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Union and Motion Picture & Television Fund reach deal, avert strike
The union representing healthcare workers at the Motion Picture & Television Fund has called off its strike for next week. SEIU-UHW officials had planned to stage a three-day walkout on Monday after contract talks with the fund broke down in a dispute...
Tags: Unions, Movies, Career and Workplace, Collective Contract, Interior Policy
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Contract talks break off between Motion Picture & TV Fund, union
Contract talks broke down between the Motion Picture & Television Fund and the union representing healthcare workers Wednesday, paving the way for a planned strike early next week. "After extensive good faith bargaining on MPTF’s part, we have...
Tags: Unions, Movies, Collective Contract, Interior Policy, Politics
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Mixed signals on city budget give voters more reason for cynicism
When I scolded deadbeat Angelenos for blowing off Tuesday's election, some of them had just enough energy to return fire. "I chose not to spit into the wind anymore," wrote Lou. "It is not an embarrassment to shun an embarrassment like L.A....
Tags: Collective Contract, Public Officials, Voting, Religion and Belief, Herb Wesson
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HealthBridge Files For Bankruptcy Protection
The Hartford CourantFive Connecticut nursing homes which are run by HealthBridge Management have filed for bankruptcy protection. Those five homes employ workers represented by the Service Employees International Union, and the company's goal in filing for bankruptcy is to...Tags: Unions, Health Insurance Cost, Cheshire, Bankruptcy, Work Relations
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Motion Picture & Television Fund workers protest stalled talks
Dozens of healthcare workers from the Motion Picture & Television Fund rallied outside the charity's Wasserman campus in Woodland Hills and other locations around Los Angeles on Thursday to protest stalled contract talks with their employer. The...
Tags: Unions, Los Angeles Times, Movies, Collective Contract, Interior Policy
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Pension reform leads issues at candidate forum
City pensions and looming electricity rate increases were front and center Saturday as 10 of the 13 candidates for City Council faced off at the first election forum of the campaign season. In front of about 80 people at the Oakmont Country Club,...
Tags: Finance, Health Insurance Cost, Collective Contract, Interior Policy, Google Inc.
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Glendale Memorial Hospital employees protest planned layoffs
L.A. NOWNurses, technicians and other employees gathered outside Glendale Memorial Hospital Thursday morning to protest planned layoffs.... -
Employees protest planned layoffs at Glendale Memorial Hospital
Nurses, technicians and other employees gathered outside Glendale Memorial Hospital Thursday morning to protest planned layoffs. The hospital last week announced plans to layoff an undetermined number of employees, citing an increase in the number of...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Career and Workplace, Collective Contract, Media Industry, Human Interest
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Degree of L.A.'s fiscal problems splits mayoral candidates
A virtual unknown straining to make his mark in the race for mayor of Los Angeles offered an alarming assessment of the city's finances. "We are actually on the brink of bankruptcy," Emanuel Pleitez, a tech executive and former aide to Mayor Antonio...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Bankruptcy, Public Employees, Antonio Villaraigosa, Government
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Paying for results, not treatments
One of the fundamental problems in the U.S. healthcare system is that the most common and straightforward payment method — paying a fee for each service rendered — encourages doctors and hospitals to provide more care, not better care. In...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health Insurance Cost, Medicare, Government Health Care, Collective Contract
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Strike averted: Keeping it clean on Broadway
The big news on Broadway: strike averted. Hundreds of theater workers, including bathroom attendants, porters and elevator operators – all represented by the 32BJ union – last week threatened to strike as their current contract speeds toward...
Tags: Maria Bamford, Collective Contract, Career and Workplace, Theater, Arts and Culture
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Doctors, patients struggling with Kentucky's privatized Medicaid system
kpeek@amnews.comMuch of the country is reveling in the changes affecting doctors and patients due to the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as “Obamacare.” However, many Kentucky hospitals and doctors — and consequently their patients — are...Tags: Chemotherapy, Health Treatments, Hospitals and Clinics, Wage Contract Issues, Government Health Care
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