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Starbucks Workers Strike in 40 cities, Targeting ‘Red Cup Day’

The strike, involving more than 1,000 baristas at 65 cafes, is pegged to Starbucks’ annual “Red Cup Day” promotion, when the company draws big crowds.

Starbucks Workers United members picket outside a Starbucks in Chicago in 2024. Photographer: Vincent Alban/Bloomberg

Record AI Spending Coincides with Deepening U.S. Job Cuts

Job cuts at U.S. employers rose 175% year-over-year in October, and year-to-date have hit their highest levels since 2003.

Economist Rebecca Patterson speaking at Amazon Business Reshape in Seattle, Washington. Photo: SCB File Photo

U.S. Reissues Some Work Visas for South Korean Battery Plant Workers

At least 30 of the detained workers have gone back to the battery plant, and some are preparing a class-action lawsuit against U.S. immigration authorities over their detention.

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How a California School District is Training Tomorrow's Logistics Leaders

With hands-on experience, students in Fresno, California, can acquire a range of technical logistics skills, and even get forklift and OSHA certified.

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Big U.K. Retailer Predicts AI, Automation Will Lead to Huge Job Cuts

Nick Glynne, CEO and founder of Buy It Direct which owns Appliances Direct, said that he expects to get rid of 500 of the company’s current 800 workers.

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From Classroom to Industry: Building the Next Generation of Distribution Professionals

Rather than waiting for talent to arrive ready-made, companies must increasingly invest in such development further up the labor supply chain.

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Unions Slam Trump for Giving China a Pass on Shipbuilding

Trump’s plan would pause tariffs on imports of ship-to-shore cranes and chassis from China, and fees levied on Chinese-built and -operated merchant ships calling at American ports.

A ship under construction in a ship-building yard in Dalian, China. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

Retail Workforce Anxiety Mounts as Holiday Shopping Season Approaches

The union called on retailers and lawmakers to strengthen worker protections, and for shoppers to “treat workers with dignity and respect every day of the year.”

A shopper leaves a Target store in New York. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

U.S. Senators Press STB for Careful Review of Rail Mega-Merger

Senators from both sides of the aisle called on the STB to remember its mandate to "preserve long-term competition and ensure efficient, economically viable rail service."

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Making It Easier for the Formerly Incarcerated to Work in Transportation

A Congressional bill would streamline the process for former prisoners to get credentialed to work in booming transportation and energy industries in Louisiana, says local business champion.

Workers wanted. A conceptual rendering of the Louisiana International Terminal. Image: Port of New Orleans

Is AI Investment Being Stalled by ‘Policy Paralysis’?

At the same time that top executives are waxing enthusiastically about the value of AI, many are putting the brakes on investing in the technology.

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GM Temporarily Cuts 5,500 Workers, Citing EV Pressure

GM had been lobbying to keep EV tax credits in place, and has been trying to make its EVs cheaper to prop up demand.

A worker installs an engine at a General Motors assembly plant. Photographer: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg

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