Canadian freight railroads shut down over union dispute

See what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. The two major railway companies Canada On Thursday, the company locked out about 10,000 union members after labor talks collapsed, halting freight traffic in a move expected to cost the economy hundreds of millions of dollars a day and threatening major disruptions to North American supply chains. Canadian National Railway […]

Billions In US Trade At Risk After Thousands Of Workers Locked Out In Union Dispute

A Canadian railroad company failed to reach a new collective bargaining agreement on Thursday, locking out more than 9,000 employees in a move that could have billions of dollars’ worth of impacts on U.S. trade, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Kansas City branches of Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway locked out employees […]

Exclusive | ‘Hypocritical’ NYC union wants to ban hotel outsourcing –

The city’s powerful labor unions, which are pushing legislation to ban New York hotels from outsourcing certain front-line jobs, have noted that records show they have routinely outsourced administrative work at their Manhattan headquarters, including to non-union companies. According to records filed with the U.S. Department of Labor, over the past 10 years, the Hotel […]

SAG-Aftra Union Performers Call for AI Protections in Video Games, Picket Disney

The SAG-AFTRA coalition of actors and performers has called for protections for AI in the video game industry. Over the past two decades, video games have become an increasingly lucrative industry for actors, with voice acting jobs in hit video game series often being awarded to top stars. With the advancement of AI, actors who […]

Walz makes first solo campaign stop in speech to influential union

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, made his first solo campaign rally in California, speaking before one of the country’s most prominent labor unions. “The Vice President and I know very well who built this country. It was the nurses who built it, the teachers who built it, the state and […]