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(Reuters) — Dan Ariens laid off workers, cut shifts, and halted nearly all hiring last summer after sales slumped at his company, best known for making bright orange snow blowers and lawnmowers sold around the world. Headcount fell 20% to 1,600 people, and he doesn’t see business improving until 2025. The experience of the Ariens […]
Kim Jong-un at a factory ceremony and Black History Month in the US: photos of the day – Thursday The Guardian Source link
Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden walks past solar panels while touring the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative in Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S., June 4, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
A U.S. civil rights agency initiated a lawsuit against Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), Thursday, alleging that the electric car manufacturer has allowed persistent harassment against Black workers at its assembly plant in Fremont, California. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has asserted that, from 2015 to the present, Black employees working at the Tesla […]
[1/2]Motorists drive past Tesla’s primary vehicle factory in Fremont, California, U.S. May 12, 2020. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Sept 28 . . .
(Photo: State Dept. / Erik A. Kurniawan) On September 26, Ambassador Sung Y. Kim joined the grand opening of the new Tempe Azaki factory, the largest tempeh factory in the world. Tempe Azaki imports 100 percent high-quality U.S. soybeans and sells value-added tempeh product, both domestically and now abroad, including to the United States, fueling […]
Dr. D’Wayne Edwards is paving the way for the future of Black creatives. As the founder of Pensole Lewis College of Business & Design, the country’s first Historically Black College and University (HBCU) to reopen, Edwards wants to change the narrative for Black footwear designers. In 2022, Edwards founded one of the first Black-owned athletic […]
Designer Brands Inc., a world-renowned footwear and accessories collective, has announced the future release of the FIRST JEM. This inaugural shoe will kick off the JEMS by PENSOLE brand and will also be the first item released by one of America’s first-ever Black-owned footwear factories. The new manufacturing studio will be a partnership between the […]
[1/3]David Shen, Hota Industrial Chairman and New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham speak to the media at a press event in Taipei, Taiwan September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Ann Wang Acquire Licensing Rights
After manufacturing crystals of an HIV drug in space, the first orbital factory is stuck in orbit after being denied reentry back to Earth due to safety concerns. Gizmodo reports: The U.S. Air Force denied a request from Varda Space Industries to land its in-space manufacturing capsule at a Utah training area, while the U.S. […]