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Workers with employer-paid health insurance and families to cover are now paying an average of $3,281 a year toward their premiums – in addition to higher deductibles and rising co-payments for prescriptions and doctor visits, according to a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research Educational Trust.

Linda Chavez-Thompson, the AFL-CIO's executive vice president for 12 years, has announced she will retire this month from what she called "the greatest job I have ever had."

AFA-CWA members at Northwest Airlines were instrumental in blocking payment of $4.2 million in "end-of-case bonuses" for the airline's bankruptcy lawyers and they have a suggestion for how the spare cash can be used:

U.S. postal rate increases are hitting small publications hard and CWA wants to know how much more locals are paying to mail newsletters, and whether it's affecting their ability to publish.