A new report urges Pennsylvania s governor-elect to revamp the state s unemployment compensation system as soon as he takes office in January. The Keystone Research Center report said Pennsylvania s online unemployment system fails the people who need it, by not processing claims in a timely manner. It found only 56% of claimants receive their first payment within 10 weeks. .
Citing a religious exemption, Edward Waters University - a private, historically Black school in Jacksonville - has shut down its faculty union. The news came weeks after the university announced the inaugural leader of its A. Philip Randolph Institute, named after a prominent African American labor leader who led a successful campaign in 1925 to organize a union of Pullman workers and helped lead the 1963 March on Washington. .
Orange County Convention Center food-service workers have authorized a strike, and the window for that action opens today. Members of Unite Here Local 737 voted on November 21 to authorize a strike any time after their contract with the French food service provider Sodexo expired on Wednesday. The vote in favor of the strike authorization was 235 to zero, and Local 737 President Jeremy Haicken said the issues are clear. .