United Auto Workers Union members widely rejected a tentative contract offered by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, dealing a blow to the Union’s president, after he championed the deal as a fair bargain that addressed the inequities workers complained about.
The U.S. hit a much-hyped deadline on October 1 for credit card issuers and merchants to transition to technology that has been commonplace across much of the rest of the world for about a decade. The migration, from credit cards that store data on the magnetic stripe to ones that feature a small, square chip that is inserted into a card reader rather than swiped, has been hailed as one that will reduce fraud and credit card counterfeiting.
Congress on Wednesday avoided a government shutdown by passing a bill that keeps the government running through mid-December, but leaves unresolved a divide over federal spending that threatens to resurface this winter with more perilous economic consequences.
Much more is highlighted in A Look Around the Nation and the World.
