AlliedBarton rallies for better salaries

Gathered outside AlliedBarton Security Services’ Philadelphia headquarters on Sunday, labor activists, security guards and church members continued to demand increases in wages and benefits for AlliedBarton employees.
Marchers with signs hung around their necks stating “I am a Human” — a gender-neutral variation of the iconic “I am a Man” protest led by Dr. Martin Luther [...]

Union workers rally over stalled negotiations

Temple’s professional and technical employees’ union took their complaints to the street on Tuesday, marching and chanting down Broad Street over the insertion of merit pay in their new contract.
Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local 1723 were supported by Temple’s faculty union, graduate assistant union and students [...]

Activists kick off Student Labor Action Week

Students, labor activists and artists filled a South Philadelphia art studio Friday night for “Voices of the Rebels,” as part of Student Labor Action Week.

$1 million for student programs

The anonymous $1 million dollar check that arrived in Temple’s mailbox a month ago will go into an endowment to support student programming in the Baptist Temple, the Board of Trustees unanimously decided at its March 11 meeting.
The $1 million was the smaller of two checks Temple received Jan. 31 in a nondescript envelope with [...]

Law school hosts forum on city homicides

The community approach to policing ordered by Mayor Michael Nutter is not a sunset operation but will be the primary method of policing from now on, Deputy Mayor of Public Safety Everett Gillison said at a forum in Klein Hall on Tuesday.
Gillison, who took Nutter’s place at the forum after the mayor cancelled his appearance, [...]

Anonymous $5 million donation arrives in university’s mailbox

Temple’s $350 million campaign drive received an unexpected boost last Thursday when officials received an anonymously-sent envelope with a donation for $5 million.
Unlike typical anonymous donations, even the university has no idea who the sender is.
The money came in the form of two checks for $1 million and $4 million and a letter requesting that [...]

SLAP meets with AlliedBarton, administration for the first time

Members of Temple Student Labor Action Project met with officials from Temple University and AlliedBarton for the first time Thursday, signaling the biggest point of progress for labor groups since they began advocating for AlliedBarton guards on Temple’s campus three years ago.
AlliedBarton told SLAP they would provide a decision in two weeks on whether they [...]

Coffee chain to open on Liacouras

Nick Bayer says his company, Saxbys Coffee, is not looking to become a formidable competitor to Starbucks.
But if all goes as planned for Bayer, Saxbys is likely to be the largest single-entity alternative to Starbucks in Philadelphia. And come the end of January, it will be another alternative to the two Starbucks on Temple’s Main [...]

Tuition rise is double the inflation rate

Along with other universities around the country, Temple’s tuition and fees increased at double the rate of inflation, according to figures reported by the College Board last Monday.
Since last year, tuition and fees at Temple, not including room and board, rose 5.9 percent for both in-state and out-of-state students to $10,802 and $19,320, respectively. At [...]

AFSCME, administration negotiate contract details

The union for professional and technical employees at Temple is clashing with the Office of Labor Relations over a stipulation that would include merit pay in their next contract.
In their last negotiation session Wednesday, the American Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees local 1723 continued its month-long rejection of a contractual element that would base [...]

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