Hospitality workers in Las Vegas have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against major resorts along the Strip, a critical step toward a walkout as the economically challenged city prepares for major sporting events in the months ahead. The authorization vote on Tuesday by members of Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local … Read more
After 148 days on strike, television and movie writers will begin returning to work on Wednesday. The Writers Guild of America, which represents 11,500 screenwriters, said on Tuesday that three internal boards had voted unanimously to end the strike and send a tentative contract with entertainment companies to members for ratification. The vote will start … Read more
Politics Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka, left, and Massachusetts House Speaker Ronald Mariano, both Democrats, unveiled a tax relief package, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, at the Statehouse, in Boston. AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press September 26, 2023 BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers unveiled a tax relief package Tuesday aimed at delivering $561 … Read more
Politics Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Summerville, S.C., Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. AP Photo/Artie Walker Jr. By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press September 26, 2023 | 4:46 PM NEW YORK (AP) — A judge ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted … Read more
Apple’s top deal maker on Tuesday defended his company’s favoritism of Google on iPhones, a pivotal collaboration that has shaped the modern tech industry and is at the center of a federal antitrust trial against the search giant. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, testified in Washington that Google’s placement as the default … Read more
The Boston Globe Dennis McA’Nulty (left), a senior compliance analyst at Sun Life Financial, on a Zoom call in one of the private cubicles that line the wall of the company’s first-floor library. Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff By Jon Chesto, The Boston Globe updated on September 26, 2023 | 12:22 PM State Street doubled the … Read more
JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $75 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands to settle claims that it facilitated the activities of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who committed suicide in 2019, according to a statement released by the bank on Tuesday. The tentative settlement comes just weeks before a scheduled trial in federal … Read more
TV Late-night shows could be some of the first to return once the contract is approved. Picketers carry signs outside Amazon Studios in Culver City, Calif., on Monday, July 17, 2023. A tentative agreement between striking screenwriters and Hollywood studios offers some hope that the industry’s dual strikes may be over soon. AP By ANDREW … Read more
For more than two decades, workers at a factory in Perrysburg, Ohio, near Toledo, have been making something that other businesses stopped producing in the United States long ago: solar panels. How the company that owns the factory, First Solar, managed to hang on when most solar panel manufacturing left the United States for China … Read more
Ford Motor, in the midst of tense contract negotiations with striking United Automobile Workers, said on Monday that it was suspending construction of a battery factory in Michigan because of concerns that the plant might not be able to make products at a competitive price. It was unclear whether the halt was related to negotiations … Read more