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General Motors will delay electric pickup truck production at a factory near Detroit due to slowing U.S. demand for electric vehicles, to better manage its capital investments, and to make some engineering changes DETROIT -- General Motors will delay electric pickup truck production at a factory near Detroit due to slowing U.S. demand for electric vehicles, to better manage its capital investments, and to make some engineering changes. The company said in a statement Tuesday that the factory in Orion Township, Michigan, will instead start making electric Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups in late 2025. Originally the company had planned to start production sometime next year. GM spokesman Kevin Kelly said the change has nothing to do with the ongoing four-week partial strike by members of the United Auto Workers union. “What's happening in the marketplace does play a factor,” said Kelly, who added that the company wants to make engineering changes that will improve the truc...

The upstart union has faced difficulties after a watershed election. Encircled by camera-wielding supporters and journalists, Chris Smalls popped a bottle of champagne one year ago today to celebrate a watershed election that established the first-ever U.S. union at Amazon -- but the celebratory times for the union wouldn't last. Smalls, a former warehouse worker at the company's facility in Staten Island, New York, and the president of the Amazon Labor Union, or ALU, launched the campaign alongside his co-workers, raising money on GoFundMe as they sought improved pay, benefits and working conditions at the facility. The independent union overcame well-resourced opposition from the company and helped propel a surge of labor organizing across the country, some experts said. However, the ALU encountered difficulties almost immediately. In the months following the victory , labor campaigns were defeated overwhelmingly in elections at two other Amazon warehouses in New York. Meanw...

Apple said on Sunday that COVID-19 restrictions at an iPhone factory in China have "temporarily impacted" shipments of its flagship phone. Apple said on Sunday that COVID-19 restrictions at an iPhone factory in China have "temporarily impacted" shipments of its flagship phone. The world's most valuable company said a facility in Zhengzhou run by Foxconn, one of Apple's largest suppliers, was "currently operating at significantly reduced capacity." "We continue to see strong demand for iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models ," Apple said in a statement. "However, we now expect lower iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments than we previously anticipated and customers will experience longer wait times to receive their new products." Commuters wearing face masks walk along a street in the central business district in Beijing, on Nov. 3, 2022. Access to an industrial zone in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou was susp...