LOS ANGELES — Nearly 6,000 workers at Food 4 Less locations across California this week voted to authorize a strike if Kroger, the grocery chain's owner, continues with what they say are labor violations during ongoing contract talks.

The vote comes after the union, United Food and Commercial Workers, filed multiple claims of unfair labor ...Read more

Truist Financial Corp. said it is responding to a cybersecurity incident, notifying employees and some of its customers.

The Charlotte-based bank, formed in 2019 in a merger of BB&T and Atlanta-based SunTrust, employs thousands of Georgians and is the largest bank in Georgia.

The data breach dates back to October 2023, with Truist saying that ...Read more

A California state bill designed to eradicate junk or hidden fees, and signed into law in October, is set to take effect on July 1.

The new law, as interpreted by the Attorney General’s Office, means a restaurant cannot charge an additional surcharge on top of the price listed. And it seemingly brings to an end the practice of restaurants ...Read more

Rajiv Garg is an optimist.

An associate professor at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, Garg has studied artificial intelligence for over 25 years. As the field becomes increasingly sophisticated, he believes AI will soon have the power to make every person more creative, innovative and knowledgeable.

But that outcome is dependent ...Read more

Elon Musk responded in kind to Tesla Inc. investors reapproving his massive compensation plan, offering outlandish predictions that he can enrich shareholders all over again.

After Tesla’s general counsel confirmed Thursday that investors supported awarding stock options to Musk worth as much as $55.8 billion, the chief executive officer said...Read more

Maybe it’s taken you some time to notice Genesis, the luxury vehicle brand manufactured by Hyundai Motor Group. But that’s OK. It’s a luxury brand that’s still finding new customers, with many trading in their Lexus RXs, Acura RDXs, BMW X5s and Mercedes-Benz MLs.

In 2023, the Korean luxury brand outsold longtime luxury stalwart Cadillac...Read more

CHELSEA, Michigan — Stellantis NV is working to make software a major slice of its business.

The transatlantic automaker is putting a ChatGPT-powered voice assistant inside more vehicles beginning in Europe, adding in-vehicle navigation and route planning features, growing a business fleet software business, and releasing other products it ...Read more

URBANNA, Virginia — If you’re traveling to Virginia’s remote, historic Northern Neck, you may want to bring a Jeep.

“You’re free to check out the beach, woods and farmland. Be mindful the trail is grass, dirt, and may be muddy in places,” said a staffer at Rosegill historic farm in Urbanna.

“We have a Jeep,” I replied.

“Oh. ...Read more

When Blake Whitmore pays his mortgage every month on his Marin County home, he winces.

The elevator mechanic and father of two young children can barely afford the $3,400 he must pay his lender. His wife has gone back to work, and he flipped a house with a buddy to help pay the bills.

The hefty mortgage payment is a painful reminder of a $200,...Read more

For a long time, Olivia Alexander defended MedMen.

Despite the pushback she got for partnering with the cannabis chain that some worried would box out smaller brands, Alexander — who founded Kush Queen, which sells cannabis-infused bath bombs and personal lubricant — valued the retailer's dedication to stocking shelves with products from ...Read more

Justina Jong’s revelation that she was being paid less at Apple because she’s female came from an unexpected place: an office printer.

That’s according to a lawsuit filed Thursday claiming Apple systematically paid thousands of women less than men. It alleges that on the printer in the Apple office in Sunnyvale where Jong worked was a W-2...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Have $150,000? You could buy the rights to operate a giant pink ice cream cone on the corner of Longshore and Frankford Avenues in Northeast Philadelphia.

Mohammed Nasher is selling Twistee Treat, the ice cream business operating out of the neighborhood's iconic 27-foot-tall cone.

Posts advertising the sale started circulating...Read more

The federal government is financing a large manufacturing plant in southwest Minnesota that will turn corn sugar into chemicals usually made from petroleum.

The Department of Energy on Thursday announced a tentative $213 million loan for Solugen Inc. to construct its 500,000-square-foot facility in Marshall.

At the plant, which Solugen calls a...Read more

Cybercriminals stole files from hospital system Ascension that likely contained personal information, Ascension said in a statement Wednesday, about a month after revealing it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack.

Ascension said it now has evidence that the attackers took files from seven of the system’s 25,000 file servers. Ascension is ...Read more

Boeing Co. said it’s inspecting undelivered 787 Dreamliners after discovering that fasteners were incorrectly installed on a section of the carbon-composite aircraft, underscoring the heightened scrutiny on quality lapses at the embattled manufacturer.

The issue is the latest to come to light as U.S. regulators ramp up oversight of Boeing ...Read more

Medtronic continues this year to quietly trim jobs.

The company run from Fridley, Minnesota, began far-reaching global layoffs in April 2023 but has disclosed little information, including how many employees were cut.

A new round of layoffs hit in early May, according to social media posts from affected employees. Several of them said the ...Read more

A coalition of labor organizations representing thousands of Disneyland employees has filed unfair labor practice charges against Disney for allegedly “threatening to discipline” workers for wearing union pins depicting Mickey Mouse’s raised fist.

Master Services Council — which represents 13,000 custodians, ride operators, candy makers...Read more