BOSTON, May 13 (Reuters) - Uber Technologies ( UBER ) and Lyft ( LYFT ) are set to face trial on Monday in a U.S. lawsuit by Massachusetts' attorney general alleging the ride-share companies misclassified their drivers as independent contractors rather than more costly employees. The non-jury trial in Boston comes amid broader legal and political battles in the Democratic-led...

DETROIT, May 13 (Reuters) - Workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama began voting Monday on whether to join the United Auto Workers union, a significant test of whether the labor group can maintain momentum in the historically anti-union American South. A union victory at the plant, weeks after a resounding win at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee, would be...

HOUSTON, May 13 (Reuters) - Sempra LNG is revisiting its selection of Bechtel to build its Cameron LNG expansion project in Louisiana due to rising construction costs, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Sempra-Bechtel pricing dispute reflects a broader hike in construction and labor costs that are affecting several U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects under...

(Reuters) -To some elite financiers who gathered in Los Angeles for the Milken Institute conference, a debt binge in private markets is reminding them of the go-go days of risk-taking before the 2008 financial crisis. In the halls of the Beverly Hilton and at meetings around town last week, I spoke with more than a dozen investors, bankers and fund...