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When his son turned 14 a year ago, Jonathan Hardy bought the teen a gift that was both a coming-of-age badge and a hot item: an AR-15 rifle. To Hardy, the matte-black weapon is not a dangerous assault rifle. His son's model shoots the same small, low-...

Amid the hubbub over the fiscal cliff these past few weeks, an important event happened Dec. 11 that many Americans probably missed: The union movement was struck a critical blow in the state it calls home. That day, a "right to work" law was passed...

You'd be hard pressed to find a company that talks more about its "people-centric" management culture than Barry-Wehmiller, a privately owned manufacturer of industrial equipment. Barry-Wehmiller, which has $1.5 billion in annual sales, says it's all...

DETROIT (AP) — Hundreds of people have held May Day rallies in Detroit and Grand Rapids, calling for immigration law changes and other labor condition improvements on the international workers holiday. About 200 community, labor and immigration...

IMMIGRATION RALLY-MICHIGAN Labor, immigration activists hold May Day rallies DETROIT (AP) — Hundreds of people have held May Day rallies in Detroit and Grand Rapids, calling for immigration law changes and other labor condition improvements on the...

DETROIT (AP) — Hundreds of people have held May Day rallies in Detroit and Grand Rapids, calling for immigration law changes and other labor condition improvements on the international workers holiday. About 200 community, labor and immigration...

By Deepa Seetharaman DETROIT, May 2 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co is adding more than 2,000 jobs at its pickup truck factory in Kansas City as growth in the U.S. housing and oil sectors trigger a boom in truck sales. The second-largest U.S. automaker said...

— The United Steelworkers union will vote Tuesday on a proposed six-year contract with Caterpillar Inc. that would freeze wages, increase contributions to health care costs and offer senior employees fewer protections. The proposed agreement covers...

* UAW union chief had suggested new vote by Bochum staff * New vote would only waste time - plant chief * GM CEO declines to comment BERLIN, April 25 (Reuters) - General Motors' Opel division is against giving workers another vote on a restructuring...

Nearing the end of a massive debt-restructuring and having completed a mostly voluntary downsizing of its workforce, Foxwoods Resort Casino finds itself at a crossroads. As in Crossroads Massachusetts, a $1 billion casino project that may or may not...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican lawmakers on Tuesday approved vastly different plans to fund public assistance for the poor and protect children from abuse and neglect, with a House panel voting to cut more than 1,000 state jobs, or nearly 9...

Labor unions might not be as thrilled this week with President Obama as they usually are, as two areas of friction emerged ahead of the president's visit to West Hartford. The first is the gun control issue which brought the president to Connecticut...