Labor unions are celebrating one of their biggest victories in decades after turning back an Ohio law that curbed collective bargaining rights for the state's public workers. The vote showed unions are still a potent political force that can't be ignored.

More than a thousand public-sector workers and retirees rallied Tuesday at the Rhode Island Statehouse in opposition to a proposed overhaul of the state's vastly underfunded pension system.

Small business owners are combating regulatory challenges and the fight for talent, both of which are hurting their companies and could affect how they vote in 2012, finds The Hartfords Small Business Success Study.

The U.S. Department of Labor is awarding a $3.4 million grant to enlist re-employment and support services to approximately 850 workers who were laid off in July because of the closure of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. facility in Union City, Tenn.

With a Thanksgiving deadline fast approaching, the GOP members of a deficit-reduction supercommittee are pressing a plan to cut the deficit by about $1.5 trillion over the coming decade, showing flexibility on tax revenue increases for the first time while proposing to gradually raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67...

Consumers now have the means to exert their individuality, or weirdness, and seek out products and services accordingly. And it's about to get even "weirder" because insurance exchanges, both public and private, are poised to take choice to a whole new level in the world of health benefits.

Only a fraction of small businesses that may qualify for help to offset the cost of health insurance have taken advantage of a tax credit that's included in the health reform package.

Another day, another set of mixed headlines about where the benefits business is headed. So today Ill just share a few, drop my snarky asides like some kind of belligerent court jester and let you get back to work.