A Few Facts About Leap Day
Surrounded in history and superstition, February 29 only comes once every four years— and we have one today. Here are a few facts about leap day.
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State of Manufacturing: How to Build for the Future
Jay Timmons was preaching to the “manufacturing” choir in GlaxoSmithKline’s sun-drenched lobby at its Navy Yard offices.
King Arthur Wants To Tell You Where Its Flour Comes From
More and more, people want their food providers to be transparent. They want to know exactly where the ingredient they’re eating and cooking with are coming from. Which is why King Arthur Flour recently launched Identity-Preserved White Whole Wheat Flour.
Carrier: Anger, Resignation as Massive Pay Gap Prompts Mexico Move
Carrier – Union leaders at an air conditioner factory in Indianapolis threatened with losing 1,400 jobs to Mexico said on Tuesday the plant’s owner expects to pay Mexican workers $3 an hour compared to an average of more than $20 an hour for the U.S. workers.
Obama Signs Law Banning Imported Goods Produced by Forced Labor
President Obama signed into law Wednesday a provision banning the import of good made by child and forced labor.
Factories in The USA: 56K Lost During First Decade
In the week before Valentine’s Day, United Technologies expressed its love for its devoted Indiana employees, workers whose labor had kept the corporation profitable, by informing 2,100 of them at two facilities that it was shipping their factories, their jobs, their communities’ resources to Mexico.
Dumping Crackdown: New Law Cracks down on Steel Dumpers
President Barack Obama signed a customs bill that contains added protections for the domestic steel industry, whose advocates hailed it as a “good news day” and even a “great day.” The new law will crack down on steel dumping.
Asian Honey, Banned in Europe, Is Flooding U.S. Grocery Shelves
A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds banned as unsafe in dozens of countries are being imported and sold here […]
Nabisco Factory Workers Fight Back Against Layoffs
Employees at the Nabisco plant on Chicago’s Southwest Side face an uncertain future as the company hands out pink slips and starts moving parts of its operations to Mexico.
Flashback: Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima
The late photographer Joe Rosenthal recalls his Pulitzer Prize-winning image of United States Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima that would later be memorialized in a monument at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia.
