SEPTA contract talks with Transport Workers Union Local 234 could be tough, union warns
The current contract with TWU Local 234 expires Oct. 31. It is the largest union of SEPTA workers. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
The current contract with TWU Local 234 expires Oct. 31. It is the largest union of SEPTA workers. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
We took a look at the latest science and spoke to epidemiologists about breakthrough infections and how to weigh the risks of those vaxxed-only, mask-off environments. | From: Philadelphia Magazine (Read more.)
I graduated into a pandemic saddled with debt. | From: Generocity (Read more.)
It doesn’t make sense that securing a home takes this much suffering. | From: Generocity (Read more.)
Zulene Mayfield founded Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, long before the term “environmental justice” became shorthand to describe the impact of industry on low-income neighborhoods. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Back in June, Philadelphia organized a sweepstakes program to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19. Now, the researchers who helped organize the program say it did not lead to meaningful increases in the number of people who got the shot. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Los trabajadores en Pensilvania tiene hasta el primero de octubre para inmunizarse completamente y recibir un día libre como incentivo. | From: NBC10/ Telemundo62 (Read more.)
The Philadelphia-based concert promotional company held its first live show after COVID earlier this summer. The main drive for that show and also for their upcoming endeavors is to share positive messages and encouraging words from artists and guests to the youth of the city. | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)
The commission in charge of redrawing Pennsylvania’s House and Senate maps has voted 3-2 to make a major change to the redistricting process: It will no longer count many state prisoners as residents of the districts where they’re incarcerated, but rather as residents of the districts where they originally lived. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
With the first day of school less than two weeks away, Philadelphia officials laid out a series of steps to ensure students get to and from school safely after a summer of gun violence. Philadelphia police said 137 victims under the age of 18 have been injured from gun violence this year. Thirty-two have been homicides. | From: Chalkbeat Philadelphia (Read more.)
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