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Weekly Jobless Claims Near Pandemic Low, Labor Shortages Slow Growth
09/09/2021 Comments Off on Weekly Jobless Claims Near Pandemic Low, Labor Shortages Slow Growth
Last week the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level in nearly 18 months further evidence that job growth is being slowed by labor shortages rather than declining demand. In the week ending September 4, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 310,000, a decrease of […]
Continue reading …Consumer Spending Decline An Ominous Sign COVID-19 Ravaged US Economy Is Weakening
09/09/2021 Comments Off on Consumer Spending Decline An Ominous Sign COVID-19 Ravaged US Economy Is Weakening
Sept. 9, 2021 — A 2.7 percent consumer spending decline is yet another ominous sign the COVID-19-ravaged US economy is in trouble. The report comes just as millions have lost extended federal unemployment benefits, joining millions more in Republican-led states that cut off enhanced unemployment benefits early. The consumer spending decline comes after last week’s […]
Continue reading …Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City lowest jobless rates look oh so pretty among big cities
01/09/2021 Comments Off on Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City lowest jobless rates look oh so pretty among big cities
September 01, 2021 — Salt Lake City and Oklahoma City had the lowest jobless rates among all large, US metro areas in July, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Salt Lake City’s unemployment rate in July was 2.8%. Oklahoma City’s was 2.9%. The highest jobless rates in July were in Las Vegas and […]
Continue reading …Canadian Uber Benefits Maneuver, Mexico Uber May Pay Social Security
31/08/2021 Comments Off on Canadian Uber Benefits Maneuver, Mexico Uber May Pay Social Security
Uber Technologies is making a new app-based worker benefits maneuver in Canada — a proposed flexible benefits fund managed by delivery and rideshare companies and blessed by the Provincial governments. Meanwhile, Uber in Mexico is reportedly mulling paying social security taxes for gig-worker drivers there. Both developments come as Uber and other gig-worker companies are […]
Continue reading …‘I don’t like being treated like crap’: gig workers aim to retool a system they say is rigged
27/08/2021 Comments Off on ‘I don’t like being treated like crap’: gig workers aim to retool a system they say is rigged‘I don’t like being treated like crap’: gig workers aim to retool a system they say is rigged Uber, Lyft and other companies fighting Massachusetts lawsuit that would grant workers status as employees Michael Sainato — Fri 27 Aug 2021 05.00 EDT — Felipe Martinez began working full-time as an Uber driver in the Boston, […]
Continue reading …More Than Half Of The Workforce Contemplate Job Hunting In The Next Year
26/08/2021 Comments Off on More Than Half Of The Workforce Contemplate Job Hunting In The Next Year
New York – August 23, 2021 — More than half of the American workforce is contemplating job hunting in the next 12 months, a survey from Bankrate.com shows. Just ahead of Labor Day, this tidbit of the mass dissatisfaction among American workers, a new Bankrate.com survey finds more than half of Americans (55%) who are […]
Continue reading …Today’s News and Commentary — August 23, 2021
23/08/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News and Commentary — August 23, 2021
On Monday morning, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approval to the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, which has already been administered to more than 100 million people in the country. According to the FDA’s news release, the public can be “very confident” that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which relies on mRNA […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary – August 18, 2021
18/08/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary – August 18, 2021Governments and businesses are scrambling to attract workers. New Mexico has pledged $5 million in federal pandemic relief to subsidize wages for pickers and workers at chile processing plants, raising the wages as high as $19.50 per hour. Werner Enterprises has asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for an exemption from Commercial Learner’s Permit requirements […]
Continue reading …Unions Improve Wages And Benefits For All Workers, Not Just Union Members
16/08/2021 Comments Off on Unions Improve Wages And Benefits For All Workers, Not Just Union Members
Unions improve wages and benefits for all workers, not just union members. They help reduce income inequality by making sure all Americans, and not just the wealthy elite, share in the benefits of their labor. Unions also reduce racial disparities in wages and raise women’s wages, helping to counteract disparate labor market outcomes by race […]
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
Today’s News & Commentary — August 27, 2021
27/08/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — August 27, 2021The NLRB issued an opinion on Wednesday charging an aluminum manufacturing company with Section 7 violations after firing an employee who wrote “whore board” at the top of an overtime sign-up sheet. The employee was protesting the aluminum company’s unilateral imposition of new overtime procedures, under which employees needed to sign-up for overtime on a […]
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