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Americans' Support for Labor Unions Continues to Recover
Americans' approval of labor unions has jumped five percentage points to 58% over the past year, and is now at its highest point since 2008, when 59% approved.
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David Hyde, the Unpaid U.N. Intern Who Lived in a Tent, Tells His Story
He pitched a tent on the shore of Lake Geneva because he couldn't afford a place to stay — and also to call attention to the issue of unpaid internships.
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China Protects its Workers; America Doesn't Bother
Currency manipulation violates free market principals, but for China, doing it makes sense. This potent action by a major economic competitor raises the question of when the United States government is going to stop pretending currency manipulation doesn't exit.
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The shocking number of new moms who return to work two weeks after childbirth
Not because they recover at a supernatural pace. Or because they value their jobs over their babies.
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CEOs Call for Wage Increases for Workers! What's the Catch?
Their concern is not driven by moral outrage at the injustice of it all, but by self-interest.
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HP told some employees to choose between becoming contractors with no benefits or being fired without severance
What started off as a multi-year layoff in which HP paid severance of about one week for every year of service has turned into something else for some employees, particularly in HP's struggling Enterprise Services unit. HP is lining up outside jobs for some of these workers that gets them off payroll but has them continuing to work on HP's projects or with HP's customers. That's not a bad thing. Better another job than a pink slip, right?
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The Best Jobs Now Require You To Be A People Person
Are you good at math? A computer whiz? Well, great! Presumably your “hard skills” are a surefire ticket to a high-paying job. Well, maybe that used to be the case. But it’s not necessarily so anymore. To land a lucrative job today, hard skills in math and engineering, for instance, may not be enough. As technology allows us to automate more technical jobs, new research shows that people skills — communicating clearly, being a team player...
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The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.
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There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts
Students are paying higher tuition than ever. Why can’t more of that revenue go to the people teaching them?
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Elizabeth Warren just launched her latest populist fight — and it impacts millions of American workers
Progressive populist Sen. Elizabeth Warren says checking prospective employees’ credit history is “discrimination” and is calling on American employers to end the practice, which she argues “bears no relationship to job performance and that can be riddled with inaccuracies.”
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Scott Walker Wants to Destroy What’s Left of America’s Unions
As of 2014, 11 percent of all American workers—or 14.6 million people—were in a union. By sector, that’s 6.6 percent unionization for workers in private firms and 35.7 percent unionization for those in government and other public services. Just nine states have unionization rates of 15 percent or greater, down from 28 (and the District of Columbia) in 1984. In whole regions of the country, and the South in particular, unions have nearly vanished.
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Average NYC school janitor makes $109K a year
School custodians are cleaning up — in the hallways and in their paychecks — because the city doesn’t want to hire enough of them. Custodians took home an average pay of $109,467 in the 2013-14 school year — and 634 of the city’s 799 custodians earned more than $100,000 in salary and overtime during that time, city payroll records show. That’s because of the city’s 1,500 school buildings, 238 have...
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Man sues Bethesda after 3-week 'Fallout 4' binge led to divorce, job loss
Sometimes a game is just so good it can seem all but impossible to put the controller down. Even for, well, non-gaming activities. That's exactly what happened
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9 of 10 Largest US Occupations Pay Miserly Wages
Of the 10 largest occupations in the United States, only one — registered nurse — makes more than the national average when it comes to all U.S. jobs. Nurses make $69,790 annually while the average U.S. worker makes $47,230, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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“Anti-work Attitude”: Here's why Millennials are getting fired -...
Millennials and employers clash at work because of different expectations, and that’s leading to some of them getting fired.
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Here's what hiring managers REALLY think of your tattoos
Skinfo.com found that a whopping 37% of HR managers cite tattoos as the third most likely physical attribute to limit career potential.
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'More Realistic' Modelling Of TPP's Effects Predicts 450,000 US Jobs Lost, Contraction Of Economy
Last week we wrote about a World Bank report that predicted that TPP would produce negligible boosts to the economies of the US, Australia and Canada. Of course, that's just one study, and it could be argued that it might be unrepresentative, or unduly pessimistic. That makes the publication of yet more econometric modelling of what could happen particularly welcome. It comes from Jerome Capaldo and Alex Izurieta at Tufts University
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With ‘Gigs’ Instead of Jobs, Workers Bear New Burdens
Employment growth in the past decade has been in contract and temporary jobs. As a result, employers have shifted much of the burden of providing social insurance onto workers.
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Toward a 21st-Century Labor Movement
The old model of collective bargaining can’t be resurrected. Herewith, some new models of how workers can win and wield power.
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Europe’s unemployment crisis is much worse than we thought
Unemployment is running at more than 24% unemployment in Greece. It is above 20% in Spain, and in France and Italy it is well above 10%, and has been stuck at those levels for many years. Given those terrible numbers, you might think that the eurozone’s jobless crisis couldn’t be any more crushing. But unfortunately you’d be wrong. In fact it is even worse than most people realize. Why? Because the official statistics only capture people who are actively looking for work. There are millions more who would be working...
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