USAction is speaking out against Senate majority leader Bill Frist's new asbestos bailout proposal that favors the asbestos companies and their insurers who...
New York Times – by Austan Goolsbee – October 1, 2004 Chicago — Even as I.B.M.'s pension difficulties make headlines - the company has agreed to pay...
A ruling on its dispute over pensions could affect thousands of companies By KARIN RIVES The $320 million partial settlement that IBM reached with 140,000 ...
New York Times By ROBERT PEAR October 3, 2004 WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - Over strenuous objections from the Bush administration, Congress is moving to increase...
October 3, 2004 CAMPAIGN 2004: THE BIG ISSUES Kerry vs. Bush on Health Care The faults in the American health care system become more glaring with each passing...
Ailing airline may end all of its pension plans, creating the biggest default in US history and forcing a possible bailout. The Christian Science Monitor By...
South Florida Business Journal John T. Fakler Internet chatter that Duke Energy and FPL Group were discussing a merger may have had a few loose wires, but a...
October 5, 2004 Pension Failures Foil 6-Figure Retirements, Too By JOHN LELAND and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH Tom Paulsen worked for 36 years as a trucking executive,...
New York Times By ELAINE SCIOLINO (Excerpts) PARIS, Oct. 4 - France is poised to take possession of 300 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the United...
Companies Keep Adopting Controversial Pension Plan Despite Lawsuits, Criticism By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 5, 2004; Page D2 Companies...
Nuclear agency warns Oconee on preparedness Posted Monday, October 4, 2004 - 8:52 pm By Anna Simon CLEMSON BUREAU OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION — Recent problems in...
Honeywell Agrees to $2.1M Age Discrimination Settlement October 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Honeywell has agreed to pay $2.1 million to settle allegations...
Charlotte Business Journal Duke Energy Field Services will incur impairment charges of up to $63 million in the third quarter, according to a filing with the ...
Updated on October 05, 2004 ATTENTION BellTel RETIREES We need your immediate help in contacting U.S. Senator Baucus and U.S. Senator Grassley regarding a...
Negotiators Approve Big Tax Cuts for Business By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - In an act of pre-election largess, House and Senate negotiators...
New York Times By MICHELINE MAYNARD October 8, 2004 (Excerpts) As if times were not troubled enough in the airline industry, employees at US Airways, Delta and...
The WasteBasket: A Weekly Bulletin on Government Waste By Taxpayers for Common Sense Vol. IX No. 40 Last night, the House passed what was initially intended to...
washingtonpost.com Pension Guarantor Calls for Changes PBGC Asks Congress for New Powers By Albert B. Crenshaw Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 8,...
Bayou Buzz Some of Entergy Corp.'s union workers could be in line for pay raises and sweeter benefits packages after the International Brotherhood of...
Jim Hightower 9/20/2004 Wouldn't you be a little skeptical if you took your car in for a routine checkup and the repair shop said it had found a mysterious and...
New York Times GRETCHEN MORGENSON (Excerpts) TO the casual observer, Oracle v. PeopleSoft, the case unfolding in Delaware Chancery Court, is just the latest...
Submitted by Bev Harris "Impossible." -- David Bear, Diebold Simply by double-clicking the file, we opened a real Diebold audit log file, using real Diebold...
Business Insurance Daily News by Jerry Geisel Oct. 12, 2004 WASHINGTON—Employers in bankruptcy that terminate underfunded pension plans would be barred from...
washingtonpost.com Payback on K Street Tuesday, October 12, 2004; Page A22 THE CORPORATE tax bill that Congress has sent to the White House rewards just about...
October 12, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST Checking the Facts, in Advance By PAUL KRUGMAN It's not hard to predict what President Bush, who sounds increasingly ...
Judge Fears Pay Cuts Might Worsen Relations By Keith L. Alexander Washington Post Wednesday, October 13, 2004; Page E01 US Airways Group Inc. is encountering...
New Ways to Lose Health Benefits Employee Advocate – www.DukeEmployees.com – October 14, 2004 Today, Ellen E. Schultz reported in The Wall Street Journal...
Duke Power has no plans to dismantle controversial MOX program By PAUL NOWELL : AP Business Writer Oct 13, 2004 : 1:30 am ET YORK, S.C. -- The concrete moat...