• Dearborn Truck Plant: ‘Ford’s Vision of Sustainable Manufacturing’

    Ford Motor Co.’s Dearborn (Mich.) Truck Plant has produced more than 2.6 million F-150 trucks since it opened in May 2004. Along the way, the factory “has set world-class standards for efficiency and environmentally friendly manufacturing processes,” says Bruce Hettle, vice president of Ford North America manufacturing. read more

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  • Washington State Workers’ Comp Scammers Get Jail Time

    Three workers who pleaded guilty to scamming Washington state’s workers’ compensation systems must serve jail time and pay thousands of dollars in restitution for their crimes. In three unrelated cases, Donna Childers-Adams, Deana Cook and Rodimiro Pacheco each pleaded guilty to felony theft for stealing workers’ compensation benefits from the Washington state Department of Labor

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  • Dear Walmart, As Mama Used to Say…

    “You’re known by the company you keep,” my mother used to say. Not just to me, but to or about anyone she felt was hanging out with a bad crowd. In business, you’re not only known by your own reputation, but by the reputation of the companies with whom you contract: the companies that sell

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  • Off-the-Job Safety: Keeping Kids Safe Around Lawnmowers

    While mowing the lawn might seem like a harmless summer routine, the lawnmower is one of the most dangerous household tools. Some 68,000 people – 9,400 of them children – visit the emergency room each year for lawnmower-related injuries, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Most childhood injuries due to lawnmowers involve riding mowers,

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