Public Option Back at Center Stage as Health Care ...       November 2, 2009
News: After months of work, House Democratic leaders last week finished cobbling together a 1,900-page reform bill, pulling provisions from measures that three House committees passed this summer while amending, dropping and adding others, ...
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A Shift in Union Relations       October 27, 2009
Feature: One of the biggest measures of how much has really changed between the old and the new General Motors will be its relationship with the United Auto Workers union, former employees say. (10/27/2009)
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GM Replacing Traditional Health Plan for Some ...       October 22, 2009
News: General Motors Co. will replace its traditional health care plan for salaried retirees younger than 65 with a consumer-driven health plan linked to health savings accounts effective January 1, 2010.
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United Auto Workers' Voluntary Employee Beneficiar ...       October 20, 2009
News: The new VEBA will not officially open for business until January 1, but the association--with more than $37 billion in assets--has a chief investment officer and is looking for managing directors to oversee equity, fixed income and risk man
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Court Rules Retirees' Quest to Regain Health ...       September 4, 2009
... Ohio have been given a second chance to pursue their 2-year-old lawsuit seeking to restore their retiree health benefits, which were terminated in May 2006 after ...
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Challenges Slowing Health Care Reform Drive       August 24, 2009
News: Federal health care reform legislation is ailing, but experts and observers say it is far from dead.
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Visteon Seeks to Cut Retiree Health Benefits       August 17, 2009
News: At the same time, the company has been seeking approval to begin an incentive program that could pay $30.1 million in bonuses to top managers.
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Ford's UAW Workforce Down to 47,000 After Latest ...       July 24, 2009
News: The departures, scheduled to be completed 'in the next few weeks,' take the number of active UAW employees down from 95,000 in 2003.
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Health Care Reform Bill Has Self-Insurer Tax, New ...       July 16, 2009
News: Employers that self-insure their health care plans would face a new federal tax under health care reform legislation under consideration by several House committees.
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