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Best Practices for Manufacturing Industry Channel Sales Incentive Programs

November 29, 2022

Oculus Founder Builds Fatal Feature into VR Headset

November 9, 2022

Caterpillar Settles Federal Tax Dispute

September 14, 2022

A man shops at a supermarket in New York, July 27, 2022.

Key Inflation Gauge Reaches 6.8% as Prices Keep Surging

July 29, 2022

How to Attract New Talent with AR

How to Attract New Talent with AR

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November 22, 2022

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EPA to Consider Tougher Locomotive Emissions Rules

Diesel exhaust contains tiny particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs.

November 10, 2022

The mining company that wants to extract an assortment of rare elements from southeast Nebraska has announced an agreement that will provide up to $285 million to help cover the roughly $1.1 billion cost of building the mine.

Proposed Nebraska Mine Raises Up To $366M of $1.1B It Needs

The company wants to extract an assortment of rare elements from southeast Nebraska.

September 26, 2022

Selkirk rail yard, Selkirk, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022.

Tentative Railway Labor Deal Reached, Averting Strike

The strike could have shut down rail lines across the country.

September 15, 2022

Union Pacific has already lost three lawsuits over the way it dismisses employees with health conditions because of safety concerns, and the prospect of hundreds more similar lawsuits, including Hersey's case, looms over the railroad.

Disqualified for Disabilities, Railroad Workers Fight Back

The federal lawsuits could prove costly to Union Pacific.

August 18, 2022

United Auto Workers members walk in the Labor Day parade in Detroit, Sept. 2, 2019. The United Auto Workers union is increasing the strike pay it offers workers who walk off the job for the second time this year in 2022, following a spate of strikes amid the ongoing worker shortages nationwide.

UAW Rescinds Strike Pay Increase

The change has been dropped over cost concerns.

July 29, 2022

In this photo provided by Wabtec, a completed modernized Union Pacific locomotive is prepped for delivery at Wabtec's Fort Worth plant in Fort Worth, Texas, in October 2021. Union Pacific will spend more than $1 billion to upgrade 600 of its old diesel locomotives over the next three years and make them more efficient, but regulators still want it to do more to cut pollution from its engines.

Union Pacific to Spend $1B to Upgrade 600 Old Locomotives

But regulators still want it to do more to cut pollution from the engines.

July 27, 2022

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Senators Urge Manufacturer to Offer Striking Workers More

They say plant workers shouldn’t have to accept the drastically higher health care costs and modest raises the company is offering.

June 9, 2022

NioCorp Developments CEO Mark Smith talks to a group of investors during a tour on Oct. 6, 2021, about the prospects for a proposed mine the company hopes to build near Elk Creek in southeast Nebraska, to extract critical minerals NioCorp Developments, the mining company that wants to extract a rare heat-resistant element from the ground under southeast Nebraska says a new report shows the deposit it plans to mine holds a significant amount of other rare elements, Thursday, May 19, 2022.

Proposed Nebraska Mine Has Sizeable Deposit of Rare Elements

Those elements are needed to make magnets used in electric vehicles.

May 20, 2022

1,000 UAW Members Strike in Wisconsin, Iowa

Construction equipment makers are following in the footsteps of Deere.

May 3, 2022

A CSX freight train pulls through McKeesport, Pa., on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. CSX has agreed, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, to start paying some of its employees more in advance of raises the railroad expects to agree to as part of ongoing national contract talks.

Rail Unions Refusing Advance Payments in Favor of New Deal

The coalition of unions represent more than 105,000 railroad workers.

April 25, 2022

A CSX freight train pulls through McKeesport, Pa., on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. CSX has agreed, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, to start paying some of its employees more in advance of raises the railroad expects to agree to as part of ongoing national contract talks.

CSX to Pay Workers More in Advance of Expected Rail Raises

CSX said the payments of up to $600 a month are expected to start next month.

April 20, 2022

A major fertilizer company says the limits Union Pacific is putting on rail traffic to clear up congestion will delay shipments that farmers need during the spring planting season.

Fertilizer Company Complains About Railroad Shipment Limits

It said the railroad ordered it to cut its shipments nearly 20%.

April 15, 2022

John Deere equipment is on display at the Farm Progress Show on Aug. 31, 2015 in Decatur, Ill. Deere & Co. said on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021, its fiscal fourth-quarter profit jumped 69% on strong sales of its agricultural and construction equipment despite a monthlong strike that began near the end of the period.

Deere Q4 Profit Jumps 69% Despite Strike, Supply Problems

More than 10,000 Deere workers were on strike at plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas.

November 27, 2021

Members of the United Auto Workers strike outside of a John Deere plant on Oct. 20, 2021 in Ankeny, IA.

Deere Warns Striking Workers Not to Expect Better Offer

The company won't return to the bargaining table.

November 4, 2021