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U.S. Economy: Spring Sequester Swoon Could Extend into Summer
18/05/2013 Comments Off on U.S. Economy: Spring Sequester Swoon Could Extend into Summer
After a surprising decline of 0.5% in March, little recovery in retail buying in April reflects a lack of growth in spending power, a delayed impact of the higher payroll tax rate, and continued concern about the negative impact of the sequester. The combined fiscal drag from the increased payroll tax rate and sequester spending […]
Continue reading …Breaking Down This Week’s Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit
10/05/2013 Comments Off on Breaking Down This Week’s Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit
AlterNet— A new movement of fast food workers demanding better wages and the right to unionize spread this week to St. Louis and Detroit, bringing the total number of such actions to four in five weeks. Similar strikes occurred last month in New York and Chicago. As during the strike in New York, we’ve put together […]
Continue reading …St. Louis Joins Wave Of Fast Food Strikes
09/05/2013 Comments Off on St. Louis Joins Wave Of Fast Food Strikes
By LAURA CLAWSON, Daily Kos Labor— May 8 and 9, fast food strikes have hit St. Louis, with workers at a Jimmy John‘s and a McDonald’s walking out Wednesday evening and workers at more restaurants Thursday morning. New York fast food workers staged a one-day strike on April 4. Chicago fast food and retail workers […]
Continue reading …Applications For Unemployment Benefits Fall Again, Now At 323,000
09/05/2013 Comments Off on Applications For Unemployment Benefits Fall Again, Now At 323,000
By METEOR BLADES, Daily Kos Labor— The Department of Labor reported Thursday, May 9, 2013, that seasonally adjusted, first-time applications for unemployment compensation fell again. For the week ending May 4, claims fell to 323,000, down 4,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 327,000, originally reported as 324,000. For the comparable week of 2012, 366,000 jobless […]
Continue reading …Developing Nations’ Youth Employment: Informal, Underpaid, Unemployed
09/05/2013 Comments Off on Developing Nations’ Youth Employment: Informal, Underpaid, Unemployed
ILO News– Two thirds of working age youth in some developing countries are either unemployed or trapped in low-quality jobs, according to the ILO Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013 report. In six of the ten countries surveyed, more than 60% of young people are either unemployed, working but in low quality, irregular, low wage jobs, often […]
Continue reading …Weather Service’s Sequester Furloughs, Hiring Freeze Threaten Forecasts
09/05/2013 Comments Off on Weather Service’s Sequester Furloughs, Hiring Freeze Threaten Forecasts
The GOP-created political folly that is the federal budget sequester is even affecting the weather. NOAA is proposing four sequester-related furlough days for workers across the agency, including the National Weather Service. “…we are entering into national consultations with the labor unions that represent some of the NOAA workforce regarding implementation of up to four days of […]
Continue reading …More Job Growth For Women During April, Men Not So Much
09/05/2013 Comments Off on More Job Growth For Women During April, Men Not So Much
Job growth for women improved in April compared to the previous month, according to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) May employment report. Of the 165,000 total jobs added to nonfarm payrolls, women gained 117,000 jobs, 71%. Job growth was slower for men. Men gained 48,000 jobs, […]
Continue reading …March Job Openings Hires Down, 3.1 Job Seekers For Every Job
08/05/2013 Comments Off on March Job Openings Hires Down, 3.1 Job Seekers For Every Job
By ELISE GOULD, Economic Policy Institute— The March Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), released May 7, 2013, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows job openings fell slightly in March to 3.8 million, a decrease of 55,000 since February. While job openings are similar to where they were about five years ago as the economy was […]
Continue reading …Global Youth Employment Gains Wiped Out By Slow Economic Recovery
08/05/2013 Comments Off on Global Youth Employment Gains Wiped Out By Slow Economic Recovery
ILO News– Despite some regional differences, the global youth unemployment rate continues to rise and is projected to reach 12.8% by 2018 – wiping out the gains made at the start of the economic recovery, according to the ILO’s Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013 report. Behind this worsening figure is an even more worrying picture, revealing […]
Continue reading …Job Outlook: Employers Hire Fewer New College Grads Than Projected
07/05/2013 Comments Off on Job Outlook: Employers Hire Fewer New College Grads Than Projected
Having a change of heart after predicting more robust hiring, employers now say they expect their college hiring levels to remain relatively flat, according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Employers taking part in NACE’s Job Outlook Spring Update survey say they will hire 2.1% more new college […]
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