Tag: labor

January 22, 2018

The share of American workers belonging to labor unions held steady in 2017, matching the historic low of 10.7% set in the prior year, according to a Labor Department report Friday. The membership rate for wage and salary employees is […]

December 8, 2017

After spending years building up its gas-power business, General Electric Co. is trying to figure out how to keep pace in a world that’s no longer all that interested in fossil fuels. The plan to cut 12,000 jobs — almost […]

April 27, 2017

Luxury electric carmaker Tesla offered pay rises and job guarantees to defuse labor tensions at a key German supplier, whose founder and CEO left the company late last month, German labor officials said. Klaus Grohmann, former head of Grohmann Engineering, […]

May 26, 2016

OK, let’s review what was covered so far in our series of articles on the ResourceMFG Manufacturing Employee Opinion Survey. Ready? Pay is most important to manufacturing workers Then Job Security Then Benefits Next to layoffs, hourly workers are most […]

May 17, 2016

Tesla Motors Inc. said it is investigating how a worker from Slovenia was critically injured in a fall while on the job last year at the company’s plant in Fremont, Calif. The Mercury Newsnewspaper in San Jose, Calif., published an […]

April 26, 2016

Volkswagen AG today said it would go to a U.S. federal appeals court in an effort to keep the UAW from representing a portion of the company’s plant workers in Chattanooga, Tenn. The UAW in turn filed an unfair labor […]

April 12, 2016

A $245 million investment slated for a Detroit-area General Motors plant will go to a Kansas facility instead, leaving one of GM’s primary small-vehicle factories with a light workload. GM said in June that it would upgrade its Orion Assembly […]