DETROIT — First it was Ford, then Stellantis, and now a General Motors factory has been added to the growing list of highly profitable plants where the United Auto Workers union is on strike. On Tuesday, about 5,000 workers walked out at GM’s factory in Arlington, Texas, that makes big, ...
HANCOCK — St. Vincent de Paul Society is a worldwide Catholic lay organization with nearly 700,000 people. Headquartered in Paris, France, “St. Vinny’s” as it is affectionately called locally, helps people living in poverty in 142 countries on five continents. In the Upper Peninsula, ...
HOUGHTON — As construction workers move around the basement of Swift Hardware preparing it for its next leap, owner Marilyn Swift stands in her father’s old downstairs office, reflecting on how far she and the company have come. Swift became the first female owner in the store’s ...
By JENNIFER DONOVAN For the Mining Gazette Karin Cooper is a woman who has risen to the top in a profession where men outnumber women three to one—architecture. And her gender actually has been an advantage, not a roadblock, says Cooper, project architect at U.P. Engineers and Architects ...
CALUMET — In business terms, vertical integration is an arrangement by which a company controls different stages along the supply chain. Frozen Farms Company, headquartered in the village of Calumet, has achieved this. Rather than relying on external suppliers like grocery distributors, ...
VIENNA — The Biden administration hopes to create a commercial nuclear fusion facility within 10 years as part of the nation’s transition to clean energy, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday. Calling nuclear fusion a pioneering technology, Granholm said President Joe Biden ...