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The UPS-Teamsters Contract Runs Out
SCHEDULED78% CONFIDENCEin 1.9 yearsThe contract agreed in 2023 runs to 31 July 2028; FreightWaves[1] reports Teamsters president Sean O'Brien saying the union is ready to strike when it expires.The five-year UPS-Teamsters agreement covering some 340,000 workers expires on 31 July 2028, and the union's president has already said a strike is coming.0.70Czech Republic and Sweden Sign a Joint Declaration to Extend the Gripen Lease
CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoDefence trade press dates the Czech-Swedish joint declaration on extending the Gripen lease beyond 2027 to 31 August 2024. The binding contract, for 12 jets to 2035, was still under evaluation in April 2025, so this date is the declaration and not the lease contract.[1]Prague and Stockholm signed a joint declaration to keep the Čáslav-based Saab JAS 39 Gripen fleet flying beyond the lease's 2027 expiry, until Czech F-35s arrive; the binding contract covering 12 jets to 2035 was still being negotiated the following year. The deal underpins the fleet's ongoing depot-level overhauls, which strip and rebuild each jet roughly every few years.0.61Government Funding Runs Out Again on December 11
SCHEDULED86% CONFIDENCEin 79 daysH.R. 6500 funds federal agencies through 11 December 2026, so the continuing resolution expires at the end of that day.[1]The stopgap signed in September expires on 11 December 2026, the deadline for Congress to enact the twelve fiscal 2027 appropriations bills or pass another continuing resolution before agencies shut down.0.61NASA pays the price of being subjected to a massive, expensive rocket
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE6.8 years agoHappened as dated, per arstechnica.com[1]: "…ty of adding crew members to the maiden launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. This seemed…"The agency is now likely to be at least three years late in delivering its new booster. I think that new manufacturing has caused some of the delays we’ve seen. No one welds the way that we’re welding material at the thicknesses we’re welding.$10B0.61Zalando Closes Its Erfurt Fulfilment Centre
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 7 daysZalando's[1] 8 January 2026 release says it will "close our fulfilment centre in Erfurt, Germany, planned for the end of September 2026", and on 9 July 2026 a spokesman told dpa "Es bleibe bei der Standortschließung Ende September" (the closure stays at the end of September); pinned to 30 September.Zalando is due to shut its Erfurt fulfilment centre at the end of September 2026, ending the jobs of about 2,100 remaining staff at a site that employed around 2,700 when the closure was announced.€80M0.60Tesla Recalls and Buys Back 15 Imported Model 3 and Y Cars Missing Knee Airbags
SCHEDULED87% CONFIDENCE18 days agoThe Part 573 report's recall schedule gives "Planned Remedy Owner Notification Date: Sep 05, 2026" and NHTSA's[1][3][5][6] acknowledgement says "Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 5, 2026"; the buyback offers start with those letters, and no owner letter has been posted to NHTSA yet, so it stays scheduled (the report itself was filed July 7, 2026).Tesla is buying back 15 Canadian-market Model 3 and Model Y cars that were imported into the US without the knee airbag and other protections US safety standards require, after wrongly certifying them as compliant; owner letters were due 5 September 2026.0.60Used vehicle prices fell last month for the first time in 2023
Wholesale used vehicle prices declined last month for the first time this year.
Cox Automotive reported a 3% decline from March to April in its Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index.
Further declines could help bring used vehicle pricing down for consumers, since retail prices traditionally follow changes in wholesale prices.
0.60MTA's $68.4BN 2025-2029 Capital Plan Gets Final Approval
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE1.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the MTA's[3] 2025-2029 Capital Plan has been approved so quickly by the CPRB".New York's MTA won final approval for a record $68.4 billion five-year capital plan aimed at modernizing the aging subway, from new train cars to next-generation train control.$68.4B0.59Ford Starts the First Moving Assembly Line for a Complete Automobile
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE112.8 years agoConfirmed per History.com[3]'s "Ford's[2] assembly line starts rolling" entry, which dates the first complete-automobile moving assembly line to December 1, 1913 at Ford's Highland Park plant.On December 1, 1913, Ford Motor Company extended its moving line at the Highland Park plant to assemble a complete Model T chassis start to finish, cutting build time from over 12 hours to about 93 minutes.0.59OpenAI Retires 6 GPT-5 and o3 Models
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 79 daysOpenAI's[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-06-11, gives the shutdown date as 11 December 2026. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.OpenAI switches off 6 models and endpoints on 11 December 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-5-2025-08-07, gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07, gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07, gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06, o3-2025-04-16, o3-pro-2025-06-10.0.59OpenAI Retires 17 Legacy GPT Model Snapshots
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 30 daysOpenAI's[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-04-22, gives the shutdown date as 23 October 2026. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.OpenAI switches off 17 models and endpoints on 23 October 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-3.5-turbo-0125, gpt-4-0613, gpt-4-1106-preview, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, gpt-image-1, o1-2024-12-17, o1-pro-2025-03-19, o3-mini-2025-01-31, ft-o4-mini-2025-04-16, o4-mini-2025-04-16 and 5 more.0.59Volkswagen Approves About 50,000 More Job Cuts in Its Future Plan 2030
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE20 days agoVolkswagen Group's[1] press release dated 3 September 2026 says "Wolfsburg. Today, the Supervisory Board of the Volkswagen Group unanimously approved the Executive Board's Future Plan 2030", which includes "a Group-wide workforce adjustment of approximately 50,000 positions".Volkswagen's supervisory board approved a group-wide cut of about 50,000 more positions, including management roles, on top of earlier programmes that bring planned job reductions to around 100,000 by 2030.0.59
