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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.
Read Moreelektromagnetische velden uit Infraroodpanelen zenden geen elektromagnetische velden, elektromagnetische velden of radiogolven uit. Dit komt omdat ze op een heel andere manier werken dan traditionele convectieverwarmingssystemen en ver-infraroodstraling gebruiken, net als de zonnestralen, om objecten en mensen rechtstreeks te verwarmen in plaats van alleen maar de luchtmoleculen die voorbijkomen op te warmen. IR-verwarming is niet
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A leadership shake-up at Boeing, including news Monday that its top executive plans to step down, highlights the difficult path facing the iconic aircraft manufacturer as it tries to navigate through yet another safety crisis. CEO David Calhoun, who has been under unrelenting pressure since a panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max jetliner during
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A union that’s organizing Waffle House workers filed a petition with the Labor Department on Monday, asking federal officials to investigate the iconic chain’s policy of deducting mandatory meal costs from workers’ paychecks. Waffle House takes at least $3 for each on-shift meal out of workers’ pay, whether they end up eating it or not,
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China controls 98% of the world’s production of gallium, a soft, silvery metal used to make semiconductors, LED screens, and solar panels — and a key ingredient in next-generation weapons. Last July, after the United States restricted sales of advanced microchips to the People’s Republic, Beijing responded by slapping export controls on gallium and other
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Starbucks has agreed to sit down with workers from its 400 unionized stores in late April and start hammering out principles for a labor accord, another sign the coffee chain and the union may be on the cusp of a new, productive relationship. Both sides said the bargaining sessions were meant to create a framework
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Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have filed a petition seeking to hold a union election at their assembly plant, bringing the United Auto Workers to the cusp of a historic breakthrough in the U.S. South. The UAW announced Monday morning that an overwhelming majority of employees there had signed union cards and asked the National
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REI workers from stores around the country showed up uninvited at their corporate office in Issaquah, Washington, last Friday. The signs they were carrying made it clear to the white-collar employees looking down from the windows above that they weren’t there to tour the campus. “Where the hell’s our merit pay?” one sign asked. “Ask
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The union for Medieval Times workers informed the dinner-theater company Wednesday that it no longer intends to represent employees at two castles that organized, bringing an end to a colorful labor campaign that excited union supporters and inspired endless jokes about serfs and lords. Workers at the chain’s castles in Northern New Jersey and Southern
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