labor contract negotiations

• Contract Negotiations Are Anti-Labor

On June 26, the Sun Journal published a guest column by John McGough regarding the contract negotiations between the state of Maine and workers who are represented by the Maine State Employees Association. Several of his points were laughable at best and totally misleading. Yes, the MSEA did offer a status quo on the contract; raise freeze and merit pay freeze included. They did not and have not requested raises of any kind as they are aware of the financial situation the state is in.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• July 02, 2011

• Harley-Davidson to Implement New Production System at Kansas City Following Vote Approving Contract ; New Labor Agreement Completes Negotiations Cycle Enabling Standardized, Flexible, Lean Operating System Across All Production Facilities

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG) announced today it will move forward with the implementation of a new production system at its Kansas City, Mo. vehicle operations following a vote by the plant's unionized employees ratifying a new seven-year labor agreement. The new labor agreement with employees represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Local 176 and the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 760 takes effect Aug. 1, 2011 and will be implemented in phases. Implementation of the Harley-Davidson Operating System -- a new, standardized production operating system being introduced across all company production facilities -- will begin at the onset of the agreement, while the compensation and benefits component...

• U.S. Newswire
• February 28, 2011

• Ormet Officers, Labor Union Re-Enter Contract Negotiations

Wheeling-based Ormet Corp. and the United Steelworkers of America are returning to the bargaining table in a last-ditch effort to negotiate a new labo...

• State Journal, The
• August 03, 2009

• Postal Service, Two Unions, Continue Negotiations to Midnight, Dec. 16

Outcome Critical to Postal Service, Employees, Future WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Postal Service and two of its major unions have agreed to continue to extend separate labor contract negotiations. Although the contracts with the National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO (NALC) and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, AFL-CIO (NPMHU) expired at midnight Sunday, Nov. 20, the Postal Service and the two unions agreed to extend the negotiations deadline until midnight, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. All parties have now agreed to continue negotiations until midnight, Friday, December 16.

• U.S. Newswire
• December 07, 2011

• Seiu Healthcare Pa to Conduct Informational Picketing

The Service Employees International Union Healthcare PA said Tuesday it union will conduct informational picketing at four Grane Healthcare nursing homes in the region to publicize stalled labor contract negotiations. The union's contract expired April 1, but the 300 workers at the homes have remained on the job under contract extensions. Picketing will be conducted on Wednesday at Grane's Beaver Falls home; at LaurelWoods in Johnstown on Thursday; at Harmon House in Mt. Pleasant on Monday; and at Harmar Village in Cheswick on May 19.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• May 11, 2011

• Postal Service, Two Unions, Continue Negotiations to January 20, 2012

Outcome Critical to Postal Service, Employees, Future WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Postal Service and two of its major unions have agreed to extend separate labor contract negotiations until Jan. 20, 2012. Contracts with the National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO (NALC) and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, AFL-CIO (NPMHU) expired at midnight Sun., Nov. 20, 2011. The extension will allow the parties to continue to work on the important economic, health care, workplace and other contractual issues being discussed.

• U.S. Newswire
• December 17, 2011

• Nfl Lockout Can Continue As 8th U.S. Circuit Court Reverses Judge

Score another one for the National Football League. In a 2-1 decision Friday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a federal court cannot prevent the league from locking out its employees in a labor dispute. The players had filed an antitrust suit against the league after contract negotiations fell apart.

• Missouri Lawyers Media
• July 15, 2011

• Nfl Walks Down Lockout Path

WASHINGTON - Unable to decide how to divvy up $9 billion a year, NFL owners and players put the country's most popular sport in limbo Friday by breaking off labor negotiations hours before their contract expired. The union decertified; the league imposed a lockout. Ten players, including MVP quarterbacks Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, sued the owners in federal court in Minneapolis. Then, at midnight, the owners locked out the players, two people with knowledge of the league's decision told The Associated Press - signaling the NFL's first work stoppage since 1987.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• March 12, 2011

• New AH&LA Web Site: One-Stop Resource for 2006 Labor Contract Negotiations.

WASHINGTON -- The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) has launched a new Web site for the hotel industry's 2006 labor negotiations. The site ...

• Business Wire
• March 27, 2006

• Kettering has No System to Determine Merit Pay for Teachers

KETTERING -- In the first sentence of their 100-page labor contract, Kettering City Schools' teachers union and school board "agree that negotiations are an effective and efficient method" to decide conditions of employment. If Senate Bill 5 passes, the next contract may have to include some new language.

• Dayton Daily News
• March 01, 2011