A hiring sign is displayed at a restaurant in Buffalo Grove, Ill. (Nam Y. Huh/AP) WASHINGTON — U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in April, illustrating the resilience of the American labor market and complicating Federal Reserve efforts to fight inflation. Employers posted 10.1 million job openings last month, up from 9.7 million in March and ...more
Groundbreaking at Columbus Technical College for a CDL training facility that hopes to attract former military personnel. (Columbus Technical College via Facebook) Seeking to get more truck drivers on the road, colleges in Georgia and Wyoming are expanding their commercial driver license programs. Columbus Technical College in Georgia recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for a ...more
Some Seattle employees plan to gather at the Amazon Spheres. (Amazon.com Inc.) SEATTLE — A group of corporate Amazon workers upset about the company's environmental impact, recent layoffs and a return-to-office mandate is planning a walkout at the company's Seattle headquarters today. The lunchtime protest comes a week after Amazon's annual shareholder meeting and a ...more
Amazon employees protest at the company's Seattle headquarters May 31. (Lindsey Wasson/Associated Press) SEATTLE — Telling executives to “strive harder,” hundreds of corporate Amazon workers protested what they decried as the company’s lack of progress on climate goals and an inequitable return-to-office mandate during a lunchtime demonstration at its Seattle headquarters May 31. The protest ...more
Some Seattle employees plan to gather at the Amazon Spheres. (Amazon.com Inc.) SEATTLE — A group of Amazon workers upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact is planning a walkout at the company’s Seattle headquarters today. The lunchtime protest comes a week after Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting and a month ...more
Some Seattle employees plan to gather at the Amazon Spheres. (Amazon.com Inc.) SEATTLE — A group of Amazon workers upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact is planning a walkout at the company’s Seattle headquarters today. The lunchtime protest comes a week after Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting and a month ...more
Since the Clearinghouse opened in January of 2021, 110,856 drivers have tested positive for marijuana. (KLH49/GettyImages) The number of truck drivers testing positive for marijuana use increased 9.2% the first three months of 2023, and a large number of those who failed their tests are not enrolling in the return-to-work program, according to federal Drug ...more
Secretary of State Antony Blinken shares a moment with Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo at the US-EU Trade and Technology Countil meeting in Lulea, Sweden. (Secretary of State Antony Blinken via Twitter) To further the quest to electrify trucking, the U.S. government and European Union have agreed that when a megawatt charging standard is developed ...more
Justin Trudeau speaks at a Stellantis facility in Windsor, Ontario, in 2022. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg News) Stellantis NV is likely to receive more in subsidies for a new electric vehicle battery plant in Canada than the C$13 billion ($9.5 billion) Volkswagen AG extracted for a similar project, according to an expert who has crunched the numbers. ...more
Estes' new facility in Banning, Calif. (Ed Tyler Photography) Estes Express Lines took a major step in its expansion and sustainability initiatives with the opening of a new terminal in Banning, Calif., the carrier announced May 26. The new terminal has been in development since the carrier first purchased the land in 2018. It spans ...more
