Vaughn Cockayne

Labor Department finds 2 dozen children working in slaughterhouses

The Labor Department is accusing a Tennessee-based janitorial company of hiring children as young as 13 to clean dangerous equipment in slaughterhouses.

February 22, 2024

California regulators suspend Waymo application for expansion as controversy mounts

California regulators on Wednesday suspended auto-taxi service Waymo's application to expand its service into more parts of San Francisco and into Los Angeles.

February 21, 2024

Swedish union to stop servicing Tesla charging stations next month

Tesla may have to outsource the installation and maintenance of its charging stations in Sweden.

February 21, 2024

Kentucky UAW members reach tentative agreement with Ford

The United Auto Workers have reached a deal with Ford over a local contract at its Louisville, Kentucky, truck plant, the union announced Wednesday.

February 21, 2024

Teamsters prepare to strike at Anheuser-Busch as Molson Coors walkout continues

As hundreds of Teamsters members hit the picket lines in Texas, thousands more plan to strike at the country's biggest brewer, Anheuser-Busch.

February 21, 2024

Ford UAW workers to strike Friday if contract demands not met

Ford and the United Auto Workers in Kentucky have until the end of the workweek to agree on a contract before thousands of employees could walk off the job.

February 20, 2024

21 Starbucks locations file to unionize

Starbucks workers from 21 coffee shops around the U.S. announced they will file petitions to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board, marking Starbucks Workers United's most aggressive expansion since its inception.

February 20, 2024

X suspends, reinstates account of Navalny widow after Putin criticisms

Elon Musk's X has restored the account of Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after a short and unexplained suspension.

February 20, 2024

Musk: Neuralink patient moving computer mouse by thinking

The first human test subject at Elon Musk's Neuralink has made a full recovery and is moving a computer cursor just by thinking, the billionaire announced this week.

February 20, 2024

Amazon calls National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional in official filing

Retail giant Amazon is challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board in a new filing this week, joining a chorus of other businesses in legal trouble with the board.

February 16, 2024

‘You are dead to me’: Messages reveal Musk cut ties with Twitter Files author

Twitter Files author Matt Taibbi published private messages from Elon Musk that showed the platform's owner suppressed the journalist's account.

February 16, 2024

The cost of AI: Cisco axing thousands of workers

Software giant Cisco on Wednesday said it will lay off a chunk of its workforce in 2024 as its focus shifts to artificial intelligence.

February 15, 2024

Unionized Stellantis workers cashing in with more profit sharing than other firms’ employees

Stellantis employees represented by the United Auto Workers are expected to get the biggest profit-sharing check in the automotive industry this year.

February 15, 2024

Musk shifts SpaceX to Texas after court nixes his pay package

Tech billionaire Elon Musk continued moving his businesses out of Delaware this week by reincorporating SpaceX in Texas.

February 15, 2024

Mark Zuckerberg: Meta’s Quest 3 superior to Apple Vision Pro

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pitched the Quest 3 to potential headset customers this week while hoping to keep consumers away from Apple's new Vision Pro.

February 14, 2024

Delta dishes out $1.4 billion in profit-sharing payments to workers

Thousands of Delta employees got the equivalent of a month's pay Wednesday as the airline sent out its profit-sharing payments.

February 14, 2024

Instacart cuts 250 employees in restructuring

Grocery delivery giant Instacart announced Tuesday it would cut 250 employees this week, about 3% of its workforce, as it revamps the company.

February 14, 2024

Waymo recalls self-driving software after crashes

Self-driving taxi service Waymo on Tuesday issued a recall of the software that powered its cars when two of its autonomous cars crashed in December.

February 14, 2024

Flight attendants at 30 airports participate in walkout for higher wages

Hundreds of flight attendants took to the picket lines Tuesday to push for better pay.

February 14, 2024

Threads gets political, unveils trending topics page

Facebook's new social media site Threads will implement a trending topics page this week, ramping up the competition with Elon Musk's X.

February 13, 2024