PSEA Western Region Office

06/27/2014

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04/25/2014

On the 100th anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre, we should remember that blood was shed for workers' rights.

09/27/2013

Independent experts have projected that the public employee pension “reform” plans currently before the General Assembly would cost Pennsylvania taxpayers about $40 billion more over the next 30 years.

05/02/2013

Pennsbury School Board to Reject Fact-Finder’s Report

HARRISBURG – State Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), prime sponsor of the Pennsylvania Open Workforce Initiative (House Bills 50-54, 250), issued the following statement today regarding Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board’s fact-finding report pertaining to the ongoing contract negotiations between the Pennsbury School District and the Pennsbury Education Association teachers’ union.

“As the prime sponsor of Right to Work in Pennsylvania, I encourage the Pennsbury School Board to reject the fact-finder’s report because it calls for maintaining the status quo on vital issues important to taxpayers, including: compulsory union membership, compulsory union dues, and taxpayer-funded payroll deduction of union membership dues.

“My legislation, House Bill 50, is a commonsense policy designed to make Pennsylvania the 25th Right to Work state. No hardworking Pennsylvania taxpayer should be forced into union membership or forced to pay union dues in exchange for the fundamental Right to Work.

“Right to Work is an issue of individual liberty and the Pennsbury School Board has a chance to reestablish the liberty of its employees by eliminating these union-skewed provisions and restoring freedom in the workplace. In the absence of a statewide Right to Work law, I encourage every school board in the Commonwealth to closely scrutinize future union contracts and remove the provisions of compulsory union membership and dues payment, as well as the taxpayer-funded payroll deduction of dues.

“I also urge local State Representatives Steve Santarsiero and John Galloway to join us in this fight to eliminate the job-killing scourge of militant compulsory unionism both at Pennsbury and across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The framers of our Constitution never intended for any level of the people’s government to become an enforcer for unions or a collector of forced union dues at taxpayer expense.”

03/25/2013

Western Region office will open at 10 AM, Monday, March 25, 2013.

02/26/2012

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South Fayette PPE Promo

04/13/2011

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/index.cfm?CFID=36573773&CFTOKEN=46568456

04/13/2011

http://www.psea.org/may3/

It's time to show the Governor and legislators that WE ARE ONE.Decisions the Governor and the Legislature will make in the coming weeks will determine whether school funding is cut by $1.2 billion, whether a tuition voucher plan is approved, and whether our jobs are protected.