WASHINGTON — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is asking employers how robotics relate to the agency's current lockout/tagout standard for industrial machinery.

CINCINNATI — Tire Discounters President Jamie Ward is reaching out to other tire dealers and automotive retailers in Ohio to get behind a new Ohio bill due to take effect July 1 that prohibits the installation of unsafe used tires. 

WASHINGTON — In an effort to facilitate approval of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the Trump administration has removed the respective 25% and 10% tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from Canada and Mexico.

WASHINGTON — Even as the Trump administration opted to delay implementation of tariffs against imported autos and auto parts, nearly 170 members of Congress sent a letter urging the administration to reconsider those tariffs.

AKRON — Those curious about the effects of elevated import duties on a market need look no further than the U.S. replacement tire market over the past four years.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Representatives Joe Wilson, R-S.C., and Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., have formed a bipartisan Congressional Tire Caucus to represent the interests of the U.S. tire manufacturing industry.

PITTSBURGH — A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge has ordered a new union vote at Kumho Tire Georgia Inc.'s tire factory in Macon, Ga., after determining that company officials violated workers' rights during the first election in October 2017.

DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating an accident at the Liberty Tire L.L.C. facility in Des Moines in which a man lost part of his right arm.

BEIJING — The Chinese Ministry of Finance, reacting to the Trump administration's decision to raise import tariffs on some $200 billion worth of goods to 25%, said China intends to levy tariffs on some $60 billion worth of U.S. goods effective June 1.