BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Reports Coke employees walk out on strike Teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor at Coca-Cola bottling and distribution facilities in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Hartford, Conn. went on strike Monday. The workers, mostly production workers and delivery drivers, were in contract negotiations with Coca-Cola Enterprises Coca-Cola Enterprises NYSE: CCE is the largest bottler by volume in the Coca-Cola System. It is the anchor bottler for North America and parts of Europe. The company is the bottler of Coca-Cola and its other soft drink products, and in some areas a few other soft drink Inc., the world's largest beverage bottler. The workers walked out over the company's proposal that they pay more for health benefits. Union leaders say the workers have been arguing with management over health care costs since last fall. The bottling company A bottling company is a commercial enterprise whose output is the bottling of beverages for distribution. Many bottling companies are franchisees of corporations such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo who distribute the beverage in a specific geographic region. has regional, not national, contracts with workers, which is why the strike was only in the two bottling plants. The two strikes are over separate contracts. L.A. Hyatt to get work, new name The Hyatt Regency Los Angeles has been reflagged as the Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown and will undergo a $10 million renovation, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide announced Monday. The 485-room hotel, which features 28,000 square feet of meeting space, is connected to the Macy's Plaza shopping mall. T-bill rates higher in Monday auction WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction, with the three-month bill hitting the highest level since September 2001. The Treasury Department auctioned $17 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 2.895 percent, up from 2.800 percent last week. An additional $15 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 3.110 percent, up from 3.070 percent last week. In a separate report, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year Treasury bills, a popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages This article is about the US mortgage type. For an international perspective, see Variable rate mortgage. An adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) is a mortgage loan where the interest rate on the note is periodically adjusted based on an index. , fell to 3.32 percent last week from 3.35 percent the previous week. Analysis: Crestor presents problem DALLAS - Contrary to government claims, side effects Side effects Effects of a proposed project on other parts of the firm. happen more often with Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering drug cholesterol-lowering drug Therapeutics Any of a family of agents that ↓ serum cholesterol; the most cost-effective agents for lowering LDL-C are nicotinic acid and lovastatin; the most efficient for ↑ HDL-C are nicotinic acid and gemfibrozil that consumer advocates tried to get off the market earlier this year, a new analysis shows. The review of leading cholesterol drugs taken by millions of Americans showed that most are very safe and that the risk of serious problems, even with Crestor, are very low. But the latest research seemed to challenge a Food and Drug Administration decision related to the drug's safety. |
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