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Category: Work/Life

We report on wages, industries, and wealth that make the local economy so that you can be empowered in the workforce

A group of seven adults and one child in matching red T-shirts stand with their fists in the air in front of a brick building with white columns.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

UVA has repeatedly failed to pay its graduate students on time — and no one at the university can figure out why

by Jessie Higgins January 13, 2023January 13, 2023

“This doesn’t happen to other employees,” said campus union chair Laura Ornée.

Logo reads "Short & Important"
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

City of Charlottesville workers are first in the area to earn right to collectively bargain

by Tamica Jean-Charles October 17, 2022November 8, 2022

City workers can now negotiate their salaries and insurance.

Posted inWork/Life

A handful of people incarcerated at the local jail are training for careers in the culinary industry

by Jessie Higgins October 12, 2022October 21, 2022

“It made me realize that there is more that I can do,” said Tyreek Ragland, 25. “I feel like I learned a lot about cooking, and about myself.”

Logo reads "Short & Important"
Posted inHow we learn

Bread & Roses Community Kitchen is offering scholarships for local chefs

by Erin O'Hare September 30, 2022November 8, 2022

Applications are due Monday, Oct. 10.

A man in a red chef’s shirt chops vegetables at a stainless steel table. In the foreground stainless steel frying pans hang from the ceiling.
Posted inWork/Life

20 local food vendors got their start at this low-cost kitchen

by Erin O'Hare July 1, 2022August 5, 2022

Bread & Roses installed a new walk in cooler in June that it hopes will allow it to double the number of local chefs it can help get their start in a culinary career.

Dozens of frozen bags of breast milk sit scattered on a stove.
Posted inHealth and safety

These two Charlottesville women are launching an app to help parents share excess breast milk as baby formula supplies fall dangerously low

by Tamica Jean-Charles June 14, 2022September 9, 2022

Set to launch in the coming weeks, The Drop allows parents who have extra breast milk to share it with parents and babies in need.

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Posted inGovernment and public institutions

It’s the first year all three Charlottesville city pools will be open since the pandemic began — but a lifeguard shortage is likely to reduce open hours

by Tamica Jean-Charles May 16, 2022May 17, 2022

Vic Garber, deputy director of Parks and Recreation, says he hasn’t seen a staff shortage this severe in his 10 years at the department.

A group of people in red shirts are clapping while holding signs that say, “Collective Bargaining.”
Posted inHow we learn

Charlottesville education union petitions School Board for the right to engage in collective bargaining

by Tamica Jean-Charles April 14, 2022September 9, 2022

The School Board now has until August to decide if it will allow the new union to operate.

Several people wait in front of a two-story building on a rainy day. Building sign reads: “DOWNTOWN TRANSIT STATION”
Posted inOur neighborhoods

Many people are asking for Charlottesville transit to run more and go electric — but first, the city needs more bus drivers

by Erin O'Hare April 11, 2022September 9, 2022

Kyle Ervin at CAT sent this message by text: “All in all, we simply need MORE DRIVERS! We’ll take all the applicants we can get!”

Posted inHow we learn

Charlottesville and Albemarle public schools don’t have enough substitute teachers to cover absences

by Tamica Jean-Charles March 31, 2022December 29, 2022

Teachers and even principals are pitching in to fill the gaps. Schools have also changed the requirements for substitute teachers, increased pay and are looking to increase hiring.

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