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Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the largest union representing workers in New York's executive branch reached a contract agreement that protects the union's members from administration plans for cost-saving layoffs, both sides announced Wednesday.

A total of 22 Kentucky counties have now qualified for unemployment assistance due to severe weather that occurred beginning mid-April.

The debate over public employee pension and health benefits legislation wound up taking so much time that the New Jersey Legislature is under the gun to approve a state budget in nine days.

The financially troubled Postal Service is suspending its employer contribution to the Federal Employee Retirement System.

Some low-income Planned Parenthood of Indiana patients were left fending for themselves Tuesday to pay for birth control, breast exams, Pap tests and other medical services while a court battle continued over a new state law that eliminated the organization's Medicaid funding.

Commissioner David Stern said Tuesday that NBA owners have proposed a "flex cap" system, but players still insist it's a hard cap which they won't agree to.

NFL owners have finished five hours of discussions for a new collective bargaining agreement that would net the players just under 50 percent of total revenues.

The National Labor Relations Board proposed sweeping new rules Tuesday to allow unions to hold workplace elections much more quickly, winning praise from Democrats and labor leaders who called it a long overdue fix to a broken system riddled with roadblocks and delays to union organizing.