Industry

Ford Motor Co. Doesn't Need These Autoworkers Anymore

AP | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Autoworkers, Retirement, Factory Workers, Industry, Detroit, Early Retirement, Ford, Auto Unions, Auto Industry, Ford Motor Co, Ap, Video, Business News

DETROIT (AP) — About 1,700 Ford Motor Co. factory workers have decided to take early retirement offers and will leave the company by June 1. ...

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Why Most U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Are Gone Forever: The Fiscal Times

The Fiscal Times | MERRILL GOOZNER | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Blue Collar Workers, Blue Collar, Solar Energy, Video, Blue Collar Jobs, Solar Industry, Industry, Chinese Trade, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Rebound, Manufacturing Recovery, China, Solar Cells, Manufacturing Jobs, Business News

The day after the State of the Union Address, President Obama visited a Phoenix suburb to tour Intel’s still-under-construction computer chip manufa...

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Long Beach Port Finalizing $4.6B Shipping Lease

AP | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Long Beach Port Shipping Deal, Industry, Port of Long Beach, Long Beach Port, Los Angeles News, Business, Los Angeles, Long Beach Port Shipping Lease, Shipping, California Ports, Philip Chow, Video, Los Angeles News

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Port of Long Beach, the nation's second-largest cargo container facility, reached a tentative $4.6 billion, 40-year lea...

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In Occupy Wall Street, Some Small Farmers Find a Natural Ally

Turnstyle | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Ows, Corporate Farms, Crop Subsidies, Industry, Agriculture, Farmers, Occupy Wall Street, Food, December 4, Food Democracy Now, National Young Farmers Coalition, Food News

By: Nelson Harvey Photo Credit: BRENNAN CAVANAUGH/Turnstyle News On a practical level, farmers have been involved in Occupy Wall Street almost si...

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Report Documents Industry Efforts to Delay Health Assessments of Toxic Chemicals

Jennifer Sass | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Epa, Trichloroethylene, Toxicchemicals, Styrene, Industry, Chemical, Iris, Formaldehyde, Tce, Green News

Big business chemical industries have repeatedly blocked the Environmental Protection Agency and other government bodies from assessing the harms of h...

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Industrial Policy Reconsidered

Marc Fasteau | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Project Socrates, Industrial Revolution, Manufacturing, Free Market, Technology Based Planning System, Industry, Business News

The world's manufacturing superpowers -- Germany, Japan and China -- as well as every other advanced country except the U.K. have carefully thought out industrial policies. Why don't we?

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The Keystone XL Pipeline: A Tar Sands Folly?

Bill Chameides | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Pipeline Leaks, Bp, u.s. Department of State, Oil Sands, Climate, Transcanada, Texas, Canada, Petroleum, Keystone XL, Pollution, Policy, Wall Street Journal, Pipeline, Yellowstone River Oil Spill, Enbridge Pipeline, Tar Sands, Politics, Kalamazoo River Oil Spill, Fossil Fuels, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Industry, Pipeline Spills, Marathon Pipeline, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ogallala Aquifer, Environmental Protection Agency, Green News

The U.S. State Department is in the rare position of having to decide on an environmental issue. Hillary Clinton is in the tar sands hot seat. Is she asking the right questions?

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He Died and Left Her a Million

Natalie Pace | Posted 09.15.2011

Read More: Pension, Debt, Divorce, Natalie Pace, Cd, Gold, Widow, Business, Rich, Tithe, Invest, Life, Death, Nest Egg, Startup, Insurance, Millionaire, Industry, NataliePace.Com, Stock, Bank, Obit, Broker, Real Estate, 401k, Inherit, Bill, Family, Ira, Career & Money, Women News

I received a call from a woman who had a tragic event in her life, which completely changed her income status overnight. Her husband passed away unex...

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America's Most Optimistic Industries

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Fabricated Metals, Gas Prices, Sales, Japan Earthquake, Retail Sales, Automotive Industry, Middle East, Globalspec, Supply Shortages, Industry, Oil Prices, Business News

Of all the turns taken by the U.S. economy this year, few of the have been for the better. But at the beginning of it, many were expecting big things....

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CEO: 'Mismatch' Between Jobs Available, Workers Needed

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Energy, Council of Economic Advisers, Unemployment Rate, Manpower, President Obama, Manufacturing, Jobless, Jobs, Unqualified Employees, Cyclical Unemployment, Christina Romer, Infrastructure, Structural Unemployment, Job Demand, Industry, Financial TImes, Siemens, Healthcare, Business News

The United States might have millions of unemployed workers, but one company is having a hard time finding people that fit. Eric Spiegel, U.S. regi...

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Alcoa Posts Strong First Quarter Profit

Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Alcoa Inc, Global Population, Profits, Industry, Klaus Kleinfeld, Estimates, Alumina, Aluminium Prices, Aluminium, First Quarter, Raw Material, Business News

NEW YORK – Alcoa Inc (AA.N) reported a first-quarter profit that beat estimates as the price of aluminum, its primary product, rose sharply and ...

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Millions Of Gallons of Sewage Burst From Tenn. Treatment Plant

AP | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Sewage, Gatlinburg, Utilities, Wastewater Treatment Plant, Wastewater, Industrial-Accident, Tennessee, Industry, Workers Missing, Green News

GATLINBURG, Tenn. -- A holding tank at a sewage treatment plant in a Smoky Mountains tourist town gave way early Tuesday, leaving two workers missing ...

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An American Industrial Renaissance?

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Suppliers, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Markets, Japan Economy, General Electric, Apple, Japan Tsunami, Industry, Electronics, Labor Standards, Business News

In the sorting out of the wreckage after Japan's earthquake and tsunami, many Americans have begun paying more attention to a phrase they had barely known -- "supply chains."

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Life in the Water

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mudslides, Apocalypse, Natural Disasters, Kurt Vonnegut, Pakistan, Flood, Life on Earth, Tsunamis, Media, Peace, Corporate Accountability, Cnn, Corporations, Water, Industry, Environment, Blizzards, Corporate Greenwashing, Green News

A short clip of Rev's sermon from last Sunday's Earthalujah service. Join us this week live in NYC and online at Revbilly.com. We have a schizophren...

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America's "Can't Do" Attitude

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Science, Competitiveness, Technology, Industry, Popular Mechanics, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Investment, National Infrastructure, America Infrastructure, Mechanics, Technology News

Today's youth are building new things. Look at Facebook or Google. But maybe that's a problem: too many of them are.

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Recommended Continental Breakfast: Eggs Over Easy, Hold the Dioxin

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

The FDA doesn't recommend avoiding any particular food to limit dioxin exposure other than its generally recommended diet. Of course there's the option of going vegan, the diet found to have the lowest exposure to dioxins.

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Prediction: 2011 to Become the "Year of the Wine Consumer"

Tim Hanni | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Consumer, Critical Thinking, Industry, Trendspotting, Marketing, Trends, Wine, Prediction, Business, Hanni, 2011, Healthy Living News

I love the adage, "If I ask you what time it is don't tell me how the watch works." And I confess that I am as guilty as any wine expert for launching...

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The Storm That Created The "Rust Belt" Is Heading For Silicon Valley

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manufacturing, Industry, Jobs, Silicon Valley, Business News

This fall I was invited to cover the the Keep It Made In America Tour put on by the Alliance for American Manufacturing. I spent a week driving aroun...

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Food Safety Bill Stalled By Tom Coburn, Small Farm Interests

The New York Times | GARDINER HARRIS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Agriculture, Public Health, Salmonella, Fda, Food Safety Bill, Peanuts, House, Tom Coburn, Eggs, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Senate, Food Poisoning, Industry, Farmers, Spinach, Margaret Hamburg, Inspection, Politics News

But the Senate has still not acted to fix many of the flaws in the nation's food safety system -- although a bill to do so has broad bipartisan suppor...

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Real India: At Koshy's Cafe, The Talk of Bangalore (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

"... And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy or ...

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A Candid Conversation With Outsell's David Curle

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Provider, Providers, Technologies, Lawyers, Niche, Breadth, Intellectual, Outsell, Consultant, Here, Lexisnexis, Portfolio, Conversations, Analyst, Conversation, Engine, Technology, Customers, Inventor, Semantic, Trend, System, Players, Users, Director, Boolean, Trends, Offerings, Option, Example, Paragraphs, Knowledge, Services, Databases, David, Industry, Internet, Online, Candid, Environment, Database, Downturn, Consumers, Clients, Times, Querycloud, Curle, Ramon, Lexusnexis, Full, Technology News

From what I gathered during our interview, the law firm industry is making a fundamental shift. They are modernizing the shop, using social media to engage communities and demonstrate their legal expertise.

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Balanced Life -- Want To Be Happy at Work? Dozens of Tips, Plus a Few Quizzes, To Consider

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Efficiency, Coworkers, Relationships, Work, Industry, Office, Design, Business, Happiness, Productivity, Colleagues, Healthy Living News

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

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Ohio's Issue One: A Jobs Program America Should Notice

Don C. Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Absentee Ballot, Industry, Ohio, Renewable Energy, Jobs, Growth Potential, Biomedicine, Voting, Politics News

Between now and May 4th, Ohioans will vote on Issue One: a spectacular jobs program. It is an urgent reason to go to the polls.

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End the Denial: Label China a Currency Manipulator

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Deputy Commerce Minister Zhong Shan, Treasury Secretary, Allegheny Technologies Inc., Nucor Corp., Yuan, Renminbi, Manufacturing, Usw, Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, Lindsey Graham, China, Pittsburgh, Economic Policy Institute, Currency Manipulation, Rich Trumka, Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2010, Dan DiMicco, Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, Industry, Sam Brownback, Chinese Prime Minister, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, New York Times, Timothy Geithner, Wen Jiabao, Business News

America and China share a terrible delusion. They are in denial about currency manipulation. Both officially state that China is not devaluing its currency. This is too costly to America.

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Weekly Mulch: Bad News Bill

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

By Alison Hamm, Media Consortium blogger Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) met with industry groups Wednesday...

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