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Union Workers Stage Walkout At Suburban Plant

AP | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Joliet Caterpillar Plant Strike, May Day Strike, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Video, Caterpillar, Joliet Caterpillar Walkout, Joliet Caterpillar, Joliet Caterpillar Strike, Chicago News

JOLIET, Ill. -- About 800 union workers who rejected Caterpillar Inc.'s latest contract offer walked off the job Tuesday at a plant in Joliet. Worker...

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Manufacturing Giant Braces For Strike

Reuters | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Canadian Auto Workers, Video, Rusty Dunn, Labor, Mining Trucks, Wheel Loaders, Reuters, Caterpillar, Track-Type Tractors, International Association of Machinists, Hydraulic, Aerospace Workers, Business News

* IAM workers voted down contract offer on Sunday * 800 workers making hydraulic parts are affected * Caterpillar says p...

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U.S. Multinationals Hiring At Much Faster Rate Overseas: Report

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Workforce, General Electric, Walmart, Multinational Corporations, Ikea, Overseas Hiring, Unemployment, Microsoft, Hiring, Globalization, Caterpillar, Consumer Spending, Race to the Bottom, Video, Business News

U.S. multinationals are hiring. They're just doing a lot of it overseas these days. Multinational firms based in the United States expanded their w...

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World's Largest Maker Of Construction Machinery Mounts Quick Recovery

Reuters | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Fossati's Delicatessen, Recovery, Video, Credit, Reuters, Excavators, Manufacturing, Economic Recovery, Rust Belt, Caterpillar, Ford Motor Co, Business News

* Company expands quickly to meet demand * Dealers, buyers cite shortages of machines * Risks from fragile recovery, Asi...

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Caterpillar War: The Media Life Cycle Of A Dumb Political Analogy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Eat the Press, Reince Priebus Caterpillars, Caterpillars, Video, War on Women, Reproductive Rights, Women Are Caterpillars, Media Criticism, Caterpillar, Brad Woodhouse, Reince Priebus, Politics News

Here's the problem that RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has: Mitt Romney, all but confirmed as the GOP's nominee for president, is standing on the wrong s...

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Quinn Defends State Business Climate Again

Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Illinois Budget, Caterpillar Inc, Illinois Business, Caterpillar Pat Quinn, Doug Oberhelman, Illinois Taxes, Caterpillar, Doug Oberhelman Pat Quinn, Illinois Business Climate, Caterpillar Jobs, Caterpillar Illinois, Chicago News

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn once again found himself on the defense this weekend after another Illinois CEO slammed the state's business climate. ...

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Should Illinois Do Whatever It Takes To Make Sears Stay?

Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Sears, Pat Quinn, Illinois Businesses, Sears Hoffman Estates, Illinois Jobs, Sears Leaving Illinois, Sears Holding Corp, CME Group, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Hoffman Estates, Sears in Illinois, Schaumburg Illinois, William McLeod, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Governor Quinn, Illinois, Caterpillar, Illinois Economy, Chicago News

Hoffman Estates village trustees voted, unanimously, to approve a resolution urging the state of Illinois to make "all reasonable efforts" to keep the...

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A To-Do List For America

The Daily Beast | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Loews Corp, Great Recession, Microsoft, Ceos, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Jobs, Economic Recovery, u.s. Economic Policy, Zipcar, Caterpillar, Sony, Business News

14 corporate leaders on what America needs to do next to improve the economy....

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Manufacturing Giant's Shares Tumble Even Though Profit Jumps

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 09.21.2011

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Continued robust demand for Caterpillar's heavy equipment boosted the company's second-quarter profits by 44 percent, but higher costs and cautious co...

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Is Sears Looking To Move, Or Looking For A Tax Break?

Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Motorola Mobility Tax Break, Sears, Pat Quinn, Motorola Mobility, Chicago, Sears Illinois, Navistar, Illinois, Sears Headquarters, Sears Tax Break, Caterpillar, Sears Leaving Illinois, Chicago News

When Illinois Governor Pat Quinn pushed a personal and corporate income tax increase through the state legislature last winter, he did so at the cost ...

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Board Of Trade, Merc Threaten To Leave Chicago, But Are They Serious?

Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Illinois, Chicago Board of Trade, Caterpillar, CME Leaving Illinois, Chicago, Merc Leaving Illinois, Board of Trade Leaving Illinois, CME Group, Chicago News

The executive chairman of CME Group, the parent company of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, has threatened to take the ...

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U.S. Multinationals Revive NAFTA-Style Trade Deals on Capitol Hill

Michelle Chen | Posted 07.08.2011

Read More: Congress, Workers, Global Economy, John Boehner, Financial Reform, Agriculture, Free Trade, Obama, Labor, Unemployment, Koch Brothers, Nafta, South Korea, Colombia, Colombia Free Trade, Panama, Farmers, Caterpillar, Unions, Fair Trade, Politics News

Whatever nation wins in the neocolonial land grab, multinational agribusinesses will come out on top. As we saw with the NAFTA in Mexico's designated rural sector, big agriculture's gain is the small indigenous farmer's loss.

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CEO: 'Caterpillar Is Here To Stay'

AP | By ZACHARY COLMAN | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Pat Quinn, Illinois Income Tax Increase, Chicago, Doug Oberhelman, Illinois Tax Increase, Illinois, Caterpillar, Caterpillar Tax Increase, Caterpillar Illinois, Chicago News

EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois is facing growing concerns among business leaders that its policies hurt the companies that drive its economy, the head ...

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Live From the Corrie Trial in Israel Part 2: Seeking Answers and Accountability

Vincent Warren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israel, Rachel Corrie, Caterpillar, Center for Constitutional Rights, Accountability, World News

I left the court room convinced that the military investigation that led to the swift conclusion that Rachel's death was an accident for which no one should be held accountable was anything but "thorough, credible and transparent."

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Is It Time To Ditch The Dow?

AP | BERNARD CONDON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General Electric, Dow Jones, Caterpillar, Stock Market, Intel, Stocks, McDonald's, Microsoft, Stock-Analysts, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Charles Dow, Business News

NEW YORK — It's Caterpillar's market. The Illinois maker of earth movers is just one of 30 companies in the Dow Jones industrial average, but y...

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Caterpillar Says That Health Care Reform Will Cost Them $100M

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HEALTHCARE COST, Peoria, Illinois Business, Health Care Reform, Health Reform Law, Caterpillar, Caterpillar Health Reform Costs, Caterpillar Jobs, Caterpillar Health Reform, Chicago News

PEORIA, Ill. — Heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar says the new health care reform law will create a $100 million drag on its first-quarter earnin...

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Caterpillar Writes Pelosi: Machinery Giant Concerned About Health Care Costs

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hoping to slow down the process of health care reform, the world's largest construction machinery manufacturer sent a letter to House leadership on Th...

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When You Add 2,400 Businesses and Lose Three, You're Winning

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Business for Clean Energy, Conocophillips, US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), Clean Energy, Climate Change, Caterpillar, BP America, Business, James Boyce, We Can Lead, Business News

Two weeks ago, BP America, Caterpillar Inc. and ConocoPhillips decided not to renew their membership in the US Climate Action Partnership.

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Transformation: Giving Thanks For Our Meltdowns

William Horden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Chrysalis, Natural Healing Process, Taoist, Thanksgiving, Crisis, Healing, Caterpillar, Caterpillar Emerging From Chrysalis, Butterfly, Shamanism, Healthy Living News

In many shamanic societies it is taken for granted that shamans are not born--they are created by some intense health or emotional crisis. What emerges from such crises is a metamorphosed person.

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Factory Orders Rise for Fifth Time in Six Months

Bloomberg | Shobhana Chandra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Recovery, Durable Goods, Recovery, Economy, Ford, Commerce Department, Cars, Texas Instruments, Caterpillar, Factory Orders, Stimulus, Recession, Business News

Orders placed with U.S. factories rose in September for the fifth time in six months, reinforcing signs that manufacturing will drive the economic rec...

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Business America Lights a Candle for Copenhagen

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

There are many in the corporate realm who "get it" -- that's why they're finding new and innovative ways to combat climate change.

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Stripping Massey: 81-year-old Paratrooper Leads Blockade, Court Hears $85 Million Suit

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Ground Zero, Caterpillar, Dirty Coal, Civil Disobedience, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Direct Action, Coal, Massey, Green News

Massey Energy's brutal attacks on coalfield residents and the judicial system have drawn national criticism.

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A Penny From Heaven

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Penny Trenk recently pulled off the kind of financial feat that one might associate with the likes of investment whiz Warren Buffet. In sports, her feat would be like running a 4-minute mile.

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How Sweet It Is... Brazil's Sugar Ethanol Fuels China's Recovery

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brazil, Sugar Ethanol, Obama, Opec, Monroe Doctrine, Wal-Mart, Big Oil, Jim Owens, Agribusiness, Wto, Robert Zoellick, Ethanol, Caterpillar, Iraq, Hillary Clinton, China, Hugo Chavez, Petrobras, Imf, Energy, World News

Ethanol trade has helped make China Brazil's top trade partner, replacing Uncle Sam, who had been top dog ever since Herbert Hoover was in the White House.

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Caterpillar Joins With Progressives, Disses The Stimulus As Too Small

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Caterpillar, Economic Recovery Plan, Stimulus, Politics News

In February, President Obama made a trip to a Caterpillar factory in Peoria, Illinois, where he said his economic stimulus plan would allow the constr...

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