Workers at one of oldest US HMOS strike
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SEATTLE -- About 1,700 nurses and other health care workers began a five-day strike Monday against Group Health Cooperative - one of the nation&#39;s oldest HMOs - over the cost of their own health benefits.
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It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool &#151; and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.
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Some of the nationâs biggest companies will announce a new program meant to make health insurance available to their former employees ages 55 to 64.
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Negotiators met today ahead of a midnight deadline as unions across the country prepared for a possible strike.
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Health workers plan a one-day strike at 14 hospitals in Northern California owned by Sacramento-based Sutter Health. Up to 7,000 workers represented by the California Nurses Association and
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The United Auto Workers union and General Motors Corp reached a tentative contract on Wednesday, ending a national strike by 73,000 workers with a groundbreaking deal that includes a health-care trust fund.
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Nurses at Group Health Cooperative yesterday began a planned five-day strike as part of a continuing contract-negotiation dispute over how much employees will pay for health insurance.
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The United Auto Workers union on Wednesday agreed a contract with General Motors Corp ending a national strike by 73,000 workers, with a deal that includes a groundbreaking health-care trust fund.
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Health Care Workers Union, SEIU 250, lashed out Sutter Health for locking out 7,000 caregivers at thirteen Sutter Health facilities Thursday.
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Striking health workers aim for Labour support in their bid to block the sell-off of the NHS supply agency.
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky knows a few things about protests. In 1989, she headed a group involved in the legendary uprising by Chicago senior citizens against Medicare changes -- one that featured enraged seniors jumping on the hood of Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski's car.
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Hotel workers' union Unite Here said   on Monday a tentative agreement had been struck with hotel   group Hyatt in Chicago, covering 1,900 workers in four hotels.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - New Brunswick hospital workers went on strike as promised early Monday in Premier Bernard Lord's Moncton riding.
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Strikes planned for January 7, 14 and 17 after union ballot
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Hundreds of nurses, social workers, custodians and other union workers will picket virtually all Group Health Cooperative clinics in Western Washington this morning to begin a five-day strike, the first significant labor disruption at the Seattle co-op in
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Flight attendants at US Airways Monday voted to strike if the carrier throws out a labor contract in order to secure $150 million in job, wage and benefit reductions.
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2004 -- San Francisco -- Nearly 1,200 workers at four hotels here went on strike today after contract negotiations broke down yesterday when hotel owners filed an unfair labor practice complaint against their union.