Boeing Strike Extended After Union Workers Reject New Contract

The vote, hours after Boeing reported a $6.1 billion loss, will extend a nearly six-week-long strike at factories where the company makes its best-selling commercial plane. Airlines and Airplanes, Aviation Accidents, Safety and Disasters, Labor and Jobs, Layoffs and Job Reductions, Pensions and Retirement Plans, Strikes, Factories and Manufacturing, Organized Labor, Employee Fringe Benefits, Wages and…

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The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business

The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country. Drugstores, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), CVS Caremark Corporation, Express Scripts Inc, Optum Inc, Bismarck (ND), Darrington (Wash), Huntington Beach (Calif), Pennsylvania, New Jersey, United States The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by…

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Frozen Waffle Products Are Recalled Over Listeria Risk

Some products were sold under the brands of major retailers like Kroger, Price Chopper and Walmart. No illnesses so far have been linked to the waffles. Food Contamination and Poisoning, Recalls and Bans of Products, Bacteria, Listeria Monocytogenes, TreeHouse Foods Inc, Waffles, Supermarkets and Grocery Stores, United States, Canada Some products were sold under the brands of…

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In a Malaysian Pop-Up City, Echoes of China’s Housing Crash

Forest City was an audacious $100 billion project by a top Chinese developer. Today, the project is a fraction of what had been planned and the developer is broke. Real Estate (Commercial), Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Renminbi (Currency), Building (Construction), Country Garden, Coinbase Inc, Ethereum Foundation, Johnson, Bryan (Tech Executive), China, Malaysia Forest City was an…

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