The controversy over locating a manufacturing plant could impact upcoming postal legislation, White House climate goals, and a high-profile Senate race.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Voltage Valley
Building a domestic supply chain, Lordstown, Ohio, is becoming a hub for the electric-vehicle industry.
Posted inTAP
New Under the Sun: Government Pro-Worker Activism
Today on TAP: The White House and Congress endeavor to empower groups of employees, as Republicans try out a sham empowerment of their own.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Warehouse Space Race
With warehouse capacity at a premium, businesses try to get goods and move them out as global economic chaos disrupts long-held ideas about stocking stuff just in time.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why Trucking Can’t Deliver the Goods
The yearly turnover rate among long-haul truckers is 94 percent. And you wonder why you’re not getting your orders on time?
Posted inWorking in America
Labor Fight Brews on the Docks
Negotiations loom between the dockworkers union and shipping companies making record profits.
Posted inWorking in America
Why Most Kroger Workers Are Food Insecure
And what the company can do about it
Posted inWorking in America
Why Can’t the AFL-CIO Have Two Presidents?
Liz Shuler and Sara Nelson are the combination the labor movement needs.
Posted inWorking in America
Here’s Why American Workers Are (a) Screwed and (b) Quitting
The annual report on union membership explains a lot about what’s wrong with our country.
Posted inWorking in America
How Farmworkers Are Organizing to Close the Wage Gap
Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights has been delayed.
