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By The AFL-CIO – Memorial Day is the unofficial kickoff to the summer holiday season. Here’s some union-made food and drink to get your barbecue off to a great start. Our list comes courtesy of Union Plus, the Bakery, Confectionery,…

By Bianca Cunningham, with Zelig Stern – Wireless is where Verizon makes most of its profits. But for decades, Verizon has kept a wall between union workers in its landline division and non-union workers in its wireless division. That’s how…

By Kathleen Carey – The 600-member nurses’ union at the Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike Wednesday with union officials continuing to cite staffing and safety as the key issues impeding a new contract. Crozer-Keystone…

BY Cole Stangler – From the debt-ceiling showdown to the “fiscal cliff” to the government shutdown of 2013, self-induced budget crises have become something of a hallmark of today’s Congress. In keeping with that tradition, Washington is now rapidly approaching…

By Daniel Denvir – A first-grade student died today after falling ill at Jackson Elementary School in South Philadelphia, where no school nurse was on duty. Philadelphia schools have suffered dramatic staffing cuts to nurses and other positions in recent…