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Amid Strikes, One Question: Are Employers Miscalculating?

Evan Harrington

The list of gains that the Hollywood writers secured to end a nearly five-month strike with studios once seemed ludicrously ambitious: not just wage increases, but also minimum staffing levels…

Economy

Israel-Gaza Conflict Could Slow Natural Gas Investment in Area

Evan Harrington

The fighting between Israel and militants from Gaza could be a blow to the ambitions of Israel and the wider eastern Mediterranean region to become a hub for exporting natural…

Economy

How strikes are (and aren’t) reflected in the jobs report.

Evan Harrington

Three of the country’s major automakers are facing an expanding strike that started on Sept. 15. Hollywood producers and screenwriters reached a contract agreement late last month to end a…

Economy

Chocolate Maker Did Not Evacuate Workers Before Deadly Blast, OSHA Says

Evan Harrington

A chocolate manufacturer, R.M. Palmer Company, failed to evacuate a Pennsylvania factory after some employees reported smelling gas before an explosion leveled part of the plant in March, killing seven…

Economy

Jobs Gains Heat Up Even as the Federal Reserve Looks for Cooling

Evan Harrington

Federal Reserve officials are likely to keep a close eye on the job market’s strength in light of September jobs data, which showed that employers hired at an unexpectedly rapid…

Economy

In Provence, Winemakers Confront Climate Change

Evan Harrington

“You can taste the climate change.”Frédéric Chaudière, a third-generation winemaker in the French village of Mormoiron, took a sip of white wine and set down his glass.The tastes of centuries-old…