Before Dry January hits, Andrea Wilson of Michter’s and Nicole Austin of Cascade Hollow discuss how the expansion has affected them, particularly as women in a historically male industry.
Category: Factories and Manufacturing
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Jeep Plant Shutdown Imperils Illinois Town and 1,350 Workers
Stellantis plans to idle the factory, which makes the Cherokee, as it shifts to electric vehicles. Labor talks and a union election may be affected.
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United Airlines Orders 100 Wide-Body Boeing 787 Jets
United plans to take delivery of the planes over an eight-year span to refresh its fleet and increase fuel efficiency, with an option to buy 100 more.
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Workers at E.V. Battery Plant in Ohio Vote to Unionize
The result, at a plant owned by General Motors and a South Korean company, is a milestone for the auto union in organizing electric vehicle workers.
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‘Innovation Hubs’ Aim to Lift Distressed Areas. Congress Just Has to Fund Them.
A new report suggests where 20 newly created research centers could best revitalize struggling economies and accelerate new technologies
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Chinese Solar Makers Evaded U.S. Tariffs, Investigation Finds
The Biden administration pre-emptively halted any penalties from the case in June, prompting critics to say the administration had shortcut its own trade rules
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Julia Reichert, Documentarian of the Working Class, Dies at 76
She took home, to Ohio, a 2019 Oscar for “American Factory,” and in a long career teaching and making films, she paid special attention to working women.
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Chinese Solar Makers Evaded U.S. Tariffs, Investigation Finds
The Biden administration preemptively halted any penalties from the case in June, prompting critics to say the administration has shortcut its own trade rules