Healthcare Contract Issues

The union contract for 55,000 Los Angeles County workers expired late Wednesday after negotiators failed to come to terms on healthcare benefits. The workers, represented by the Service Employees International Union, Local 721, negotiated with county...

We'd heard the rumors about Jeff and Jordan from Big Brother and former Miss Teen South Carolina Caitlin "some people out there in our nation don't have maps" Upton being on the next season of The Amazing Race.It turns out......

Caregivers at a Sun Valley medical clinic staged a one-day strike Monday to protest what the workers union called bad-faith bargaining by management. About 50 caregivers picketed early Monday outside the Serra Community Medical Clinic, said Adriana...

17 months after promising to close the prison, Democrat Obama hasn't and has no new target date and a Democrat-controlled House committee just voted to prohibit a domestic facility....

A new union battling the giant Service Employees International Union for the loyalty of healthcare workers throughout California has won a fiercely fought election at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles. In two days of voting this week, the National......

A union that represents about 2,100 workers at Disneyland resort hotels has written a letter to directors of Comic-Con, warning that the popular convention may be caught in the middle of labor strife if it moves to Anaheim. Comic-Con directors......

More than 200 Disney hotel workers walked off the job Friday in a one-day strike that is the latest in a series of job actions at the Anaheim resort. Representing the striking workers is Local 11 of the Unite Here......

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's first major effort to rein in rising employee healthcare costs ended in tatters Saturday, with most sections of a major union rejecting a proposed contract that would have required them to begin paying for a......

LOS ANGELES - A nurses' union is threatening a one-day strike at 34 hospitals across California to protest what they call poor swine flu preparedness. As many as 16,000 registered nurses will strike on Oct. 30 if state and federal swine flu protection...

Six Los Angeles city employee unions have blocked Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa from seeking to impose higher healthcare costs on its members, even as a seventh labor organization agreed to a wide range of concessions. The Coalition of L.A. City Unions,........

More than 800 nurses and healthcare workers are locked out of their workplace Tuesday morning after the Bayonne Medical Center and their union failed to reach an agreement on a new contract. The 843 healthcare workers at the hospital, who are represented...

Two major medical conventions have signed contracts to hold meetings in New Orleans. The New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau said Wednesday that the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the American Academy of Ophthalmology...