Rebecca Boone

Associated Press

Trends in Manufacturing: Insights from 750 Leaders

Trends in Manufacturing: Insights from 750 Leaders

Despite manufacturers’ best forecasts, no one could have predicted what 2020 had in store. For many manufacturers, the destabilizing force of the pandemic exposed weaknesses along the value chain. It also highlighted opportunities to justify larger-scale.

In this July 20, 2017, file photo, a Union Pacific Railroad Company employee stands on a locomotive in Council Bluffs, Iowa. More than two dozen major companies ranging from Campbell Soup to Kia filed anti-trust lawsuits on Sept. 30, 2019 against the nation's four largest railway companies, contending the railroads had a price-fixing scheme to illegally boost profits.

Nation’s Biggest Railways Sued

Major companies like Campbell's and Kia are suing over what they allege were coordinated fuel surcharges.

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10 Indicted in Counterfeit Phone Case

The group smuggled in counterfeit devices from Hong Kong and China.

This 2015 self-portrait by César Nerón Martínez Rodríguez shows him at work at the Funk Dairy in Murtaugh, Idaho. He is one of six veterinarians who say they were recruited from Mexico to work at the Idaho dairy farm as animal scientists, but were instead forced to work as laborers, milking cows and shoveling manure for about a year. On Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, they filed a federal human trafficking lawsuit against the dairy's owners and the lawyer who arranged work visas.

Dairy Sued for Human Trafficking

The lawsuit claims the veterinarians, all from Mexico, were illegally forced to work as general laborers despite having professional worker visas, and were threatened with deportation.