By Doug Cunningham

The U.S. Supreme Court decided against workers' interests in two cases this week. It ruled that home health care workers are not entitled to overtime pay. And it ruled that companies can terminate pensions in bankruptcies even when unions offer to merge the pensions into multi-employer plans. In the pensions case Crown Vantage used its pensions funds to buy an annuity that paid workers a minimum pension and pocketed five million dollars for the company.