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More than 3 million Americans have lost employer-sponsored health care since 2000 and the vast majority of U.S. states have seen significant declines in employer coverage this decade, the Economic Policy Institute reports.

An arbitration ruling on health care benefits for 40,000 CWA members at AT&T Mobility has been postponed until Dec. 12.

More than 500 journalists and other workers at Associated Press have called on the company to reverse course in contract talks and drop its bargaining proposals that threaten quality journalism.

A member of the President-elect's transition team said the Employee Free Choice Act is a necessary response to the "worst economic crisis in our lifetime." The speaker, Thomas Kochan, co-director of MIT's Institute of Technology Workplace Center and Institute for Work and Employment Research, said the legislation was the "necessary first step" to reducing the highly adversarial roles of labor and management and creating an "integrated, progressive labor policy coordinated with economic policy."