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Disneyland character and parade performers in California vote to join labor union

May 19, 2024, 2:59pm Business

Disneyland performers who help bring Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and other beloved characters to life at the Southern California resort chose to unionize following a three-day vote culminating on Saturday. Read story

A sign for a Red Lobster restaurant is shown in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

Red Lobster offered customers all-you-can-eat shrimp. That was a mistake

A sign for a Red Lobster restaurant is shown in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

May 19, 2024, 6:25am Business

Red Lobster promised customers an endless supply of shrimp for $20 — a gamble the struggling restaurant chain hoped would help pull it out of its pandemic doldrums. Read story

Shawna Williams, owner of Free Range Cycles, poses outside her shop on May 6, 2024, in Seattle, Wash. Williams didn&rsquo;t have the sales surge others did because her 700 square foot shop was so small she kept it open by appointment only from March 2020 to May 2021.

Bike shops boomed early in the pandemic in the Northwest and the nation. It’s been a bumpy ride for most ever since

Shawna Williams, owner of Free Range Cycles, poses outside her shop on May 6, 2024, in Seattle, Wash. Williams didn&rsquo;t have the sales surge others did because her 700 square foot shop was so small she kept it open by appointment only from March 2020 to May 2021.

May 19, 2024, 6:02am Business

For the nation’s bicycle shops, the past few years have probably felt like the business version of the Tour de France, with numerous twists and turns testing their endurance. Read story

Study: American workers plan to slow-roll into retirement

May 19, 2024, 6:00am Business

Often when people aged 50 or older contact her, Pittsburgh financial coach Shay Port said the conversation starts with them declaring that they will never be able to retire. Read story

GM CEO Mary Barra at the company&rsquo;s design studio in Warren on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. She said Michigan is still &ldquo;where the core and the bulk of our talent are&rdquo; but that in Silicon Valley, &ldquo;there is a lot of software talent there.

Barra says GM will ‘go to where the talent is’ to develop software-driven vehicles

GM CEO Mary Barra at the company&rsquo;s design studio in Warren on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. She said Michigan is still &ldquo;where the core and the bulk of our talent are&rdquo; but that in Silicon Valley, &ldquo;there is a lot of software talent there.

May 19, 2024, 6:00am Business

In the battle to build software-driven connected vehicles, General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra knows the “industry is so fierce, you have to have the very best talent.” Read story

Shoppers make their way into a 99 Cent Only store in Santa Monica, California, on April 5, 2024. The stores will be closing soon.

99 Cents Only was an LA icon. Inside the fall of the popular chain

Shoppers make their way into a 99 Cent Only store in Santa Monica, California, on April 5, 2024. The stores will be closing soon.

May 19, 2024, 6:00am Business

It was Friday the 13th when the first 99 Cents Only store opened in 1982 on La Tijera Boulevard. Read story

Claudia Saenz, left, and Diana Carolina Guillen hug and cry during a sexual harassment prevention class for nannies and housekeepers on Saturday, April 27, 2024, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Nannies, housekeepers, and home care workers are excluded from many federal workplace protections in the United States, and the private, home-based nature of the work means abuse tends to happen behind closed doors.

Labor laws largely exclude nannies. Some are banding together to protect themselves

Claudia Saenz, left, and Diana Carolina Guillen hug and cry during a sexual harassment prevention class for nannies and housekeepers on Saturday, April 27, 2024, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Nannies, housekeepers, and home care workers are excluded from many federal workplace protections in the United States, and the private, home-based nature of the work means abuse tends to happen behind closed doors.

May 19, 2024, 5:25am Business

Map all doors in the home and figure out how to escape. Make a list of items in each room that you can use to defend yourself. Shelves, dishes, night stands, kitchen knives -- all can be weapons if you are attacked. Read story

Lowry: Treat buy now, pay later loans like real debt

May 19, 2024, 5:24am Business

It’s been close to two years since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau indicated it was looking to tighten regulations on popular “buy now, pay later” services. Since then, the sector has grown to $300 billion. It’s time to bring meaningful transparency to an industry that has drawn in legions of… Read story