By the end of November, students at Shaler Area’s Reserve Primary School are expected to be munching on salads made with lettuce they grew in their school. Using a $5,000 grant from the Highmark Foundation, Reserve teachers Kristin Barbour and Michelle…
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers ramped up their job postings in September as stronger economic growth may be encouraging more hiring. Yet voters are...
An unfair labor practice charge filed by the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh/CWA Local 38061 claims that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s successor discriminated against striking employees in hiring and failed to restore the prior agreement’s terms. The dispute was filed with the…
SCRANTON — Lackawanna College’s construction of a Center for Technology Innovation at 518-520 Wyoming Ave. nears completion for opening in the spring 2027 semester. The college initially intended to have the building ready for this fall semester but encountered delays involving some adjustments…
Kaden Strussenberg listened intently one day last week as his personal finance teacher went box-by-box through a W-2 form, the memory of his first tax...
A union representing employees at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the newspaper’s new owner with the National Labor Relations Board. The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh filed the charge Thursday against the Venetoulis Institute for…
Comcast plans to lay off 634 employees at its Philadelphia corporate campus, with the first cuts taking effect Dec. 31, PhillyVoice reported. The company also intends to add roughly 500 new positions at the same site. Affected workers are getting two months' notice.
A new three-year contract recently ratified by nurses at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh will raise wages, boost staffing and end dreaded day-to-night shift turns. Oncology nurse Joanna Stone said the contract, approved by the 1,500 nurses represented by the SEIU…
PARIS — Dockworkers in Europe and beyond were staging strikes on Friday as part of an international campaign against arms shipments and to demand better working conditions, unions said. Unions in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey and Morocco issued a joint…
As Duquesne University continues to build its health sciences programs, campus leaders have hired a CEO of an East Liberty health center as its chief of civic engagement and external relations. Arsenial Runion, 37, of Brookline, will become Duquesne’s senior vice…
Coverage of layoffs, plant closures, and unemployment trends affecting workers across the commonwealth.
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