Workers Anxious as Hotel Talks Make Little Progress
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Negotiators for 14 D.C. hotels and the hotel employees union, meeting yesterday after a six-day impasse, reported little headway in resolving substantive issues but said there were enough hints of progress to warrant continued talks.
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Emergency talks to avert a strike by classroom assistants have ended without progress, unions say.
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An N.H.L. lockout will not end soon unless the owners show some willingness to negotiate, agents said after a meeting with the players union.
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Workers struggling to make ends meet saw little relief in their paychecks this year, and may not see much next year either.
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Union leaders are to hold talks with  airport operator BAA  on Monday in an attempt to avert  a series of strikes that could cause widespread travel chaos in  January.
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A union representing Washington, DC, hotel workers resumed formal talks with management Tuesday to avert a strike in three major cities.
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Hundreds of workers at four of San Francisco&#39;s most popular hotels walked of the job Wednesday, and for the hotels, it couldn&#39;t have come at a worse time.
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No progress doesn't mean no hockey &#151; at least not yet. NHL labor talks ended Friday after a four-hour meeting, without a resolution or a historic announcement that the season has been lost.
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Communicating can be tricky when a company or a government agency has workers in different locations and even different time zones.
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Automaker Volkswagen AG and Germany&#39;s biggest industrial union said Tuesday they have made some progress in difficult pay negotiations, but were cautious on prospects of a quick deal in talks that were marked by worker protests.
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In his most forceful move yet to bring an end to a disruptive labor dispute, Mayor Gavin Newsom urged operators of some of The City&#39;s most prominent hotels to let employees return to work and pressed both sides to reach an agreement by Jan. 25.
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Contract talks between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. stretched into the night yesterday, slowed so much by the complexity of retiree health care and other issues that a deal could be days away.
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Unionized workers at four San Francisco hotels went on strike Wednesday morning. A union leader called the walkout &quot;a wake-up call&quot; for hotels to stimulate stalled talks.
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Unionized Washington, D.C. hotel  workers said on Friday they might go on strike if they could  not reach a new contract settlement before events leading to  the U.S. Presidential Inauguration on Jan. 20.
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The union representing AirTran Airways flight attendants said Thursday that talks with AirTran Holdings Inc. have stalled over work rules.
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Move comes amid increasing impatience at failure to achieve progress in power-sharing talks with government
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General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers made progress at the bargaining table Saturday but still faced significant hurdles and ended negotiations for the day without reaching an agreement.