Saturday, October 10, 2026
Unifor will ask more than 9,000 Stellantis workers in Canada to authorise a strike on 17 and 18 October. The union says the company has made the wage and benefit pattern already agreed at Ford and General Motors conditional on the union accepting the closure and sale of the idled Brampton assembly plant to Roshel, an armoured vehicle maker.
Initial claims for unemployment insurance fell to 197,000 in the week ending 19 September, the Labor Department reported on Thursday, with the insured unemployment rate at 1.1 per cent. Challenger, Gray & Christmas counts 155,126 announced job cuts in technology through August, up 52 per cent on last year and 29 per cent of every cut announced in the United States. Both numbers are correct, and the reason they do not collide is the denominator.
Jaguar Land Rover confirmed the cuts on Monday. They are voluntary, they are salaried and management, and they are non-production. This paper said on Saturday that the thing to watch was which functions. That is the answer, and it is not the one the week's reporting had prepared people for.
Workers won NLRB elections at the highest rate in decades last year — 93,517 of them, up 19 percent. Union density is 10.0 percent, and 14.7 million members in a workforce of about 147 million. Both numbers are real. One is a flow and the other is a stock, and the arithmetic between them is unforgiving.
Employment for 22- to 25-year-olds in AI-exposed occupations is down about 16 percent, and companies adopting AI have cut junior hiring by around 13 percent. Aggregate unemployment among AI-exposed workers shows no detectable rise since late 2022. All three findings are consistent, because only one of them measures a door that stopped opening.
Jaguar Land Rover is expected to confirm 4,000 job cuts on Monday. Pre-tax profit in the last financial year came in at £14m against £2.5bn the year before, on revenue down close to 21 percent to £22.9bn. A fifth off the top line took ninety-nine percent of the profit.
USCIS says its Vermont office revoked and denied H-1B petitions at an IT consulting firm where the wage classifications did not match the work. The agency named no company and alleged no fraud. What makes it more than a compliance notice is what the wage level now does.
GE Appliances is putting a billion dollars into Appliance Park in Louisville, moving dryer production from Mexico and, in an earlier tranche, washer production from China. The company says the investment secures 4,700 manufacturing jobs. The announcement was made jointly with the union.
The government is borrowing at a record pace while policies threaten to narrow the workforce supporting future growth and the federal tax base.
Every party to a sea voyage can transfer the risk of a closing chokepoint to somebody else. Owners insure hulls, charterers hedge freight, underwriters lay it off again. The crew is the one link in the chain with no market to sell its exposure into.