Tag: labor and employment
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Analysis: A rail strike would do serious damage — and that's exactly the point
This story is part of CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free, here. New York CNN Business — Unless we get a breakthrough soon in deadlocked negotiations, Friday will mark the beginning of the first national rail strike in 30 years (which we wrote about in Monday’s newsletter)….
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Here's why 75% of likely voters think we are in a recession — even though we're probably not
New York CNN Business — A new CNN poll shows that three-quarters of likely voters feel like the US economy is in a recession. It’s probably not, but that’s not the point. The technical definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of economic contraction, which the US economy recorded in the first half of…