Labor Pact News Today

One week after a three-day strike led to a walkout of 75,000 workers, Kaiser Permanente and unions announced a tentative deal

Hollywood's major studios reached a tentative labor agreement with the union representing film and television directors, likely averting a work stoppage that would have piled pressure on media companies to settle with striking writers

Unlikely alliance? youre describing that. wouldnt it be more likely that gordon brown and labor might reach out to nick clegg and the liberal democrats and say, okay, lets try and form an alliance here, and has anything been done on that front? >> sure. absolutely. and thats happening simultaneously. youve got the prime minister, a caretaker, an acting prime minister, gordon brown, who is also reaching out to nick clegg. the reason that the -- nick clegg and david cameron are talking is because ...

To high costs. elsewhere, research in motion has been hit with class-action lawsuits in canada and the u.s. for the days long service outage on blackberry devices earlier this month. in a close vote, the united autoworkers ratified a four-year labor pact with chrysler. and finally, 1.4 billion white coke cans featuring an image of a mother polar bear and her two little cubs will hit store shelves november 1st, all of this is to draw attention to a campaign to protect polar bears and their habita...