Stephen Franklin

After steadily chugging along, American workers' pay and benefits costs abruptly slowed to a snail's pace at the start of the year, slipping to the lowest increase since government record...

Forget the gold watch. Consider the farewell bestowed upon Vernon R. Loucks Jr. last year. He stepped down after 18 years of heading Baxter International Inc., the giant health-care company...

Hoping to end a sickout that is throwing its service further into chaos, American Airlines Thursday asked a federal judge to hold its pilots in contempt of court as 200...

Six months after a landmark settlement of sexual-harassment charges, the Mitsubishi Motors Corp. auto plant remains rife with sexual banter, regularly stirring complaints from female workers, according to an independent...

What if the door of the Chevrolet Blazer swings open, but Michael Jordan is not there, smiling out at Chicagoland couch potatoes and car-conscious denizens of television land? What if,...

Threatening the first strike against the Chicago area's private garbage haulers in decades, the union representing thousands of garbage-collection workers said its members will strike this week unless they get...

As soon as she showed up on the picket line, Cathy Emery huddled with the other women to hear the latest word. It was not what she wanted to hear....

In their first full, face-to-face contract talks in over two years, negotiators from Caterpillar Inc. and the United Auto Workers union will sit down Monday in the Chicago area with...

Now let us face our work station. Heaps of papers. More heaps of everything. Pictures, faded postcards, coffee-stained computer guides, life-stained memos, mail read, mail unread, a hot dog store...

Nobody smiled at Temp No. 378 at the Christmas party. Then again, everyone in the office treats Temp No. 378 as if she were invisible. When temp secretary Leah answers...