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Spin_Drifted t1_j7xfkeo wrote

That's closer to two hours.

Crime in Wilkes Barre is probably the highest of the cities you listed. Kingston is across the river from Wilkes Barre. Both will have typical small city nightlife.

Dallas is a suburban area, has a fair amount of restaurants and bars and probably the safest one you mentioned.

Scranton is also a typical small city. Has its good areas and bad.

As far as outdoorsy stuff, you can live anywhere in NEPA and find something to do within a pretty short drive. Hiking, camping, fishing, hunting, mountain biking, and if he likes winter activities, skiing, snowshoeing.

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Luke_Orlando t1_j7xav45 wrote

One absolutely can deactivate health insurance. That exact issue was the subject of a teacher strike I participated in four years ago.

Depending on the type of strike this is, they may be protected under the labor board's laws regarding strikes on unfair conditions:

"Such strikers can be neither discharged nor permanently replaced. When the strike ends, unfair labor practice strikers, absent serious misconduct on their part, are entitled to have their jobs back even if employees hired to do their work have to be discharged."

If this is the case, what Temple did is illegal.

There are many other conditions in which the workers are protected, this is just one way in which temple may have violated labor law in the blundering way they've handled this situation.

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drxdrg08 t1_j7x9ttr wrote

There is no source you can provide because you can't "deactivate" health insurance.

The students that are striking are no longer employees, since they are not coming to work anymore. They have been notified twice in writing that not coming into work means they will be fired. Now they have been fired.

Were their paychecks also "deactivated"? They can continue under COBRA, that's the law, just like every other terminated employee.

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