METHUEN - Ranking members of the Police Department said they have confidence in the leadership of the police chief and disagree with the City Council's recent "no confidence" vote.

The Laborers Newsletter, Lifelines, reports that three classic must-see workplace safety videos have appeared on Google Video. Check them out.

In the week before Memorial Day, Texas-based Clear Channel has told striking Massachusetts's workers - one-fifth of whom as military veterans - they have no jobs to return to because strikebreakers permanently replaced them. On the Friday morning heading into Memorial Day, the strikers brought the issue to Senator John Kerry.Clear Channel Outdoor chose the week of Memorial Day to tell striking billboard workers, including a significant number of U.S. Military veterans employed by the company, that they no longer had jobs. Members of IUPAT Sign Local #391 have been on strike in Eastern Massachusetts since March 19th.

The Steamship Authority is concerned that its "management prerogatives" may be curtailed if the state legislature passes a new bill designed to force it into arbitration. A hearing on that bill takes place in Boston in four days at 10:30 am on Thursday, June 7.

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Chanting "stop the sale," Verizon employees from Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire joined fellow workers to protest the company's sale to a North Carolina company.They fear their jobs are on the line if the sale of the landline business in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont to FairPoint Communications Inc. goes through. But if any one of the three states rejects the sale, the deal is dead.

Now that selectmen voted Tuesday to allow private trash trucks to transfer extra loads at the Department of Public Works site on Newton Street, netting the town a tidy annual profit of $125,000 or more , trash talk will get into the really messy topic:Whether to go private.

A new four-year contract would give Boston police officers a 14 percent pay hike but require them to pay more for health care, city officials said yesterday.

Nurses, once seen as healing angels or Florence Nightingales by the bedside, today are multidisciplinary professionals who provide quality patient care.

The expansion of NAFTA into the Security and Prosperity Partnership reveals the road ahead for other nations entering into free trade agreements.

About 40 operation and engineering employees at New England Sports Network will vote Thursday whether to join the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, a union that is part of Communications Workers of America, one of the nation's largest unions.