Manufacturing

Anduril Announces Arsenal-1: $1 Billion Weapons Manufacturing Facility in Ohio

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Anduril Industries selected Columbus, Ohio for Arsenal-1, its first ‘hyperscale manufacturing facility’ designed to produce tens of thousands of autonomous weapons systems annually. The company announced nearly $1 billion in investment to build the 5-million-square-foot facility in …

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Clinton Signs China PNTR Ending Annual Review, Enabling WTO Entry and Manufacturing Exodus

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President Bill Clinton signs the U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000, granting China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status and ending the annual congressional review process that had existed since 1980 under Jackson-Vanik provisions. The House passed the legislation on May 24, 2000 and the …

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Caterpillar Defeats UAW Strike Using Permanent Replacement Threat, Pattern Bargaining Collapses

| Importance: 8/10

The United Automobile Workers ends its five-month strike against Caterpillar on April 14, 1992, after the company announces it will begin permanently replacing the 12,600 striking workers. The UAW—the union that pioneered industrial unionism with the Flint sit-down strike—capitulates without a …

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