Labor
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Labor markets more fluid than strict definition of working-age population i.e. "number of people between the ages of 16 and 59" For the 60/70s generation - particularly migrants l...
I don’t think people realize that automation, like everything else, is a field where there is severe diminishing returns on inputs. A few simple programmable logic controllers (PLC...
CTU @Aspira Business & Finance members hosted a Breakfast Tailgate/Walk-In today to demand staffing for special ed & bilingual students. The action is part of charter educators' ef...
Revised a table for a talk I'm giving on Monday. Note all of these (except Atlanta Fed) are averaged over six months. I want to address a few points in a short thread: (1) was Nov...
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I'm calling on Congress to pass legislation immediately to adopt the Tentative Agreement between railroad workers and operators. Let me be clear: a rail shutdown would devastate o...
This season, I want to give thanks to all front line workers for their hard work in making our holidays better. My Administration will always stand with essential workers and figh...
1. Fantastic article by @moveincircles on Britain’s housing and labor crisis. This issue is not one unique to Britain. Here in Canada is a similar problem. The main culprit here?...
Many of you by now, may have heard of the protest at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou China Here's a thread discussing the cause and deeper implications of the protest No whitewa...
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#1 thing hurting your margin Labor The cheap labor isnt good enough The good labor that local is too expensive Here are a few resources to check to find solid talent
Monday morning at 8 am, 48,000 UC academic workers hit the picket lines in the largest higher education strike in US history. The strike has been a long time in the making and has...
On the old video of men building a bridge/skyscraper, without safety gear, someone pointed out the rigors and high risks of the job, but a woman countered that women also died from...
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How does foreign hiring for basic, manual jobs affect US firms and workers? We study nationwide, randomized allocation of the principal US work visa for non-college workers. Ne...
Only in this past year did I realize how much free labor I was giving away. I’m still upset about it, and I’m also upset that people disproportionately take advantage of my women &...
International Students: we are temporarily lifting the 20-hour-per-week cap on the number of hours that students in Canada are allowed to work off-campus while class is in session:...
1. This is one of those issues that the RW needs to get it’s head right on and quick. Replacing “unskilled” workers with robots? Replacing “unskilled”workers with wetbacks? Outs...
Maybe you've heard Sysco @Teamsters are on strike in 3 cities. But unless you work in a commercial kitchen, you probably don't know what Sysco even is, or why so many chefs & small...
Just some random thoughts regarding that Gord piece for TAC. 1) Truckers are treated terribly on a lot of levels. It's telling that a bill designed to help them materially can con...
Ngige Has Turned ASUU Strike To Personal Quarrel - Jega The former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, has said that the Minister o...
Nick Eberstadt's book, Men Without Work, is a searing indictment of contemporary America. It convinces me that economics cannot explain why 1 in 7 prime age men 25 to 54 are not wo...
What did we learn from the fact that hourly wages jumped in July but slowed in August? Possibly just that July had 10 weekend days and August had 8 weekend days (as I learned from...
On this #LabourDay, I examine the state of workers’ power in Canada in a graph thread. This brings together some old and some new analysis I’ve done over the past few months. 1/x @...
