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... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGThe United States sold more liquefied natural gas on the global market than any other country in 2023, surpassing yet another milestone in the nation’s transformation into a fossil fuel superpower.Drillers across the U.S. broke records for ... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGNEW 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 da... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGAmazon 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 g... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGA 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 ta... More »
FILE - Then-Nielsen Company CEO David Calhoun, center, watches progress as he waits for the company's IPO to begin trading, Jan. 26, 2011, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Calhoun will be stepping down at the end of the year from the top job at Boe... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGOfficials at the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Wednesday, accusing the company of making workers sign illegal confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses as a condition of getting severance... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGChina 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... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGStarbucks 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 relationshi... More »
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 ov... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGREI 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... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGThe 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 an... More »