New York Times business news - May 17

The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- More than 5,000 Mercedes-Benz MBG workers in Alabama are voting this week on whether to join the United Automobile Workers union, a decision both supporters and opponents say will have consequences far beyond two factories near Tuscaloosa where the German carmaker churns out luxury sport utility vehicles and batteries for electric cars.

- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Amgen's AMGN tarlatamab, a new treatment for patients who have exhausted all other options to treat small cell lung cancer and have a life expectancy of four to five months.

- The driver of a waste disposal truck died on Wednesday, the police said, from injuries he received at the under-construction Phoenix campus of the chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company 2330.

- One of NPR's most prominent hosts asked the company's top editor on Thursday to disclose the identity of an anonymous funder who is helping pay for a new layer of editing several weeks after the radio network faced a prominent accusation of having a liberal bias in its coverage.