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In addition to the store where the union won, workers at a second store voted down the union, though Workers United has indicated that it intends to formally object to the result.

Starbucks employees involved in the Buffalo organizing campaigns have cited issues with staffing and training, which some say worsened during the pandemic, but have also emphasized that the motivation for organizing extends beyond any particular policy.

Starbucks worked hard to defuse the union campaign in Buffalo, sending managers and company officials from out of town to work alongside employees and question them about their stores.

The group said that the key factor in its improved outlook was rising oil production in the United States, Canada and Brazil.

23 announced a release of up to 50 million barrels of oil from the United States strategic reserves, along with similar actions by China, South Korea, India, Japan and Britain.

The emergence of the Omicron variant along with the threatened release of oil reserves led to a sharp fall in prices in November from their October highs over $80 a barrel.

Ms. Min, who transformed The Hollywood Reporter from a struggling trade publication into a successful, large-format glossy, will become the co-owner, chief executive and editor in chief of the newly formed Ankler Media.

Eventually, he moved it to the digital newsletter platform Substack, and he now charges $10 a month for a subscription.

Over the last 18 months, Ms. Min and Mr. Rushfield discussed ways to expand the newsletter, including with other media companies, before deciding to stick with Substack.

Investors will also be watching for quicker changes to the outlook for interest rates, the central bank’s most powerful economic tool.

Wholesale prices rose 9.6 percent in November from a year ago, the fastest pace since 2010, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.

Hourly wages fell for the first time in 10 years in the second quarter from the same period a year earlier, although economists say pandemic shutdowns and job furloughs make it hard to paint an accurate picture.

policymakers have insisted for months that the rise in inflation is temporary, touched off by the reopening of the global economy, labor shortages in some industries and supply-chain bottlenecks that can’t last forever.

Ms. Nair, who had been at Unilever for 30 years, most recently as its chief human resources officer, will be Chanel’s second female chief executive, a post previously held by Maureen Chiquet.

And by posting a notice on Thursday without Ms. McWilliams’s approval, they took a step to assert their power over the organization she leads.

has adhered to Republican ideological lines on topics such as climate change and a general tendency to let banks take on more risk while holding less capital in reserve.

Ms. Gjovik accused Apple of suspending her and then firing her in September in retaliation for reporting workplace health concerns at a Sunnyvale, Calif., office, and for complaining about the issue to the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a letter from the Labor Department to Ms. Gjovik that was viewed by The New York Times.

Ms. Gjovik’s complaint is one of many she has filed to various agencies, along with several other former employees who have accused Apple of retaliating against them.

In seeking a reduced penalty, UBS lawyers argued that while some of its Swiss bankers met with wealthy French clients, they did not unlawfully solicit them to evade taxes.

Several whistle-blowers at UBS France came forward with tales of how the banks’ employees in France and Switzerland engaged in illegal activity that essentially bilked the French tax authorities of more than 10 billion euros.

To avoid detection, the bankers involved in the scheme followed a UBS “security governance manual” that included instructions for using encrypted computers, business cards without the bank’s logo and switching hotels frequently, prosecutors said.

The bank also created a parallel accounting system known as the milk books, after the small notebooks used as ledgers by Swiss cow farmers, prosecutors said.

The proposal from the California Public Utilities Commission would impose higher utility fees on people who install solar panels on their homes and, over time, homeowners who already had them.

Electric utilities and solar installers have long fought about how much money homeowners have to pay to connect to the grid and how much they can expect to earn as credits from the electricity that their rooftop panels produce and send to the grid.

Utilities like Pacific Gas & Electric, California’s largest, have argued that this credit system, known as net metering, is not fair to people without solar panels who are left to bear the cost of operating the grid.

It will now be subject to public comments and a final vote by the utilities commission, expected on Jan.

The proposal angered the solar industry, which said the higher fees proposed by the commission were excessive.

Sean Gallagher, vice president for state and regulatory affairs at the Solar Energy Industries Association, a national trade group, said his organization had proposed less drastic steps to balance any disparity that may exist between people with solar systems and those without.

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