A new study has found that at least 32% of people making over $100,000, run out of money between paychecks and can’t make ends meet in the “greatest economy ever.” Something is amiss here considering President Trump touts all-time highs in the stock market, record low unemployment, “greatest economy ever,” rising wages, and a manufacturing renaissance. This shows us that there’s a significant gap between Trump’s [...]
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After decades of declining strike activity, data on major work stoppages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics—including new 2019 data released this morning—show that there was a substantial upsurge in 2018 and 2019, with 485,000 workers involved in major work stoppages in 2018 and 425,500 workers involved in major stoppages in 2019—together they make up the largest two-year average in 35 years. In 2017, only 25,300 [...]
Since COVID-19 went global just over two weeks ago, we’ve spent a lot of time discussing how China’s economic shutdown is going to impact the global economy. But by focusing on giant companies like GM and Foxconn, we’ve maybe overlooked some of the little people. People like the millions of Chinese migrant workers who occupy unskilled and skilled jobs in South Korea and Japan. Many companies [...]
Keynes’s prediction wasn’t based so much on the continued victories for labor as it was on a belief in increased productivity. Perhaps due to automation, or perhaps in combination with other amazing human achievements, steady increases in worker productivity would make it so that workers could simply work less and less until the weekday/weekend ratio was flipped: two days of work, five days off.Keynes was one [...]
A shocking construction site accident was caught on camera in southern Russia. Five workers seemingly fell to their doom as the scaffolds collapsed – only to emerge from the rubble not just alive, but nearly unharmed. The video of the men tumbling towards the ground from the ninth floor, in a pile of wooden planks and steel pipes, provides for a truly disturbing sight. As the [...]
India 10:27 GMT 08.02.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): Delhi’s ongoing state legislature elections on 8 February are largely being projected as a contest between three major parties – Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party, PM Modhi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, and Indian National Congress – which put their might together to mobilise voters during one-month of intense campaigning. Prominent Congress party candidate Alka Lamba attempted to slap [...]
Saudi Arabia is set to abolish its employment sponsorship — Kafala – system following years of controversy over migrant workers’ rights, according to a report in the Saudi Gazette citing anonymous sources. The decades-old system, which has been used for hiring overseas workers, primarily from the Indian subcontinent and south-east Asia, and allows Saudi employers to have responsibility for them during their stay in the Kingdom, [...]
The chairman of the Grenfell Tower inquiry is to seek assurances from the government that any evidence provided by employees of the cladding firms won’t be used against them in further criminal prosecutions prompting anger online. Sir Martin Moore-Bick has written to the Geoffrey Cox QC – the attorney general – requesting that any evidence submitted by individuals responsible for the refurbishment of the 24-story block [...]
The strikers include everyone from nurses and medical assistants to orderlies and janitors. They are represented by SEIU 1199NW. The strike was over unfair labor practices. The union alleges that Swedish management has fired workers for union activity and has failed to engage in good-faith bargaining. Swedish is part of a bigger corporation, Providence Health & Services, one of the West Coast’s largest and richest health [...]
New data on unionization from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that in 2019, 16.4 million workers in the United States were represented by a union. There was very little change in this figure from 2018 (+3,000). However, because workers entered the workforce faster than the number of workers represented by a union increased over this period (1.2% vs. 0.02%), the share of workers represented by a union ticked [...]
Since our last update Friday evening, the situation on the ground in China has reportedly gone from bad to worse. The true extent of Beijing’s ‘quarantine’ has been exposed – and not just the ridiculously oppressive tactics exercised on sick people simply out trying to buy food so they don’t starve, but the even more bizarre notion that the WHO has decided to try and validate [...]
Workers at the Brazilian oil company Petrobras approved Wednesday a plan to go on an indefinite strike from Saturday, protesting a plan by the state-controlled company to close the Parana Nitrogen Fertilizer plant and fire its 396 workers. “The current government’s aggressive policy of privatization and closure of Petrobras’ strategic units impacts oil tankers, with massive layoffs and attacks on agreed rights, and also harms the [...]
The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) has called for a “million man march” in the capital, Khartoum, to protest against the transitional government’s policies. SPA said the march will be an expression of national unity. However, the Sudanese National Umma Party, headed by Sadiq Al-Mahdi, called on the SPA not to call for mass protests and urged it to continue to fulfil its duty to “guard the [...]
Construction workers could be trapped in rubble after a St. Petersburg concert hall’s ceiling collapsed as the building was being demolished. Drone footage shows a huge cloud of dust coming from the St. Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex. The massive stadium suffered a roof collapse as workers attempted to dismantle the structure. Ambulances were spotted outside the building as emergency workers rushed to the scene. One [...]
The US military said it has begun notifying nearly 9,000 South Korean workers that they will be put on leave starting April if Seoul and Washington fail to reach a deal on sharing costs for the upkeep of 28,500 US soldiers in the country. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Seoul should bear more of the burden for hosting the troops. The two sides have [...]
The Flexibility Of The Worker Co-op Model By Wendy Keats, Cecnb.ca January 24, 2020 The Flexibility Of The Worker Co-op Model2020-01-242020-01-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/01/cwcfconferencephoto.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Group photo at Canadian Worker Co-op Federation Conference 2019 held in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia. Worker co-operatives are businesses that are owned by the employees. While profit is absolutely a goal, their success is also measured in terms of the difference they make for people [...]
In recent weeks, Sen. Bernie Sanders has criticized his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination for having too much “baggage” to win the diverse coalition needed to defeat President Donald Trump in November. But as the Vermont independent tops national polls for the first time, newly unearthed baggage from his own decades-long political career could call his own past statements and judgment into question. As the [...]
Nationwide protests against the government of Emanuel Macron entered their seventh continuous week today in France, as between 187,000 (a government estimate) and 250,000 people (the unions’ count) took to the streets to oppose Macron’s plans to radically alter the country’s pension plan, seen by many as the crown jewel in France’s substantial welfare state. Led by transport unions, mass protests occurred yesterday across the country, [...]
TOKYO—As Japan ages and the population declines it needs foreign workers more than ever, but it’s unlikely to get them when employers can snatch your passport and keep it, even after you quit—leaving you in legal limbo. It all seems like something that you’d expect to happen in a dodgy part of the Middle East, but nope, it’s happening in the Land of Omotenashi, where everyone [...]
The typical FTSE 100 CEO will have earned as much as the average UK worker earns in a year by 5pm on January 6 2020 – £29,559 for 33 hours of work, according to data compiled by the High Pay Centre think tank. By the close of the year, the same CEO would have earned £3.46 million – roughly 117 times the average wage in the UK. [...]
Largest Ever Strike In India Shakes Up Modi Govt By Subodh Varma, Newsclick.in January 10, 2020 Largest Ever Strike In India Shakes Up Modi Govt2020-01-102020-01-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/01/general-strike.jpg200px200px Above Photo: From Subodh Varma Besides industries, employees in banks, transport, ports, government offices, scheme workers and farmers and rural labourers stopped work. India woke up on January 8, to witness the largest ever strike with an estimated 25 crore (250 million) [...]
Amazon employees who speak out about the climate crisis say they have been threatened with firing. Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) said Thursday that the company’s legal and HR teams had questioned some of their members about public statements they had made urging Amazon to take climate action. Some also received emails saying they would be fired if they continued to speak up. “It was scary to be called [...]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Indian trade unions and government employees have long been agitating against the Modi government’s policies, such as privatisation of state-run entities to deal with the ailing Indian economy. Leading a mass agitation against the “anti-labour policies” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in India, trade unions representing nearly 250 million workers have called for a nationwide shutdown on Wednesday. The ruling Bharatiya Janata [...]
Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, Chevron has pulled all of its American oil workers out of Iraq, the company said on Monday, according to Reuters, making it the latest foreign oil company to evacuate staff there at the urging of the US Embassy, following the killing of Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani. Chevron operates in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, much to the irritation of the Iraqi government, and [...]