Collective Contract

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana House Democrats are keeping up their legislative boycott over the right-to-work bill a day after majority Republicans voted to start imposing $1,000-a-day fines. Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma tried to gavel the...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's Republican House speaker threatened to start imposing $1,000 fines against Democratic legislators who resumed their boycott of a right-to-work bill Tuesday. Speaker Brian Bosma said he would start the next House...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Benny Harris has been boarding a rented van with some fellow road construction workers most days for the past couple weeks for an hour-plus drive to make a stand in the Indiana Statehouse against a contentious labor bill. The...

DETROIT (AP) — After more than five months, a Michigan Supreme Court justice is growing impatient over the court's failure to declare whether it will review the state's controversial emergency-manager law. Justice Stephen Markman, a Republican,...

Harford County Public Schools officials announced late Wednesday they have reached a tentative settlement with the county's teachers union on receipt of a bonus payment offered by Harford County Executive David Craig that the union's leadership had...

After a long time wandering in the wilderness, with no movie or TV production under way in Maryland, local actors, technicians, caterers, drivers, set builders and hospitality professionals are back to work with the production in Baltimore of the HBO...

So what is so worrisome about the Costa Mesa City Charter that Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer proposed about midnight at the Dec. 6 City Council meeting with few citizens left in attendance to comment? The charter is written by one councilman for the...

DETROIT (AP) — The reins of power in Detroit have been in the hands of blacks since the city elected Coleman Young mayor in 1973, and for many, black control of Detroit has become as important to the city's identity as its deep auto industry roots....

People often forget that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tenn., while he was standing in solidarity with sanitation workers as they sought justice in their workplace. I could think of no better way to honor his legacy than by...

COSTA MESA — At the Costa Mesa Taxpayers Assn. meeting meant to inform the public about a proposed city charter, audience members also got an earful of anti-union rhetoric. Nearly 100 audience members gathered at the Neighborhood Community Center...

Anne Arundel County school officials are seeking public support for Superintendent Kevin Maxwell's proposed budget, which the county government has signaled will not be fully funded, during hearings and workshops next week. Last month, Maxwell...

Microsoft is investigating a report that workers at a Chinese plant that makes its Xbox game systems threatened mass suicide in a pay dispute, according to a statement issued Wednesday by the company's Hong Kong office. CNN has not been able to confirm...