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UPDATE — 1:55 p.m., Fri., March 12: Yesterday, Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania workers voted to unionize. This comes less than two months after a group of 35 full and part-time staff members with the reproductive health organization filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a unionization vote. Organizing member and PPWP health care assistant Crystal Grabowski says that, while the exact number of pro-union votes have yet to be confirmed, "we won with a majority." Votes were collected via a mail-in ballot election. Ballots were sent out on Feb. 18 a...

“All hair is good hair,” so said my bald-for-decades father. Sometimes he would say it with a self-admonishing chuckle, sometimes with such fierce emotion that he was boarding on anger. It depended on the circumstance. If someone were to compliment my long childhood ponytail by saying that I had “good hair,” he would state his correction gently. However, some of the worst of my parents’ arguments were after shampoo days, when my mother pulled out the hair straightening hot comb, heating the metal contraption on a stove burner. “You are teaching her to hate herself!” my fathe...

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On March 9, Allegheny County Council passed a bill that would require organizations that employ more than 25 people to provide paid sick days to employees in Allegheny County. These medium and large businesses and employers would need to provide at least five days of paid sick days to employees. This was amended from the original proposal, which mirrored the city of Pittsburgh’s legislation, and would have required employers with 15 workers or more to offer up to five days of paid sick time, and employers with fewer than 15 workers to offer up to three days of paid sick time. ...

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