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LISTEN: Former Employee at DVD Maker Gets Nearly 5...

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2025/09/16

Last Thursday, a former employee of a multinational DVD and Blu-ray manufacturer and distributor was sentenced to 57 months in prison, nearly five years, for stealing DVDs and Blu-rays of "blockbuster movies" and selling them before their release dates. According to the Justice Department, 38-year-old Steven R. Hale of Memphis, Tennessee, worked for the DVD manufacturer. From February 2021 to March 2022, Hale stole more than 1,000 discs that were being prepped for commercial distributio...

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1:42

LISTEN: Boeing Defense, St. Louis Machinists Union...

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2025/09/15

Boeing Defense and the machinists union have reached a tentative deal, ending a five-week-long strike in St. Louis. An official vote on the new five-year contract is scheduled for Friday, September 12.

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1:21

LISTEN: Manhole Cover Maker Turning Manufacturing...

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2025/09/12

Neenah Foundry, a maker of manhole covers and other iron castings, announced that it plans to close its plant in Lincoln, Nebraska, by the end of the year. Nebraska Public Media reported that the company intends to reopen the closed manufacturing facility as a distribution center on January 1, 2026. Neenah Foundry notified the state labor department that 103 workers would lose their jobs as a result of the permanent shutdown and noted that the non-union facility would not offer bumping...

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1:46

LISTEN: Lumber Plant Catches Fire Amid Bankruptcy,...

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2025/09/11

A fire at a Pennsylvania plant owned by hardwood lumber producer Weaber broke out on the night of September 8, reportedly requiring more than 1 million gallons of water to contain. Fox43 reported that firefighters arrived at the 84-year-old company’s headquarters in Lebanon around 9:10 p.m. The station later noted that all first responders had left the scene by 8:45 a.m. the following morning, with the building still under a controlled burn.

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2:11

LISTEN: Serta Simmons Continues Shutdown Spree,...

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2025/09/10

Serta Simmons is saying goodnight to a 122,000-square-foot factory in Jamestown, New York – a move the company says will take place in the next few months and impact 84 employees. According to Furniture Today, the plant closure is the second one that’s been initiated by Serta Simmons so far this year. The company announced in May that it would shutter a Moreno Valley, California plant that employed 180 workers – a site that was built during an expansion push and has only been operational sinc...

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2:09

LISTEN: Tyson Foods Cuts Chief Supply Chain Officer...

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2025/09/09

Last Tuesday, Tyson Foods announced that Brady Stewart, group president of prepared foods, beef and pork and the company's chief supply chain officer, was leaving the food company immediately. Stewart took "certain actions" that violated the company's code of conduct, the company said in a statement, though it didn't provide further details.

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1:52

LISTEN: Boeing Looks for Permanent Replacement...

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2025/09/08

Last month, more than 3,200 union workers at three Boeing plants in the St. Louis area went on strike. The employees, who make U.S. fighter jets and advanced weapons systems, rejected a "landmark" contract. The deal reportedly gave workers a 40% bump over the next four years as well as better medical benefits, pensions, overtime and work-life balance. But the union's members rejected that proposal. Well, it's been a month, and since Boeing's best aren't willing to budge, the company is ...

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2:22

LISTEN: Canadian Premier Pledges to 'Hurt' Crown...

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2025/09/05

This week, Ontario premier Doug Ford responded angrily to reports that the spirits company would be closing the Amherstburg Crown Royal bottling plant, killing 180 jobs in the process. Ford recently declared that he had a message “to [the company’s] CEO in France: You hurt my people, I’m going to hurt you” adding that Diageo leaders were “dumb as a bag of hammers.”

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3:26

LISTEN: 'Cyber Incident' Severely Disrupts Jaguar...

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2025/09/04

Jaguar Land Rover announced Tuesday that the company has been targeted by a cyberattack that has "severely disrupted" its production activities. The British carmaker, which officially rebranded as JLR about two years ago, said it "took immediate action to mitigate its impact by proactively shutting down" its systems. The company says it is trying to restart its global applications in a "controlled manner."

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1:29

LISTEN: John Deere Acquisition Looks to Tackle Labor...

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2025/09/03

John Deere announced its acquisition of autonomous orchard sprayer GUSS Automation. Founded in 2018 and standing for Global Unmanned Spray System, GUSS expects its machines to act as a solution to the agricultural labor shortage.

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2:24

LISTEN: Milwaukee Tool Employee Allegedly Shipped...

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2025/09/01

According to a search warrant, the employee works at the company's new $30 million corporate office it announced in May 2021. The worker allegedly created and deleted some 115 orders from March 2024 to March 2025. Of those orders, 109 shipments, valued at $1,086,263.85, were delivered. The employee may have flown under the radar for a year, but then he got greedy and sent about 9,000 pounds of tools to his nearby apartment.

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1:35

LISTEN: Over 600 Memphis FedEx Workers Laid Off As...

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2025/08/29

Although FedEx confirmed the layoffs are not related to the company’s ‘Network 2.0’ plan for streamlining its package network, this is the company’s second layoff this year. The state’s labor department filed notice that 217 employees were previously laid off in Middle Tennessee in March.

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19:30

Gen Z in Manufacturing: The Best Age to Make First...

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2025/08/27

For this episode, I welcome Hannah Dannecker, a 26-year-old managing partner at Better Together Group, a collection of companies that focus on supplying support and tools to staffing companies. Additionally, Dannecker serves as a board member for the Women’s Trucking Federation of Canada.

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1:18

LISTEN: AirBorn Closing Facility as Contract...

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2025/08/27

AirBorn, a designer and manufacturer of interconnect solutions for industrial, defense, aerospace and medical applications, announced plans to close its facility in Taunton, Massachusetts. The company filed its WARN report on August 20, which stated that the closure would affect 86 workers beginning at the end of 2025 and continuing through 2026.

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1:30

Electronics Giant to Build ‘AI Supercomputer’...

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2025/08/26

Wistron’s project is part of a $500 billion AI manufacturing effort by Nvidia.

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3:08

LISTEN: Toto Expands U.S. Toilet Production, Leans...

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2025/08/25

This morning, Toto USA opened a $224 million manufacturing facility in Morrow, Georgia, reshoring production of high-end, one-piece toilets from the Toto Group's plants in Asia. Toto USA is the Japanese manufacturer's Americas division based in Morrow, Georgia. The company, one of the largest plumbing manufacturers in the world that does more than $5.34 billion in annual sales, says it made the move to increase U.S. luxury one-piece toilet production capacity by 150% to meet rising demand.

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2:22

LISTEN: Harvard Team’s Wearable Robot Helps Stroke,...

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2025/08/22

Bioengineers at Harvard have created a soft, wearable robot that looks more like a smart jacket, designed to help stroke patients and individuals with neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS, regain a bit of normalcy. The team has been working on the technology for years, and the most recent version deploys sensors, balloons, machine learning and a physics-based model to learn each patient's unique movements to help them accomplish daily activities, such as eating, drinking or grooming. The d...

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1:59

LISTEN: Navy Drones Collide as Test Flounders

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2025/08/21

The future of warfare is autonomous. To compete with China, particularly in the Taiwan Straight, the U.S. Department of Defense has been ramping up development of autonomous boats, but, according to an exclusive Reuters report, things could be better. The U.S. Navy recently conducted a test of autonomous drone boats off the California coast—it was meant to promote the Pentagon's prowess. During the test, one of the vessels stalled. As the team worked to fix a software bug, anothe...

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2:36

LISTEN: GM's Futuristic Corvette Opens Like a Fighter...

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2025/08/20

On Friday, GM unveiled a pair of futuristic Corvette concepts, the CX and the CX.R Vision Gran Turismo, and they have a canopy that opens like a fighter jet.

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1:47

LISTEN: Proposal Could Turn Historic Golf Course into...

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2025/08/19

A nearly century-old golf course in western Michigan could be turned into an industrial, commercial and residential complex under a proposal from its potential new owner. Residents living near Riverside Golf Club & Banquet Center in Battle Creek were invited to an informational meeting Wednesday about the project, WWMT-TV reports. Interstate Capital Investments, which has a tentative agreement in place to buy the course after some two years on the market, would dedicate about half of the ...

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