Caterpillar: Production cuts will run into 2013

Caterpillar union members reject contract

Published: May 1, 2013
Tags: Caterpillar, United Steelworkers

The union representing more than 800 workers at the Caterpillar plant in South Milwaukee has rejected the company’s contract offer.

Caterpillar workers to vote on contract

Published: April 30, 2013
Tags: Bucyrus International, Caterpillar

United Steel Workers are set to vote Tuesday on a proposed six-year contract with Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar cuts 2013 outlook

Published: April 22, 2013
Tags: Caterpillar

Caterpillar says its first-quarter net income shrank and it predicted smaller 2013 sales and profits because its mining business is slowing down.

Caterpillar laying off more than 400 at Ill. plant

Published: April 5, 2013
Tags: Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. says it plans to lay off more than 460 employees this June at its plant in Decatur.

State’s union officials question Caterpillar layoffs

Published: April 3, 2013
Tags: Caterpillar, jobs, unions
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Wisconsin union officials questioned Caterpillar Inc.’s plans to temporarily lay off up to 300 workers in the Milwaukee area after the company’s CEO called for more visas for foreign engineers and a path to legal status for workers who entered the country illegally .

Labor union asks technical college to stop training (UPDATE)

Published: March 14, 2013
Tags: Caterpillar, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, MATC, United Steelworkers Local 1343, welders

A labor union has accused Caterpillar Inc. of training nonunion workers as replacements in case next month’s labor negotiations stall.

Worker hurt, building leveled in Caterpillar plant blast

Published: February 11, 2013
Tags: accident, Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. says an explosion at one of its southern Illinois sites where mining equipment is repaired has hospitalized one worker and destroyed a building.

Caterpillar 4Q earnings fall by half  

Published: January 28, 2013
Tags: Caterpillar

Caterpillar’s fourth-quarter net income fell by half after it took a big charge for a deal in China that went bad, and because of slower growth in China and economic uncertainty in the U.S. and Europe.

Caterpillar closing Minn. plant, shifting jobs to Wis.

Published: November 9, 2012
Tags: Caterpillar, jobs

Caterpillar says it plans to close its plant in southern Minnesota and shift work to Wisconsin and Georgia.