Unions move toward health-care reform deal
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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.
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Negotiators for Brigham and Women's Hospital and a union representing about 2,700 nurses reached a tentative agreement late last night on a new contract, averting a planned strike next week.
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Candidates in both parties are promising to work to cover more Americans without health insurance.
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Bankrupt US Airways took a crucial  step toward securing $300 million in concessions from its  pilots union late on Tuesday when leaders of the labor group  said they would forward a plan to cut wages and benefits to all  pilots for a vote.
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Three groups of health-care leaders are banding together to make hospitals a less dangerous place to get well.
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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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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers bargained for a fourth day as the automaker seeks a cost-saving healthcare accord. The UAW told members it may set a new deadline.
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Starting Nov. 1, if there is no new contract, unionized workers will have to bear the cost of the increase in their health insurance premiums.
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An expert says the agreement probably will make it easier to reach cost-cutting deals with the ailing carrierâs other unions. United Airlines is making headway in its efforts to trim labor costs by $725
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Weekly deductions for premiums, higher co-payments and deductibles are all part of the health care package now taking shape for Kroger workers, union officials say.
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Workers protested attempts to overhaul the stateÂs pension and health systems as part of a tax reform package.
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With negotiations at an impasse, nurses and other medical workers at Group Health Cooperative are poised to begin a five-day strike Monday morning in a dispute over health benefits.
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It still remains unclear whether the United Automobile Workers will agree to the health care overhaul carmakers are seeking.
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In the most contentious clash between business and labor groups of the new Congress, the House yesterday passed legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize unions -- a measure that President Bush has promised to veto and that Senate Republican leaders have vowed to filibuster.
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The Kroger Co. and a labor union representing about 8,500 employees in 70 supermarkets in three states have reached tentative agreements on health care and pensions but still have not reached a deal on a new contract, both sides said Thursday.
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The UAW ends its walkout, but now the union leadership has to sell the historic health plan to its membership
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Representatives of General Motors Corp   and the United Auto Workers union closed in on Saturday  on a tentative labor agreement that would slash health-care  costs for the top U.S. automaker.