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LISTEN: Home Depot to Force Corporate Staff to Work Shifts in Stores
It’s no secret that retail workers are under a significant amount of stress. Contending with everything from understaffed stores and long hours on their feet to rude customer behavior, and it's no wonder that some companies are find...
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LISTEN: Bankrupt EV Maker Leaves Abandoned HQ in Shambles
Electric vehicle sales in the U.S. have slowed down. In August, J.D. Power said EVs would account for 9% of U.S. automotive sales this year, a fairly major adjustment to its previous forecast of 12%.It’s a market reality that’s forcing ...
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LISTEN: Stellantis Union Fight Escalates as Automaker Rejects Jobs Bank Proposal
Last Thursday, UAW members at the automaker's Los Angeles Parts Distribution Center voted to request strike authorization if the company and union can’t come to terms. While several UAW locals have filed grievances against the company since Aug...
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LISTEN: Toyota Pumps Brakes on EV Production in the U.S.
Toyota has delayed its plans to build a three-row electric SUV in the U.S.According to a Nikkei repo...
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LISTEN: Toilet Paper Panic Buying Returns Amid Dockworkers’ Strike
Dockworkers at east and Gulf coast ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines on October 1, and reports suggest that the strike...
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Plant Closure to Force 144-Year-Old Dairy Products Maker Out of Its Home
Sinton Dairy, a company that was established in Colorado Springs in 1880, revealed plans to close its 9-acre manufacturing facility at the end of the year. As a result, 64 workers, including manufacturing supervisors and hourly workers and fron...
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Disgraced Ex-Nissan CEO Ordered to Return Luxury Yacht
Once a highly regarded executive credited with a successful run at the helm of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, Ghosn was arrested in Japan in 2018 and accused of misappropriating company funds and violating securities laws. After posting bail and ...
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LISTEN: Chinese Subsidiary Fined After Texas Worker Suffers Serious Injuries
Hailiang (Hai-lee-ahng) Copper Texas is a subsidiary of China Hailiang Group, one of the largest manufacturers of copper and copper alloy products in the world. According to the Labor Department, the company has more than 20,000 workers across ...
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LISTEN: Auto Industry's Oldest Test Site Turns 100
General Motors yesterday recognized the 100-year anniversary of the oldest test site in the automotive industry, the Milford Proving Ground. After a century in operation, the proving ground, strategically placed between GM's hubs in...
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LISTEN: 3D-Printed Shark Pipes Beat Out Tesla Valves in One Direction Flow
Researchers from the University of Washington want to improve the pipe. Specifically, they are developing a flexible pipe with an interior helical structure that makes fluid flow one way and not the other. In the latest example of nature-inspir...
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LISTEN: Ford Patent Could Protect You from Accidentally Smuggling Drugs
You may own a Ford vehicle and travel across the border but that doesn’t necessarily mean you want to smuggle illegal drugs. And the automaker wants to make sure you don’t accidentally participate in narcotics trafficking.Ford recently f...
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Gen Z in Manufacturing: If They Don't See a Future, They'll Leave
Welcome to another episode of Gen Z in Manufacturing, a podcast where I interview young people about their journeys in manufacturing, how they intend to influence the in...
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LISTEN: VW Halts Production on ID.4 EVs Due to Faulty Doors
Volkswagen has issued a stop-sale and stop-production order for the ID.4, its electric SUV, while it sorts out an issue with the door handles.The automaker’s actions come after it recalled nearly 100,000 of the EVs due to an issue that c...
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LISTEN: Proposed Bill in Brazil Would Require Automakers to Sell Amphibious Cars
Throughout recent history, automakers have found themselves the targets of federal requirements pertaining to everything from fuel efficiency to safety equipment.But this might be a new one.Reports have surfaced regarding a lawmak...
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LISTEN: Google’s Drones Picked to Fly Blood Over London
If you’re in London this fall and you hear a faint buzzing noise overhead, that may be the sound of one of Google’s Wing drones carrying a load of fresh blood.The company just announced that it’s partnering with the U.K.’s National Healt...
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LISTEN: Lotus 3-Seater Puts Driver in the Middle
Automotive manufacturer Lotus announced the Theory 1, a concept car that the company expects to set the stage for its s...
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LISTEN: The 163-Year-Old Shipmaker that Built the Titanic is Broke
The 163-year-old British shipmaker that built the Titanic said that it’s insolvent after failing to acquire the funding needed to stay afloat.Harland & Wolff, a Belfast company that specializes in ship repair, shipbuilding and offsho...
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LISTEN: Screw Thread Solves 173-Year-Old Mystery
When London's Crystal Palace was constructed in 1851, it was the world's largest building. However, the project's greatest mystery was how the structure was completed in just 190 days. A new study from Anglia Ruskin University in Ca...
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LISTEN: LEGO Just Tested a Lifesize McLaren Supercar
In July, British supercar manufacturer McLaren Automotive unveiled the fruits of an audacious collaboration with the LEGO Group. The LEGO Technic McLaren P1 was a 1:8 scale, 3,893-piece LEGO set that paid homage to "the best driver's car in the...
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LISTEN: The Fastest and Slowest Selling Vehicles in America
The two slowest-selling are models produced by the same automaker.Even the most seasoned automakers don’t always get inventory right. For multiple reasons, from production rates to market response, this formula can fall into dis...
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LISTEN: Amid Layoff Talks, Stellantis Reveals $400M Investment in Mich
Last month, Stellantis created headlines after comments suggesting it could lay off as ...
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LISTEN: 50-Year-Old Steel Pipe Maker Closing Illinois Plant
Steel pipe manufacturer Wheatland Tube is closing its plant on the south side of Chicago and laying off more than 230 employees.According to the
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LISTEN: Former iPhone Mastermind Jony Ive Has Reinvented the Button
Jony Ive spent 27 years at Apple, including as its senior VP of industrial design and chief design officer, before leaving in 2018 to start his own design firm. His efforts were considered key to the success of the iPhone and now he’s bringing ...
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