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Employees at Volkswagen’s SUV assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have voted to join the United Auto Workers in a historic labor victory, the union and Volkswagen announced late Friday. A preliminary tally released by the company showed workers favored union representation by a count of 2,628 to 985, a nearly 3-1 margin. The landslide win
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Accelerator pedal pads on the futuristic, all-electric vehicles have a risk of getting stuck, potentially causing them to crash, federal safety officials said.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Roughly 4,000 Volkswagen workers here will decide this week on whether to form a union at their assembly plant. Their votes will shape more than just the future of their jobs — they could mark a turning point for both the United Auto Workers and the auto industry in the South. The
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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has a message for basketball fans: Don’t drink Molson Coors beers during the NCAA Final Four. The union is boycotting the company’s products nationwide amid a strike at the Molson Coors facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Roughly 400 workers have been on the picket lines since Feb. 17 after failing
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Disney shareholders voted to rebuff Nelson Peltz and his ally, former Disney chief financial officer Jay Rasulo, who sought seats on the company’s board.
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When William Littig showed up for work at his REI store on Feb. 21, it didn’t take long for him to realize it would be his last day. Two managers who were visiting from other stores called him into a closed-door meeting, Littig recalled. One of them read from a paper that turned out to
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It’s yet another milestone in America’s emergence as the world’s top petro state.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said this weekend. In a Saturday announcement addressing the data breach, AT&T said that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information including some Social Security numbers and
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Amazon spent more than $3 million on anti-union consultants last year in its continuing effort to keep organized labor out of its delivery network, according to disclosures filed Saturday with the Labor Department. The Seattle-based retail giant has been ringing up a large tab hiring “persuaders” who try to convince workers not to form unions.
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