Labor Disputes

The City of Winchester will pay about $62,000 in unpaid overtime to the Kentucky Department of Labor this month, after qualifying firefighters made claims for the funds. The Winchester Board of Commissioners approved an order Tuesday authorizing the...

It was a year of drawn-out stories in Jessamine County. Nicholasville residents and downtown business owners endured a long year of Main Street renovation; the state’s highest court considered a case of firefighter overtime pay; and the nation&...

NEW YORK — The NBA and its commissioner, David Stern, are emerging from a tumultuous time. A bitter labor dispute cost the league almost its entire preseason and 16 regular-season games, but it resulted in a new collective bargaining agreement. The...

Romney bracing, with Gingrich and Santorum chasing, on last full day before South Carolina primary NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Front-runner Mitt Romney and his presidential pursuers enter the final full day of campaigning in a South Carolina...

About 40 people rallied outside the federal courthouse in Martinsburg Friday to protest a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opponents claim is allowing corporations to dangerously infiltrate the political process. The rally was similar to another one...

The City of Harrisburg’s State Appointed Receiver, David Unkovic met with the public Wednesday night for the second time since being appointed to control the city’s finances. Unkovic has until February 6th to come with a fiscal recovery plan....

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana House Republicans on Wednesday approved $1,000-a-day fines against boycotting Democratic legislators who gathered in the Statehouse Rotunda with labor union supporters rather than show up to debate a divisive right-to-...

Following is a list of closings in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. City of Hagerstown - City of Hagerstown offices are closed today. Emergency operations will remain open. - There will be no interruption of recycling and trash collection...

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) — As the lockout of 1,300 union workers at American Crystal Sugar Co. stretches into a sixth month, a question is getting asked: Is the cooperative formed by area farmers in 1973 more concerned with the financial bottom line than...

The state's highest court has agreed to take up a case focusing on the dispute between Anne Arundel County's public safety unions and county officials over binding arbitration in collective bargaining. The unions sued the county last April, claiming that...

The Waynesboro Area School District and its teachers’ union are entering their third year of contract negotiations, although neither side has plans to meet at the bargaining table soon. The two sides are at an impasse, which hinges on salaries...