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UAW Files New Charges Against Company, Seeks Federal Court Order To Prevent Future Unfair Labor Practices

Jeff Immelt’s resignation as CEO of General Electric shows that we cannot think of industry as finance’s opponent.

When a stockpile of aging explosives blew up at a former Army ammunition plant in Minden, Louisiana, the U.S. military had a public relations disaster on their hands. What were they going to do with the remaining 18 million pounds of old explosives? They shipped it to a plant in Colfax, a tiny, African-American corner of Louisiana, the only commercial facility in the nation allowed to burn explosives and munitions waste with no environmental emissions controls.