PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – An arbitrator granted a grievance filed by the Pittsburgh firefighters union against the city of Pittsburgh over its employee vaccine mandate.
On Monday, arbitrator Gerald Kobell ruled the city of Pittsburgh violated state labor law by refusing to bargain with Pittsburgh Firefighters Local No. 1 about the mandate.
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Pennsylvania Democrats were bracing themselves to fight any Republican efforts to redraw the state’s congressional districts in a GOP-friendly way. They just didn’t expect to be fighting one of their own.
But that’s what happened Thursday, after the disclosure of a draft map backed by State Sen. Sharif Street showed the Philadelphia Democrat was working with a key Senate Republican on a plan that would boost his prospective congressional campaign. It would do that by drawing an incumbent Democrat and Republican together, creating an incumbent-free district in Philadelphia.
Senior Democratic operatives, already chafing at a House GOP map proposed just the day before, expressed deep concern over the new draft map, with some saying it would help Republicans take control of the House in next year’s midterm elections.
A campaign spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, the incumbent Philadelphia Democrat whose reelection bid would be complicated by the map, accused Street of “conspiring with Republicans to push a gerrymandered Republican map for personal political gain.” And U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, whose Montgomery County-based seat is seen as safe for Democrats, urged Gov. Tom Wolf to veto “the reported gerrymandered Congressional maps” if they reach his desk.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-redistricting-congressional-map-sharif-street-democrats-20211209.html