Sarah George

On the corner of South Bouquet and Sennott streets sits a white coffee truck, bedecked in brightly colored stickers, with a line of eager customers typically forming on the sidewalk. “Standing Wave,” a local coffee truck that sells a variety of items, is a staple for Pitt students looking for a pick-me-up during the week.
The coffee truck began with Colin Frye, a Pittsburgh native, and opened about four years after he opened his first coffee shop, Silver Horse Coffee, in Donegal. Right before th...

Graduation for Pitt students is less than four weeks away on Sunday, May 4. With recent Trump administration policies, many seniors are feeling uncertain while stepping into the next stage of their lives due to an unreliable labor market and recession indicators.
Various Pitt students were able to secure jobs early in their final year, even in an uncertain job market. Paige Weitzel, a senior nursing major, landed a post-grad job in the fall as a trauma nurse at the Allegheny General Hospital. We...

The Pitt service workers union agreed to a new one-year contract amid uncertainties about the University’s financial future.
At the beginning of March, Pitt service workers, represented by the SEIU Local 32BJ, agreed to a new contract after negotiations began in December. The contract guarantees a pay raise of $1.25 per hour with an additional 3% increase retrospective to Jan. 1 and additional benefits for over 400 cleaners, housekeepers, groundskeepers and others. 
Pam Rall-Johnston, a union st...