labor

New York CNN — Microsoft says it’s giving labor leaders a seat at the table for discussions about the development and implementation of artificial intelligence technology. The software giant, which is a major investor in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, said on Monday that it struck a deal with the...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/21/ai-will-first-come-for-women/ AI Will First Come for Women Female workers may be at highest risk from the coming waves of automation. OCTOBER 21, 2023, 10:10 AM By Allan Olingo, the East Africa bureau chief for the Fuller Project, and Muktadir Rashid, a...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/21/ai-will-first-come-for-women/ AI Will First Come for Women Female workers may be at highest risk from the coming waves of automation. OCTOBER 21, 2023, 10:10 AM By Allan Olingo, the East Africa bureau chief for the Fuller Project, and Muktadir Rashid, a...

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/business/money-report/31-year-old-quit-her-teaching-job-now-she-works-at-costco-and-boosted-her-income-by-50-ive-never-been-happier/3228144/ 31-year-old teacher quit her job. Now she works at Costco—and boosted her income by 50%: ‘I've never been happier'By...

Airline Food Workers Arrested At JFK Protesting Low Wages: 'We Need Passengers To Understand Our Plight' wow on a side note terminal 7 looks more rundown than the port authority bus terminal

As the bumper sticker has it, unions are “the folks who brought you the weekend.” Unions fought for the 10-hour day, and then the eight-hour day… and then our fight stopped. We never got to a six-hour-day fight. Instead we started to backslide. We not only lost the weekend; we lost control over...

Made in China (by robots): A global perspective on the hottest story in automation | ZDNet African brehs this push toward automation by China for Chinese products will have a good chance of low-skill Chinese workers flooding the Continent, especially given that many (some argue too many)...

Made in China (by robots): A global perspective on the hottest story in automation | ZDNet African brehs this push toward automation by China for Chinese products will have a good chance of low-skill Chinese workers flooding the Continent, especially given that many (some argue too many)...

‘I hope I can quit working in a few years’: A preview of the U.S. without pensions By Peter Whoriskey December 23 at 12:26 PM Tom Coomer, 79, outside of the Walmart where he works five days a week in Wagoner, Okla, on Nov. 16. Coomer used to work at the McDonnell Douglas plant in Tulsa before...

Virtually all of the workplace protections and rights that Americans enjoy were secured during a very different economic age. Erected during the New Deal era, the edifice of American labor law has suffered significant erosion — and only modest renovations — over the past half-century. One...

Automation and offshoring may be conspiring to reduce labor's share of income. Maybe he had a point. Back in April, I wrote about one of the most troubling mysteries in economics, the falling labor share. Less of the income the economy produces is going to people who work, and more is going...

(For some reason I feel they are going to recruit that surplus ̷s̷l̷a̷v̷e̷ cheap prison labor instead of taking chances on random contractors and workers paying 10K per month) A few days after Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas, pummeling the state with devastating flooding, a home...

:mjgrin:

:salute: Happy May Day! Rest in Power, Rosa. :wow:

http://deadspin.com/espns-darren-rovell-on-nike-exploiting-chinese-workers-1771581802?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow :scust: feel free to blast this fukk on twitter

Shout to @ dtownreppin214 Decoding discrimination in America’s temp industry Decoding discrimination in America’s temp industry Jan 9, 2016 UPDATE, April 16, 2016: Reporter Will Evans followed up on what’s happened since we first told you about the discrimination many temp workers face...

Shout to @ dtownreppin214 Decoding discrimination in America’s temp industry Decoding discrimination in America’s temp industry Jan 9, 2016 UPDATE, April 16, 2016: Reporter Will Evans followed up on what’s happened since we first told you about the discrimination many temp workers face...

Just saw this quote on B.I. as an article comment sourced from Bureau of Labor Statistics: "The BLS says that about 146 million people in the US have some kind of paid job. 204 million people are between the ages of 15 and 65 -- the so-called "working age" group. 146 million divided by 204...

March 9, 2015 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/robots-could-replace-half-of-all-us-workers-by-2035/ Advances in robotics and artificial intelligence could may wind up costing you your job within the next 20 years, researchers from the Oxford Martin Program on Technology and Employment have...