Wage Contract Issues

Much of the country is reveling in the changes affecting doctors and patients due to the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as “Obamacare.” However, many Kentucky hospitals and doctors — and consequently their patients — are...

One of the state’s largest health insurers has told customers it will no longer pay for health care at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center beginning next month, pending negotiations that now stand at an impasse. Humana started sending out...

One of the subcontractors who worked on the Danville city hall and police building has filed a lawsuit seeking back pay from the project’s general contractor, Codell Construction Co. BCD Inc. of Bardstown filed the complaint recently in Boyle...

Some Parkland School District bus drivers have complained to the school board that the cleaning jobs they work in the summer for the district pay much less for longer hours than their driving positions. Lamar Borger, Debbie Reppert and Lisa Duffield took...

More than half of millennials -- 54% -- surveyed by a Wells Fargo & Co. retirement unit said their "biggest financial concern currently" was longer-term debt, mainly student and credit card debt. With the cost of college continuing to rise, about 64% of...

The Dorchester Senior Center in the south suburbs has a steady stream of visitors: attentive relatives, busy repairmen and, lately, inquisitive federal investigators. The five-story, village-owned building that looks out over a dreary interstate has...

FARGO, N.D. - Last fall, for the fourth straight year, Thief River Falls, Minn., farmer Ken Asp chose not to re-enroll some of his farmland in the Conservation Reservation Program. Enrolling the land into CRP made economic sense when he did it, in...

Will County Board members Thursday sent a message to state lawmakers—pass a concealed carry law before it automatically becomes law. Board members voted 15-6, with three members voting "present," supporting a resolution backing a concealed carry...

Gold Cross Ambulance employees reached a contract impasse with the company and a strike notice has been issued, a union representative confirmed Wednesday. Contract impasses involving Gold Cross Ambulance have reportedly occurred in the past, but an...

Officials at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District this week moved to fire an assistant director who had spent more than a year on paid leave during an internal investigation. In the formal termination documents filed with the Chicago-based water...

Average employee pay at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power rose 15% over the last five years, despite an economic slump that ravaged the city's budget, records released Tuesday show. DWP workers received significantly more generous pay...

The sparse front page of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18 website expresses exactly the message Brian D'Arcy wants his members to get: Rotating photos of protesting workers waving "A DEAL IS A DEAL" signs. It also features...