Detroit CNN — The United Auto Workers union is on strike against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, the first time in its history that it has struck all three of America’s unionized automakers at the same time. Workers on Friday walked out of three plants – one each from the […]
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What will happen to car prices? GM, Ford and Stellantis have been running their factories around the clock to build up supplies on dealer lots. But that’s also putting more money into the pockets of UAW members and strengthening their financial cushions. At the end of August, the three automakers […]
United Auto Workers (UAW) members on a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Michigan Assembly plant today in Wayne, Michigan. Emily Elconin/Bloomberg/Getty Images The United Auto Workers union strike against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis is unprecedented, as the union has never struck all three companies at the same […]
UPS and the Teamsters union reached a tentative agreement for a new five-year contract covering 340,000 workers at the country’s largest package carrier Tuesday, six days before a threatened strike that risked snarling deliveries across the country. Union leaders announced the deal at midday, hours after they resumed negotiations following […]
Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” But between 2019 and 2022, groups […]
A Sydney-based entrepreneur has slammed the nation’s workers as ‘lazy’, ‘expensive’ and ‘entitled’, arguing they need to be more like Americans where if you don’t work, ‘you’re dead’. Allen Fu shared his low opinion on the work ethic of Australians in a TikTok rant on Thursday, arguing they are paid […]
Chipotle (CMG) is out with a new campaign to hire 15,000 full-time and part-time employees ahead of its busiest time of the year, the months of March to May, or what it calls “burrito season.” These hires will be kept on for “ongoing employment” beyond the busy season, a Chipotle […]
Quite a thing to brag about, right? Nothing against Filipino workers, of course, who are looking for the best jobs they can get, just the same as U.S. workers. But the guy hiring them and bragging about it because he knows it will get him attention by making people angry—he’s a […]
New York CNN Business — More than 2,000 employees at 112 Starbucks locations are set to go on a one-day strike Thursday, according to the union which has been organizing stores for the last year. The union says it is striking to protest the retaliation taken against union supporters nationwide. […]
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Winter came early for 24 people who were working secret second jobs or prohibited side hustles at Equifax. Miguel Pereira I Getty ImagesWorking from home with baby in Spain in 2020. The credit reporting bureau used one of its own products, The Work Number, to find out if employees were […]
Jackson National Life Insurance confirms with News 2 company-wide layoffs, including the company’s Franklin location. FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WKRN) — Jackson National Life Insurance confirms with News 2 the company has laid off approximately 150 workers company-wide, including workers at its Franklin location. Jackson National Life Insurance is based out of […]
We estimate that 3.5 million workers were at high risk of losing their employer-provided health insurance in the past two weeks. Because the United States is unique among rich countries in tying health insurance benefits to employment—roughly half of all U.S. workers receive health insurance through their own employer’s provided […]