WASHINGTON—The National Labor Relations Board will decide whether employers must permit employees to use workplace e-mail in their collective action to improve wages, hours and working conditions. The decision could hand unions a major weapon in their efforts to unionize.
OSCEOLA, WI—Polaris Industries will spend $1.75 million to expand its engine assembly plant here, a move that will create 60 new jobs and retain 200 old jobs.
DETROIT—The assembly plant where Rosie the Riveter showed that a woman could do a “man’s work” by building World War II-era bombers has been saved from the wrecking ball by a group that wants to build a museum on the site.
MUNICH, Germany—Most screws are made of steel. But high temperatures or acidic environments take their toll on this otherwise stable material. The alternative is ceramic screws. Researchers can now accurately predict their stress resistance.
MUNICH, Germany—Researchers in Germany have developed a novel, snake-like robot capable of tightening bolts in even the most difficult-to-access cavities of an aircraft’s wing structure.
CAMBRIDGE, UK—Researchers at the University of Cambridge are studying ways to manufacture intricate features that are smaller than 100 nanometers. Such capability could be instrumental in making products such as diagnostic smart phones, flexible displays and highly efficient solar cells.
RIVERSIDE, MO—Tier 1 automotive supplier Martinrea International will open a new assembly plant here to supply components for General Motors, creating as many as 290 new jobs.
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