Even when autoworkers were laid off, companies couldn't get them off their books. Union-mandated "jobs banks" forced automakers to keep paying workers whose plants had been shut down. They got paid to sit in rooms and do crossword puzzles. Years of losses caused the three U.S. automakers...
“We all watched to get a clue. And I suppose we got it… whether he was kidding or not, it was appalling. But we’ve come to expect that kind of disdain by now,” said a senior department official. Pompeo spent the aftermath intensifying his joking-not-joking position thatTrump has ...