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07.05 / 11:52

Citi Food wellness reports Department sanitizer Investigations A US company is fined $650,000 for illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plants

A Tennessee-based sanitation company is agreeing to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities

06.05 / 18:39

markets Target Justice reports Department Investigations Scandals TD Bank risks 'lost decade' in money-laundering scandal, Jefferies says

A veteran Canadian bank analyst says Toronto-Dominion Bank’s role in an alleged money-laundering scheme has made the “worst-case scenario” more likely — a huge fine and strict limits on the lender’s U.S. growth.

05.05 / 03:03

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Americans under 30 get much of their news on TikTok. They hear about money there, too, and that’s shaping the way they save, spend and view their financial prospects, young adults and economists say. Caitlyn Sprinkle, 27 years old, describes her TikTok feed as a mix of economic gloom and consumerism gone wild.

04.05 / 20:03

UPS Boeing SpaceX blues testing travelers Boeing is on the verge of launching astronauts aboard new capsule, the latest entry to space travel

THE CAPSULE White with black and blue trim, Boeing's Starliner capsule is about 10 feet (3 meters) tall and 15 feet (4.5 meters) in diameter. It can fit up to seven people, though NASA crews typically will number four. The company settled on the name Starliner nearly a decade ago, a twist on the name of Boeing’s early Stratoliner and the current Dreamliner.

03.05 / 21:27

Provident Platform Strategy Align Private Advisor Group expands in Tennessee

Private Advisor Group, a large independent wealth firm based in Morristown, New Jersey, has made another addition to its network.

01.05 / 15:05

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Stock photographers who survived the disruptive advent of digital cameras and online sales are bracing themselves for the next great tech shock: generative AI. Some are predicting the worst. “The stock photography industry is going away," said Connecticut-based photographer Tony Northrup.

28.04 / 12:42

Manufacturing Southern wellness President Daimler cover stars United Auto Workers reaches deal with Daimler Truck, averting potential strike in North Carolina

The deal covers workers at various plants in North Carolina.

27.04 / 01:31

COST UPS Bill students Universities prevention Schools Tennessee lawmakers adjourn after finalizing $1.9B tax cut and refund for businesses

Tennessee’s GOP-controlled General Assembly has adjourned for the year, concluding months of tense political infighting that ultimately doomed Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s universal school voucher push

26.04 / 10:21

COST Volkswagen Election Southern President show rights U.S. labor secretary says UAW win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant shows southern workers back unions

Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su says workers at southern auto plants should be free to unionize without employer or political interference, even as some southern states pass new laws meant to inhibit organized labor

24.04 / 19:43

Citi CEO Software community Healthcare Bill 2020 Oracle's Larry Ellison says planned Nashville campus will be company's 'world headquarters'

Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison says the business software giant’s planned campus in Nashville, Tennessee, will serve as its world headquarters and place it in a city that's a center of the health care industry

24.04 / 19:29

Provident Target Digital security Strategy BlackRock innovations BlackRock unveils its answer to the looming retirement crisis

BlackRock has officially launched a new product to help American workers take on the all-encompassing problem of retirement security.

24.04 / 05:23

UPS FIVE Volkswagen Election Southern Tennessee's GOP governor says Volkswagen plant workers made a mistake in union vote

Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee says he thinks workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga made a mistake by voting to unionize under the United Auto Workers in a landslide election

23.04 / 12:25

Manufacturing Election President Courts rights Relationships Starbucks leads business opposition to pro-worker labor board

Starbucks heads to the Supreme Court on Tuesday in a bid to limit a government labor board that has been eager to support union drives, a case that comes as other top companies are mounting aggressive defenses against the agency. In the Biden-era, the National Labor Relations Board has pursued the boldest enforcement agenda in recent memory to bolster worker protections. The board, which referees disputes between employers and workers, has expanded pathways for forming a union and made it easier for employees to challenge workplace practices.

23.04 / 10:29

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Inflation is falling but buying food can still be expensive. Grocery prices surged 21% in the last three years, surpassing the overall 18% pace of inflation during that same time period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

23.04 / 09:35

UPS FIVE Volkswagen Election Southern reports Tennessee's GOP governor says Volkswagen plant workers made a mistake in union vote

unionize under the United Auto Workers in a landslide election but acknowledged the choice was ultimately up to them. Ahead of the vote, Lee and five other Southern Republican governors spoke out publicly against the UAW's drive to organize workers at factories largely in the South, arguing that if autoworkers were to vote for union representation, it would jeopardize jobs. Instead, the union wound up pulling 73% of the vote at a facility whose workers had narrowly rejected the union in 2019 and 2014.

23.04 / 09:07

Volkswagen Election Southern President Universities Celebrity testing Autoworkers union celebrates breakthrough win in Tennessee and takes aim at more plants in the South

The United Auto Workers union is celebrating a huge win at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, where workers will now be represented by the union

23.04 / 08:06

FIVE security Justice Inside testing Courts rights Starbucks takes on the federal labor agency before the US Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a case filed by Starbucks against the National Labor Relations Board

22.04 / 02:50

Provident Career CEO Strategy Pride country 2020 Captrust M&A head Benton reveals departure plans

Rush Benton, the industry veteran who’s led Captrust’s M&A-driven growth strategy for more than decade, plans to move on. The firm’s senior director of strategic growth announced he would be leaving the firm to pursue a personal business venture.

20.04 / 22:34

UPS Manufacturing Volkswagen Election President country Scandals Tennessee Volkswagen workers to vote on union membership

Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining the United Auto Workers union, boosting the UAW's nationwide effort to organize nonunion factories

19.04 / 05:59

Manufacturing Volkswagen Election Southern information International Workers at Mercedes factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to vote in May on United Auto Workers union

Workers at Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will vote next month on whether they want to be represented by the United Auto Workers union

17.04 / 22:37

FIVE Volkswagen Fallout Election Southern testing Southern governors tell autoworkers that voting for a union will put their jobs in jeopardy

On the eve of a vote on union representation at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory, Gov. Bill Lee and five other southern governors are telling workers that voting for a union will put jobs in jeopardy

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