Wage Contract Issues

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's doctor was not the only person working on the singer's ill-fated "This Is It" tour without a fully executed contract, a corporate attorney for concert promoter AEG Live LLC testified Monday. The tour's...

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 town council voted unanimously Tuesday to seek new management for the troubled community golf course after the existing management company failed to meet contractual obligations. "In essence, where we are is, we need to cut ties and we need to move...

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...

United Steelworkers Local 1343 on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a proposed six-year contract with Caterpillar Inc. that would have frozen wages, increased contributions to health care costs and offered senior union employees fewer protections....

— United Steelworkers Local 1343 on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a proposed six-year contract with Caterpillar Inc. that would have frozen wages, increased contributions to health care costs and offered senior union employees fewer protections....

Nearly 350 city employees will receive bonuses if elected officials approve the proposed one-time pay increase at Wednesday's commission meeting. The cash boost for the city's 317 full-time and 25 part-time employees in the union will cost the city $1...