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BELLE PLAINE, Kan. — Cattle producers for 35 years have been bankrolling one of the nation's most iconic marketing campaigns, but now many want to end the program that created the "Beef. It's What's for Dinner" slogan. What's the ranchers' beef? It's that their mandatory fee of $1 per head of cattle sold is not [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technology companies that led the charge into remote work as the pandemic unfurled are confronting a new challenge: how, when and even whether they should bring long-isolated employees back to offices that have been designed for teamwork. "I thought this period of remote work would be the most challenging year-and-half of [...]
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — When negotiations failed to produce a new contract at a Volvo plant in Virginia this spring, its 2,900 workers went on strike. The company soon dangled what looked like a tempting offer — at least to the United Auto Workers local leaders who recommended it to their members: Pay raises. Signing [...]
TOLEDO — Back in the spring, a shortage of computer chips that had sent auto prices soaring appeared, finally, to be easing. Some relief for consumers seemed to be in sight. That hope has now dimmed. A surge in COVID-19 cases from the delta variant in several Asian countries that are the main producers of [...]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A program offering $20,000 in cash and incentives for remote workers to move to West Virginia has drawn dozens of newcomers and is now taking applications for a second host city. Thousands of people inquired about the opportunity, and 53 new residents from as far away as Germany are being welcomed [...]
NEW YORK — Landing a waitressing job or bartending gig at the Lost Dog Cafe in Northern Virginia had never been easy. "Help Wanted" signs were a rarity, and half the chain's staff stuck around for at least 10 years. The onset of the pandemic made job prospects even worse when Lost Dog had to [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Bethany Mayer didn't want to go back to work after learning that a fellow ironworker insinuated that women like her didn't belong there. Jordyn Bieker, an apprentice sheet metal worker in Denver, said she felt uncomfortable that her foreman asked her pointed questions about being gay. Yunmy Carroll, a veteran steamfitter, [...]
A Columbus-based fiber-optic broadband company this week announced the acquisition of Consolidated Cooperative’s commercial fiber business to expand its Midwest footprint. The move should allow Horizon to better meet the needs of the company’s growing customer base through the addition of 450 miles of fiber in Delaware, Marion and Richland counties to its existing Columbus [...]
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — For some Asian Americans, the dim sum cookie at Sunday Bakeshop here will taste like childhood. It looks like a typical sugar cookie except with sesame seeds on top, but bite into the creamy, red bean center and it's reminiscent of the fried, filled sesame balls served at a Chinese dim [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Best Buy raised its sales outlook for the year Tuesday after breezing past Wall Street expectations in the second quarter. The nation's largest consumer electronics chain joined other major retailers including Walmart, Target and Macy's in putting up banner numbers, suggesting that Americans have continued to be spend even as the [...]