Cost-Containment

The drugstore lobby group Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency released a paper not too long ago entitled, Contract Negotiating Tool. PUTT admits it created the paper to place stories in major news outlets and recruit annual membership donors to its campaign against PBMs.

Workers in Iowa's largest public-sector union won't have to contribute to their health insurance, but they will not see an overall raise under a new two-year contract issued by an arbitrator Thursday.

A union local has filed an unfair labor practice claim against the owner of a Pacific Northwest grain terminal that locked out employees after alleging a worker sabotaged equipment.

U.S. manufacturers expanded in February at the fastest pace since June 2011, buoyed by increases in new orders and production. The third straight month of growth suggests factories may help the economy this year after slumping through most of 2012.

Yahoos in the news again. And, completely in character lately, the tech companys caught a lot of flack for it.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has signed a bill giving tens of thousands of state employees a 2 percent raise.

Dik Bolger is a lifelong Minnesota Democrat, a gray-bearded baby boomer with a braid down his back whose Minneapolis printing company's plant displays work by local artists and sculptors. He backed Mark Dayton for governor, but his take on the Democratic chief executive's plan for new business taxes could be...

Growing up, I used to get chastised a lot for rushing aroundnot that I apparently took it heart, as anyone who knows me can tell you now.