Employees at the company’s factory in California are seeking to unionize through United Auto Workers.
Transportation
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Uber: The Road Not Taken
Why Uber’s business model keeps bleeding money—and how it might yet right itself as a useful but less grandiose venture
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Public Infrastructure as Stealth Privatization
Trump’s infrastructure plans could raise costs, enrich financiers, and fleece the public.
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Infrastructure: Can We Finally Think Big?
The defining challenge of the next president’s infrastructure agenda will be persuading Congress to come along for the ride.
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Want Transit? Get It on the Ballot!
A record number of transportation-related ballot initiatives will be before voters this Election Day.
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Flying into Transportation Disruption
If you thought drones and self-driving cars were a challenge, just think of the mess regulators will face when driverless flying cars arrive on the scene.
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Transportation Secretary Foxx Moves to Heal Scars of Urban Renewal
For Anthony Foxx, fixing America’s roads and bridges isn’t just about rebuilding. It’s about addressing the racial and economic divisions long embedded in the nation’s infrastructure in places like Pittsburgh.
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Can the Feds Get Washington’s Metro Right?
The D.C. Metro system is in crisis, and a power struggle between federal agencies fighting for the right to oversee safety isn’t helping.
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Volkswagen’s Big Lie
How VW’s decision to double down on a fossil-fuel technology led it into deceit and disaster.
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A Tale of Two Subway Systems
Washington Metro riders might complain about their subway system, but it could be worse—just look at Boston.
