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As the auto workers strike approaches the one-month mark, more Americans sympathize with the striking workers than with the three big car companies that employ them A majority of Americans support higher pay for auto workers who are on strike against Detroit's big three carmakers, although approval of the workers' other demands is more mixed, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll found that 36% of Americans sympathize with the workers in their dispute with the automakers, 9% support the automakers, and the rest back both or neither. Support for the autoworkers fell short of the 55% support for striking Hollywood writers and actors in an AP-NORC poll conducted last month. Still, the new poll adds to evidence of U.S. support for labor unions during a year marked by strikes in Hollywood, a walkout that was narrowly averted by Teamsters at United Parcel Service, and now the picket lines outside auto plants. In the new AP-...

A survey shows China’s factory activity contracted for another month in June as export orders decreased BEIJING -- China’s factory activity contracted for another month in June as export orders decreased, an official survey showed Friday, adding to signs an economic rebound following the end of anti-virus controls is cooling. A monthly purchasing managers’ index issued by the national statistics agency and an industry group edged up to 49 from May’s 48.8 on a 100-point scale on which readings below 50 show activity contracting. The world's second-largest economy revived following the end in December of anti-virus controls on Travel and Business activity. But that faded faster than expected due to lackluster consumer spending at home and weak demand for export s following interest rate hikes in the United States and Europe to cool i NFL ation. Despite that, China’s No. 2 leader, Premier Li Qiang, said this week economic growth accelerated in the April-June period from the previous...