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College Sports, Sports

In the NIL landscape, schools are turning to companies to train and manage in-house general managers

May 09, 2024

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Riley Ammenhauser has become a record-breaking, triple-jumping track athlete at Michigan and something of an entrepreneur. Lev...

Business, Nation & World, News, ...

Coal miners are getting new protections from silica dust linked to black lung disease

MATTHEW DALY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press

Apr 16, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine wo...

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Over 1,000 Pa. workers have their jobs saved by federal decision on steel used for transformers

Apr 05, 2024

BUTLER (TNS) — Pennsylvania officials on Thursday were celebrating a federal decision on electrical transformer production that saved the jobs of more...

Business, Nation & World, News

United Steelworkers union endorses Biden, giving him more labor support in presidential race

Mar 21, 2024

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The United Steelworkers Union has endorsed President Joe Biden, giving him support from another large labor union. The announcement ...

Opinion, Сolumns

Unions notice Shapiro pivot to energy taxes

KEVIN MOONEY

Mar 19, 2024

Unless Gov. Josh Shapiro reverses course and abandons his effort to keep proposed energy taxes in play, he could lose the support of trade unions that...

Basketball, College Sports, National Sports

Majority of U.S. adults are against college athletes joining unions, according to AP-NORC survey

RALPH D. RUSSO and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press

Mar 15, 2024

As Dartmouth men’s basketball players move toward forming the first labor union in college sports, a majority of Americans say they are against colleg...

Business, Nation & World, News, ...

Biden opposes plan to sell US Steel to Japanese firm, citing the need for ‘American steel workers’

JOSH BOAK Associated Press

Mar 14, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden came out in opposition to the planned sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel of Japan, saying on Thursday that the U...

Business, Nation & World, News

‘No progress’ in United Steelworkers meeting with Nippon

Mar 08, 2024

(TNS) — The United Steelworkers said it made “no progress” in a Thursday meeting with Nippon Steel that lasted less than an hour and provided little a...

Basketball, College Sports, Sports

Dartmouth men’s basketball team votes to unionize, though steps remain before forming labor union

JIMMY GOLEN Associated Press

Mar 06, 2024

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — The Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted to unionize Tuesday in an unprecedented step toward forming the first labor union for c...

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U.S. Steel loses $80 million — and braces for lengthy battle in merger with Nippon

EVAN ROBINSON-JOHNSON Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Feb 07, 2024

(TNS) — U.S. Steel said in a risk assessments section of its recent 10-K annual report that union grievances and other disputes could threaten its pla...

Football, National Sports, Pro

NFL players steadily have used more mental health resources since the pandemic, league and union say

LARRY LAGE Associated Press

Feb 02, 2024

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Former NFL offensive lineman T.J. Lang said no one discussed mental health 15 years ago at the start of his career. “When you...

Opinion, Сolumns

Vengeance over solutions in coffee shop union dustup

BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Jan 31, 2024

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — It was an opportunity to actually help people, to offer real solutions to real problems. Instead, the politicians turned it into an...

Nation & World, News, PA State News

‘Pittsburgh and steel will go together forever,’ even as pending sale of U.S. Steel jolts the region’s identity

KRIS B. MAMULA Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Dec 25, 2023

(TNS) — Pittsburgh’s identity as the Steel City was jolted last week by word of the proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Tokyo-based Nippon Steel for...

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US senators line up to oppose sale of US Steel to Japanese firm

JONATHAN D. SALANT and FORD TURNER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Dec 19, 2023

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Just hours after the announcement that U.S. Steel would be sold to a Japanese company, U.S. senators from opposite parties but neig...

Opinion, Сolumns

$12B to retrofit plants for EVs?

Nov 19, 2023

The Biden administration is so enthusiastic to push electric and hybrid vehicles on the public that the Energy Department is offering $12 billion in g...

News, PA State News

Pa. House passes bill to give striking workers unemployment pay

ZACK HOOPES pennlive.com

Nov 16, 2023

The state House approved a bill Wednesday that would grant unemployment benefits to striking workers – a move Democrats said would level the playing f...

Content, Daily Headlines, Newsletter, ...

Economy may decide who gets working class votes

DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times

Oct 02, 2023

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The battle for working-class voters is on, and it could well decide the outcome of the 2024 election. Last week, President Biden an...

Opinion, Сolumns

Green mandates and UAW strike

Sep 26, 2023

President Joe Biden likes to sell himself as a pro-union president, but his policies are contributing to a major strike. On Sept. 15, members of the U...

Local News, News, PA State News

Striking workers returning to Wabtec’s Erie plant after new contract

STEPHANIE RITENBAUGH The Tribune-Review, Greensburg

Sep 07, 2023

Union workers are returning to Wabtec’s Erie plant this week after a 10-week strike. About 1,400 members of UE Locals 506 and 618 ratified a new colle...

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Hero or ‘creature to get rid of,’ Dr. Hayes made her mark

Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com

Aug 26, 2023

To the miners living in squalor in southern Elk County, she was a hero; to the executives getting rich off of Shawmut Mining and Railroad, she was “th...

PA State News

Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students

By OLIVER MORRISON pennlive.com

June 15, 2025

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...

PA State News

Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.

June 14, 2025

PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...

Local News, Nation & World

No Kings rally in Veterans Square

By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com

June 14, 2025

Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...

Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons

June 14, 2025

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...

Local Sports

Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27

Jo Wankel

June 14, 2025

BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...

Local Sports, Sports

State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’

Jo Wankel

June 14, 2025

(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...

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