A shelter-in-place order has been lifted after a chemical leak in Northern Ohio Monday morning. >>PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Hazmat crews respond to chemical leak in Ohio Monday The leak happened after a hydrochloric acid pipe broke at Bleachtech LLC in Medina County, according to CBS affiliate WOIO in Cleveland. The Medina Sheriff’s office issued a half-mile […]
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3M’s CEO is set to score a $26 million pension while the company freezes plans for non-union employees
It seems like a pathway to comfortable retirement is a luxury saved for those at the top in today’s economy—at least if you work at 3M. After freezing its pension program for non-unionized workers, the conglomerate company known for manufacturing Post-its, command strips, and tape is tacking more money into its CEO’s benefit package. Earlier […]
Fanatics to lay off 218 employees when it closes Jacksonville fulfillment center on Commonwealth Ave
Jacksonville-based sportswear company Fanatics will be laying off employees later this year. The company sent a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Notice to the State of Florida and the City of Jacksonville that it will close its fulfillment center on Commonwealth Avenue. Two hundred and eighteen workers will be affected. The planned layoffs will […]
Cleveland Clinic employee’s murder remains unsolved 10 years later
CLEVELAND (WJW) – Ten years after a young father, husband and Cleveland Clinic employee was murdered on his way to work, his family is pleading with the public for help finally solving the case. “To think of it in a decade, it’s really hard because nobody should have to have this kind of pain,” said […]
eBay to pay $3 million after employees sent live spiders, funeral wreath and fetal pig to critics
eBay will pay $3 million to resolve criminal charges stemming from several of its former employees sending live spiders, cockroaches and a fetal pig to a Massachusetts couple who wrote a newsletter critical of the company in 2019, officials said Thursday. The online auction giant was charged criminally with two counts of stalking through interstate […]
eBay to pay $3M fine after employees mailed live spiders, cockroaches to couple
Ecommerce giant eBay has agreed to pay a $3 million criminal penalty for harassing and intimidating a Massachusetts couple in retaliation for their 2019 coverage in an online newsletter and for obstruction of the investigation that followed, according to the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. According to eBay’s admissions, between approximately Aug. 5 and Aug. 23, […]
Greensburg Salem moves to fire 3 employees amid ‘incidents from one of our elementary classrooms’
Jan. 11—The Greensburg Salem School Board on Wednesday moved to dismiss three employees, although district officials declined to name the employees or discuss specifically what caused the firings. However, school board President Jeff Metrosky confirmed that the action is a result of “recently reported incidents from one of our elementary classrooms.” Last month, Greensburg police […]
Here’s what Boeing’s CEO told his employees about the Alaska Airlines 1282 incident
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun says Friday’s Alaska Airlines incident involving a Boeing 737 Max 9’s door separating from the plane mid-air “shook me to the bone.” “I didn’t know what happened to whoever was supposed to be in the seat next to that hole in the airplane,” Calhoun said during a town hall with Boeing […]
11 South Bend schools employees will become teachers through new apprenticeship
SOUTH BEND — Ramie George remembers the teachers who hung around after class to help her when she was a young student struggling with her grades. “I couldn’t keep up with the work. I couldn’t concentrate. I wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until I was 35,” said George, who’s now 38. “So I didn’t know what […]
The biggest banks are about to tell employees their year-end bonus numbers — here’s when JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and more will drop the news
Nervous Australian fans watch a penalty during the opening FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023.Darrian Traynor / Getty Wall Street banks are preparing to communicate 2023 compensation to staff. Bonuses will likely be flat or down from last year, which was markedly disappointing. Business Insider compiled a schedule for when each big bank will tell […]
‘UO’s Last Chance’ Graduate student employees prepare to strike Jan. 17 if no contract deal is made
After 10 months of bargaining, graduate student employees at the University of Oregon have set a final deadline for when their union plans to strike if no deal is reached on a new contract. The Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation notified the university that it would strike if a new agreement can’t be reached by Wednesday, […]
Clovis Unified employees say pro-union state ruling did not go far enough. Here’s why
The state’s public employees labor watchdog recently called out Clovis Unified School District for financially supporting the Faculty Senate, a district-sanctioned group of teachers that is supposed to function as a representative of the district’s educators. However, a local labor group said the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruling does not go far enough and […]