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It's hard to resist when Jeffrey Brown, founder and chief executive of Brown's Super Stores, serves a slice of sweet potato bundt cake. Moist. Delicious. "It's our own recipe," Brown said, "one of...
View ArticleCarpenters' Coryell promises no DNC interference, with one condition
Union carpenters, embroiled in a long-standing dispute with the Pennsylvania Convention Center, have promised not to interfere with the 2016 Democratic national presidential convention in Philadelphia...
View Article223,000 jobs added in April, Labor Dept. reports
The nation's payrolls grew by 223,000 in April, while the unemployment rate dropped to 5.4 percent, the lowest rate since May 2008, the U.S. Labor Department reported Friday. Employment was up in most...
View ArticleHearing examiner: PLRB has no jurisdiction in Convention Center unions'...
Union carpenters and Teamsters angling to regain their jobs at the Convention Center had their hopes thwarted Monday when a hearing examiner for the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board said the board...
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View ArticleN.J. Supreme Court rules for workers, against Sleepy's
In the latest twist on the continuing legal tangle over whether workers are defined as employees or independent contractors, the New Jersey Supreme Court said Wednesday that workers are considered to...
View ArticleBY THE NUMBERS
$52.2B Projected U.S. sales of breakfast foods at restaurants in 2015 7 OF 10 Number of consumers (72 percent) who prefer restaurants serve breakfast all day (National Restaurant Association's 2015...
View ArticleSeven people shot at Mantua barbecue
Seven people were shot, including a baby, on Saturday night during a barbecue in Philadelphia's Mantua section, police said. The gunfire took place about 9:30 p.m. near 41st and Ogden Streets in the...
View ArticleA great artist finds inspiration in Fairmount Park
Philadelphia's Fairmount Park inspired the greatest African American painter of the 19th century, Henry Ossawa Tanner, to pick up a brush. Tanner's name is less familiar than his work. His genre scenes...
View ArticleA talk with the brothers who run the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal
Loaded with mangoes, bananas, pineapples, and paper products, the Maersk Wakayama - a ship longer than five football fields - docked at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia on...
View ArticlePhilly region jobs report: less drop, less rise
At first blush, this is a headline screamer: Philadelphia region brings up the bottom in job recovery. How bad is it? So bad that the region's wretched post-recession job growth performance makes the...
View ArticleConvention Center files racketeering suit against Carpenters
Accusing the Carpenters union of "prolonged and coordinated violent, illegal, and extortionate conduct," the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority filed a racketeering lawsuit Thursday against the...
View ArticleA. Duie Pyle Selects AssetWorks Fleet Management Software System to Manage...
The Northeast LTL Shipping Leader will Manage Vehicles, Tractors, Trailers, and more in AssetWorks Hosted Environment WAYNE, Penn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AssetWorks, a leading provider of fleet management...
View ArticleUpscale Skirt stores to expand to Rittenhouse Square
Skirt, a fashion institution on the Main Line where shoppers have their own stylists to pick pieces and recommend trends, is opening on Rittenhouse Square in late August. The boutique selling women's...
View ArticleCarpenters union members picket Pennsylvania Convention Center
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View ArticleNLRB dismisses 2 complaints against union's leaders
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View ArticleThe company Roberts built
A visionary, hard-driving salesman, Ralph Roberts turned an obscure subscriber television station in Tupelo, Miss., into a communications empire, with dominant cable, Internet, and entertainment...
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View ArticleConvention Center dispute becomes further tangled
Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board hearing examiner Jack E. Marino, who is presiding over the unfair labor practice charges that the Carpenters union filed against the Convention Center, has set May 28...
View ArticleCarpenters union bows to higher power: the Pope
Months before Pope Francis arrives in Philadelphia, the carpenters' union wants the pope to know that the union's ongoing protest against the Pennsylvania Convention Center will not interfere with the...
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