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Idaho might be known for its potato chips, but the Biden administration is making a big bet on a different…
Flight attendants at Southwest Airlines have ratified a contract that includes pay raises totaling more than 33% over four years,…
After shrugging off a $355 million first-quarter loss, Boeing has to slog through the mud of fresh allegations it retaliated against workers
Fresh off questions about the structural integrity of its airplanes, Boeing is now battling multiple accusations that it shut down…
H1-B visas are the lifeblood of U.S. tech innovation–and the shortcut to semiconductor supremacy
In December, Samsung delayed a Texas-based chip manufacturing facility’s start date. In January, the Taiwanese chip manufacturing company TSMC pushed back one of its…
Immigration, productivity, inflation: Why finding the pandemic’s ‘missing women’ could be the solution to almost every challenge facing the U.S. economy today
In the face of sticky inflation and a persistently tight labor market, policymakers and economists have proposed various solutions, from…
American Airlines’ pilots union notes mounting safety issues—tools left in wheel wells, items abandoned near parked planes
The pilots union at American Airlines says there has been “a significant spike” in safety issues at the airline, including…
‘The way to solve an inflation crisis is to endure an immigration crisis’: The mystery in the labor market finally gets explained
Having fled economic and political chaos in Venezuela, Luisana Silva now loads carpets for a South Carolina rug company. She…
Bourbon maker Woodford Reserve doled out pay raises and free bottles of whiskey to thwart union efforts, judge says
Woodford Reserve undermined unionization efforts at its Kentucky distillery by awarding pay raises, relaxing its vacation policy and handing out…
The number of job vacancies around the world is still unusually high–and there is no end in sight to the global labor shortage
Job vacancies have stayed high or have been rising in various parts of the world, despite slower global growth and…
Thank ‘gangbusters’ corporate profits for keeping you employed and staving off the recession, top economist says
Corporate profits hit record highs in the fourth quarter of last year. But corporations aren’t the only ones riding high:…