Saluting the Port of Philadelphia’s hard-working labor force, who daily make this port the most efficient, capable maritime operation in the country.

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An Evolving Labor Day Celebration Proves Boon To Many Businesses In 1882, Matthew Maguire, a machinist, first proposed the holiday while serving as secretary of the CLU (Central Labor Union) of New York. Others argue that it was first proposed by Peter J. McGuire of the American Federation of Labor in May 1882, after witnessing the annual labor festival held in Toronto, Canada. Oregon was the first state to make it a holiday on Feb. 21, 1887. By the time it became a federal holiday in 1894, 30 states officially celebrated Labor Day. Following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the US military and US Marshals during the Pullman Strike, the United States Congress unanimously voted to approve rush legislation that made Labor Day a national holiday; President Grover Cleveland signed it into law a mere six days after the end of the strike.

The September date originally chosen by the CLU of New York and observed by many of the nation’s trade unions for the previous several years was selected rather than the more widespread International Workers’ Day because Cleveland was concerned that observance of the latter would be associated with the nascent socialist and anarchist movements that, though distinct from one another, had rallied to commemorate the Haymarket Affair in International Workers’ Day. All US states, the District of Columbia, and the territories have made it a statutory holiday.

Pattern of celebration The form for the celebration of Labor Day was outlined in the first proposal of the holiday: A street parade to exhibit to the public “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations,” followed by a festival for the workers and their fam-

school year begins. Many districts across the Midwest are opting to begin school after Labor Day. Labor Day, an annual celebration of workers and their achievements, originated during one of American labor history’s most dismal chapters.

In the late 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks in order to eke out a basic living.

Despite restrictions in some states, children as young as five or six toiled in mills, factories and mines across the country, earning a fraction of their adult counterparts’ wages. People of all ages, particularly the very poor and recent immigrants, often faced extremely unsafe working conditions, with insufficient access to fresh air, sanitary facilities and breaks.

As manufacturing increasingly supplanted agriculture as the wellspring of American employment, labor unions, which had first appeared in the late 18th century, grew more prominent and vocal.

They began organizing strikes and rallies to protest poor con-

ditions and compel employers to renegotiate hours and pay.

Many of these events turned violent during this period, including the infamous Haymarket Riot of 1886, in which several Chicago policemen and workers were killed. Others gave rise to longstanding traditions: On Sep. 5, 1882, 10,000 workers took unpaid time off to march from City Hall to Union Square in New York City, holding the first Labor Day parade in US history.

The idea of a “workingmen’s holiday,” celebrated on the first Monday in September, caught on in other industrial centers across the country, and many states passed legislation recognizing it. Congress would not legalize the holiday until 12 years later, when a watershed moment in American labor history brought workers’ rights squarely into the public’s view. On May 11, 1894, employees of the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Chicago went on strike to protest wage cuts and the firing of union representatives.

On Jun. 26, the American Railroad Union, led by Eu-

gene V. Debs, called for a boycott of all Pullman railway cars, crippling railroad traffic nationwide. To break the strike, the federal government dispatched troops to Chicago, unleashing a wave of riots that resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen workers. In the wake of this massive unrest and in an attempt to repair ties with American workers, Congress passed an act making Labor Day a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories .More than a century later, the true founder of Labor Day has yet to be identified.

Many credit Peter J. McGuire, cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, while others have suggested that Matthew Maguire, a secretary of the Central Labor Union, first proposed the holiday. Labor Day is celebrated in cities and towns across the United States with parades, picnics, barbecues, fireworks displays and other public gatherings. For many Americans, particularly children and young adults, it represents the end of the summer and the start of the back-toschool season.

SQUEEZED by Big Boss is this popular balloon found often where labor conflicts affected hundreds of workers. ilies. This became the pattern States. As of 2012, only 3% for Labor Day celebrations. of those employed in the retail Speeches by prominent men sector were members of a and women were introduced labor union. later, as more emphasis was In high society, Labor Day placed upon the civil signifi- is (or was) considered the last cance of the holiday. Still day of the year when it is fashlater, by a resolution of the ionable to wear white or seerAmerican Federation of Labor sucker. convention of 1909, the SunIn US sports, Labor Day day preceding Labor Day was marks the beginning of the adopted as Labor Sunday and NFL and college football seadedicated to the spiritual and sons. NCAA teams usually educational aspects of the play their first games the labor movement. weekend of Labor Day, with The holiday often marks the NFL traditionally playing the end of the traditional sum- their first game the Thursday mer season (although summer following Labor Day. The doesn’t officially end until Southern 500 NASCAR auto Sep. 21), as students normally race was held that day from return to school the following 1950 to 1983, and on the Sunweek, although school year day before from 1984 to 2003, starting days now vary. but is set to return in 2015, in Retail Sale Day Darlington, S.C. At IndiTo take advantage of large anapolis Raceway Park, the numbers of potential cus- National Hot Rod Association tomers free to shop, Labor hold their finals to the US NaDay has become an important tionals drag race. Labor Day sale weekend for many retail- is the middle point between ers in the United States. Some weeks 1 and 2 of the US Open retailers claim it is one of the Tennis Championships held in largest sale dates of the year, Flushing Meadows, N.Y. second only to the Christmas In the United States, many season’s Black Friday. school districts resume classes Ironically, because of the around the Labor Day holiday importance of the sale week- weekend (see First day of end, some of those who are school). Most begin the week employed in the retail sector before, making Labor Day not only work on Labor Day, weekend the first three-day but work longer hours. More weekend of the school calenAmericans work in the retail dar, while others return the industry than any other, with Tuesday following Labor retail employment making up Day, allowing families one 24% of all jobs in the United final getaway before the SIGHT to behold is the apperaance of an Ironworker walking girders with ease regardless of how high they are.

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FLANKING Republican City Committee Exec. Dir. Joe DeFelice and Commissioner Al Schmidt were Mike DeNofa and Ward Leader Domenic Chiavarola.

COURT GOP candidate Paul 5TH WARD Leader Michael Cibik and Monica Czapla wel- MAYORAL candidate Melissa Murray Bailey is Lalley is son of proud dad and come Supreme Court candidate Mike George and Superior pleased to meet up with Councilman David Oh, his former Sheriff of Montgomery County Frank Lalley.

Court candidate Judge Emil Giordano to Clambake. wife Heesun and one-year-old daughter Sarah.

LONG-TIME activist and Republican Committeewoman Joan Seals finds herself flanked by Ward Leaders Mike Cibik and Joe D’Urso.

Republican City Committee’s popular staffer Annie Havey welcomed attendees to annual Billy Meehan Clambake at Cannstatter in N.E. Phila. along with Republican Party symbol, the Elephant.

GOP party legends Chairman State Rep. John Taylor and Republican Counsel Mike Meehan thank Kaz Nabavi for his support In Kensington.

FROM COUNCILMAN Mark Squilla’s office, Steve Lauer; Ward Leader and Parking Authority Exec. Dir. Vince Fenerty; and NECA executive Ken Adams enjoy cold beverages at GOP Photo by Maria Merlino Clambake.

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GOP leadership welcomed Supreme Court candidate Anne Covey to Clambake. From left are council-at-large candidate GOP Chairman State Rep. John Taylor gives hearty welcome Al Taubenberger, Party Chair John Taylor and General to AFL-CIO President Pat Eiding. Labor was well represented Counsel Michael Meehan. at Clambake.

JUDICIAL CANDIDATE Vince Furlong, B I L L former Supreme Court PETTIChief Justice Hon. Ron GREW Castille and former a n d State Rep. George KenCouncilney. Justice is enjoying m a n his retirement. “I’m David Oh spending a lot of time on enjoyed my boat in Somers this photo Point, reading novels op with and taking it easy.” He is Kensingalso looking forward to ton’s fataking in sun at his new mous Kaz condo in Fort LaudNabavi. erdale. Photo by Maria Merlino

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GOP MAYORAL candidate Melissa Murray Bailey is assured of strong support by Linwood Holland and Ward Leader Calvin Tucker.

REPUBLICAN Supreme Court candidate Judy Olson is flanked by GOP’s Michael Meehan and Bill Brown. She was well received by huge crowd attending annual Billy Meehan Clambake celebration at Cannstatter Volksfest Verein.

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FOP Endorses Rep. Martina White

SUPPORTING a labor-friendly Republican State Representative for reelection is Local FOP. =President John McNesby, whose union helped deliver White to victory in special election for 170th Legislative Dist. long held by Democrats, said his union is behind her in next election as well. Seconding nomination are President of National Black Police Association David Fisher and President of FOP Penna. State Photo by Bill Myers Lodge Les Neri.

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Ed Nesmith ... working visionary

ing women and minorities find work in the city.

Nesmith has put his

struction companies were in charge of the construction and the owner asked if we could sit down and talk.

I wanted to see some people of color employed.

Dale Litner, Sr. then became my mentor in the construction business, God bless his soul.”

Into The Construction Business President/CEO Ed Nesmith started Nesmith & Co., Inc. doing cleanouts with help from Dale Litner, Sr., who headed the demolition project for Shoemaker and Dale. In the beginning he took some heavy hits, borrowing money from where he could and selling properties he owned to make sure he met all his obligations and on time, earning the fine reputation he now has in the worlds of construction,

business and politics.

“I always contact elected officials for information on minority contracts,” he said, and ask them the obvious question, “How is it the biggest African American contractor cannot get any contracts?”

Today, Nesmith is the only ward leader that runs his own business.

Building homes, solar roofing and more have kept Nesmith busy. Today he is considered one of the city’s major contractors and the biggest of minority contractors.

His company is a Philadelphia-based MBEC Construction Contractor & Material Supplier, specializing in construction management, commercial and residential carpentry, electrical installations, and (Cont. Page 38)

NESMITH & CO. building dominates Grays Ferry area in South Philadelphia at 25th & Tasker Streets.

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many African American leaders in the city and have no wealth? We need to make officials work for us and not for themselves,” he said.

“Everything I learned, I earned. No one’s handed me anything. What about the people who really do the hard work? I was told to move to North Philly if I wanted to run for office and hope to be elected. I said, ‘I’m from South Philly.’”

For a while he worked as Deputy Sheriff, and then moved on to work in the office of the 1st Councilmanic Dist. He had full authority by the Councilman to represent people in court. And from there, the passion of politics and helping people combined into one. It has never left him.

Nesmith is big on help-

mouth and his company to work on behalf of minority employees. Since opening his business in 1998, he has employed roughly 1,800, of which over 35% were women and minorities.

“The University of Penn, Drexel and Temple wanted to have inclusion and I told them the only way women and people of color are getting opportunities is by having them there from day one,” he said.

“The city could put up a bond for African Americans and women in the city. But the guidelines don’t work for us in the city for people of color.”

“Sacks Playground at 4th & Washington did a project. PHA was knocking down buildings and the neighborhood couldn’t get any work,” he said. “We protested for two weeks.

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by Cassie Hepler Ed Nesmith is a grassroots kid who never abandoned South Philadelphia.

Born and raised at 4th & Federal Streets, Nesmith had a rough childhood. In 1968, his father, a committeeman, was killed right across the street from where Nesmith built his business.

No matter who is endorsed by the Democratic Party leadership, of which he is a member as leader of the 2nd Ward, Nesmith periodically finds himself in opposition when he feels another candidate for the same position is better.

Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why he’s the only African American ward leader in the city whose ward is 75% Caucasian.

“African American leaders we have had are not uplifting the African American population, particularly the last two. They don’t show economic development for people of color,” he said. “I picked Jim Kenney in the primary because he is a South Philly leader who knows the city.”

“Some Council Members feel like they are entitled,” he said.

“I showed the political leadership in this town what I can do without money. You need sweat and determination. To this day, I’m up at 5 a.m. before the sun comes up. A lot of good people get chased out of the city because people don’t embrace them.

“How can we have so

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HAPPY & SAFE LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

Nesmith Pays On Time

(Cont. From Page 37) interior/exterior painting projects. Each of its divisions has full AutoCAD capabilities.

With an uncompromising commitment to excellence, Nesmith & Co., Inc. consistently provides superior construction services. With a combined experience of over 40 years in the construction business, the management team, he put together, brings a high level of professional expertise and dedication.

This winning combination greatly enhances his company’s ability to deliver quality projects on time and within budget.

It has partnered with, and supplied, subcontractor-support services to many of the larger construction management and general contracting companies.

Building strong relationships with such companies as Hunter Roberts, Dale, Turner, Westrum, TN Ward and L.F. Driscoll, has provided the opportunity for Nesmith & Co. to be recognized as a local MBE contracting company on HUD and state-funded projects.

In 15 years of business, Nesmith & Co. has logged millions of dollars in completed

projects. In addition to building respect in the construction industry, CEO Nesmith believes in building up our communities.

Nesmith & Co. makes every effort to not only be a model partner in business, but a model partner in local community endeavors. Nesmith invests his personal time and resources into developing communitybased jobs and running summer and afterschool sports programs.

“I’ve been running programs since I was 13 … and I’m almost 60 now,” Nesmith affirmed. “The integrity of our people is the integrity of our company.”

Nesmith would like to help prisoners get back to work through his company; however, getting work for them is another story through the city.

“The city talks a good game about helping offenders get jobs when they have served their time. But, why is it, they don’t offer us any jobs for those coming out of prison and in need of work. People always say ask your state senator, but I’ve done that,” he said. “People can contact me and I can try to help.”

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more than 30%, the highest in Delaware Valley.

“We have numerous affiliations with organizations designed to promote businesses and growth.

We’ve done business with big entities like Comcast, and Learning Entities such as UPenn, Drexel, and Temple, and we’ve done many small jobs for up and coming businesses. We are responsible for the training and hiring of hundreds of new workers, starting into the construction business,” he stresses.

Over the past 16 years, Ed Nesmith developed a construction template for small business owners in his field in which minorities were shunned for attempting to participate.

This template consists of a small, efficient office crew, both proficient in management of jobs, while maintaining a low overhead in job cost and labor.

The results of this effort

are easily observed.

“Some people have asked in the past, ‘Why Mr. Nesmith? Why would you subject yourself to a field of work that clearly has hostilities towards disadvantaged people?’ These are questions that have plagued many minority business owners for years.

Since before the 2000, you couldn’t count five Black construction business owners on your fingers, let alone prosper at it. Minorities were hard-pressed to get on construction jobs without being in a Union and the Unions back then were simply not letting you in,” he admits.

Ed Nesmith had a stance it could be done with persistence and excellence of work. Nesmith & Company was the vehicle he used.

As with most startup businesses, Ed Nesmith knew he had to face a “struggle curve in which you find money scarce and

can barely stay afloat until your staying power is established. Establishing a relationship with the Unions such as the Metropolitan Region Council of Carpenters and other locals, while getting workers who are skilled earned me the leverage to produce good work.”

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(Cont. From Page 38) Nesmith and Company can’t be classified as small fry these days. Its projects at this moment total over $100 million in carpentry and painting and over 20 million in newly acquired electrical jobs. It has contracts with the Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters, Local 98 (Electrical), Local 332 (Laborers), Local 542 (Operating Engineers), District Council 21, IUPAT (Painters and Allied Trades) Local 351 (Electrical) in New Jersey.

To handle it all, Nesmith has amassed an inventory of tools and product of well over $10 million, filling his headquarters building, ready to be used, no matter the demand.

In the last 16 years, the company has had a total of 1,275 employees of which, over 400 were minorities, for an historic average of

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Copies of the foregoing item are available in the Office of the Chief Clerk of the Council, Room 402, City Hall.

Immediately following the public hearing, a meeting of the Committee on Public Safety, open to the public, will be held to consider the action to be taken on the above listed item.

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Labors Union…Building it right for a better and stronger community And promoting renaissance of North Broad St. Laborers’ District Council of the Metropolitan Area of Philadelphia and vicinity is comprised of four unions:

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Local 332, Samuel Staten, Jr., Vincent Primavera, Jr. Business Manager/Co-Chairman L.E.C.E.T. Co-Chairman Local 135, Daniel L. Woodall, Jr., Damian Lavelle Business Manager L.E.C.E.T. Management Trustee Local 413, James Harper, Jr., Fred Chiarlanza Business Manager L.E.C.E.T. Management Trustee Local 57, Walt Higgins Harry Hopkins Business Manager L.E.C.E.T. Management Trustee Laborers District Council, Ryan N. Boyer, Business Manager.

Laborers’ District Council promotes a safe work environment, jobs completed on time and on budget, and represents union members, who are well trained, productive, professional, and take pride in their work. Union labor…building better and safer communities in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties.

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ered to support their families by being able to work and provide shelter and food.”

Keep in mind, he could have walked away from this endeavor, since he already enjoyed a good income before starting the company. But he took the leap into building Nesmith & Co., knowing the difficulties he faced because of his goal to pry open a closed field in the building trades for minority workers.

“Imagine you start a company in which, you could not hire who you wanted or needed, you could not get paid when you were promised payment, you had to pay upfront to work, and you take the blame for every

failure whether it was your fault or not. Would you stay? I daresay most people would not, and the construction business is a prime example for these types of interactions,” he recalls.

Nesmith & Co.continues to promote change and second chances by facilitating the hiring of incarcerated youth who have paid their debt to society. He says “I have found many of these I hired have been some of the hardest and most diligent workers out there.

“We have never shied away from being responsible as a company.

Through our 16 years we are proud of the fact not one of our employees missed being paid on time,” he said.

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(Cont. From Page 41) Nesmith is proud of his ability to live up to MBE participation requirements. Few companies hit what his company has done from the beginning. Some manage to do for maybe a year, he said. “We’ve reached as high as 30% in MBE participation and a Section 3 participation rate of 40% average for and maintained them for our 16 years.”

Ed Nesmith’s goal was to give opportunities to minorities who otherwise would never have gotten the chance to get into the construction fields. He proudly points to the fact Nesmith & Co. ”became the tool that enabled our community’s people to rise up and be empow-

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Online Registration Won’t Change Habits Of Voters

by Joe Shaheeli Poll after poll has indicated voters across the country are disenchanted with their federal and state governments. How will that translate into the way Philadelphians will vote in November?

We think voter dissatisfaction will continue to reflect itself in poor turnouts … unless, of course, you get dramatically controversial candidates on the ballot. Candidates like media-savvy Donald Trump, for instance.

The latest Quinnipiac University poll reports 71% of American voters are “dissatisfied” with the way things are going in the nation today, including 41% who are “very dissatisfied.”

Unfortunately for Philadelphians, while they will have many impressive candidates for municipal leadership and statewide judicial office to choose among, none of them have ever hosted a chart-busting TV reality show.

This Nov. 3, therefore, look for a lower Democratic turnout, a bit higher Republi-

Raising Funds At Valley Green Inn

FROM LEFT, Michael Cunningham, 22nd Ward Treasurer, Aaron Firestone, 22nd Ward Counsel, Calvin R. Tucker, 22nd Ward Leader, Melissa Murray Bailey, Republican mayoral candidate, Michael Meehan, general counsel, Walt Vogler, 21st Ward Leader, Ross Feinberg, candidate for Register of Wills, and Joe Samuel, Ward Leader, attend fundraiser at Valley Green Inn for Bailey. can turnout, and the possibil- make sure signatures are afity of a change in the GOP fixed. If not, out goes a letter council-at-large lineup. to them indicating they need To counter downward to come in and register and pressure on turnout, Gov. this time sign their signature.”

Tom Wolf’s administration Failing that, they might not be has made it easier for individ- able to vote even though they uals to register on line. show a lot of IDs. Expect a Only problem with this ruling on this from our City way of registering is some ap- Commissioners. plying on line do not know Over and over again it has how to write in their names. been proven: Ward leaders The Registration Commis- who know their main responsion’s Greg Irving said, “We sibility is building registraneed to check each one to tions, and getting out the vote,

make a difference in voter turnout. Less than a dozen wards, in either major party in this city, are listed as having decent voter turnout.

There might be a slight uptick among Republicans coming out to vote, since they do have to choose two from the five contenders for the atlarge council post. While they are free to vote for all five Republican candidates, only their two highest vote-getters at most will be elected.

We notice they are making headlines in some reports.

GOP candidates are quick to pile onto to the mishaps of anyone of them reportedly with ethical mistakes. In reality, each should try to stand out as a reformer of sorts.

The usually reliable Quinnipiac University national presidential poll has revealed public opinion is drifting away from Democrat Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, and muted support for many of the Republican presidential candidates who are current or former elected officials.

The poll numbers also show more support for GOP candidacies of Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson, as growing support for Vermont’s Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders. If VP Joe Biden announces he will run for President, he will have the highest favorability rating among any of the names – GOP or Democrat. This poll shows voters consider him most “honest

and trustworthy.”

Look for more-detailed analysis of the Quinnipiac polling results below.

Union Endorses Jared Solomon Jared Solomon is back again, announcing he has the endorsement of the Philadelphia Firefighters’ & Paramedics’ Union Local 22 early on in his campaign to challenge State Rep. Mark Cohen for the 202nd Dist.

“We are proud to endorse Jared for State Representative,” said Andy Thomas, President of Local 22. “He is a proven leader and someone passionate about the wellbeing of his community. We need new leadership and we’re confident that he will fight for us when he is a State Representative.”

The Philadelphia Firefighters & Paramedics’ Union participates and aids in a number of local charities that help those in need, such as the Burn Foundation. The union also participates in charities helping servicepersons with diseases such as cancer, and charities that memorialize individuals who have fallen in the line of duty.

That should set Cohen to studying his election stats to hopefully stave off this challenge from a familiar foe.

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Terhune recently publicly posted a video promoting racist opinions and violence against Arab Americans and American Muslims. AntiArab bigotry and Islamophobia have historically materialized during political election cycles, and this year has not been an exception.

For more information, feel free to contact Marwan Kreidie, executive director of the Philadelphia AACDC, at (215) 915-2306.

AFL-CIO Endorses Candidates For Nov. Some of our readers were inquiring who have been endorsed by the Philadelphia Council of the AFL-CIO. Here is the endorsed list for the November 2015 general election.

Mayor: Jim Kenney-D City Council at Large: Blondell Reynolds Brown-D, Helen Gym-D, William K. Greenlee-D, Allan Domb-D, Derek S. Green-D, Daniel Tinney-R. City Council by District: 1.

Mark F. Squilla, 2. Kenyatta Johnson, 3. Jannie L. Blackwell, 4. Curtis J. Jones, Jr., 5. Darrell L. Clarke, 6.

Bobby Henon, 7. Maria Quiñones Sánchez, 8. Cindy Bass, 9. Cherelle Parker, 10.

Brian J. O’Neill.

Sheriff: Jewell Williams Register of Wills: Ronald R. Donatucci City Commissioner: Anthony Clark-D, Lisa M. Deeley-D, Al Schmidt-R. In addition, the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO has endorsed (Cont. Page 45)

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Looking At See-Saw Race For US Senate A Franklin & Marshall College Center for Opinion Research poll released last week shows Adm. Joe Sestak leads Katie McGinty by three points – 16%-13% – with 66% of Democrats undecided.

But in a general-election matchup, incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Toomey – whose approval rating has gone up to 40% from 34% in June – leads Sestak by 12 points, 41%-29%.

Toomey leads McGinty by just

LOVELY RiteAid Pharmacy employee Lalena Belinsky injects State Rep. Mark Cohen with ENJOYING face-painting at his annual Ris- FREE REFRESHMENTS was order of day and appreciated anti-flu vaccine as Republican councilman-ating Sun Street Fair is State Rep. Mark by those attending State Rep. Mark Cohen’s festival. large candidate Al Taubenberger lends moral Photo by Bill Myers support.

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Photo by Bill Myers 7 points, 35%-28%. Lucky for in urban settings by providing them the services, programs, them polls don’t vote!

“The Buck Stops Here” - President Harry Truman equipment and apparel they Isaiah Thomas, “You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide” - Joe Louis need to participate in athletics Chris Woods Launch and gain the invaluable life At-Risk Youth Fdn. lessons they can provide.

Isaiah Thomas and Chris “We are living examples of Woods have joined forces to how athletics can help young launch the Thomas & Woods people succeed in life,” Foundation, a nonprofit or- Thomas said. “Chris and I ganization that will aim to im- were recently reflecting on our prove health and wellness experiences growing up, and amongst at-risk young people (Cont. Page 46)

FOCUS ON A FAILED CITY Mayoral Candidate Jim Foster to outline Platform in installments thru Labor Day.

City Year Marks Its 18th

Campaign to visit all Neighborhoods Philadelphia – the city with the widest gap between the “haves” and the “have nots” - - and growing . . .

Verified national statistics prove we have the largest % of deep poverty in the nation again this year. At the same time the most top heavy overpaid municipal government in the nation grows while the political machine buys votes with 6000 new jobs since 2010, massive overtime fraud, and bloated city council that costs one million dollars for each member annually for 9 months work.

We will outline these and other statistics that verify how the current administration and the bureaucrats that run cover have neglected those with the greatest need and rewarded those at the top with pilferage and patronage; while taxing those in the middle with highest rates in the nation.

There is 1 city employee for every 51 citizens - outrageous!

A phone call will bring the Foster Campaign to your group or your neighborhood with the rest of the horror story that funds the favored and sends wasted tax dollars to the elites and the suburbanites that feast off the largest corrupt city in the nation.

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DR. WILLIAM HITE and Darryl Bundrige, executive director and VP of City Year Phila., an education nonprofit dedicated to helping students and schools succeed, hosted pep rally to kick off its 18th year of full-time service in 14 public schools. During celebration, 205 young people will answer call to serve with City Year, a member of AmeriCorps national service network. Every year, City Year Phila. unites a diverse team of trained young adult AmeriCorps Members to focus their efforts on decreasing national high-school dropout rate.

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(Cont. From Page 44) the following judicial candidates in the November 2015 general election.

Supreme Court: Judge Kevin Dougherty-D, Judge David Wecht-D and Judge Christine Donohue-D. Superior Court: Alice Beck Dubow-D. Commonwealth Court: Mike Wojcik-D

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YEA (Young Educated Athletes) , spearheaded by Raushanah S. Hargrove and her incredible staff, held its 2nd annual CommunityDay & Bookbag Givaway at Clara Muhammad Park, 47th & Wyalusing Avenue.

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(Cont. From Page 45) we both came to the same conclusion: Playing sports really helped us, not just on the playing field but in helping us get where we are today. From leadership to team building skills, participating in athletics shaped our lives. We want to make sure every child has the same opportunity.”

Thomas, 31, is the director of community affairs in the Office of the City Controller and was first runner-up for a Democratic council at-large nomination in the municipal primary last spring. He says running for office uniquely prepared him for both his role with the Controller and the launch of the foundation, as he has gained intimate knowledge of the issues different neighborhoods are dealing with and the solutions they need.

Woods, 30, is executive VP of District1199C National Union of Hospital & Health Care Employees, which boasts the largest membership of any union in Philadelphia. The two have remained close friends since childhood.

The Foundation’s first program, a free basketball camp for roughly 100 young people between the ages of 5-16, began last week. In addition to workshops to build skills on the court, each day also features inspirational speakers who will share their stories on how they have achieved success. Among the headline speakers are 4th Dist. Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. and 179th Dist. State Rep. Jason Dawkins.

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Gov Tom Wolf and his administration have successfully launched an online voter-registration system that can dramatically increase accessibility for Pennsylvanians to engage in the voter registration process, Pennsylvania now joins 22 other states in adopting online registration.

Will it make a difference in voters turning out to vote? You tell us! We’re still biased in favor of registrations gathered by the unsung political heroes of today, party committee people.

Unless voters are reminded to vote on election day, odds are against their voting. Registrants signed up by committee people more eagerly respond to that committee person’s request for them to vote.

Show us where we are wrong!

PEG PAC Endorses Judge Giordano For Superior Court The Emil Giordano for Superior Court Committee reports Judge Emil Giordano has earned the endorsement of the PEG PAC, the affiliated political action committee of the Pennsylvania Business Council (PBC) and the state’s oldest pro-business political action committee.

“Judge Giordano would bring to the Superior Court a wealth of trial court experience that will serve him well as an appellate court judge,” said David W. Patti, President and CEO of the PBC. “I am very proud to have the support of PEG PAC, an organization I greatly respect for their efforts to strengthen Pennsylvania’s business community,” said Judge Giordano. “PEG PAC is an incredibly important endorsement for my campaign and I am excited to add them to my list of supporters.”

Judge Emil Giordano is running for a seat on the Pennsylvania Superior Court.

Judge Giordano has been endorsed by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Fraternal Order of Police, Le-Hampton Lodge 35 FOP, Allegheny County Fraternal Order of Police, Queen City Lodge Fraternal Order of Police, the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association in the Primary, Pennsylvania Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), ABC Eastern Pa. Chapter and has earned the “recommendation” of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Firearms Owners Against Crime and LIFEPAC. Judge Giordano currently serves on the Northampton Court of Common Pleas.

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CITY COUNCIL allocated MILLIONS for our schools, with the proviso that it go STRAIGHT to education. The Superintendent then spends ONE MILLION on newly-hired MEGA-dollar managers. We need teachers and nurses – not FAT JOBS (?). (Where is Councilwoman-to-be Helen GYM’S anger over this?) If you can get beyond the security desk at School District headquarters on Broad Street, take a walk through the halls. At the many office doors you will see names of some sort of director The PAYROLL there is too large!...

Super HITE says the hires are needed; but there was no NOTICE GIVEN in advance of the hirings that I could find (?). CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT Darrell CLARKE was right to be upset. Notice is a SACRED guarantee to Americans. We formed the USA around it. There has to be TRUST between Council and the Schools.

It was a breath of FRESH AIR when Dan MUROFF of Chestnut Hill’s 9th Ward was mentioned as possible successor to Chaka FATTAH. MUROFF is a decent man of compassion and caring for constituents. If it comes down to a change, DAN should be strongly considered!... How can an ageless guy like Tommy BLACKWELL have a birthday? When part of the Blackwell family moved to West Chester, the town began to turn from GOP to DEMOCRAT. Hmm. State Rep. Bill KELLER’S chairmanship of the Transportation Committee paid off with funding for redesign and paving of Swanson Street from Delaware to Oregon Avenues. The street has the potential for being a great tax ratable as a shopping and entertainment center....

The Stagehands’ Union has its new building there with a dynamite banquet hall, as well as a sports arena, shopping mall, and chic bowling alley. Councilman Mark SQUILLA, please push the engineers to hurry up with the design work, and get the contract bids in! Thank you, Rep. KELLER! I dreamt of starting a fund to erect a KANGAROO STATUE near the Montgomery County Courthouse. You know I follow the Kathleen Kane events there. Since I started, Kane dis(Cont. Page 49)

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Sunday the 31st Billy Meehan Clambake was held at Cannstatter Volksfest Verein. The clambake’s Chairwoman was STATE REP. MARTINA WHITE. Over 500 people were there to enjoy clams, oysters, roast pig, chicken, hamburgers and hot dogs. WARD LEADER GARY GRISAFI’S Blu Dogz band provided entertainment.

Republican City Committee GENERAL COUNSEL MIKE MEEHAN thanked the crowd for attending the clambake which was named to honor his father. RCC CHAIRMAN and STATE REP. JOHN TAYLOR addressed the crowd and acknowledged a number of current and past elected officials there, including recently retired Supreme Court PRESIDENT JUSTICE RON CASTILLE. STATE SEN. JOHN RAFFERTY (Montgomery) and STATE REP. TODD STEVENS (Montgomery) were also there. Both have thrown their hats in the ring for the Attorney General race in 2016.

Many candidates for office this fall were there and addressed the crowd, including all Republican statewide appellate-court candidates. Our Pennsylvania Supreme Court candidates JUDY OLSEN and MIKE GEORGE traveled from the western reaches of Pennsylvania. Supreme Court candidate and current Commonwealth Court JUDGE ANNE COVEY had a shorter trip from Bucks County. Republican candidate for Superior Court and current Common Pleas Court JUDGE EMIL GIORDANO drove in from Northumberland County and Commonwealth Court candidate PAUL LALLEY came from Allegheny County.

Closer to home, our candidate for Mayor MELISSA MURRAY BAILEY addressed the crowd. Candidates for Sheriff and Register of Wills, CHRIS SAWYER and ROSS FEINBERG respectively, took the stage to address the crowd. All five candidates for Council at Large, DAVID OH, DENNY O’BRIEN, AL TAUBENBERGER, DAN TINNEY and TERRY TRACY, were there.

Murray Bailey also took the stage at the end of the event to announce the winners of the raffles. She was ably assisted in selecting the winners by much-younger attendees (Cont. Page 49

JUDGE EUGENE MAIER and his wife LENA hosted their annual end-of-summer party in Brigantine over the weekend. Among the overflow and enthusiastic crowd were FEDERAL JUDGE TIM SAVAGE and his son former CITY COUNCILMAN DAN SAVAGE, WARD LEADER JOHN SABATINA, political operative PHIL PRESS, WARD LEADER BOB DELLAVELLA and his lovely wife ANGIE. But that was just the beginning. Also one hand was former federal MAGISTRATE JUDGE JIMMY NELSON and his beautiful wife MONICA, the radiant JUDGES FELICE STACK and LYDIA KIRKLAND. Former federal JUDGE NELSON DÍAZ looked at ease and was accompanied by his wife Sarah. Many of the MAIER family were on hand including DOUG, KATIE and BETH. Federal JUDGE FELIPE RESTREPO, a member of the Maier clan, was seen working through the outstanding buffet.

Also, on hand was former SHERIFF BARBARA DEELEY, prominent trial lawyer AL DRAGON and his wife BARBARA, to name only a few for the overflow crowd.

The Maier party is one of several must-attend events at the shore during the summer. The shore particularly the towns of North Wildwood, Stone Harbor, Brigantine, and points in between are a favorite haunt for Philadelphia’s politicos during the hot days of June, July and August. Many politicians choose the shore for fundraisers and just some plain old fun.

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Yo! Here we go again with this unusual math formula especially for you called a Chocolate Calculator. It can find out your age using Chocolate Math. This really works but don’t ask me how. Have fun trying to figure this one out!

Don’t tell me your age; you’d probably lie anyway, but the Hershey Man will know!

Here is how to calculate your age by chocolate math.

This is pretty neat. Don’t cheat by scrolling down first! It takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read. Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out!

This is not one of those waste-of-time things, it’s fun and it works. Of course, you can use a calculator to do the math and pen and paper to record your answers.

Ready to go?

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10).

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold).

3. Add 5.

4. Multiply it by 50 – I’ll wait while you get the calculator.

5. If you have already had your birthday this year, add 1765 ... if you haven’t, add 1764.

6. Now subtract the four-digit year that you were born.

You should now have a three-digit number. The first digit

Because the inner wiseacre in me kind of goes south sometimes, I’ve had one question running through my head since I read the story about the mess that is the battle between the Attorney General’s Office and the District Attorney’s Office.

That question? Just what does 400 pages of porn look like?

And while we’re at it, what is contained in 400 pages of porn, and why, oh why, would you be stupid enough to accumulate and store 400 pages of porn in, of all places, your office computer?

Between trying cases and presumably doing other work, former State Prosecutors Frank Fina and Mark Costanzo apparently amassed a collection of pics that included a woman giving her boss oral sex and other things.

Attorney Gen. Kathleen Kane found out about the pics and was, well, not amused.

When Fina and Costanzo to go to the DAs office, they probably thought their inter-office spank bank would stay hidden. But when Kane started having legal troubles, and blamed Fina and Costanzo for them, she went to the Supreme Court … and got them, and some other records, released.

The Philly chapter of the National Organization for Women issued a statement demanding that DA Seth Williams do something about Fina and Costanzo, although I don’t know what that would be.

But my question is, did you really think this wouldn’t come out? You had 400 pages of porn on an OFFICE computer. That belongs to the OFFICE. That’s a public record.

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Dîner En Blanc Defeats Rain Lyde Takes Over 61st Ward

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PHILA. Naval Base was scene of glamor at sea in a thunderstorm, as hundreds gathered for Dîner En Blanc, a bring-yourown picnic for which attenAFFAIR included music, dining, judges dees dressed in for best outfits, best original table dis- their finest plays. A beautiful event to see … like this summer white elegant couple. fashions.

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CELEBRATING new leadership of Democratic 61st Ward, Pete Lyde, 4th from right, threw fabulous summer picnic on lawn of E. Oak Lane house. His committee and supporters posed together, ready to roll for November. Photo by

FOX 29 anchors Alex Holley and Mike Jerrick joined Kharisma McIllwaine and brother.

Location was not disclosed until one hour before the event. Shuttle buses traveled up and down Broad Street to pick up participants.

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ENJOYING picnic and each other’s company were, from left, Rev. John Roberts, Democratic activist Marnie AumentLoughrey, Committeeman Reginald Freeman and activist Jim Harrity.

READY for barbecue were Committeemen Reginald Freeman and Stanley Scott, Sherrie Cohen, Esq., Committeeman Michael Graddick, Ward Leader Peter Lyde, and Committeemen DeMarc Hamilton and Jaime Bouldin.

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PROUD to stand beside DA Seth Williams AL LITTLEPAGE and Kevin Price from 1st were 61st Ward Committeeman Jaime Ward came all the way up to Oak Lane to parBouldin and 61st Ward Leader Pete Lyde. take of Pete Lyde’s hospitality, as did Comcast community-relations pro Lacey T. Gilbert.

WHOLE GANG turned out! Lyris Younge, Common Pleas Court candidate; retired 61st Ward Leader Sharon Losier, Municipal Court candidate; restaurateur Sid Booker; Keir Bradford-Grey, chief of Defender Association of Phila.; Lyde; Daine Grey, Common Pleas Court candidate and florist Bill Richardson.

Carpenters Seek Justice

FIGHTING for right to return to their jobs at Penna. Convention Center were Carpenters Stanford R. Smith Sr., Tom Mitchell Sr., Rudy Scolpino, Mark Eriscio, Dave Thompson and Dominic Paglia. Photo by

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He said the office will open its doors for service Sep. 14, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be reached at (215) 333-9760.

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(Cont. From Page 47) Dumb.

So now we will be finding out what 400 pages of porn look like.

We already know what the idiots that gathered it look like.

(Cont. From Page 47) likers have posted that I am a Kane shill, or are on her payroll. They run out of creative logic quickly and revert back to those rants. Oh, I am also accused of heavy drinking – a diversionary tactic.... In the last week, Kane was held for trial, and the dislikers, who act only to news articles, bellowed. But WHAT DID you expect at a PRELIM HEARING? Did they expect charges dropped? Maybe with a change of venue.

There was weird bombast from a onetime publisher and GOP guy. Out of nowhere, a community activist said Kane wasted resources. It TURNS OUT the fellow won a statewide award from the VERY SAME paper that quoted him (?)... THEN headlines blared that Kane could lose her license to practice law if the ETHICS LADS deem it so. They had not actually met on this; but you would think it was a done deal.

Then another paper wrote a very level, non-sensational article on the FINA FELLOW and porn emails, while the sister paper went silent on that (?). Suddenly it came back with an ALARM headline that looked, at first like Kane was involved in hiding porn. On reading, it turned out Kane blamed those two former prosecutors for the case against her…. WATCH THOSE HEADLINES! If a paper calls for Kane’s resignation, should all Kane stories be moved to the OPINION page? I am against a disclaimer on each story stating that it may con-

now time to SHUT UP the antagonists, rid us of loathsome antagonists who wish to continue, plug any leaks, and work hard at interagency cooperation for the common good of officeholders and Pennsylvanians caught in the WHIRLWIND.

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(Cont. From Page 47) CRICKET BAILEY, AVA KATRINA and CHRISTIAN DeFELICE. The KATHLEEN KANE Follies. At the end of last week, the Disciplinary Board of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court notified AG Kane it is seeking to suspend her law license. Disciplinary Board is made up of 13 members, of which 11 are attorneys; all are appointed by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has suspended the licenses of 21 attorneys in the past three years. The Commonwealth’s Constitution stipulates that the AG must be an attorney.

There is a debate whether a suspension is sufficient to remove her from office, but it will prohibit it her from doing much of her job. It has been speculated that even if she tries to remain in office with a suspension, that GOV. TOM WOLF would consider working with the Senate to use a “direct removal” provision in the Commonwealth’s Constitution that allows the Governor to remove an elected official with a two-thirds vote by the state Senate. Apparently this provision had never been used in the past. The Disciplinary Board’s action follows Montgomery County JUDGE CATHLEEN KELLY REBAR’S order that Kane stand trial on criminal changes relating the leaking of confidential information and perjury as well as intimidating and retaliatory firing of staffers who testified against Kane. Kane claims that the case against her was concocted by an “old boys’ network” to retaliate against her for revealing the names of AG staffers who participated in email exchanges of pornographic materials. Prosecutors allege she was the retaliator.

They believe her illegal acts were in large part to discredit former AG staffer and current Philadelphia prosecutor FRANK FINA. Fina and Philadelphia DA SETH

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JOB FAIRS are also in Coatesville on 9/11, Philly on 9/17, and 10/8 in Atlantic City. Attend the City’s First Veterans’ Parade in November.

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WILLIAMS in early 2014 criticized her for not pursuing cases against six Philadelphia Democrats caught on tape taking illegal political contributions. It should be noted that she publically released a redacted list of the pornography exchangers well after her public fight with Fina commenced. Her contention is that Fina knew of her intentions before the release of the names. The question is not if Fina and others do not like her. The question is: Will a jury determine if she committed crimes in her effort to fight with her detractors?

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Sep. 16- Friends of Councilwoman Cindy Bass host Fish Fry at Champagne Café, 21 E. Chelten Ave., 6-9 p.m. Tickets $15.

Sep. 17- State Sen. Shirley M. Kitchen hosts Fundraiser at Barber’s Hall, 1402 W. Oxford St., 6-8 p.m. Food & Drinks: Friends $25; Supporters $50; Patrons $100; Sponsors/PACs $250. Checks payable to Committee to Re-Elect Shirley M. Kitchen, P.O. Box 50606, Phila., PA 19132. RSP (215) 631-4939 or swilliams98@hotmail.com.

Short-Changing Our Girls (Cont. From Page 10) and increase high-school academic learning levels. This will spawn a college education for those girls currently in schools with high dropout rates. Over the past four years of fiscal famine, the class size has steadily swollen to 30-3236-38 students per class in many public schools.

Shame on all of us for city, state and private sectors which still haven’t cogently and collaborated to adequately resource our public schools above sub-minimum and insure the rise of reading comprehension and math levels.

Our city, state and private sectors can fix this, not merely luridly lament it and condemn it. We should be ashamed that

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RSVP. Sep. 19- Councilman Bobby Henon hosts Fall Fest in 67006800 blocks Torresdale Ave., starting 10 a.m.

Sep. 20- Open Air Jazz and R&B Concert on the Green, 6816 N. 10th St., 3-7 p.m. Donation $50. RSVP Ayesha Salaam (215) 681-0442. Portion of proceeds benefit Sultan Jihad Ahmed Community Fdn. Sep. 21- 13th Ward Scholarship Walk-A-Thon is held on Kelly Dr., 8-11 a.m. Pledges & donations needed. Call Committeepersons Gene Kennedy (215) 588-9631, Mike Pender or Cynthia (215) 704-4431.

Sep. 22- Councilman David Oh is hosted Fall Fundraiser at Union Lg., 140 S. Broad St., Lincoln Rm., 2nd fl., 5:30-7:30 p.m. Contribution levels: $2,500, $1,000, $500 and $100.

Sep. 22- Kevin Strickland, GOP 9th Dist. councilmanic candidate, hosts Fundraiser aboard Franklin Yacht, 401 N. Columbus Blvd., 7-10 p.m. Food, music, dancing, cash bar. For info Mike Bradley (267) 7737587.

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Sep. 30- Green Party of Phila. holds Monthly Mtg. at Calvary Ctr. For Culture & Community, 801 S. 48th St., 7 p.m. For info (215) 243-7103.

Oct. 3- United Republican Cl. hosts Shrimp Night at 3156 Frankford Ave., 7 p.m.

Oct. 3- DJ Gary O and Mr. Hollywood host 21st & Norris Community Committee Old School Blue Light Basement Party Fundraiser at Nat’l Guard Armory, 2700 Southampton Rd., 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Donation $40, at door $45.

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City Republicans And Friends Make Merry At Clambake See More Photos, Page 33

TEAM TRACY was out in full force: rear, LaToya Major, Pia Garbutta, councilmanic candidate Terry Tracy, Campaign Mgr. Allaire Corbett and consultant Randy Robinson; front, Dani Howard. Photo by Robert Mendelsohn

COUNCILMAN George Kenney enjoyed comFORMER Congressman Bob Borski enjoyed pany of GOP high-court candidate Mike clammy afternoon at Cannstatter with Gay Camp- George and State Sen. John Flaherty. bell, Ebony Brown and one-time mayoral candidate John Egan.

Photo by Robert Mendelsohn GOP LEADERS put their best feet forward at Billy Meehan Clambake: from left, General Counsel Mike Meehan, Party Chair State Rep. John Taylor, councilmanic candidate Kevin Strickland, Register of Wills candidate Ross Feinberg, mayoral candidate Melissa GREETING the Street Family was Chairman Murray Bailey and Council- State Rep. John Taylor. With him were forman David Oh. mer State Sen. Milton Street, his son and Photo by Robert Mendelsohn granddaughter Alexis Street.

J A S O N McEWEN, former Gov. Mark Schweiker, Supreme Court candidate Anne Covey and Republican Chair State Rep. John Taylor look forward to Nov. 3 election day. Photo by Maria Merlino

NECA EXECUTIVE and 2nd Street native Ken Adams is pleased to know Melissa Murray Bailey has roots in S. Phila.

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TURNING back clock to ’60’s city championship high-school football game were Ken Adams and Jack Gillespie. Ken was member of Southern team and Gillespie West Catholic, which battled to tie 2020.

JOHN APELDORN, from Citizens’ Crime Comm i s s i o n , catches up with Councilman David Oh at Billy Meehan Clambake. Photo by Maria Merlino

SHARING moment with GOP council-at-large candidate Terry Tracy are Joseph and Denise DiLullo, Linda Palochko and Mike D’Imperio.

FOP President John McNesby was in attendance along with fellow members of FOP, Steve ENJOYING Clambake were Mike Leibley, Hayes Clark, Weiler, Nick DeNofa and Mike Shellenberger. Kevin Hannah and Al Littlepage.

REPUBLICAN leaders had chance at Clambake to catch up. From left are Mike Tomlinson, Joe Samuel, Aaron Finestone and Bill Rapone.

Controller Butkovitz …get all on same page findings would help, he believes, help the City to better provide ways to aid businesses caught in the middle of it all.

The Controller’s office hand delivered 250 surveys to hotels, restaurants and retail businesses inside the traffic box to learn what businesses were expecting and the problems where were facing. The response rate was higher than expected.

The Controller’s survey found the following: 45% of those surveyed expected revenue to be somewhat above average the weekend of the papal visit.

Ninety one percent said the Francis Festival Grounds, formally known as the “Traffic

Box”, creates challenges to doing business, while 86% said the Nutter Administration has provided little or no detail.

Businesses listed their top three concerns as: Getting employees to work, getting supplies and deliveries and the removal of trash.

Along with answering the survey’s questions, respondents also provided several comments regarding their concerns for the weekend the Pope visits, including the following: “The communication has been sparse at best. The room night pickup for the entire hotel community has been sparse due to the lack of information provided to travelers.”

– Hotel Manager “We still have no answers on how our staff can get through the security perimeter in a timely fashion…. We are extremely worried that the buildup of trash will be a huge problem with pests. Will private companies be able to collect trash???”

– Restaurant Manager The survey was constructed to capture three data points. First, Bukovitz said, was to establish a baseline – Was summer 2015 good for business or not, and what were the expectations for busi-

ness during the papal visit.

Second, he aimed to understand how well the City was communicating the impact of the increased security measures. And finally, he wanted to understand the sorts of adjustments, if any, businesses were planning in order to handle both the security restrictions and the influx of up to 1 million visitors.

In general, the Controller’s survey suggests businesses are cautiously optimistic about the economic opportunity the papal visit represents. Typical tourist areas are expecting an onslaught of visitors and fear being overrun. Many see great economic potential from huge numbers of new consumers. Others are excited for the city, believing the papal visit thrusts Philadelphia into the global limelight, and this kind of exposure has long term ramifications.

The Controller believes this will be an opportunity for Philadelphia to introduce itself to the world with hotel, restaurant, and retail establishments will playing a pivotal role in shaping visitors’ experiences.

Multiple businesses stressed the last weekend in September is typically a big revenue genera-

tor, with folks spending more time home now vacations have ended.

The Controller’s survey found, the largest concerns for businesses are logistical. They are concerned about staff and how employees will get to work. For those who rely on public transit and for those who live outside of the city in particular, getting in and out of the security perimeter will likely be very time consuming or even impossible.

With so much uncertainty regarding demand for that weekend, businesses face a conundrum: Overstocking brings risk of wasted expense, but understocking could lead to significant lost opportunity.

This is particularly the case for restaurants, where many inputs are perishable and where freshness is paramount; for many this means daily deliveries.

Businesses also expressed concern in their comments about trash removal; commercial trash is usually hauled 6 days a week, and if huge demand materializes, the City will be overflowing with refuse.

A strong secondary concern is the ability to get weekend deliveries; if the traffic box remains closed all night,

neither private trash pickup nor deliveries will be possible.

Finally, businesses are worried about security for both their employees and property.

The Nutter administration has neglected major details or been unclear, creating high levels of uncertainty for 82% of the businesses answering the Controller’s survey.

Overall, businesses inside the Francis Festival Grounds, formally known as the “Traffic Box”, are excited for the potential economic opportunity the papal visit represents.

By and large they plan to make accommodations to the best of their ability to help themselves and the city put the best foot forward.

The Controller’s Survey finds the City has provided insufficient outreach, inconsistent messaging, and lack of clarity, creating unnecessary uncertainty and anxiety. For many businesses, the Controller’s letter was the first direct communication from a city official. This survey indicates an earlier and more proactive approach would clearly have been preferable.

But the City still has time to act on those concerns directly with those businesses.

URGING those over 18 to register to vote were City Commission Chairman COOKING to feed Anthony Clark staffers Zomaine Smith huge crowd were Joel and Michael Quintero-Moore.

Goldberg and Vincent Photo by Bill Myers Street. Photo by Bill Myers

YOUNGSTERS signed onto tapestry announcing various THIS STAGE PROP shows what prison cell looks like for those endrives in which gaged in crime. One could only guess if these youngsters were sending ODAAT is involved. out gang signals to those taking pictures. These members of bomb Photo by Bill Myers squad entertained crowd on stage.

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Philadelphia is preparing for a historic occasion. Pope Francis will visit the city, in late September as a grand finale to the World Meeting of Families Conference.

His Holiness will speak at Independence Mall and perform an open�air Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

These two events are expected to draw 1.5 million pilgrims from all around the globe to Center City Philadelphia.

The event poses a tremendous opportunity for the City and local businesses, along with considerable challenges revolving around security and logistics. The ways in which plans are communicated will inevitably have an impact on expectations as well as behavior of both businesses and residents throughout the City.

Controller Alan Butkovitz sees it as a historic opportunity for Philadelphia as well as the business community. He had his office conduct an economic impact survey to gauge how the business community was balancing the expected 1.5 million pilgrims expected to travel to see the Pope against the security planning provided by the Mayor’s Administration. The survey’s

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Rick Bloomingdale, President, Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Administrative reforms initiated by our United States Dept. of Labor will raise the wages and improve the lives of millions of hard-working people across the United States and in Pennsylvania. The changes are part of the President’s economic initiatives to level the

playing field for working families and do not require an act

by Congress.

A significant reform will extend overtime protections to an estimated 5 million additional workers – including 200,000 in Pennsylvania. Employers will no longer be able to simply designate employees as managerial even when their duties are nearly identical to the employees they manage.

This rule change, along with increasing the income threshold in which salaried workers are covered by overtime protections, will raise the wages of more workers, many of whom are 35 and under. The income threshold hasn’t been updated since the 1970s. At that time, over 65% of salaried employees were entitled to time-anda-half pay for overtime while today, only 11 % are eligible.

Another significant action is the Administrative Interpretation released in July by the US Labor Dept. which will help end the misclassification of “employees” as contractors or what is often referred as the overuse of 1099 hiring.

The misclassification of workers is a growing problem that, according to a recent study by Temple University law Prof. Jennifer Lee, results in cheating workers out of millions of dollars in wages every week. Lee’s study estimates that workers in Pennsylvania lose between $19 million and $32 million every week due to wage theft. Many of these workers, who are misclassified, don’t believe they are entitled to the minimum-wage and overtime protections, when in fact, they are. Some of these workers are earning

piece rates below the minimum wage and are not paid when traveling between job work sites. The Administrative Interpretation notes that the critical determination in independentcontractor misclassification claims is whether a worker is genuinely in business for himself or herself.

Just as important is legislation introduced by State Sen. Christine Tartaglione and State Rep. Patty Kim, which contains strong anti-wage-theft protections and companion legislation that raises Pennsylvania minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.

Pennsylvania is standing alone, and not for a good reason, as the only state in the region not to have raised the minimum wage above the federal rate of $7.25 per hour.

Twenty-nine states have done

so. Raising the minimum wage will not only boost the wages of 1.2 million Pennsylvania workers; it will provide an additional boost to local economies especially in rural areas of our state. We must pressure the leaders in the State Senate and the State House to let their members vote to raise the minimum wage. Gov. Wolf supports the increase and so do over 70% of Pennsylvanians.

As we continue to push for these and many other policy changes which will raise the wages of millions of working Pennsylvanians, we also salute the thousands of workers across Pennsylvania who have just recently formed their unions for a stronger voice on the job. Their success along with a growing union presence in Pennsylvania’s (Cont. Page 6)

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by Rick Bloomingdale, President, Pennsylvania AFL-CIO This Labor Day we recognize the incredible achievements of America’s working people and celebrate all those who make our country run.

Many of us will be busy enjoying the parades, the picnics and the various celebrations and events that bring family and friends together.

All across our state, working people are coming together to change public policies and working conditions to restore the value of work and to rebuild our middle class. Joining us are many of our allies and supporters who share our values and beliefs and who once again want to see our nation and our state prosper and become stronger both economically and politically.

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Labor Day Message 2015

Saluting All Unions Members And Their Families

LABOR DAY

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... State AFL-CIO (Cont. From Page 5) economy will help raise the standards for every working family in Pennsylvania.

In a huge victory, nearly 1,000 workers at the Letterkenny Army Depot in South Central Pennsylvania formed their union with the Machinists to bring stability, decent wages and benefits, and a voice to their workplace. Another enormous success for thousands of Pennsylvania’s home-care workers and the people they care for across Pennsylvania, is the 89% support of home-care workers in forming their union with United Home Care Workers of Pennsylvania, a partnership of AFSCME and SEIU. As a result, this partnership is now 20,000 members stronger.

Another key victory, adding to our strength, is the support of the Adjunct Faculty at Community College of Allegheny County, who in July voted overwhelmingly to form their union with the American Federation of Teachers.

They are joining the full-time faculty at CCAC which have been union members for over 40 years. We also congratulate over 1,000 service and technical workers at the Allegheny General Hospital who also overwhelmingly formed their

union with SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania.

They join the 1,200 registered AGH nurses, RNs and service workers at Canonsburg Hospital and Allegheny Valley Hospital in further strengthening their voices to continue providing quality care for their patients.

We also encourage community support for our friends and our neighbors, members of the Communications Workers of America and the United Steelworkers, as they continue to stand up for good jobs, defending their retirement security and their health care. Their struggle is ours because what they are fighting for is what all of us want to achieve for ourselves and our families. All of us deserve to make more than a decent living, we deserve a decent life.

It’s time America’s economic policies put people and families first, instead of the interests of a handful of wealthy and well-connected corporate CEOs. We need to change the debate from “what is good for the economy” to “what is good for America and working people.”

Enjoy the Labor Day holiday and please remember to buy Pennsylvania- and Americanmade products every time you shop.

City Offices Closed, Services Limited All City of Philadelphia offices will be closed and City services curtailed on Labor Day, Monday, Sep. 7 – a legal holiday.

Trash and recyclables will not be collected on Monday. Streets Commissioner David J. Perri urges residents, whose normal collection is on Monday, to set out their rubbish and recycling for collection on Tuesday, Sep. 8. Trash and recycling collections will be one day behind for the remainder of the week.

All City District Health Centers are closed on Labor Day, as are all branch offices of the Department of Licenses and Inspections; the North and Northeast Municipal Service Centers; the Marriage License Bureau; all Dept. of Recreation facilities; the Free Library of Philadelphia and all of its branches and the executive offices of the Philadelphia Parking Authority, as well as its Violations branch, at 9th & Filbert Streets.

Lights On Capitol Bldg. Honor Unions Red were the lights shining this week from the Lt. Gov. Mike Stack’s balcony in front of the State Capitol as a tribute to the youth baseball team from Red Land, York County, which reached the finals of the Little League World Series over the weekend.

“During their entire run through the Little League World Series, Red Land cap-

tured the attention of Pennsylvania and had the entire state cheering them on. They made us proud. I’m having the balcony lights glow red to mark the terrific performance of these young players and their coaches,” the Lieutenant Governor said.

Red Land won the United States championship on Saturday, and then lost in the final game Sunday to the interna-

tional champion from Japan.

The balcony was also red for the team on Sunday night.

The Lieutenant Governor’s balcony is commonly lit in various colors to mark special occasions or to call attention to worthy causes.

For the coming month, the Capitol balcony lighting is scheduled to salute Labor Day and the unions Sep. 7 with red, white and blue colors.

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workers in most parts of the commonwealth, most working people in our city don’t belong to a union.

But does that mean that Philadelphia’s unions are only interested in the 1/5 of workers here whom we represent? Nothing could be further from the truth.

Unions have fought for overtime laws, workplace safety laws, and Social Security. We’ve fought for family leave and expanded access to healthcare.

We’ve fought for fair trade deals, and opposed the socalled “free trade” schemes like NAFTA that have undermined America’s manufacturing base and cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs.

We’ve called on government to invest in public schools and public infra-

Patrick J. Eiding, President, Phila Council AFL-CIO

structure. Today, the mostpressing problem facing America’s workers is simple: Working people in America are no longer being paid a fair wage for a fair day’s work. Over the last 50 years, American workers’ wages have stagnated, barely rising above the inflation rate. Meanwhile, the wealthy have seen their wages skyrocket.

Fifty-years-ago, the aver-

age CEO of an American company made 20 times what his average worker made. Today, that CEO earns 300 times more. According to the Pew Research Center, over the last 15 years, pay for 9 out of 10 Americans has continued to stagnate, or even shrunk. For the top 10%, wages have risen by nearly 10%.

This situation isn’t just unjust. It’s terrible for the nation as a whole. For generations, the American economy has been driven by consumer spending. We can’t have an economy that works for all of us by consistently depriving 90% of the nation’s consumers of the fruits of their labor.

So while organized labor continues to help workers organize unions at

their workplaces so they can access the proven power of collective action and collective bargaining to win what they deserve, the AFL-CIO has also launched a national Raising Wages campaign. I’m proud that Philadelphia is one of 15 cities that have taken on this campaign.

America’s unions are fighting to raise the minimum wage, and to win laws guaranteeing workers the right to paid sick time.

We’re also fighting for implementation of new Department of Labor rules that will expand access to overtime pay for salaried workers.

In Philadelphia, after helping to win the landmark Paid Sick Leave bill in City Council, the AFLCIO is fighting to win

higher wages for workers across the board. Dozens of unions – some bringing members from as far as Ontario, Canada – have turned out to support Philadelphia’s fast food workers going on strike for a $15/hour wage and a union contract from huge corporations like McDonalds. We’ve stood on the picket line with non-union, minimum-wage workers at the Philadelphia International Airport, demanding that their employers respect the city’s Living Wage ordinance. We’ve organized rallies to raise our state’s minimum wage, and met with legislators about bills to raise that minimum and to improve enforcement of it. We even recently organized a

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One of the great privileges of serving as President of the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO is leading the annual Labor Day parade up Columbus Avenue. Rain or shine, I’m always proud to look back from the head of the parade and see so many groups of union members marching with their brothers and sisters, celebrating the achievements of America’s working people.

The fact is, though, that the majority of working people in our area are not members of unions. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 14% of Pennsylvania’s workers are represented by unions.

Even though Philadelphia’s workers are more likely to be union members than

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AFSCME DISTRICT COUNCIL 33 WE ARE PROUD TO SUPPORT THE PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL AFL-CIO and participate in the

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State Sens. Pat Browne (RLehigh) and Larry Farnese (D-S. Phila.) and Reps. Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny) and Tom Killion (R-Delaware) have introduced the Pennsylvania Fairness Act. The legislation (SB 974 and HB 1510) would update Pennsylvania’s current nondiscrimination law – originally written in 1955 – to ensure that all citizens regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, disability and now – sexual orientation, gender identity and expression – can participate in and contribute to the state’s economy.

It is currently legal in Pennsylvania to fire someone and deny them housing or business services solely on the basis of the person being gay or transgender.

Browne said, “Promoting inclusion and eliminating discrimination fosters growth in Pennsylvania’s economy by

ensuring that the Commonwealth is able to attract employees from a highly skilled workforce and, in particular, appeal to members of the innovative millennial generation.”

Frankel said, “This new bill is an opportunity for Pennsylvania to stand up against discrimination in support of basic human rights and economic growth. Our work over several years has brought us to this point and we believe the bipartisan support now expressed for this legislation will advance the bill.”

A recent survey of Pennsylvania residents showed 73% incorrectly believe discrimination against gay and transgender people in the workplace and in housing and business services is already illegal. The same study found 78% of Pennsylvanians are in support of updating the current Human Relations Act to include protections for gay

and transgender people.

Farnese said, “Updating Pennsylvania’s nondiscrimination law is important not only from a basic civil-rights standpoint, but will directly and positively impact Pennsylvania’s competitive ranking for economic development. This new legislation reflects the importance of encouraging the best and most-diverse pool of highly skilled employees to live and work in Pennsylvania.”

Killion said, “All 23 of Pennsylvania’s Fortune 500 companies already have sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression nondiscrimination policies.

The time is right for the state to support our job creators with a policy that provides uniformity and certainty.”

The legislation also has the support of a growing business coalition that is comprised of employers throughout the state.

“Dow’s employees are our greatest asset. That is why inclusion is simply the right thing to do as both a matter of fairness and as a business imperative,” said Peter Gudritz, senior manager for state government affairs, The Dow Chemical Co. “Dow is committed to working with the public and private sectors in Pennsylvania to ensure the state remains welcoming and economically competitive.

This is why we strongly support the Pennsylvania Fairness Act.” Audrey Russo, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, said, "Pennsylvania businesses are engaged in a highly competitive war for talent. This legislation not only provides basic protections for our employees, but it also showcases Pennsylvania as a Commonwealth that is serious about attracting the world’s most diverse and creative workforce.”

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The AFL-CIO exists to represent people who work. The mission of the AFL-CIO is expressed in our Constitution: The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations is an expression of the hopes and aspirations of the working people of America.

We resolve to fulfill the yearning of the human spirit for liberty, justice and community; to advance individual and associational freedom; to vanquish oppression, privation and cruelty in all their forms; and to join with all persons, of whatever nationality or faith, who cherish the cause of democracy and the call of solidarity, to grace the planet with these achievements.

We dedicate ourselves to improving the lives of working families, bringing fairness and dignity to the workplace and securing social equity in the Nation.

The AFL-CIO envisions a future in which work and all people who work are valued, respected and rewarded. While the AFL-CIO represents millions of working people who belong to unions and have the benefits of union membership, the labor federation embraces all people who share the common bond of work.

Work is what we do to better ourselves, to build dreams and to support our families. But work is more than that.

Work cures, creates, builds, innovates and shapes the future.

Work connects us all.

The AFL-CIO is an organization of people who work. We help lead a movement for social and economic justice in America and the world.

Bipartisan Support Seen For ‘PA Fairness Act’

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million in 1983. In 2013, the percentage of workers belonging to a union in the United States (or total labor union "density") was 11.3%, compared to 20.1% in 1983.[1] From a global perspective, the density in 2010 was 11.4% in the U.S., 18.4% in Germany, 27.5% in Canada, and 70% in Finland. Union membership in the private sector has fallen under 7% — levels not seen since 1932.

In the 21st century the most prominent unions are among public sector employees such as city employees, government workers, teachers and police. Members of unions are disproportionately older, male, and residents of the Northeast, the Midwest, and California. Union workers average 10-30% higher pay than non-union in the United States after controlling for individual, job, and labor market characteristics.

Although much smaller compared to their peak membership in the 1950s, American unions remain a

political factor, both through mobilization of their own memberships and through coalitions with like-minded activist organizations around issues such as immigrant rights, trade policy, health care, and living wage campaigns. Of special concern are efforts by cities and states to reduce the pension obligations owed to unionized workers who retire in the future. Republicans elected with Tea Party support in 2010, most notably Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, have launched major efforts against public sector unions due in part to state government pension obligations along with the allegation that the unions are too powerful. States with higher levels of union membership tend to have higher median incomes and standards of living. It has been asserted by scholars and the International Monetary Fund that rising income inequality in the United States is directly attributable to the decline of the labor movement.

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favor cast by the Democrats and the two by the Republican board members. It is likely the decision will be challenged in court.

The majority in favor of the decision made it known they understood the workplace has evolved to the point where more US workers than ever are employed through temporary staffing agencies.

In another ruling, hundreds of union organizing elections have been given a speedy time table.

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labor disputes.

The US Dept. of Labor has long contended companies have been misclassifying employees as independent contractors.

Doing so enabled them to avoid paying taxes, overtime pay, and other benefits.

It also made impossible for them to address job conflicts by referring to a union for support.

Unions have long complained to the NLRB, businesses, those employees in these classifications were treated by employers as they did full time employees. But they refused to treat them as such.

The decision came down on a 3-2 ruling, split along party lines with the three votes in

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Labor unions are legally recognized as representatives of workers in many industries in the United States.

Their activity today centers on collective bargaining over wages, benefits, and working conditions for their membership, and on representing their members in disputes with management over violations of contract provisions. Larger unions also typically engage in lobbying activities and electioneering at the state and federal level.

Most unions in the United States are aligned with one of two larger umbrella organizations: the AFL-CIO created in 1955, and the Change to Win Federation which split from the AFL-CIO in 2005. Both advocate policies and legislation on behalf of workers in the United States and Canada, and take an active role in politics. The AFLCIO is especially concerned with global trade issues.

In 2013 there were 14.5 million members in the U.S., compared with 17.7

Temporary and contract workers finally have gotten the opportunity to pursue their ambitions to unionize.

Last week a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board finally made that possible and in doing so, has evened the field between fast food, franchise, and contract workers and their employers long exempt from unionization efforts.

The NLRB ruling came in the case of sanitation workers, and provides an interpretation in how labor disputes can be handled.

With more employees finding they’ve been cast in the role of contract or part time workers, they’ve also found they were unable to seek help in

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HAPPY LABOR DAY! “Your Fight Is Our Fight” Supporting and defending Collective Bargaining for All Workers.

Create and Protect Good Jobs Stop the Attacks on Working Families.

Educate - Mobilize Organize, Now! For a Better Future

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Things are happening at the Port of Philadelphia and ILA Local 1291 is proud to be part of it all!

No one can miss all the great things going on at the Port right now: we’re deepening our shipping channel to 45 feet. We’re moving forward with Southport, which will establish up to three brand new maritime operations on the waterfront. We’re aggressively attracting new cargoes while continuing our dedication to our existing business. And we here at ILA Local 1291 are proud to be at the center of everything, helping our many allies in the maritime industry to make this Port all it can be now and in the future!

As we make continued progress, the ILA wants to take a moment to thank and salute those allies, because without everyone working together, all would be lost! So, we want to use this opportunity to acknowledge these fine individuals and organizations: The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority PRPA’s many fine terminal operators The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Our fellow unions and their hardworking memberships Governor Tom Wolf Lieutenant Governor Mike Stack

US Senators Bob Casey and Patrick Toomey Congressman Bob Brady State Senators Larry Farnese and John Sabatina State Representatives Bill Keller and John Taylor And our many other allies in government

And, last but not least, the fine membership of ILA Local 1291, who safely, quickly, and expertly move the world’s cargoes every day!

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Let’s all continue to move forward!

Sincerely and In Unity, Boise Butler III, President • Jack Hatty, Vice President • Martin Mascuilli, Secretary Treasurer Sonny Howlett, Business Agent • John Cook, Business Agent • Keith Browning, Recording Secretary

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Philadelphia Regional Port Authority Moving Forward!

Saluting the Port of Philadelphia’s hard-working labor force, who daily make this port the most efficient, capable maritime operation in the country.

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FLANKING Republican City Committee Exec. Dir. Joe DeFelice and Commissioner Al Schmidt were Mike DeNofa and Ward Leader Domenic Chiavarola.

COURT GOP candidate Paul 5TH WARD Leader Michael Cibik and Monica Czapla wel- MAYORAL candidate Melissa Murray Bailey is Lalley is son of proud dad and come Supreme Court candidate Mike George and Superior pleased to meet up with Councilman David Oh, his former Sheriff of Montgomery County Frank Lalley.

Court candidate Judge Emil Giordano to Clambake. wife Heesun and one-year-old daughter Sarah.

LONG-TIME activist and Republican Committeewoman Joan Seals finds herself flanked by Ward Leaders Mike Cibik and Joe D’Urso.

Republican City Committee’s popular staffer Annie Havey welcomed attendees to annual Billy Meehan Clambake at Cannstatter in N.E. Phila. along with Republican Party symbol, the Elephant.

GOP party legends Chairman State Rep. John Taylor and Republican Counsel Mike Meehan thank Kaz Nabavi for his support In Kensington.

FROM COUNCILMAN Mark Squilla’s office, Steve Lauer; Ward Leader and Parking Authority Exec. Dir. Vince Fenerty; and NECA executive Ken Adams enjoy cold beverages at GOP Photo by Maria Merlino Clambake.

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GOP leadership welcomed Supreme Court candidate Anne Covey to Clambake. From left are council-at-large candidate GOP Chairman State Rep. John Taylor gives hearty welcome Al Taubenberger, Party Chair John Taylor and General to AFL-CIO President Pat Eiding. Labor was well represented Counsel Michael Meehan. at Clambake.

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GOP MAYORAL candidate Melissa Murray Bailey is assured of strong support by Linwood Holland and Ward Leader Calvin Tucker.

REPUBLICAN Supreme Court candidate Judy Olson is flanked by GOP’s Michael Meehan and Bill Brown. She was well received by huge crowd attending annual Billy Meehan Clambake celebration at Cannstatter Volksfest Verein.

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FOP Endorses Rep. Martina White

SUPPORTING a labor-friendly Republican State Representative for reelection is Local FOP. =President John McNesby, whose union helped deliver White to victory in special election for 170th Legislative Dist. long held by Democrats, said his union is behind her in next election as well. Seconding nomination are President of National Black Police Association David Fisher and President of FOP Penna. State Photo by Bill Myers Lodge Les Neri.

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struction companies were in charge of the construction and the owner asked if we could sit down and talk.

I wanted to see some people of color employed.

Dale Litner, Sr. then became my mentor in the construction business, God bless his soul.”

Into The Construction Business President/CEO Ed Nesmith started Nesmith & Co., Inc. doing cleanouts with help from Dale Litner, Sr., who headed the demolition project for Shoemaker and Dale. In the beginning he took some heavy hits, borrowing money from where he could and selling properties he owned to make sure he met all his obligations and on time, earning the fine reputation he now has in the worlds of construction,

business and politics.

“I always contact elected officials for information on minority contracts,” he said, and ask them the obvious question, “How is it the biggest African American contractor cannot get any contracts?”

Today, Nesmith is the only ward leader that runs his own business.

Building homes, solar roofing and more have kept Nesmith busy. Today he is considered one of the city’s major contractors and the biggest of minority contractors.

His company is a Philadelphia-based MBEC Construction Contractor & Material Supplier, specializing in construction management, commercial and residential carpentry, electrical installations, and (Cont. Page 38)

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many African American leaders in the city and have no wealth? We need to make officials work for us and not for themselves,” he said.

“Everything I learned, I earned. No one’s handed me anything. What about the people who really do the hard work? I was told to move to North Philly if I wanted to run for office and hope to be elected. I said, ‘I’m from South Philly.’”

For a while he worked as Deputy Sheriff, and then moved on to work in the office of the 1st Councilmanic Dist. He had full authority by the Councilman to represent people in court. And from there, the passion of politics and helping people combined into one. It has never left him.

Nesmith is big on help-

mouth and his company to work on behalf of minority employees. Since opening his business in 1998, he has employed roughly 1,800, of which over 35% were women and minorities.

“The University of Penn, Drexel and Temple wanted to have inclusion and I told them the only way women and people of color are getting opportunities is by having them there from day one,” he said.

“The city could put up a bond for African Americans and women in the city. But the guidelines don’t work for us in the city for people of color.”

“Sacks Playground at 4th & Washington did a project. PHA was knocking down buildings and the neighborhood couldn’t get any work,” he said. “We protested for two weeks.

Shoemaker & Dale con-

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by Cassie Hepler Ed Nesmith is a grassroots kid who never abandoned South Philadelphia.

Born and raised at 4th & Federal Streets, Nesmith had a rough childhood. In 1968, his father, a committeeman, was killed right across the street from where Nesmith built his business.

No matter who is endorsed by the Democratic Party leadership, of which he is a member as leader of the 2nd Ward, Nesmith periodically finds himself in opposition when he feels another candidate for the same position is better.

Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why he’s the only African American ward leader in the city whose ward is 75% Caucasian.

“African American leaders we have had are not uplifting the African American population, particularly the last two. They don’t show economic development for people of color,” he said. “I picked Jim Kenney in the primary because he is a South Philly leader who knows the city.”

“Some Council Members feel like they are entitled,” he said.

“I showed the political leadership in this town what I can do without money. You need sweat and determination. To this day, I’m up at 5 a.m. before the sun comes up. A lot of good people get chased out of the city because people don’t embrace them.

“How can we have so

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(Cont. From Page 37) interior/exterior painting projects. Each of its divisions has full AutoCAD capabilities.

With an uncompromising commitment to excellence, Nesmith & Co., Inc. consistently provides superior construction services. With a combined experience of over 40 years in the construction business, the management team, he put together, brings a high level of professional expertise and dedication.

This winning combination greatly enhances his company’s ability to deliver quality projects on time and within budget.

It has partnered with, and supplied, subcontractor-support services to many of the larger construction management and general contracting companies.

Building strong relationships with such companies as Hunter Roberts, Dale, Turner, Westrum, TN Ward and L.F. Driscoll, has provided the opportunity for Nesmith & Co. to be recognized as a local MBE contracting company on HUD and state-funded projects.

In 15 years of business, Nesmith & Co. has logged millions of dollars in completed

projects. In addition to building respect in the construction industry, CEO Nesmith believes in building up our communities.

Nesmith & Co. makes every effort to not only be a model partner in business, but a model partner in local community endeavors. Nesmith invests his personal time and resources into developing communitybased jobs and running summer and afterschool sports programs.

“I’ve been running programs since I was 13 … and I’m almost 60 now,” Nesmith affirmed. “The integrity of our people is the integrity of our company.”

Nesmith would like to help prisoners get back to work through his company; however, getting work for them is another story through the city.

“The city talks a good game about helping offenders get jobs when they have served their time. But, why is it, they don’t offer us any jobs for those coming out of prison and in need of work. People always say ask your state senator, but I’ve done that,” he said. “People can contact me and I can try to help.”

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more than 30%, the highest in Delaware Valley.

“We have numerous affiliations with organizations designed to promote businesses and growth.

We’ve done business with big entities like Comcast, and Learning Entities such as UPenn, Drexel, and Temple, and we’ve done many small jobs for up and coming businesses. We are responsible for the training and hiring of hundreds of new workers, starting into the construction business,” he stresses.

Over the past 16 years, Ed Nesmith developed a construction template for small business owners in his field in which minorities were shunned for attempting to participate.

This template consists of a small, efficient office crew, both proficient in management of jobs, while maintaining a low overhead in job cost and labor.

The results of this effort

are easily observed.

“Some people have asked in the past, ‘Why Mr. Nesmith? Why would you subject yourself to a field of work that clearly has hostilities towards disadvantaged people?’ These are questions that have plagued many minority business owners for years.

Since before the 2000, you couldn’t count five Black construction business owners on your fingers, let alone prosper at it. Minorities were hard-pressed to get on construction jobs without being in a Union and the Unions back then were simply not letting you in,” he admits.

Ed Nesmith had a stance it could be done with persistence and excellence of work. Nesmith & Company was the vehicle he used.

As with most startup businesses, Ed Nesmith knew he had to face a “struggle curve in which you find money scarce and

can barely stay afloat until your staying power is established. Establishing a relationship with the Unions such as the Metropolitan Region Council of Carpenters and other locals, while getting workers who are skilled earned me the leverage to produce good work.”

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(Cont. From Page 38) Nesmith and Company can’t be classified as small fry these days. Its projects at this moment total over $100 million in carpentry and painting and over 20 million in newly acquired electrical jobs. It has contracts with the Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters, Local 98 (Electrical), Local 332 (Laborers), Local 542 (Operating Engineers), District Council 21, IUPAT (Painters and Allied Trades) Local 351 (Electrical) in New Jersey.

To handle it all, Nesmith has amassed an inventory of tools and product of well over $10 million, filling his headquarters building, ready to be used, no matter the demand.

In the last 16 years, the company has had a total of 1,275 employees of which, over 400 were minorities, for an historic average of

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ered to support their families by being able to work and provide shelter and food.”

Keep in mind, he could have walked away from this endeavor, since he already enjoyed a good income before starting the company. But he took the leap into building Nesmith & Co., knowing the difficulties he faced because of his goal to pry open a closed field in the building trades for minority workers.

“Imagine you start a company in which, you could not hire who you wanted or needed, you could not get paid when you were promised payment, you had to pay upfront to work, and you take the blame for every

failure whether it was your fault or not. Would you stay? I daresay most people would not, and the construction business is a prime example for these types of interactions,” he recalls.

Nesmith & Co.continues to promote change and second chances by facilitating the hiring of incarcerated youth who have paid their debt to society. He says “I have found many of these I hired have been some of the hardest and most diligent workers out there.

“We have never shied away from being responsible as a company.

Through our 16 years we are proud of the fact not one of our employees missed being paid on time,” he said.

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(Cont. From Page 41) Nesmith is proud of his ability to live up to MBE participation requirements. Few companies hit what his company has done from the beginning. Some manage to do for maybe a year, he said. “We’ve reached as high as 30% in MBE participation and a Section 3 participation rate of 40% average for and maintained them for our 16 years.”

Ed Nesmith’s goal was to give opportunities to minorities who otherwise would never have gotten the chance to get into the construction fields. He proudly points to the fact Nesmith & Co. ”became the tool that enabled our community’s people to rise up and be empow-

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Online Registration Won’t Change Habits Of Voters

by Joe Shaheeli Poll after poll has indicated voters across the country are disenchanted with their federal and state governments. How will that translate into the way Philadelphians will vote in November?

We think voter dissatisfaction will continue to reflect itself in poor turnouts … unless, of course, you get dramatically controversial candidates on the ballot. Candidates like media-savvy Donald Trump, for instance.

The latest Quinnipiac University poll reports 71% of American voters are “dissatisfied” with the way things are going in the nation today, including 41% who are “very dissatisfied.”

Unfortunately for Philadelphians, while they will have many impressive candidates for municipal leadership and statewide judicial office to choose among, none of them have ever hosted a chart-busting TV reality show.

This Nov. 3, therefore, look for a lower Democratic turnout, a bit higher Republi-

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FROM LEFT, Michael Cunningham, 22nd Ward Treasurer, Aaron Firestone, 22nd Ward Counsel, Calvin R. Tucker, 22nd Ward Leader, Melissa Murray Bailey, Republican mayoral candidate, Michael Meehan, general counsel, Walt Vogler, 21st Ward Leader, Ross Feinberg, candidate for Register of Wills, and Joe Samuel, Ward Leader, attend fundraiser at Valley Green Inn for Bailey. can turnout, and the possibil- make sure signatures are afity of a change in the GOP fixed. If not, out goes a letter council-at-large lineup. to them indicating they need To counter downward to come in and register and pressure on turnout, Gov. this time sign their signature.”

Tom Wolf’s administration Failing that, they might not be has made it easier for individ- able to vote even though they uals to register on line. show a lot of IDs. Expect a Only problem with this ruling on this from our City way of registering is some ap- Commissioners. plying on line do not know Over and over again it has how to write in their names. been proven: Ward leaders The Registration Commis- who know their main responsion’s Greg Irving said, “We sibility is building registraneed to check each one to tions, and getting out the vote,

make a difference in voter turnout. Less than a dozen wards, in either major party in this city, are listed as having decent voter turnout.

There might be a slight uptick among Republicans coming out to vote, since they do have to choose two from the five contenders for the atlarge council post. While they are free to vote for all five Republican candidates, only their two highest vote-getters at most will be elected.

We notice they are making headlines in some reports.

GOP candidates are quick to pile onto to the mishaps of anyone of them reportedly with ethical mistakes. In reality, each should try to stand out as a reformer of sorts.

The usually reliable Quinnipiac University national presidential poll has revealed public opinion is drifting away from Democrat Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, and muted support for many of the Republican presidential candidates who are current or former elected officials.

The poll numbers also show more support for GOP candidacies of Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson, as growing support for Vermont’s Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders. If VP Joe Biden announces he will run for President, he will have the highest favorability rating among any of the names – GOP or Democrat. This poll shows voters consider him most “honest

and trustworthy.”

Look for more-detailed analysis of the Quinnipiac polling results below.

Union Endorses Jared Solomon Jared Solomon is back again, announcing he has the endorsement of the Philadelphia Firefighters’ & Paramedics’ Union Local 22 early on in his campaign to challenge State Rep. Mark Cohen for the 202nd Dist.

“We are proud to endorse Jared for State Representative,” said Andy Thomas, President of Local 22. “He is a proven leader and someone passionate about the wellbeing of his community. We need new leadership and we’re confident that he will fight for us when he is a State Representative.”

The Philadelphia Firefighters & Paramedics’ Union participates and aids in a number of local charities that help those in need, such as the Burn Foundation. The union also participates in charities helping servicepersons with diseases such as cancer, and charities that memorialize individuals who have fallen in the line of duty.

That should set Cohen to studying his election stats to hopefully stave off this challenge from a familiar foe.

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Terhune recently publicly posted a video promoting racist opinions and violence against Arab Americans and American Muslims. AntiArab bigotry and Islamophobia have historically materialized during political election cycles, and this year has not been an exception.

For more information, feel free to contact Marwan Kreidie, executive director of the Philadelphia AACDC, at (215) 915-2306.

AFL-CIO Endorses Candidates For Nov. Some of our readers were inquiring who have been endorsed by the Philadelphia Council of the AFL-CIO. Here is the endorsed list for the November 2015 general election.

Mayor: Jim Kenney-D City Council at Large: Blondell Reynolds Brown-D, Helen Gym-D, William K. Greenlee-D, Allan Domb-D, Derek S. Green-D, Daniel Tinney-R. City Council by District: 1.

Mark F. Squilla, 2. Kenyatta Johnson, 3. Jannie L. Blackwell, 4. Curtis J. Jones, Jr., 5. Darrell L. Clarke, 6.

Bobby Henon, 7. Maria Quiñones Sánchez, 8. Cindy Bass, 9. Cherelle Parker, 10.

Brian J. O’Neill.

Sheriff: Jewell Williams Register of Wills: Ronald R. Donatucci City Commissioner: Anthony Clark-D, Lisa M. Deeley-D, Al Schmidt-R. In addition, the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO has endorsed (Cont. Page 45)

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Looking At See-Saw Race For US Senate A Franklin & Marshall College Center for Opinion Research poll released last week shows Adm. Joe Sestak leads Katie McGinty by three points – 16%-13% – with 66% of Democrats undecided.

But in a general-election matchup, incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Toomey – whose approval rating has gone up to 40% from 34% in June – leads Sestak by 12 points, 41%-29%.

Toomey leads McGinty by just

LOVELY RiteAid Pharmacy employee Lalena Belinsky injects State Rep. Mark Cohen with ENJOYING face-painting at his annual Ris- FREE REFRESHMENTS was order of day and appreciated anti-flu vaccine as Republican councilman-ating Sun Street Fair is State Rep. Mark by those attending State Rep. Mark Cohen’s festival. large candidate Al Taubenberger lends moral Photo by Bill Myers support.

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FOCUS ON A FAILED CITY Mayoral Candidate Jim Foster to outline Platform in installments thru Labor Day.

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Campaign to visit all Neighborhoods Philadelphia – the city with the widest gap between the “haves” and the “have nots” - - and growing . . .

Verified national statistics prove we have the largest % of deep poverty in the nation again this year. At the same time the most top heavy overpaid municipal government in the nation grows while the political machine buys votes with 6000 new jobs since 2010, massive overtime fraud, and bloated city council that costs one million dollars for each member annually for 9 months work.

We will outline these and other statistics that verify how the current administration and the bureaucrats that run cover have neglected those with the greatest need and rewarded those at the top with pilferage and patronage; while taxing those in the middle with highest rates in the nation.

There is 1 city employee for every 51 citizens - outrageous!

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DR. WILLIAM HITE and Darryl Bundrige, executive director and VP of City Year Phila., an education nonprofit dedicated to helping students and schools succeed, hosted pep rally to kick off its 18th year of full-time service in 14 public schools. During celebration, 205 young people will answer call to serve with City Year, a member of AmeriCorps national service network. Every year, City Year Phila. unites a diverse team of trained young adult AmeriCorps Members to focus their efforts on decreasing national high-school dropout rate.

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Supreme Court: Judge Kevin Dougherty-D, Judge David Wecht-D and Judge Christine Donohue-D. Superior Court: Alice Beck Dubow-D. Commonwealth Court: Mike Wojcik-D

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Thomas, 31, is the director of community affairs in the Office of the City Controller and was first runner-up for a Democratic council at-large nomination in the municipal primary last spring. He says running for office uniquely prepared him for both his role with the Controller and the launch of the foundation, as he has gained intimate knowledge of the issues different neighborhoods are dealing with and the solutions they need.

Woods, 30, is executive VP of District1199C National Union of Hospital & Health Care Employees, which boasts the largest membership of any union in Philadelphia. The two have remained close friends since childhood.

The Foundation’s first program, a free basketball camp for roughly 100 young people between the ages of 5-16, began last week. In addition to workshops to build skills on the court, each day also features inspirational speakers who will share their stories on how they have achieved success. Among the headline speakers are 4th Dist. Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. and 179th Dist. State Rep. Jason Dawkins.

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Gov Tom Wolf and his administration have successfully launched an online voter-registration system that can dramatically increase accessibility for Pennsylvanians to engage in the voter registration process, Pennsylvania now joins 22 other states in adopting online registration.

Will it make a difference in voters turning out to vote? You tell us! We’re still biased in favor of registrations gathered by the unsung political heroes of today, party committee people.

Unless voters are reminded to vote on election day, odds are against their voting. Registrants signed up by committee people more eagerly respond to that committee person’s request for them to vote.

Show us where we are wrong!

PEG PAC Endorses Judge Giordano For Superior Court The Emil Giordano for Superior Court Committee reports Judge Emil Giordano has earned the endorsement of the PEG PAC, the affiliated political action committee of the Pennsylvania Business Council (PBC) and the state’s oldest pro-business political action committee.

“Judge Giordano would bring to the Superior Court a wealth of trial court experience that will serve him well as an appellate court judge,” said David W. Patti, President and CEO of the PBC. “I am very proud to have the support of PEG PAC, an organization I greatly respect for their efforts to strengthen Pennsylvania’s business community,” said Judge Giordano. “PEG PAC is an incredibly important endorsement for my campaign and I am excited to add them to my list of supporters.”

Judge Emil Giordano is running for a seat on the Pennsylvania Superior Court.

Judge Giordano has been endorsed by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Fraternal Order of Police, Le-Hampton Lodge 35 FOP, Allegheny County Fraternal Order of Police, Queen City Lodge Fraternal Order of Police, the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association in the Primary, Pennsylvania Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), ABC Eastern Pa. Chapter and has earned the “recommendation” of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Firearms Owners Against Crime and LIFEPAC. Judge Giordano currently serves on the Northampton Court of Common Pleas.

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Dîner En Blanc Defeats Rain Lyde Takes Over 61st Ward

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PHILA. Naval Base was scene of glamor at sea in a thunderstorm, as hundreds gathered for Dîner En Blanc, a bring-yourown picnic for which attenAFFAIR included music, dining, judges dees dressed in for best outfits, best original table dis- their finest plays. A beautiful event to see … like this summer white elegant couple. fashions.

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CELEBRATING new leadership of Democratic 61st Ward, Pete Lyde, 4th from right, threw fabulous summer picnic on lawn of E. Oak Lane house. His committee and supporters posed together, ready to roll for November. Photo by

FOX 29 anchors Alex Holley and Mike Jerrick joined Kharisma McIllwaine and brother.

Location was not disclosed until one hour before the event. Shuttle buses traveled up and down Broad Street to pick up participants.

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ENJOYING picnic and each other’s company were, from left, Rev. John Roberts, Democratic activist Marnie AumentLoughrey, Committeeman Reginald Freeman and activist Jim Harrity.

READY for barbecue were Committeemen Reginald Freeman and Stanley Scott, Sherrie Cohen, Esq., Committeeman Michael Graddick, Ward Leader Peter Lyde, and Committeemen DeMarc Hamilton and Jaime Bouldin.

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PROUD to stand beside DA Seth Williams AL LITTLEPAGE and Kevin Price from 1st were 61st Ward Committeeman Jaime Ward came all the way up to Oak Lane to parBouldin and 61st Ward Leader Pete Lyde. take of Pete Lyde’s hospitality, as did Comcast community-relations pro Lacey T. Gilbert.

WHOLE GANG turned out! Lyris Younge, Common Pleas Court candidate; retired 61st Ward Leader Sharon Losier, Municipal Court candidate; restaurateur Sid Booker; Keir Bradford-Grey, chief of Defender Association of Phila.; Lyde; Daine Grey, Common Pleas Court candidate and florist Bill Richardson.

Carpenters Seek Justice

FIGHTING for right to return to their jobs at Penna. Convention Center were Carpenters Stanford R. Smith Sr., Tom Mitchell Sr., Rudy Scolpino, Mark Eriscio, Dave Thompson and Dominic Paglia. Photo by

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Check out photo spreads from the GOP Clambake on Pages 33 and 52!

WAFFLEMAN (Cont. From Page 47) of this was your original number (i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).The next two numbers are – your age! Oh yes, it is!

This is the only year (2015) it will ever work. Try it on your friends and let me know if it works for you but I am sure that it does; Hershey Man is never wrong. So spread it around while it lasts.

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“It’s my goal to ensure that my staff and I are effectively serving all constituents no matter where they live in the district,” Driscoll said. “I am hopeful this new convenient location will make it even easier for residents from all over the district to connect to the state-related services they need.”

He said the office will open its doors for service Sep. 14, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be reached at (215) 333-9760.

CITY HALL (Cont. From Page 47) STATE REP. MIKE DRISCOLL is moving to ensure his constituents get service, opening all to attend opening of another office at 710 Torresdale Avenue. The

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(Cont. From Page 47) Dumb.

So now we will be finding out what 400 pages of porn look like.

We already know what the idiots that gathered it look like.

(Cont. From Page 47) likers have posted that I am a Kane shill, or are on her payroll. They run out of creative logic quickly and revert back to those rants. Oh, I am also accused of heavy drinking – a diversionary tactic.... In the last week, Kane was held for trial, and the dislikers, who act only to news articles, bellowed. But WHAT DID you expect at a PRELIM HEARING? Did they expect charges dropped? Maybe with a change of venue.

There was weird bombast from a onetime publisher and GOP guy. Out of nowhere, a community activist said Kane wasted resources. It TURNS OUT the fellow won a statewide award from the VERY SAME paper that quoted him (?)... THEN headlines blared that Kane could lose her license to practice law if the ETHICS LADS deem it so. They had not actually met on this; but you would think it was a done deal.

Then another paper wrote a very level, non-sensational article on the FINA FELLOW and porn emails, while the sister paper went silent on that (?). Suddenly it came back with an ALARM headline that looked, at first like Kane was involved in hiding porn. On reading, it turned out Kane blamed those two former prosecutors for the case against her…. WATCH THOSE HEADLINES! If a paper calls for Kane’s resignation, should all Kane stories be moved to the OPINION page? I am against a disclaimer on each story stating that it may con-

now time to SHUT UP the antagonists, rid us of loathsome antagonists who wish to continue, plug any leaks, and work hard at interagency cooperation for the common good of officeholders and Pennsylvanians caught in the WHIRLWIND.

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(Cont. From Page 47) CRICKET BAILEY, AVA KATRINA and CHRISTIAN DeFELICE. The KATHLEEN KANE Follies. At the end of last week, the Disciplinary Board of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court notified AG Kane it is seeking to suspend her law license. Disciplinary Board is made up of 13 members, of which 11 are attorneys; all are appointed by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has suspended the licenses of 21 attorneys in the past three years. The Commonwealth’s Constitution stipulates that the AG must be an attorney.

There is a debate whether a suspension is sufficient to remove her from office, but it will prohibit it her from doing much of her job. It has been speculated that even if she tries to remain in office with a suspension, that GOV. TOM WOLF would consider working with the Senate to use a “direct removal” provision in the Commonwealth’s Constitution that allows the Governor to remove an elected official with a two-thirds vote by the state Senate. Apparently this provision had never been used in the past. The Disciplinary Board’s action follows Montgomery County JUDGE CATHLEEN KELLY REBAR’S order that Kane stand trial on criminal changes relating the leaking of confidential information and perjury as well as intimidating and retaliatory firing of staffers who testified against Kane. Kane claims that the case against her was concocted by an “old boys’ network” to retaliate against her for revealing the names of AG staffers who participated in email exchanges of pornographic materials. Prosecutors allege she was the retaliator.

They believe her illegal acts were in large part to discredit former AG staffer and current Philadelphia prosecutor FRANK FINA. Fina and Philadelphia DA SETH

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VETERANS have much to assist them this fall. The Vets Multi Service Center at 4th above Race Street, under Col. Tim WILLIAMS, has a vast number of programs, including a Microsoft Computer course by a leading instructor. The City Vets Commission holds a benefits seminar in the EOM Club on Sep. 15. State Rep. Jim ROEBUCK will also hold his benefits meeting in October. The Union League holds a Vets Career Seminar on Sep. 19 with breakfast and lunch – free. Montgomery County College holds a Vets EXPO on Oct. 2. Our Ben Franklin American Legion Post in the Union League features Iwo Jima Medal of Honor Recipient Herschel Woody WILLIAMS as guest speaker on Sep. 21. Vets invited....

JOB FAIRS are also in Coatesville on 9/11, Philly on 9/17, and 10/8 in Atlantic City. Attend the City’s First Veterans’ Parade in November.

Our two law-enforcement agencies, State Attorney General, and the DA’s Office, need to COOPERATE to fight REAL CRIMINALS. The DA’s Office is now conducting a review. All concerned: It is

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WILLIAMS in early 2014 criticized her for not pursuing cases against six Philadelphia Democrats caught on tape taking illegal political contributions. It should be noted that she publically released a redacted list of the pornography exchangers well after her public fight with Fina commenced. Her contention is that Fina knew of her intentions before the release of the names. The question is not if Fina and others do not like her. The question is: Will a jury determine if she committed crimes in her effort to fight with her detractors?

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TEAM TRACY was out in full force: rear, LaToya Major, Pia Garbutta, councilmanic candidate Terry Tracy, Campaign Mgr. Allaire Corbett and consultant Randy Robinson; front, Dani Howard. Photo by Robert Mendelsohn

COUNCILMAN George Kenney enjoyed comFORMER Congressman Bob Borski enjoyed pany of GOP high-court candidate Mike clammy afternoon at Cannstatter with Gay Camp- George and State Sen. John Flaherty. bell, Ebony Brown and one-time mayoral candidate John Egan.

Photo by Robert Mendelsohn GOP LEADERS put their best feet forward at Billy Meehan Clambake: from left, General Counsel Mike Meehan, Party Chair State Rep. John Taylor, councilmanic candidate Kevin Strickland, Register of Wills candidate Ross Feinberg, mayoral candidate Melissa GREETING the Street Family was Chairman Murray Bailey and Council- State Rep. John Taylor. With him were forman David Oh. mer State Sen. Milton Street, his son and Photo by Robert Mendelsohn granddaughter Alexis Street.

J A S O N McEWEN, former Gov. Mark Schweiker, Supreme Court candidate Anne Covey and Republican Chair State Rep. John Taylor look forward to Nov. 3 election day. Photo by Maria Merlino

NECA EXECUTIVE and 2nd Street native Ken Adams is pleased to know Melissa Murray Bailey has roots in S. Phila.

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TURNING back clock to ’60’s city championship high-school football game were Ken Adams and Jack Gillespie. Ken was member of Southern team and Gillespie West Catholic, which battled to tie 2020.

JOHN APELDORN, from Citizens’ Crime Comm i s s i o n , catches up with Councilman David Oh at Billy Meehan Clambake. Photo by Maria Merlino

SHARING moment with GOP council-at-large candidate Terry Tracy are Joseph and Denise DiLullo, Linda Palochko and Mike D’Imperio.

FOP President John McNesby was in attendance along with fellow members of FOP, Steve ENJOYING Clambake were Mike Leibley, Hayes Clark, Weiler, Nick DeNofa and Mike Shellenberger. Kevin Hannah and Al Littlepage.

REPUBLICAN leaders had chance at Clambake to catch up. From left are Mike Tomlinson, Joe Samuel, Aaron Finestone and Bill Rapone.

Controller Butkovitz …get all on same page findings would help, he believes, help the City to better provide ways to aid businesses caught in the middle of it all.

The Controller’s office hand delivered 250 surveys to hotels, restaurants and retail businesses inside the traffic box to learn what businesses were expecting and the problems where were facing. The response rate was higher than expected.

The Controller’s survey found the following: 45% of those surveyed expected revenue to be somewhat above average the weekend of the papal visit.

Ninety one percent said the Francis Festival Grounds, formally known as the “Traffic

Box”, creates challenges to doing business, while 86% said the Nutter Administration has provided little or no detail.

Businesses listed their top three concerns as: Getting employees to work, getting supplies and deliveries and the removal of trash.

Along with answering the survey’s questions, respondents also provided several comments regarding their concerns for the weekend the Pope visits, including the following: “The communication has been sparse at best. The room night pickup for the entire hotel community has been sparse due to the lack of information provided to travelers.”

– Hotel Manager “We still have no answers on how our staff can get through the security perimeter in a timely fashion…. We are extremely worried that the buildup of trash will be a huge problem with pests. Will private companies be able to collect trash???”

– Restaurant Manager The survey was constructed to capture three data points. First, Bukovitz said, was to establish a baseline – Was summer 2015 good for business or not, and what were the expectations for busi-

ness during the papal visit.

Second, he aimed to understand how well the City was communicating the impact of the increased security measures. And finally, he wanted to understand the sorts of adjustments, if any, businesses were planning in order to handle both the security restrictions and the influx of up to 1 million visitors.

In general, the Controller’s survey suggests businesses are cautiously optimistic about the economic opportunity the papal visit represents. Typical tourist areas are expecting an onslaught of visitors and fear being overrun. Many see great economic potential from huge numbers of new consumers. Others are excited for the city, believing the papal visit thrusts Philadelphia into the global limelight, and this kind of exposure has long term ramifications.

The Controller believes this will be an opportunity for Philadelphia to introduce itself to the world with hotel, restaurant, and retail establishments will playing a pivotal role in shaping visitors’ experiences.

Multiple businesses stressed the last weekend in September is typically a big revenue genera-

tor, with folks spending more time home now vacations have ended.

The Controller’s survey found, the largest concerns for businesses are logistical. They are concerned about staff and how employees will get to work. For those who rely on public transit and for those who live outside of the city in particular, getting in and out of the security perimeter will likely be very time consuming or even impossible.

With so much uncertainty regarding demand for that weekend, businesses face a conundrum: Overstocking brings risk of wasted expense, but understocking could lead to significant lost opportunity.

This is particularly the case for restaurants, where many inputs are perishable and where freshness is paramount; for many this means daily deliveries.

Businesses also expressed concern in their comments about trash removal; commercial trash is usually hauled 6 days a week, and if huge demand materializes, the City will be overflowing with refuse.

A strong secondary concern is the ability to get weekend deliveries; if the traffic box remains closed all night,

neither private trash pickup nor deliveries will be possible.

Finally, businesses are worried about security for both their employees and property.

The Nutter administration has neglected major details or been unclear, creating high levels of uncertainty for 82% of the businesses answering the Controller’s survey.

Overall, businesses inside the Francis Festival Grounds, formally known as the “Traffic Box”, are excited for the potential economic opportunity the papal visit represents.

By and large they plan to make accommodations to the best of their ability to help themselves and the city put the best foot forward.

The Controller’s Survey finds the City has provided insufficient outreach, inconsistent messaging, and lack of clarity, creating unnecessary uncertainty and anxiety. For many businesses, the Controller’s letter was the first direct communication from a city official. This survey indicates an earlier and more proactive approach would clearly have been preferable.

But the City still has time to act on those concerns directly with those businesses.

URGING those over 18 to register to vote were City Commission Chairman COOKING to feed Anthony Clark staffers Zomaine Smith huge crowd were Joel and Michael Quintero-Moore.

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YOUNGSTERS signed onto tapestry announcing various THIS STAGE PROP shows what prison cell looks like for those endrives in which gaged in crime. One could only guess if these youngsters were sending ODAAT is involved. out gang signals to those taking pictures. These members of bomb Photo by Bill Myers squad entertained crowd on stage.

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Philadelphia is preparing for a historic occasion. Pope Francis will visit the city, in late September as a grand finale to the World Meeting of Families Conference.

His Holiness will speak at Independence Mall and perform an open air Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

These two events are expected to draw 1.5 million pilgrims from all around the globe to Center City Philadelphia.

The event poses a tremendous opportunity for the City and local businesses, along with considerable challenges revolving around security and logistics. The ways in which plans are communicated will inevitably have an impact on expectations as well as behavior of both businesses and residents throughout the City.

Controller Alan Butkovitz sees it as a historic opportunity for Philadelphia as well as the business community. He had his office conduct an economic impact survey to gauge how the business community was balancing the expected 1.5 million pilgrims expected to travel to see the Pope against the security planning provided by the Mayor’s Administration. The survey’s

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US SEN. Bob Casey sits with YWCA campers before attending press conference to promote his efforts to increase meals for needy children. effort were Michele Stevenson, the executive director of the Christian Street YMCA who detailed the impact this program has had for kids in Philadelphia and the impact it could have if more children were eligible, as well as John Flynn, president and CEO of the Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA. The bill would allow child-care centers and homes

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