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...All three senators are from states where the United Steelworkers union has a large presence....
A subsidiary of CRRC is accused of undercutting its European rivals for an electric train contract in Bulgaria
...Union Pacific and BNSF — a division of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway — were the two US railroads most directly affected by the closures, the association said....
...At Mercedes, union supporters said that managers pulled workers from assembly lines to ask them about union activities....
...In 2023, the prefectural government launched a co-operative effort that involved four mobility start-ups, the Toyota-affiliated company Jtekt and Nagoya Railroad....
...Nippon Steel said in response that it would continue its talks with the union....
...Biden has described himself as the most pro-union president in US history and is banking on the support of organised labour in November....
...The union, however, favoured an earlier, lower, bid from another US steelmaker, Cleveland-Cliffs, which it views as more union-friendly....
Most European capitals support tougher stance but are wary of designating Revolutionary Guards a terror group
...Some G7 leaders proposed designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps defence force as a terrorist organisation, a proposal that the EU has long mulled but consistently failed to find consensus on....
...But the merger is opposed by the United Steelworkers labour union....
...But Biden supported “steelworkers’ commitment to protecting American manufacturing that supports . . . sustaining union jobs”, she said....
...I think it is too early to tell,” said Zuhair Khan, who manages the Japan Corporate Governance Long/Short fund for Union Bancaire Privée....
...The deal drew a furious response from the United Steelworkers union, which said that neither US Steel nor Nippon Steel had consulted it....
...The deal has also been greeted with hostility by the United Steelworkers union, which said neither Nippon Steel nor US Steel had consulted it in advance....
...The hedge fund holds a $1.6bn stake in Union Pacific, making it one of the railroad’s largest shareholders....
...Members of the US’s United Steelworkers union voiced dismay about the deal, saying they had been excluded from negotiations. They would have preferred a transaction with Cleveland-Cliffs....
...Schiff rivalled John Pierpont Morgan’s standing on Wall Street — his reputation only enhanced when he orchestrated a rescue of Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1890s after Morgan had abandoned the assignment...
...It is “part of a larger Indian regional connectivity strategy that ropes in the private sector and strategic partners like the US, Japan and European Union”....
...Toyota’s announcement came hours after the United Auto Workers union suspended a historic six-week strike against Detroit’s Big Three carmakers that cost billions in earnings and marked an inflection point...
...Pacific....
...Union negotiators have pointed to that action as proof that it is not making an empty threat....
...Only the US, the former Soviet Union and China have achieved soft landings on Earth’s closest celestial body....
...They don’t have the resources, esprit de corps or a history to look back on.”...
...They include employees of the largest carriers in North America, such as Union Pacific, CSX and BNSF, a business owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway....
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