A Kansas City-based vehicle transport company has announced that it is shutting down. Jack Cooper Transport Co. has filed mass layoff and closure notices in multiple states, including Missouri, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, and Kentucky. The closure affects 645 employees at...
Wentzville has been at the forefront of the nationwide United Auto Worker strike that could come to an end soon as General Motors reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers. Reuters reports GM is the third U.S. automaker to reach a deal, followed by...
America’s “big 3” automakers and the United Auto Workers union have yet to reach an agreement. Strikes began early this morning and, instead of the usual company-wide strike, targeted work stoppages will begin one at a time at several auto plants across the U.S.,...
(News director Andrew Pitkin from Missourinet Nevada affiliate KNEM contributed to this story) A growing aerospace company in southwest Missouri’s Nevada hopes to get an opportunity to bid for future contracts with Boeing. Governor Mike Parson traveled to Nevada...
Missouri’s top economic development official says despite earlier plans, General Motors (GM) has been able to keep the third shift open at its massive plant in eastern Missouri’s Wentzville. In July, the company said it planned to temporarily eliminate its...
