Business Watch

The venerable, Rockford-based company famous for Hush Puppies faces plummeting stocks and sales. It’s already spent tens of millions of dollars settling suits for PFAS contamination. Then this year, more PFAS was discovered on its doorstop.

The salon deleted posts told those who don’t identity as male or female to take business elsewhere. State officials say the law is clear — threatening to deny service is illegal, not free speech.

Nearly half of the auto company’s non-union U.S. salaried workforce will get an incentive offer to leave their jobs by year-end. It’s the latest cost-cutting move to hit the Big Three’s professional workers.

Voters in Green Charter Township recalled the board members after they approved the secretive battery plant deal, which critics said raised national security and environmental concerns.

The United Auto Workers union strike against the Big Three domestic automakers comes amid record profits and has grown significantly since it began Sept. 15. An interactive timeline traces the origins, details and context of the dispute.

The 46-day strike was ‘stunningly successful’ for the union, which reached most demands. While the UAW was congratulated by some, others warned Detroit automakers face a steeper path to compete on EVs.

Henry Ford Health, Michigan State University and the Detroit Pistons are seeking $273 million in tax incentives largely to finance housing for the New Center development.

Wages from new United Auto Workers contracts will increase alongside unprecedented competition, adding to pressures facing U.S. auto companies as they balance costs and profitability.

Tired of not finding trained workers, some Michigan businesses are using state funding to grow their own with apprenticeships.

Increasing EV production and closing coal-fired power plants will impact the state’s workforce and communities. Legislation could create a new state office to aid both in the transition.

Young college-educated workers can live wherever they want. That gives lots of hope to Michigan, but it also is another reason to lose our best and brightest.

MotorCity Casino, MGM Grand Detroit and Hollywood Casino at Greektown in Detroit remain open. But a prolonged strike could threaten revenues of both the city and the state.

Bill Ford Jr. said Monday the union should unite against foreign companies to boost American jobs. The UAW didn’t buy it, with President Shawn Fain telling Ford to give in to union demands to support its workers. Here are four things to know about the strike.

Michigan’s large-scale business incentives program has drawn growing criticism for awarding billions of dollars to automakers and other industries with little accountability and questions about the quality of jobs it brings in return.

The western part of the island opened to visitors on Sunday, the first time in two months following a devastating fire in early August. Some 90,000 Michigan residents go to Hawaii each year.

Michigan now ranks 39th in per capita income, a reflection of the state’s slow transition away from its blue-collar roots.

LG Energy Solution is planning to grow again, even before construction concludes on a $1.7B project announced in 2022. Holland officials await building plans.

As mega-subsidies through Michigan’s SOAR Fund lose luster with both parties, Democrats propose adding more corporate accountability, oversight and community benefits to incentive deals.

The number of auto workers on strike jumped to 25,000 across 21 states Friday, with new GM and Ford plants going idle.

The automaker says it has not made a final decision to build the factory, despite $2.2 billion in state subsidies. Ford won’t say if UAW negotiations are a factor.