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AI Wants Your Job: Avoiding The Robot Job-Killing Apocalypse
28/07/2021 Comments Off on AI Wants Your Job: Avoiding The Robot Job-Killing Apocalypse
AI: Automation is currently displacing millions of workers. By John Feffer Originally in Tom Dispatch My wife and I were recently driving in Virginia, amazed yet again that the GPS technology on our phones could guide us through a thicket of highways, around road accidents, and toward our precise destination. The artificial intelligence (AI) behind the […]
Continue reading …No Recovery Until COVID Beaten Globally, IMF Says
27/07/2021 Comments Off on No Recovery Until COVID Beaten Globally, IMF Says
From the IMFBlog – The global economic recovery continues, but with a widening gap between advanced economies and many emerging market and developing economies. Our latest global growth forecast of 6 percent for 2021 is unchanged from the previous outlook, but the composition has changed.. By Gita Gopinath عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский […]
Continue reading …Texas Climate Jobs Program Combats Climate Change And Inequality
27/07/2021 Comments Off on Texas Climate Jobs Program Combats Climate Change And Inequality
A new report from researchers at Cornell University’s ILR School Worker Institute set out a series of recommendations on how Texas can combat the twin crisis of climate change and economic inequality through a “climate jobs” initiative. The authors of the report say the recommendations can be tested at the city and county level then […]
Continue reading …Americans With Disabilities Act Anniversary July 26, 2021
26/07/2021 Comments Off on Americans With Disabilities Act Anniversary July 26, 2021
The Americans With Disabilities Act Turns 31 Today. On July 26, 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodations, commercial facilities, telecommunications, and state and local government services. This Facts for Features provides a demographic snapshot of the […]
Continue reading …Ending Inequality – Everything You Need To Know About Taxing The Wealthy And Corporations
26/07/2021 Comments Off on Ending Inequality – Everything You Need To Know About Taxing The Wealthy And Corporations
11 Charts On Ending Inequality By Taxing the Wealthy And Corporations Taxing the wealthy and corporations: Here’s everything you need to know about the urgency of fair tax reforms to pay for vital public investments and reverse extreme inequality. July 8, 2021By Brian Wakamo, Sarah Anderson, Justin Campos Originally in Inequality.org President Joe Biden and […]
Continue reading …8 Trends for the Future World of Work
24/07/2021 Comments Off on 8 Trends for the Future World of Work
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many changes in how people work. Some of them, such as limited social gatherings and mandatory face coverings, are likely to be temporary while others may remain for the foreseeable future. Check out eight workplace trends NSC identified impacting the future of work.
Continue reading …These side jobs aren’t very complicated
24/07/2021 Comments Off on These side jobs aren’t very complicated
If what you’re looking for in a side job is ease, you’re in luck: There are several options. But don’t expect them to pay you like a professional. Generally speaking, easy side hustles pay between a few bucks and $25 an hour. The easier the hustle, the less it pays. The bright side of the […]
Continue reading …If the Minimum Wage Grew As Much As A Wall Street Bonus Since 1985, It Would Be $44 Today
22/07/2021 Comments Off on If the Minimum Wage Grew As Much As A Wall Street Bonus Since 1985, It Would Be $44 Today
The 2020 bonus pool for 182,100 securities industry employees could pay for more than 1 million jobs at a $15 minimum wage for a year. March 29, 2021By Sarah Anderson Originally in Inequality.org While low-wage workers are still waiting for a raise in the minimum wage, Wall Street employees enjoyed a 10 percent bump in […]
Continue reading …More Than Numbers: How COVID-19 is Impacting Working Women
21/07/2021 Comments Off on More Than Numbers: How COVID-19 is Impacting Working Women
Over the past several months, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau has been asking women to tell us about their personal experiences during the pandemic, and what support they need going forward. By: Eleanor Delamater, Gretchen Livingston • July 21, 2021 Over the past several months, the Women’s Bureau has been asking women to […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill