GM air bag recall may be expanded
DETROIT - U.S. safety regulators are checking to see if up to 400,000 General Motors cars should be added to two recalls of just under 7,000 cars for defective air bags.
The probe covers Chevrolet Cruze and Sonic small cars, the Chevrolet Camaro muscle car and the Buick Verano small car from the 2012 model year. The main front driver's air bags wouldn't inflate due to a defect in the electrical connections.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday that GM may not have fully identified the cause of the problem, so it will see if the recall should be expanded.
American wages lagging globally
WASHINGTON - Competition from China and other low-wage rivals, coupled with fallout from the 2007-09 financial crisis, has put American wages under such unprecedented strain that they have shifted into reverse - not merely stagnating, but falling.
In the U.S., the phenomenon is not limited to isolated and vulnerable sectors, such as commodity manufacturing. Rather, wages have fallen across the entire national economy - down 1.1 percent in the 12-month period from September 2011 to September 2012, the most recent comparisons available.
"Average weekly wages declined in every industry except for information," the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in its latest economic census.
Lululemon black yoga pants return
NEW YORK - Lululemon Athletica Inc. is bringing its black luon yoga pants back into stores this month, this time with "more fabric across the bum so it's not stretched from the get-go," the company says.
The bottoms, which now have to undergo a raft of 15 tests before being delivered, were pulled from shelves in March after customers complained that the thin fabric was exposing more than just good yoga form.