A labor leader threatened Tuesday to compile a "hit list" of lawmakers who would be targeted for defeat if they support pension legislation that unions say would destroy collective bargaining.
As hundreds of police, firefighters and other municipal workers rallied yesterday at the Capitol urging defeat of House Bill 1828, legislative leaders scrambled to draft a compromise measure that House members can consider when they vote Thursday.
"People who vote for H.B. 1828 need to be on notice. They're on our hit list," Bill George, president of Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, told workers at the rally.
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