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The United Mine Workers of America is suing Arch Coal Inc. and Peabody Energy Corp. in southern West Virginia over pension and health-care benefits for bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp.'s active and retired miners.

Health care costs and the economy are the top factors affecting both employers' business decisions and their vote in the upcoming presidential election, according to a survey released today by the Principal Financial Group.

Forget about a deal to save a full hockey season: the NHL and the players' association can't even agree to get together to talk.

Compensation among outside directors at the countrys largest corporations faced modest gains for the second successive year, suggesting salary increases for these positions are back to prerecession levels, according to an annual analysis by global professional services company Towers Watson.

Available engineering jobs grew 12 percent in September from the last year, totaling more than 184,000 jobs listed, according to research by WANTED Analytics, a source of real-time business intelligence for the talent marketplace.

A Wisconsin judge refused Monday to put on hold his earlier decision repealing major parts of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.