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Workers at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul, Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis and Science Museum all have unionized in the past four years with the goal of collective bargaining for employee-friendly contracts.

The labor fight that has been pitting writers and actors against film and television producers has halted U.S. movie and TV production. The bitter disputes include issues regarding pay, working conditions, the use of artificial intelligence to supplant actors and writers, and shrinking residual payments that help actors earn income in between projects. The Writers […]

The frequency with which 7 of the largest Medicare Advantage plans impose step therapy protocols in their Part B drug coverage decisions varies substantially.

Union membership in Lancaster County is estimated to have declined to 4.2% of the workforce in 2022 from 12% in 1986, according to a database created in 2002 by three

Payers have taken a cautious approach to handling rising demand for the pricey new class of drugs known as glucagon-like peptide agnostics, or GLP-1s.

Federal, state & local governments added 685,000 total jobs in 2022, with a gain of 83,000 union members. But outside of California, membership fell

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the State’s labor force was more severe than in other states: the size of the workforce declined more rapidly than the rest of the nation in 2020 and continued to shrink in 2021 when other states recovered.

Legislation before Congress would require almost all state and local governments to recognize public sector unions as the exclusive representative of their public safety employees. Supporters contend that the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act (H.R. 980) would lead to increased cooperation between public safety workers and the government. In fact, most public safety employees already belong to unions. Experience suggests that collective bargaining would not further cooperation but t...

The push comes amid a growing trend of labor organizing in U.S. museums and a flurry of high-profile union votes locally and nationally.

Starbucks, newsrooms and farms are some of the places where organizing is beginning to take hold.