Wage Contract Issues

Belleville Memorial Hospital and UnitedHealthcare are moving toward a showdown next month over hospital and physician reimbursement rates. If an agreement cannot be struck, Memorial and its physicians group will no longer be in the network of the...

Franklin County officials are defending an agreement with local labor unions that would require anyone working on a $45 million renovation project to pay union dues and pay into union benefit programs, whether or not they are union members. Members of...

Members of the city's trash board are questioning the legality of a recent City Council decision not to transfer to the city's Legal Department $250,000 that the board agreed to pay for city legal services in 2010. "We're not aware that the council...

Could some answers finally be on the way for Sixto Rodriguez? After decades of murkiness about his record sales and royalties, a legal and accounting team has begun an inquiry for the enigmatic singer-songwriter, the Free Press has learned. The move...

What's the value of a major joint replacement? Is it $61,720? That's what Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News billed, on average. Is it $32,944? That's what Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk charged. Is it somewhere between $11,...

After months of negotiations aimed at heading off curriculum cuts, the Daniel Boone Education Association is making proposed contract concessions a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. The teachers union voted overwhelmingly Thursday afternoon to offer...

Community activists and an interfaith group want Philadelphia City Council to amend a lease agreement between the city and US Airways Group to boost the salary of 1,500 low-wage airport workers and require future hiring for ground-service jobs to come...

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...

The Bethel Park School Board will vote on Wednesday on whether to accept a fact-finder's report and set a new contract with its 79 bus drivers, mechanics and bus aides, or reject it in favor of a bid by First Student to take over the district's student...

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...

Jeff Cassell was officially approved as the next superintendent of the Waynesboro Schools Tuesday night by an unanimous vote of the school board. Cassell, 49, plans to start his new job as the successor to current Superintendent Robin Crowder on July...