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NHL rejects players’ offer to break labor impasse

Ira Podell The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 9:36pm

NEW YORK — The NHL and the players’ association are further apart than ever before.

Union executive director Donald Fehr began the first of his two news conferences Thursday night by proclaiming he believed the sides had agreements on such issues as actual dollars, and then returned moments later to reveal the NHL rejected everything his side offered.

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NHL lockout threatens entire hockey season

Ira Podell The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 12:22am

The National Hockey League season was supposed to be in full swing by now.

Instead, like the NFL in 2011 and the NBA last season, the NHL is mired in a labor dispute, with the owners locking out the players and — so far — wiping out more than two months of the season.

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Indiana's new right-to-work law could prompt copycats

Tony Pugh McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 10:51pm

WASHINGTON -- When Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed legislation this month making Indiana the nation's first new right-to-work state in more than a decade, it turned up the heat on a long-simmering debate about the true intent and impact of the controversial anti-union laws.

By making it illegal to force employees to join a union or pay union dues as a condition of employment, state right-to-work laws are touted as a prime enticement for businesses looking to relocate and keep their labor costs down.

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Walk-out threat averted at Woods Cross refinery

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 3:44pm

WOODS CROSS -- HollyFrontier Corp. employees went to work Wednesday morning after United Steelworkers union finished talks with the oil industry concerning the expiring labor contracts of close to 20,000 employees.

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