By Victoria Waldersee, Ilona Wissenbach and Christoph Steitz BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen boss Oliver Blume, already struggling with falling demand for electric cars and Chinese rivals, must now abandon his role as a team player and face another tough opponent: Germany’s powerful unions. The pressure on Europe’s largest carmaker became clear this week when Volkswagen […]
A powerful city union that is pushing for a law that would prohibit the Big Apple’s hotels from outsourcing certain service functions is constantly outsourcing work to manage its Manhattan headquarters – including to some nonunion companies, documents show. The Hotel Trades Council has contracted with outside companies for more than $700,000 in maintenance and […]
It hardly seems fair that Central Nebraska Regional Airport on Grand Island receives federal funding to accommodate two airlines while Lincoln Airport struggles to attract a second airline to serve a far more populous city. But that’s exactly what’s happening under the federal Essential Air Service program, which provides financial support to all of Nebraska’s […]
