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About 13,000 auto workers have walked off the job at three targeted factories after their union leaders couldn’t reach a deal with Detroit’s automakers DETROIT -- About 13,000 auto workers have walked off the job at three targeted factories after their union leaders couldn't reach a deal with Detroit's automakers. The United Auto Workers union is seeking big raises and better benefits from General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. They want to get back concessions that the workers made years ago, when the companies were in financial trouble. A small percentage of the union’s 146,000 members walked off the job at a GM assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri; a Ford factory in Wayne, Michigan, near Detroit; and a Stellantis Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday. Shawn Fain, the combative president of the UAW, says the targeted strike s will give the union leverage in contract talks and keep the auto companies guessing about its next move. It could also mak...

An explosion and fire at an soybean processing facility in Illinois has injured eight employees and sent a tower of smoke into the air DECATUR, Ill. -- An explosion and fire at a soybean processing facility in Illinois injured eight employees over the weekend and sent a tower of smoke into the air, officials said Monday. The explosion occurred at the east plant in the Archer Daniels Midland processing complex shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday in Decatur, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) southwest of Chicago, the agricultural company said in a statement on its website. Six of the eight injured workers were taken from the scene by ambulance with the “extent of injuries unknown,” Battalion Chief Wade Watson with the Decatur Fire Department said in a statement Monday morning. ADM said in a statement early Monday afternoon that five employees remained in hospitalized “receiving treatment for their injuries” and added that the company's “priority is providing our injured colleagues and thei...

Modelo overtook Bud Light last month as the top-selling beer in the U.S. Anheuser-Busch plans to lay off hundreds of corporate employees, a company spokesperson told ABC News on Thursday. The layoffs come months after a product endorsement from Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender i NFL uencer, in April set off a consumer boycott among conservatives that hammered sales . The layoffs will affect "less than 2%" of the company's U.S. employees, the company said. That figure amounts to roughly 380 workers, since the company's website says it employs a total of about 19,000 U.S.-based workers. MORE: The boycott against Bud Light is hammering sales. Experts explain why. The layoffs will affect workers "across every corporate function" but will not impact frontline workers, such as warehouse staff, drivers and salespeople, the company spokesperson said. "Today we took the very difficult but necessary decision to eliminate a number of positions across our corporate ...

New York City was ordered by a judge to temporarily delay new minimum pay standards for app-based food delivery workers NEW YORK -- A judge Friday ordered New York City to temporarily delay new minimum pay standards for app-based food delivery workers, a day after being sued by Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub. City officials recently announced plans to substantially increase earnings for those workers in the coming years to provide them with more financial stability. The law was set to take effect July 12 with an initial increased pay rate of $17.96 an hour. But food delivery services DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber, along with New York-based Relay Delivery, sued Thursday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. The companies claimed the city's rule-making process was flawed and that higher costs would be passed along to consumers. Judge Nicholas Moyne on Friday ordered a temporary delay on enacting the new standard pending a hearing on July 31. The food delivery giants praised the order....

Some industries posted blockbuster expansions in April while others lagged far behind. A better-than-expected jobs report on Friday defied interest rate hikes that aim to slash inflation by cooling the economy. Instead, the U.S. added 253,000 jobs in April, marking a slight decline from an average of 290,000 over the previous six months. The unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, matching a 54-year low, government data showed. The job gains, however, did not accrue evenly across sectors. Some industries posted blockbuster expansions while others lagged far behind. "There are good signs and there's broad growth," William Spriggs, chief economist for the labor federation AFL-CIO, told ABC News. "But many of the sectors didn't do very much." MORE: Is PacWest Bank on the brink of collapse? Experts weigh in after shares plummet 50% Here's what to know about which industries are seeing jobs grow the fastest and why: Business and professional services: 43,000 jobs...