Union workers at The New York Times will accept a 5 percent pay cut through the end of the year to help the newspaper avert more layoffs.

Vice President Joe Biden says he expects Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter would have “an open mind” on voting for a bill making it easier to form unions if a compromise emerges.

Union employees at The New York Times scheduled a vote Monday on a temporary 5 percent pay cut, a step Times management hopes will head off any need for additional layoffs this year.

Money-transfer agent Western Union is testing a new service that allows customers to send money overnight directly to the recipient’s door.

Union Pacific Corp. said Thursday its first-quarter profit fell 18 percent as the railroad carried 21 percent fewer carloads, but cost-cutting pushed its results above Wall Street expectations. Its shares rose in morning trading.

Union Pacific Corp. says its first-quarter profit fell 18 percent because the railroad carried 21 percent fewer carloads, but cost-cutting pushed its results past Wall Street expectations.

The Labor Department moved Tuesday to rescind a regulation approved during President George W. Bush’s last days in office that would have increased scrutiny of union finances to help root out financial corruption.

The nation’s oldest institution for training rabbis, cantors and educators of Reform Judaism is facing economic woes that could lead the college to close two of its three U.S. campuses.

Chrysler LLC is warning its Canadian employees that the company won’t survive if the Canadian Auto Workers union doesn’t accept government requested concessions that would make its labor costs competitive with non-unionized plants in Canada.

A sport utility vehicle loaded with 1,200 baby chicks in cardboard boxes pulls up to the Clearview Feed and Seed store, where customers come to pick up their peeping, cheeping poultry orders on a recent spring day.