Exciting coffees in exquisite cafes
The spectacular new cafe showplace opened by La Colombe on Frankford Avenue is a jaw-dropper for its sheer vastness, edgy style, and revved-up ambition. The 11,000-square-foot warehouse has been...
View ArticlePhillies Notes: Morgan's debut Sunday a gift for his father
It was a phone call that Adam Morgan said he had dreamed about: calling his father to tell him he was headed to the major leagues. His father, Wiley, pitched at Alabama and coached Morgan until he was...
View ArticleWolf picks heads of Human Services, Health, Drugs/Alcohol and Physician General
Gov.-elect Tom Wolf added to his cabinet Saturday, choosing Ted Dallas, currently the secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources, to be his secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of...
View ArticleSeen this one before
The state Supreme Court is beset by feuding and allegations. The judicial discipline system puts in another poor showing. An outgoing justice calls for doing away with Pennsylvania's judicial...
View ArticleTeamsters raising a glass to Gov.-elect Wolf
They might not like Yuengling. But the Teamsters evidently are drunk in love with Gov.-elect Tom Wolf. A day after State Rep. Mike Vereb (R., Montgomery) said that Wolf's inauguration planners were...
View ArticleMonroe Energy, steelworkers reach tentative agreement on local issues
Monroe Energy L.L.C. and United Steelworkers Local 10-234 said Friday that they had reached a tentative agreement on local issues, including wages and benefits, involving 215 union members who work at...
View ArticleContract for Taylor Hospital nurses
Crozer-Keystone Health System has settled on a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the United Nurses of Pennsylvania union, representing approximately 170 nurses at one of the health...
View ArticleSteelworkers, Monroe Energy to talk Tuesday
Negotiations are set for Tuesday between the United Steelworkers Local 10-234 and the management of Monroe Energy L.L.C., which operates an oil refinery in Trainer. The union's contract expired March...
View ArticleComcast making push to hire 10,000 veterans
Comcast Corp. plans to hire 10,000 military veterans, reservists or their spouses and domestic partners over the next three years, roughly 15 percent to 20 percent of all new employees, a top Comcast...
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 ArticleWhy ship sails without ousted Convention Center workers
So who does have jurisdiction to settle claims by union carpenters and Teamsters that the Pennsylvania Convention Center has wrongfully denied them the right to work in the building? Maybe nobody. In...
View ArticleSAUDI ARABIA
At the Saudi embassy in Tehran, diplomats talked about airing the grievances of disenchanted Iranian youth using Facebook and Twitter. At the embassy in Khartoum, they reported anxiously on Iran's...
View ArticleIn service to Camden, a city he loves
Andrew Staiti is a Franciscan volunteer minister from Boston Camden. For years, number one on America's most dangerous cities list. My home for the last 10 months as a Franciscan volunteer minister,...
View ArticleAlliedBarton says it's seeking new ownership
AlliedBarton, the Conshohocken-based security company now owned by Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, is looking for new ownership, the company said in a statement. "Management believes that this...
View ArticleClergy fasting on Capitol steps for education funding
A group of religious leaders began a 10-day fast Saturday on the steps of the state Capitol in Harrisburg to rally for increased education funding. POWER, or Philadelphians Organized to Witness,...
View ArticleHundreds of union steelworkers rally at two local refineries to support strikers
Hundreds of union steelworkers rallied at two local refineries Saturday in support of 5,200 steelworkers on strike, or about to strike, at 11 refineries and chemical plants in California, Kentucky,...
View ArticleSteelworkers rally at two local refineries to support strikers in other states
Hundreds of union steelworkers rallied at two local refineries Saturday in support of 5,200 steelworkers on strike, or about to strike, at 11 refineries and chemical plants in California, Kentucky,...
View ArticleOusted Convention Center unions to get hearing
Reversing his earlier decision, Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board hearing examiner Jack E. Marino has set in motion the possibility that union carpenters, barred from work at the Pennsylvania...
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 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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