Healthcare Contract Issues

The labor negotiations between Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons, and the seven United Food and Commercial Workers union area locals were temporarily put on hold Tuesday because the federal mediator responsible for overseeing the talks had to leave Southern...

In a bid to speed up negotiations that have dragged on for more than eight months, union officials representing supermarket workers in Southern California took one step closer Thursday night to going on strike. Their move: Officials from the United......

Officials with the United Food and Commercial Workers confirmed Monday that they had reached a three-year labor contract with Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons, averting a grocery strike that would have idled more than 54,000 workers across Southern California....

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Lake County is getting closer to an agreement with a private company that would manage services at a county-run senior citizen healthcare and rehabilitation center. …...

In Olympia Republican State Senators and one Democrat are targeting our state's public employees' union. Senate Bill 5870 would reject contracts negotiated by the Governor late last year. It is uncharted territory. The Legislature has never sought to...

    Editor’s note: This is copy of a statement issued Monday night by the Chambersburg Area School Board: CASD School Board Extends Fair Offer to Teachers January 11, 2011 Talks between the Chambersburg Area School District Board of Directors...

SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Education Association said Wednesday it cannot afford to cut anymore from its contract with the San Diego Unified School District. Administrators announced the 2011-12 budget last week. The worst-case scenario involves...

Last week, Lincoln County Jailer David Gooch told the Fiscal Court that while the rest of his operation is on firm financial ground, “We are way over on our medical costs.” Gooch said that emergency room visits have hit the jail budget very...

Hundreds of heavy equipment operators are walking off the job and onto the picket line in northern Indiana. They’re not fighting for higher wages, but more health insurance benefits. The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150...

Jim Freedman and his partners have been here before. "We call this Act Three," he told me one day recently from the Westside high-rise office of Intrepid Investment Bankers, his new firm devoted to mergers and acquisitions in the regional middle market...

Looking to pare back retirement costs in a tight budget year, the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to freeze the amount of money provided for the healthcare of retired police officers and firefighters. On an 11 to 2 vote,......