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By David Shepardson(Reuters) -Members of the United Auto Workers on Saturday ratified a new labor contract with Daimler (OTC:) Truck that includes at least a 25% general wage increase over the four-year deal. The vote was 94.5% in favor…

But the undercount of mass-immigration distorts the household data. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. In April, employers added 175,000 payroll jobs – excluding farm workers and the self-employed – a slower pace from the upwardly…

The United Automobile Workers reached an 11th-hour deal on Friday with Daimler Truck in North Carolina that gave workers 25 percent raises over the next four years and averted a strike that would have begun Saturday.The union had said it…

Federal regulators on Tuesday enacted a nationwide ban on new noncompete agreements, which keep millions of Americans — from minimum-wage earners to CEOs — from changing jobs within their industries.The Federal Trade Commission on…

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday banned noncompete agreements for most U.S. workers with a new rule that will bar employers from enforcing clauses that restrict workers from switching employers within their industry, which the…

SAN FRANCISCO — Google fired about 20 more workers it said participated in protests denouncing the company’s cloud computing deal with the Israeli government, bringing the total number of workers fired in the past week over the issue to…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historic first test of the UAW’s…

Volkswagen workers and union supporters celebrating victory in the union election at Volkswagen's…

Police have made multiple arrests in relation to last year’s multimillion-dollar gold heist from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, and two Air Canada employees have been charged.  Last…

(Bloomberg) -- Tomoki Yoshihara starts his shift at a meat-processing plant in rural Australia at 5am, and earns three times more butchering lamb for almost 50 hours a week than he did as a member of Japan’s military.Most Read from…