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Striking UAW workers
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Employment
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UAW’s unique strike strategy keeps Detroit Big 3 automakers guessing

The UAW's strategy of limited, targeted strikes at all three American auto companies has gained widespread support among its rank and file.

3 years ago

Ben Rigden with a dog in costume
Animals
Kids
New Jersey
6abc

8-year-old in Burlington County starts youth group bringing a bright future for animals

Ben Rigden is only 8 years old, and is the founder and president of The Young Friends of the Burlington County Animal Shelter.

3 years ago

Generac has recalled two types of portable generators that pose a fire and burn risk
NPR
National
Public Safety

Generac is recalling around 64,000 generators that pose a fire and burn hazard

At least three incidents involving the recalled generators left people with severe burns. Generac is offering a free repair kit to consumers.

3 years ago

Mary Barra
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Business
Employment
Income Inequality

Sky-high CEO pay is in focus as workers everywhere are demanding higher wages

Workers of all stripes have chafed at the stratospheric pay of their CEO bosses for years, even decades.

3 years ago

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Incarceration
Pennsylvania
Policing
Public Safety
6abc

Chester County to hold 2 town hall sessions to address prisoner escape, residents’ concerns

The Chester County Commissioners will hold the meetings to offer support, information on counseling, and more details on efforts to increase prison security.

3 years ago

Dr. Michelle Carerra Morales poses for a photo in a hallway
Economic Development
Philadelphia

With a new name and new services, Xiente hopes to grow prosperity in Philadelphia

Formerly known as the Norris Square Community Alliance, the group will experiment with tools like guaranteed income to lift families out of poverty.

3 years ago

This before and after photo shows the clear-cutting of a once-forested area near Rehoboth Beach
Delaware
Environment
Outdoors

43,000 acres of forest cleared for development in Sussex County. Without legal protections, woodlands are vanishing

Unlike nearby jurisdictions, Delaware’s most rural and southernmost county has no requirement to preserve trees.

3 years ago

climate march
NPR
Energy
Environment
Protests

Thousands are marching in New York to demand that Biden ‘end fossil fuels’

The march comes after a summer marked by extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change.

3 years ago

Side by side of Dulce Maria Alavez, and what she may look like now
New Jersey
Policing

Family, community remembers Dulce Maria Alavez, who vanished from N.J. park 4 years ago

The young girl, then 5 years old, was last seen playing with her younger brother at Bridgeton City Park in Cumberland County on the afternoon of September 16, 2019.

3 years ago

Shawn Fain raising his fist in a crowd of people.
NPR
Business
Employment
Social Justice

How Shawn Fain, an unlikely and outspoken president, led the UAW to strike

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has been in that office less than six months, and already he has launched a series of targeted strikes.

3 years ago

Destruction and rubble in the wake of floods in Libya is visible
Infrastructure
International
Public Safety

Libya investigates dams’ collapse after a devastating flood last weekend killed more than 11,000

Libya’s top prosecutor says he has opened an investigation into the collapse of two dams that caused a devastating flood in a coastal city.

3 years ago

A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains.
Business
Pennsylvania
Public Safety
Transportation

Norfolk Southern CEO promises to keep improving safety on the railroad based on consultant’s report

CEO Alan Shaw told the railroad's employees in a letter that Norfolk Southern will take several immediate steps in response to the initial report from Atkins Nuclear Secured.

3 years ago

Mexican Cultural Center staff released colored smoke during the El Grito de Dolores ceremony
Community Events
History
International
Philadelphia

Why Mexican Independence Day revelers in Philadelphia shout ‘Viva Mexico’ in historical battle cry

Communities across the Delaware Valley this week hosted historical re-enactments of El Grito de Dolores.

3 years ago

A google doodle celebrating Luisa Moreno
NPR
History
National
Technology

Google Doodle honors Guatemalan-American labor activist Luisa Moreno

Labor organizer Luisa Moreno, who founded one of the first Latino civil rights assemblies in the U.S., inspired Friday's Google Doodle.

3 years ago

Damage is seen via helicopter after a four-alarm fire tore through multiple buildings in Oxford, Chester County.
Pennsylvania
Public Safety
6abc

Residents displaced after massive fire in Oxford, Pa. to be moved to hotels

The four-alarm blaze likely started in a warehouse, then spread to nearby businesses and apartments on Third Street.

3 years ago

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