William K. Greenlee
- City Hall
Room 580
Philadelphia, PA 19107-3290 - P: (215) 686-3446
- F: (215) 686-1927
- Greenlee's Website
Council Member, At Large
| 1 | United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America | $15,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers | $5,000 |
| 3 | Philadelphia Builders of Affordable Housing | $3,000 |
| 4 | Philadelphia Federeral Credit Union PAC & Employees | $2,000 |
| 5 | Michael J. Gravely, Roofing Contractor | $2,000 |
About Greenlee's Top Donors
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
With over 12,000 members, the UBCJA is one of Philadelphia’s largest and most influential unions. U.S. Rep. Bob Brady has been a member of UBCJA since 1964 and the union has continued contributing to his pension for work performed, according to a 2/6/08 article in the Inquirer. Lobbying by the union’s leader Edward J. Coryell, Sr. was instrumental in getting the Philadelphia Convention Center built, yet Coryell also led a strike that halted work on the Center for three weeks in 1991. High labor costs, including wages for carpenters, have been blamed for the dearth of new home construction in Philadelphia. According to a 8/12/01 article in the Inquirer, “The wage rates for union workers who build houses in Philadelphia are as much as 50 percent higher than the rates the same unions charge in the suburbs. The long-standing but little-known wage disparity, combined with union domination of the city building trades, increases the overall construction cost of a new single-family house in Philadelphia by 30 percent when compared with the suburbs, according to interviews, labor contracts, and cost data . . . Builders and city officials say the disparity is one reason that new-housing construction in Philadelphia is virtually nonexistent, threatening Mayor Street's ambitious effort to build 16,000 units and attract 75,000 residents to a city that has suffered a 40-year population decline.”
International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers
http://www.bacweb.org/
Philadelphia Builders of Affordable Housing
Philadelphia Builders of Affordable Housing
Philadelphia Federeral Credit Union PAC & Employees
https://www.pfcu.com/
Michael J. Gravely, Roofing Contractor
Michael J. Gravely, Roofing Contractor
Missing provisions in ethics legislation
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The soda tax and lobbying reform
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