The numbers: The U.S. international trade deficit, including goods and services, widened 14% in March to a record seasonally adjusted $140.5 billion, the Commerce Department said Tuesday ...

Jensen said no union wants to accept anything less than what another union receives. “If the Teamsters were in the same predicament as the AFSCME union members, you bet we’d ask for the same if not ...

GARY, Ind. (WISH) — On April 22, 1959, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Gary, Indiana, to accept the key to the city. Sixty-five years later, his daughter, Dr ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thousands of people gathered for rallies and a march in Chicago on May Day. It is a movement that was started in Chicago. The local event was just one of many similar events ...

UC President Michael Drake announced March 19 that the University would implement a hiring freeze in response to threats to its federal and state budget. However, AFSCME Local 3299 alleged in an ...

A car-buying frenzy, stoked by tariff fears, drove US consumer spending in March to its biggest monthly gain in more than two years, new data showed Wednesday. Consumer spending leapt 0.7% from ...

Inflation in the US, as measured by the change in the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index, edged lower to 2.3% on a yearly basis in March from 2.5% in February, the US Bureau of ...

The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge showed that price growth slowed in March, with inflation trending closer to the central bank's target rate. The Commerce Department on Wednesday ...

More than $2 million is set for the renovation of the MLK Park playground. Another $2 million will fund environmental cleanup at the old Falls Street industrial plant. This is in preparation for ...

After more than a year of negotiations, the University of California today offered its employees, represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union, a ...

The University of California has consistently come to the table in good faith in an effort to collaborate with AFSCME and UPTE to negotiate mutually ... uncertainties announced by President Drake on ...