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Las Vegas Hotel Strike Averted After Unions Strike Deals With Resorts

Evan Harrington

Debra Jefferies, a cocktail waitress at the Horseshoe Las Vegas, spent much of the week wondering whether she would be walking a picket line, as she did in 1984 —…

Economy

Byron Wien, Wall Street Seer of the Unexpected, Dies at 90

Evan Harrington

At age 80, Byron Wien compiled “20 Life Lessons” from a long career as a Wall Street soothsayer. “Never retire” was No. 20. “If you work forever, you can live…

Economy

Biden Bolsters Union Support in Illinois

Evan Harrington

President Biden pulled a red United Automobile Workers T-shirt over his button-down on Thursday and celebrated a landmark labor deal that kept a Stellantis manufacturing plant in business, using an…

Economy

The Actors Union and Hollywood Are Close to a Deal

Evan Harrington

Hollywood is poised to get back to workAfter months of strikes that shut down most of Hollywood, the end appears in sight. The SAG-AFTRA union that represents some 160,000 members…

Economy

‘Our Family Can Have a Future’: Ford Workers on a New Union Contract

Evan Harrington

Before autoworkers went on strike in September, Dave and Bailey Hodge were struggling to juggle the demands of working at a Ford Motor plant in Michigan and raising their young…

Economy

China Consumer Prices Fall, Renewing Fears of Deflation

Evan Harrington

Prices are falling again in China after a two-month reprieve, with households and businesses wary of spending even as state-controlled banks pump money into the construction of more factories.The decline…