AMERICA'S WORKING families today are running faster than ever to keep up, and still falling behind. High costs in healthcare, housing, energy, and college tuition are suffocating families' budgets.

BOSTON, Mass. - June 02, 2007 - Governor Deval Patrick says Massachusetts must enact a package of sweeping changes in public education to be ready for "the economy of tomorrow."

The Middleborough police officers' union hand-delivered a letter to tribe chairman Glenn Marshall last week, saying union members were unanimously in favor of a casino in town.

SOUTH HADLEY - The Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission has asked the town and employees trying to organize a collective bargaining unit for nonunion municipal workers to come to an agreement on who may be in the unit, according to officials.

A simmering controversy over the future of the University of Massachusetts took a turn toward the bizarre yesterday when an e-mail authored by UMass president Jack M. Wilson surfaced, indicating that his sweeping reorganization plan "should be deferred indefinitely."

The city and the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association say they have hammered out an agreement for a four-year contract after a marathon bargaining session that kept negotiators at the table until 2:30 yesterday morning.

Al Ricciardi, the union steward and a Water Department employee, blamed the deadlock on the town's unwillingness to budge on several key issues, including salary increases and overtime pay."We've been negotiating since September and we're at an impasse," said Ricciardi. "I've been negotiating the last 14 years and this is the worst of all those years."

Stoneham -It’s back to the drawing board for the Stoneham Teachers Association after the union voted down a proposed contract Thursday afternoon.And the vote wasn’t even close.

The registered nurses of Tobey Hospital held an informational picket line May 21, 2007 to seek the public's support for a fair contract.

Everyone at the council wishes you a Happy Retirement!