The week-long work stoppage that sidelined public transit ended in the predawn hours Monday as SEPTA and the Transportation Workers Union Local 234 reached a tentative five-year contract for 4,738 transit personnel.
New Jersey's distressed government worker pension system is now the worst funded in the U.S., according to a report by Bloomberg.
This is the fifth straight year of relatively low premium growth (family coverage growing between 3 and 4 percentage points each year), but the stability for premiums belies some other changes that have occurred during the period.
Scores of Philadelphia service workers, such as janitors and security guards, will get better pay under a law expanding the city’s prevailing wage regulations that Mayor Kenney signed Thursday.
Faculty members at more than a dozen Pennsylvania public universities went on strike on Wednesday. The strike comes after negotiations broke down between the union and Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.
Allina nurses voted yesterday to ratify a three-year contract and end their historic strike at five Twin Cities facilities, but their fight for workplace safety, adequate staffing and respect on the job isn’t over.
The uninsured rate for non-elderly Americans has fallen from about 16.6% in 2013 to 10% in the first quarter of 2016, and 8.6% taking into account seniors who have near universal coverage.
We reached an agreement with University Hospital that resolves an outstanding arbitration filed in 2012. As a result, every Staff Nurse on Scale B will be placed on the proper step.
Click on the links below to download and view presentation materials used at the is year’s Convention: Challenging Corporate Healthcare. Click here for Fred Hyde’s presentation on healthcare trends and their impact on healthcare workers. Click here for Jessica Curtis’s
Seeing a lack of competition in many of the health law’s online insurance marketplaces, Hillary Clinton, President Obama and much of the Democratic Party are calling for more government, not less.