Two weeks after it opened the possibility of granting security guard advocates their demands, Temple administration has decided it will not take action to ensure that AlliedBarton are given five paid sick days.
“After discussions at the highest level, Temple University has confirmed that it does not have a position on this matter,” Temple spokesman Ray [...]

Top administrators and notable donors filled the National Constitution Center Friday night to celebrate the public phase of Temple’s $350 million capital drive, which had existed in its private phase for five years.
The campaign, which is slated for completion in 2009, is the largest fundraising effort in the school’s history. It is Temple’s first comprehensive [...]

Temple University broke its longstanding neutrality in the fight between labor groups and AlliedBarton, the company contracted for campus security, when a senior university official met with the groups on Friday to discuss the security guards’ conditions.
Labor organizers present at the meeting said that while no specific promises were made, senior vice president William Bergman [...]

In an operating room, two scrubbed surgeons examine a backlit X-ray of a lung. One of them, older and bespectacled, notes that if they are to proceed as planned, the patient will suffer significant bleeding.
Gears churn in the younger doctor’s head, his eyes still focused on the fi lm. Then he offers an idea. “What [...]

Student and labor activists descended upon Sullivan Hall last Wednesday, picket signs and petitions in hand. They were there as advocates for employees of AlliedBarton, demanding that the security contractor grant them five paid sick days a year.
The event marked a departure from the groups’ former aim to fully unionize the security guards. Instead, organizers [...]