State workers reach agreement on health-care costs
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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- State employee unions negotiating with representatives of Gov. Gary Locke have reached a tentative agreement on health care costs.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition reached an agreement on a health reform plan Thursday, ending weeks of feuding that raised doubts over the government's future.
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In an attempt to extend health coverage to uninsured workers, 60 large employers are joining together to sponsor an array of low-cost health insurance options.
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General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers union on Sunday rushed to complete a cost-cutting labor deal that would allow the top U.S. automaker to cut itself free from a $50 billion retiree health-care burden.
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Latest licensing deal signals a move into the health-care arena.
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he cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 percent this year, according to the results of an authoritative national survey reported yesterday.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel reached an agreement for new financing of GermanyÂs health care system.
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Negotiators for the U.A.W. and General Motors have agreed on the framework for a health care trust, G.M.âs key demand in talks on a new contract.
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State efforts to transform the nationâs health care system appear to be on a collision course with the Bush administrationâs latest budget proposal.
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(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) A strike by more than 2,500 home health care aides has been averted. The union and the health care provider that employs them have agreed to take their dispute over hourly wages to binding arbitration.
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A compromise deal was in view at the end of more than 20 hours of management-union talks aimed at breaking the deadlock in wage and job talks, according to sources close to the talks.
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Key lawmakers in the House and Senate negotiated into the night yesterday on a deal that would expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program by $35 billion over the next five years.
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The cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 per cent this year, according to the results of an authoritative national survey.
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General Motors Corp and the United Auto Workers union on Sunday rushed to complete a cost-cutting labor deal that would allow the top U.S. automaker to cut itself free from a $50 billion retiree health-care burden.
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Germany's coalition government said Thursday it has reached an agreement on health reforms after months of contention.Comment
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Representatives of General Motors Corp   and the United Auto Workers union returned to the  bargaining table on Saturday amid expectations the two sides  were closing in on a deal that would slash health care costs  for the top U.S. automaker.
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As rising health-care costs hurt workers and retirees alike, America's trade unions are seen inching toward a broad-sweeping agreement with U.S. corporations on health-care reform.