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Mount Nittany healthcare workers to strike Monday

Negotiations between Mount Nittany Medical Center and SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania ended in a stalemate Tuesday evening, and as a result, a previously announced five-day strike will begin on Monday, July 27. According to a news release from Mount Nittany officials, in an effort to reach an ...

Briefcase: Penn Highlands sets forum

JOHNSTOWN Pennsylvania Highlands Community College invites regional employers to the Workforce Rise & Shine Breakfast on Aug. 4 from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Ramada by Wyndham State College Director’s Room, 1450 S. Atherton St., State College. This one-hour forum is designed for businesses and employers, HR leaders, decision-makers and more across Centre County and west-central Pa. Over breakfast, the college’s workforce team will walk attendees through training options, credentialing pathways, upskilling and funding programs built to fit each company’s needs and budget. Space is ...

Ticker: Gates Foundation met with Epstein 30 times

An external review of the Gates Foundation’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein has found that staff met more than two dozen times with the disgraced financier. Discussions centered on a public health fund that never materialized and a grant to the International Peace Institute. Those meetings happened even as staff relayed concerns to Gates about the reputational risk of working with Epstein, a convicted sex offender at the time they were introduced. Gates, who chairs the Gates Foundation, has not been accused in connection with Epstein’s crimes and has repeatedly denied any knowledge of ...

US civil rights agency moves to end demographic reports

How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the gender and racial breakdown of the lowest-paid roles at those companies? The Trump administration is making it harder for the public to know, moving to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace. The EEOC’s Republican majority voted ...

Morrisons Cove Rotary Club marks century of service

Rotary club members in the Morrisons Cove area are marking a century of community service and involvement. The Morrisons Cove Rotary Club will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a banquet July 31 at the Morrisons Cove Memorial Park in Martinsburg. The club was originally known as the ...