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Employment

Philadelphia City Councilmember Jim Harrity
Community

Philly City Council may expand ‘displaced worker’ law despite business pushback

As office towers are retrofitted, residential buildings’ unionized cleaners in Center City say they worry about job security. But businesses say proposed changes go too far.

2 years ago

Aramark workers at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center are hitting the picket line.
Community
6abc

Aramark strike: Workers at Wells Fargo Center to hit picket lines, will not work 76ers-Pistons game

Members of the Philly food service workers’ union, including cooks, servers, bartenders, dishwashers and concessions workers, are walking off the job.

2 years ago

Casino workers at a rally
Courts & Law

Workers sue to overturn law that exempts Atlantic City casinos from indoor smoking ban

At Friday's rally, workers said they are employing new tactics to ban smoking in the casinos after thus far failing to convince legislators to do it.

2 years ago

Ship-to-shore cranes sit unused after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, blocking access to the Port of Baltimore.
(Timothy Wolfer for NPR)
NPR
Community

From longshoremen to charter boats, Baltimore’s port closure means lost work

The Port of Baltimore, normally one of the country's busiest, is in limbo due to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

2 years ago

Luella Allen-Waller leading a rally
Education

Thousands of Penn grad students may vote to unionize next month

It’s been a long road to unionize graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania but if successful, it would include about 4,500 workers.

2 years ago

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The Delaware General Assembly in session at the Legislative Hall in Dover, Delaware
Politics & Policy

‘Unauditable’: Delaware auditor says outdated systems make it impossible to verify $390 million in unemployment fund

Auditor Lydia York cites poor management and a slow response to address the financial reporting problems with the state’s unemployment fund.

2 years ago

Philadelphia City Hall
Community

Philly’s summer jobs program for youth gets makeover, will focus on careers

Career Connected Learning PHL plans to hire 8,000 young people and expand year-round, work-based activities for an additional 2,000, replacing the city’s WorkReady program.

2 years ago

FILE - Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 4, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif.  Scott publicized some $2.1 billion that she's made in charitable donations since November 2022, in a post Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, on her website Yield Giving.(Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Money

A West Philly ‘career matchmaker’ nonprofit gets a $4M surprise

The West Philadelphia Skills Initiative didn’t apply for a grant from billionaire MacKenzie Scott of Amazon fame — her team discovered it.

2 years ago

Listen 1:06
Dartmouth's Romeo Myrthil (20) stands next to Duke's Caleb Foster (1) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. A ruling that gives the Dartmouth basketball team the right to unionize has far-reaching implications for all of college sports — from the quaint, academically oriented Ivy League to the big-money football factories like Michigan and Alabama. But it’s not time to cut down the nets just yet.
Courts & Law

Dartmouth men’s basketball team votes to unionize, though steps remain in forming labor union

The players voted 13-2 to join Service Employees International Union Local 560, which already represents some Dartmouth workers.

2 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker (right) with her family at her historic inauguration on Jan. 2, 2024.
Politics & Policy
6abc

Mayor Cherelle Parker starts bringing all city employees back to office

Parker says the goal is to eventually bring all 25,000 municipal workers in Philadelphia back to the office.

2 years ago

Jessie Shapiro speaks into a microphone in front of protesters at the School District of Philadelphia
Education

Philly teachers say they are penalized when they take sick days; now thousands demand a change to the district’s policy

Members of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, organized by the Caucus of Working Educators, are petitioning for an end to the district's controversial sick leave policy.

2 years ago

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., departs a news conference, joined by Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, left, and Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, after they discussed President Joe Biden for his policies at the Mexican border during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.
Politics & Policy

The House approves a short-term extension to avoid a shutdown. Senators are up next to vote

The Senate is expected to vote on the bill later in the day. The short-term extension is the fourth in recent months.

2 years ago

School District of Philadelphia headquarters at 440 N. Broad St. (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Education
The Philadelphia Tribune

Philadelphia school district reaches deal with teachers union

The union, which represents 13,000 teachers, counselors, nurses, secretaries and other school workers across 216 district schools, agreed to a one-year contract extension.

2 years ago

Philadelphia's Navy Yard launched an autonomous vehicle shuttle bus service on February 27, 2024.
Community
Billy Penn

As autonomous bus launches at Navy Yard, drivers’ union pushes back

As SEPTA workers look ahead to contract negotiations this fall, they’re considering language secured in an Ohio contract that would let the union veto the use of AVs.

2 years ago

A Macy's department store is in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, on Tuesday, December 12, 2023.
NPR
Community

Why Macy’s is closing 150 department stores

The new CEO is culling "underproductive" locations, while opening more upscale Bloomingdale's and Bluemercury stores. Here's what's happening with the chain.

2 years ago

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