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Meat Prices Continue to Surge With Worker Shortage

Of all the industries experiencing crunches for hourly labor, it’s hard to find one with a greater recruiting challenge than meatpacking.

A worker packages trays of ground beef chuck. Photo: Bloomberg.

‘People Are Hoarding’: Food Shortages Are The Next Supply Chain Crunch

There’s plenty of food. There just isn’t enough processing and transportation capacity to meet rising demand as the economy revs up.

A Walmart Inc. shopper walks by empty shelves. Photo: Bloomberg.

U.S. Labor Unions Are Having a Moment

U.S. organized labor is having a moment after decades of erosion in both influence and power, giving workers their best chance in recent memory to claw back lost ground.

A Deere & Co. worker holds a sign during a strike outside the John Deere Des Moines Works facility in Ankeny, Iowa. Photo: Bloomberg.

China's Energy Crisis Is Hitting Everything From iPhones to Milk

The hit from China’s energy crunch is starting to ripple throughout the globe, hurting everyone from Toyota Motor Corp. to Australian sheep farmers and makers of cardboard boxes.

Container ships are moored near the Port of Nansha in Guangzhou, China. Photo: Bloomberg.

High Quits Rates, Poaching: U.S. Firms Are Plagued by Turnover

U.S. employers aren’t just having a hard time attracting workers, they’re increasingly struggling to hold onto them.

A Post-it note reads 'I quit!' Photo: ptnimages/ Canva.

Raising Cane’s Sends Corporate Staff to Work in Restaurants

Fast-food chain Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers is sending corporate staff to work in restaurants amid a severe shortage of Americans willing to work hourly jobs.

Chicken fingers and fries. Photo: Getty Images.

What Crisis? Johnson’s Team Says Supply Crunch Is Good for Wages

Faced with a supply-chain squeeze that’s increased prices across the economy, the U.K. government is seeking to recast the crisis as a good news story for British workers.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Photo: Bloomberg.

Johnson Says Brexit Britain Must Adapt Amid Fuel, Food Shortages

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he won’t fall back on immigration to solve the U.K.’s truck driver shortage, as he presented supply chain troubles that have left supermarket shelves bare and gas stations dry as a “period of adjustment” in the wake of Brexit and the pandemic.

A gas pump reads 'out of use' amid fuel shortages in the U.K. Photo: Bloomberg.

From Nairobi to Ningbo: The Supply Shocks Spanning Globe

From high-class problems to difficulties finding life’s necessities, the pandemic has convulsed global supply chains on such a scale that few industries, socio-economic classes or regions are immune.

A container ship sails at dusk. Photo: Bloomberg

Johnson Burned Bridges With EU Truckers He Now Wants Back

The U.K. wants to issue visas for truckers to ease a shortage that’s led to gasoline stations running dry and hit food supply chains. The hard part could be persuading drivers from eastern Europe, the biggest pool of labor in recent years, to come back.

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Paper Crunch Hits American Retailers When They Need It Most

Skyrocketing demand for boxes and packing materials during the pandemic has slashed paper production across North America, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time for retail companies.

Photo: Bloomberg

India Taps Amazon, Microsoft to Boost Its Farming Industry

Amazon, Microsoft and Cisco Systems are among technology giants lining up to harness data from India’s farmers in an ambitious government-led productivity drive aimed at transforming an outmoded agricultural industry.

A farmer fertilizes his crop in Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India. Photo: Bloomberg.

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