If you’ve noticed an empty store shelf where Clorox bleach, Glad trash bags or Burt’s Bees skin products should be, you’re not alone. Clorox, the consumer products giant that makes those and many other items,…
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The United Auto Workers strike against the Big Three U.S. automakers continues, but union President Shawn Fain said Friday that the labor stoppage isn’t expanding as the walkout closes out its third week. In a…
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‘Kill us or send us home’: Amazon workers in Saudi Arabia say they were exploited by labor supply and recruiting firms
This story was reported in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism and The Guardian. Momtaj Mansur flew to Saudi Arabia in September 2021, excited to work at one of the…
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Job growth was stronger than expected in September, a sign that the U.S. economy is hanging tough despite higher interest rates, labor strife and dysfunction in Washington. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 336,000 for the month,…
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Workers at Mack Trucks have gone on strike Monday after rejecting a proposed contract between the company and the United Auto Workers union. The union released a letter on X, formerly known as Twitter, that…
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More than 75,000 workers to strike at hundreds of Kaiser Permanente health facilities across U.S.
Workers at Kaiser Permanente — the nation’s largest health care nonprofit organization — began a strike Wednesday morning that is set to within hours see more than 75,000 union members walk out of hospitals and…
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Walk past any bank and you’ll likely see savings rates advertised in the window. That’s because, for the first time in many years, rates have climbed to 5% on some high-yield savings accounts. Much the…
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Two of Sam Bankman-Fried’s former friends from MIT, who also worked at crypto exchange FTX while living with the company co-founder in the Bahamas, took the stand in a Manhattan courtroom this week to testify against…
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In the housing market today, it feels like what goes up doesn’t have to come down. It looked like home prices were finally cooling off late last year after price spikes that began during the…
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The criminal cyberattack on MGM Resorts in Las Vegas last month resulted in the company’s losing around $100 million, it said in a filing Thursday evening with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The admission is…