Unions join Group Health fight
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Striking health care workers and Group Health Cooperative exchanged barbs but little else yesterday, as the strike at one of the area&#39;s largest medical providers entered its third day.
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Supermarkets face a new showdown as labor unions determined to keep health benefits spar with management trying to compete with Wal-Mart.
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The government is launching a proactive fight for hospitals to tackle MRSA and other infections.
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Onus is on workers to buy health insurance as rising costs force firms to end perk.
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Group Health Cooperative is bracing for a five-day strike starting Monday as the union&#39;s deadline nears for the Seattle co-op and its nurses union to reach a new contract.
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In a bid to survive and to persuade unions to accept deep pay and benefit cuts, managers at US Airways Group and Delta Air Lines are sharing some of the pain.
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Patient care has suffered, say unions as Guardian analysis shows extent of underspend.
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The health care union that led a 24-hour strike Wednesday at nine regional hospitals filed a lawsuit Friday against Sutter Health and a recruiting firm that hired replacement workers.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' lucrative business of selling health insurance to municipalities and unions is under attack since a law was enacted in June allowing cities and towns to join the health insurance plan for state employees.
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NHS Logistics staff are set to stage the first national strike in the health service for 18 years.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will team up with two big labor unions on a health care "campaign," according to a joint statement issued on Tuesday.
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Union leaders are meeting to plan what could be the first national strike in the NHS for 18 years.
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SEATTLE -- Seeking better health insurance coverage for themselves, workers at one of the nation&#39;s oldest health maintenance organizations are on strike.
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A group of health care leaders said on Tuesday they were banding together to make U.S. hospitals less dangerous places to get well.
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Thousands of public health workers were rallied Sunday to view themselves as "public health heroes" when they head to Congress this week to pressure legislators to spend more for health.
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Sept. 10, 2004 -- American workers&#39; soaring health care costs could have a one small upside: They seem to be spurring companies to get more serious about worker health in a desperate bid to save money.
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In a show of support for an impending campaign by the Service Employees International Union to organize workers at the Boston's teaching hospitals, city councillors voted 10-0 in favor of a resolution calling for hospital executives to sign "free and fair election agreements." Such agreements replace federal labor organizing procedures with rules that can make it easier for a union ...