A federal appeals court handed Elon Musk a victory in a freedom-of-speech case on Friday by overturning an earlier ruling in a dispute between the billionaire and the National Labor Relations Board. In March last year, three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New …
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Twelve years ago, Senator Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democrat, took the stage at his election night party in Columbus to celebrate winning a second term. Barack Obama had just carried Ohio for the second time, after emphasizing his administration’s rescue of the auto industry. Mr. Brown wanted to proclaim that …
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The first person I met at a Monday night meet-and-greet for Dan Osborn, the independent Nebraska Senate candidate, was a Donald Trump-voting Republican named Joe Hallett. He’d worked, alongside his wife, Sherri, with Osborn at Omaha’s Kellogg plant. Explaining Osborn’s appeal, Joe said, “He’s not a millionaire or anything like …
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A decade ago, Boeing stopped offering the gold standard of pension plans — one that pays out guaranteed sums to retirees. The loss of the pension still angers many members of the company’s largest union. On Wednesday, the union’s members voted by a large margin to reject an improved contract …
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Leaders of Boeing’s largest union said on Saturday that they had reached a “negotiated proposal” for a new contract and would put it up for a vote to end a long and expensive strike. In a post on its website on Saturday, the union said that “with the help of …
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A district court in Sweden ruled on Friday that it could not force a local postal company to resume deliveries to Tesla that had stopped nearly a year ago as part of a wider labor dispute aimed at getting the U.S. automaker to sign a collective bargaining agreement. Tesla filed …
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