Kimmel Center reaches labor deal

Philly.com: Labor disputes are rarely resolved with so much affection. Kimmel Center president and CEO Anne Ewers and union chief negotiator Mike Barnes could have been announcing their engagement on Friday morning - she with flowers, he with hugs - at a news conference announcing the tentative conclusion to weeks of sometimes-rancorous negotiations. The ratification process will be spread over the next two weeks. "Like any family, there are things that are said [on both sides], though that's in the past," said Barnes, business agent for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 8.