Wage Contract Issues

Airport workers and union officials plan to warn the L.A. City Council that they might resort to labor actions during the holidays at busy LAX unless the city revokes the operating license of an airline services company whose employees are no longer...

We have finally reached the midway point of this opening week in Tallahassee, but Saturday still feels so far away. That's OK. At this time Friday, we'll all finally have something to talk about. Water cooler conversations will include more than family...

The Corbett administration said today that it's reached a final, 4-year agreement with some nearly 3,000 unionized state liquor store employees that imposes a one-year wage freeze on those workers, among other concessions. The agreement with Local 1776 of...

If you only pay attention to one Allentown budget hearing this year, tonight's should probably be it. At 6 p.m., city public safety officials from city fire, police and EMS will be on the spot before Allentown City Council to explain their financial plans...

Allentown's proposed 2013 budget calls for $88 million in spending, but would not increase property taxes, according to a news release from Mayor Ed Pawlowski. The budget, which was delivered to city council today, would hold property taxes at 17.53...

I've been writing about public employee compensation in columns and blog posts. In response, I got an email Monday that strikes me as an interesting analysis of how we got here, so I decided to share it today and ask......

Chambersburg Hospital and the health care professionals working there ratified a new contract on Monday that calls for pay raises and employee contributions to health insurance. “Workers will begin paying for their health care benefits, but receive...

Antonio Sanchez Mariscal clearly remembers the first time he set foot in the U.S. He was 21 years old at the time and he came as a contract worker at the tail end of the Bracero Program in April of 1962. A native of Tala, Jalisco, Mariscal would go to...

The CTA signed a tentative labor contract Monday with its largest union, producing millions in savings that the agency's financial experts were analyzing into the night before a decision is made to table possible fare hikes next year, officials said. CTA...

Soon after hearing that Hostess Brands Inc. was shutting down for good, Lisa Renee Clark wasted no time dashing out to the Wonder Hostess Bakery Thriftshop in Glen Burnie. But by midday Friday, she was almost too late. The Twinkies had sold out. Supplies...

NEW YORK (AP) — Twinkies may not last forever after all. Hostess Brands Inc., which makes Ding Dongs, Wonder Bread and other snacks, filed a motion Friday with U.S. Bankruptcy Court seeking permission to shutter its operations. The move comes...

Bankrupt Twinkies maker Hostess Brands Inc. has some hard choices to make after spending the weekend dealing with worker strikes. On Friday, Hostess-employed members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union...