Employment

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.

Sasha Suda started as PMA director the day the workers went on strike. Both sides hope to resolve a first contract when the new Matisse show opens.

The measure would require temporary work agencies to provide contracted temporary workers with pertinent information such as job location, terms, and compensation.

No negotiations have taken place since the newly unionized Philadelphia Museum of Art workers began an ongoing strike on September 26.

Unionized nurses, technicians and others at Temple University Hospital are calling for better security and safety measures to protect staff and patients.

More than 300 Starbucks stores have held union elections in less than a year, a remarkable feat. But now workers blame union busting by Starbucks for a slowdown.

The Congressional Workers Union announced on Monday via Twitter that the office of Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., won its union election — the first one to do so on the Hill.

More than 100 educators, advocates, and policymakers assembled Thursday in Harrisburg to discuss the scope of Pennsylvania’s teacher shortage and possible solutions.

The union says management has stalled in negotiations for a first contract.