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Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements
American tech workers in Orlando found their jobs and desks transferred to immigrants brought in under H-1B visas by an Indian firm.
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You’re Ending Your E-mails Wrong
It’s time to stop using “best.” The most succinct of e-mail signoffs, it seems harmless enough, appropriate for anyone with whom you might communicate. Best is safe, inoffensive. It’s also become completely and unnecessarily ubiquitous. That development is relatively recent: A University of Pennsylvania study from 2003 found that, out of hundreds of e-mailers, only 5 percent opted to close with best. It came in behind “thank you” and “regards.”
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We have reached a tipping point where technology is now destroying more jobs than it creates, researcher warns
The technology is here. But the jobs are nowhere to be found. Thanks to the efficiency of the internet and automated systems, productivity and GDP have grown during the last few decades, but the middle class and jobs are disappearing. In fact, we have reached a tipping point where technology is now destroying more jobs than it creates.
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TSA closing loopholes in screening aviation workers for terror links
The Transportation Security Administration, which repeatedly screens 2 million airport workers, didn't identify 73 workers potentially associated with terrorism, according to a watchdog report Monday. The
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The final years of Irrational Games, according to those who were there
The employees were shocked.
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The Education Myth
In an era characterized by political polarization and policy paralysis, one area of agreement is the idea that the key to inclusive economic growth is, as Tony Blair put in his 2001 reelection campaign, “education, education, education.” Unfortunately, it is an idea that simply does not hold water.
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Prostitution ban won’t hit England, ‘too many politicians’ visit sex workers
Northern Ireland’s sex trade ban has left prostitutes in fear of “danger and poverty.” In an in-depth interview with RT, one sex worker challenged the idea of the law spreading to England, claiming “too many” influential people visit prostitutes.
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DONALD LAMBRO: Failing U.S. economy
All of the euphoric stories you’ve read lately about the surging job market should include one of these cautionary notes: “This report omits all negative data,” or “read down to the very bottom where we’ve buried the bad stuff.”
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Scott Walker and the Fate of the Union
In Wisconsin, where the labor movement took root a century ago, a campaign by the governor has broken its power. His political allies hope he can take a similar campaign nationwide.
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In North Dakota’s Bakken oil boom, there will be blood
Across the Bakken, deeply entrenched corporate practices and weak federal oversight have inoculated energy producers against responsibility when workers are killed or injured...
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Carmakers Say Adios to Canada as Mexico Shifts into Higher Gear
Canada's status as a global manufacturing hub for the auto sector is in doubt as more and more companies shift production to places like Mexico that offer drastically lower labour costs and many other advantages.
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The best software companies to work for in 2015
61% of employees working in Software 500 companies would recommend their company to a friend.
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Will Advances in Technology Create a Jobless Future?
We’re in the midst of a jobs crisis, and rapid advances in AI and other technologies may be one culprit. How can we get better at sharing the wealth that technology creates?
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Building for the Future, in California’s Famously Failed City
The Los Angeles Times has a big, new demonstration of how bad things have gotten in the city of San Bernardino. Here’s a look at people doing their best, despite those odds.
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How the Government and the Christian Lobby Quash Real Research on Sex Workers
The government only allocates funds to researchers that mistakenly conflate sex work with sex trafficking. As an academic and a sex worker, Juniper Fitzgerald knows just how warped this thinking is.
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Bernie Sanders Wants To Bring Back Your 40-Hour Workweek
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) thinks Americans may have forgotten about the 40-hour week. "A hundred years ago workers took to the streets" to fight for 40 hours, Sanders told The Huffington Post.
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The women whom science forgot
Many female scientists in the past were not given credit for their achievements - here are just a few of them.
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There's A Labor Revolution Brewing in South America and You've Probably Never Heard of It
Workers collectives are springing up all around the world - but you wouldn't know it if you tuned into corporate media.
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When Charters Go Union
Most charter school funders hate unions and unions generally hate charters. But more and more charter teachers want to unionize, and labor is helping them do it.
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Is a Four-Day Work Week Right for Your Company?
Today may be Monday, but for plenty of companies, the weekend starts Friday morning—and they say their employees are more productive because of it.
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