Wage Contract Issues

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo launched an investigation into published reports disclosing that career employees at the Long Island Rail Road routinely received disability payments from an obscure federal agency though many remain healthy enough to play...

Four homes that Michael Vick owns in exclusive Hampton Roads neighborhoods are at stake in the suspended football star's bankruptcy case. Vick owns two houses in Suffolk — one of them is under construction — and homes in James City County and...

Over the last 12 years, the Service Employees International Union has led the fight for the political reforms that America's working people need. On issues ranging from healthcare to immigration to corporate responsibility, we have pressed our clear and...

A sexual assault is being investigated at UConn. South Windsor voters approve Evergreen easements. A fire damages an East Hartford commercial building. Glastonbury teachers and administrators get a new, four-year contract, and a Manchester man is...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Cinderella, Snow White, Tinkerbell and other fictional fixtures of modern-day childhood were handcuffed, frisked and loaded into police vans Thursday at the culmination of a labor protest that brought a touch of reality to the...

MATTOON, Ill. — After Darren Robertson got laid off from his factory job, he and Julie Fitzpatrick, his girlfriend, ran up nearly $10,000 in credit card balances on food, gas, medical and heating bills. That's when Fitzpatrick discovered a company...

The workers who clean Oriole Park at Camden Yards - and who fought a successful campaign last year for higher wages - have voted to unionize, AFSCME Maryland said yesterday. The union, the state affiliate of the American Federation of State, County and...

The major Hollywood studios have told the Screen Actors Guild that if the union does not accept its final contract offer by Aug. 15 any proposed wage increases would not be retroactive, the studios said Wednesday. The producers alliance threw down that...

The Screen Actors Guild rejected the latest contract offer from Hollywood studios on Thursday but claimed it was willing to negotiate and presented a counterproposal. Producers, however, didn't appear as willing to consider any revisions to what they...

With his brawny build, he looks a little like Mr. Clean. Television viewers know him as Mike Holmes, star of "Holmes on Homes," who swoops in wearing his trademark overalls and white undershirt to rescue homeowners who have allegedly been wronged by...

Did you see it? Were you watching last week during the ninth inning, the Angels leading the Rangers, the best reliever in baseball hurling his curveball right down the pipe? Did you hear it? The gasps of astonishment when a Rangers hitter smoked...

The bitter infighting between Hollywood's two main actors unions came to an anticlimactic end Tuesday when the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced that its members, as expected, had approved a tentative contract with the major...