Employment

A ruling upheld a change to the city charter to create public safety officers who do more routine police jobs to let cops focus on crime fighting.

Union members at HarperCollins, one of the largest publishers in the country, started an indefinite strike today.

The layoffs represent the first large-scale workforce reduction in the company's 18-year history.

The new contract deal averts a strike for about 2,500 hospital employees who have been working without a contract since Sept. 30.

A councilmember and union president make the case for the new civil service credit.

The failed vote would have made it the first Home Depot in the nation with a union. Organizers have filed a union-busting complaint with the NLRB.

In a statement, Delaware County officials said the decision to close the hospital is because of inadequate staffing.

Home Depot organizers say they’ve been facing “surveillance” and “interrogation” from management. If successful, this will be the first unionized Home Depot in the country.

A proposal for the “temporary workers’ bill of rights,” has been in the works for several years.

Local nonprofits and activists met Monday at The Wardrobe in Old City for an event meant to address clothing insecurities in Philly’s LGBTQ community.

The ballot question is meant to help fill civil service positions, which have thousands of vacancies.

Electing sympathetic policymakers is one way to make change. Organizing is the other.

After picketing outside the museum for 19 days, workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art will vote to ratify a new contract Sunday.

Union groups at Temple University Hospital have been in contract negotiations since August. They’re prepared to strike if an agreement isn’t reached.

Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 for 13 years. Josh Shapiro wants to raise it. Doug Mastriano opposes any changes.