PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL AFL-CIO is comprised of 120 different labor unions affiliated with the National AFL-CIO. It says its mission is "to bring social and economic justice to working people by giving them a voice on the job, in politics, and in the community. We represent the interests of more than 100,000 working families in Philadelphia."

PHILAPOSH (the Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health) was established in 1975, the second organization formed in the United States by unions, health and legal professionals that focused on workplace health and safety issues. It has provided educational, consulting and political-action assistance to thousands of workers, both union and non-union. PhilaPOSH works with unions, government agencies and a national network of allied groups.

NEWSPAPER GUILD OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA, a AFL-CIO affiliate, is one of the few white-collar unions left in the region. It is under constant management pressure because of the decline in the newspaper industry. The local leaders, being journalists, could provide an independent perspective on business trends.

STOP TEACHERS STRIKES INC. is a statewide, grassroots advocacy organization that advances "the rights of students to receive a strike-free education in Pennsylvania." It says that Pennsylvania ranks number-one for teacher strikes and that its average teachers salary,  $53,200, is among the highest in the country when adjusted for cost of living. The group is a good example of the "right to work" movement that undercuts labor unions.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA AND TEMPLE HISTORY DEPARTMENTS have scholars of American economic and labor history. One Penn professor's books "Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century," with another in the works historical methods and American political and economic history. A Temple historian studies "the history of workers and their ideas about politics and unions in the New South."

RUTGERS-CAMDEN LAW SCHOOL has faculty teaching Labor and Employment Law.

THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

Has a scholar whose works include "Labor and the Politics of Health-Care Inequality" and "The Elusive Quest for Universal Health Care: Organized Labor and the Institutional Straightjacket of the Private Welfare State."