Topline Amazon in recent days fired two Amazon warehouse workers with ties to unionization efforts at the company’s Staten Island JFK8 warehouse, according to the employees, days after the New York Ti...
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Innovative Manufacturing Requires Workers And Machines In Tandem, MIT Professors Say At Symposium
Professor John Hart opening remarks at the Manufacturing at MIT symposium on May 6, 2022. Julie Diop We might be witnessing the dawn of a new industrial era in this decade. Strikingly, it might be des...
Workers return to the office, but where’s the boss?
As more workers head back to the office, they’re finding that their boss isn’t in. Non-executive employees are nearly twice as likely as executives to be working from the office five days a week, acco...
Let’s Talk Food Waste, Protecting Meatpacking Workers And What Does Better Food Policy Look Like?
I’m thinking a lot about food waste this week. Maybe it’s the millions upon millions of chickens, turkeys and egg-laying birds that have been killed due to avian flu. Big food companies like to tout t...
Starbucks to hike wages, double training for workers amid union push
A Starbucks barista fulfills an order in a South Philadelphia store. Mark Makela | Reuters Starbucks said it will hike wages for tenured workers and double training for new employees as the company an...
How Meat Processing Workers Are Fighting Back
Meat processing workers. getty A recent bill authored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Cal.) seeks to address the enormous power gap in the meat sector and make processing plants saf...
Amazon Workers Reject Union Bid At Second NY Facility
Topline Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island on Monday voted against unionizing, Amazon Labor Union said, a month after the company’s labor movement won its first major victory when workers...
Ford cuts 580 U.S. salaried, agency workers as it restructures for EVs
Ford CEO Jim Farley at the company’s Dearborn, Michigan, plant where it’s building the electric F-150 Lightning on April 26, 2022. CNBC | Michael Wayland DETROIT – Ford Motor is cutting 58...
Fidelity to Let Workers Save 20% of Retirement in Bitcoin
Fidelity Investments, America’s largest provider of 401(k) savings accounts, is rolling out the Digital Assets Account, a new proprietary offering that gives companies access to Bitcoin (BTC), the wor...
MicroStrategy Becomes First Public Company To Offer Workers Access To Bitcoin Retirement Plans ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Enterprise software maker MicroStrategy announced Tuesday it plans to allow its employees to retire on bitcoin via Fidelity’s new BTC 401(k) program....
Fidelity’s New 401(k) Product Lets Workers Add Up to 20% in Bitcoin to Their Retirement Plans – Bitcoin News
The multinational financial services corporation based in Boston, Fidelity Investments, has revealed the firm is allowing people to add bitcoin into their 401(k) plan as long as the employer allows it...
Why restaurant workers don’t want to come back
If long waits or slow service suddenly bedevil a favorite restaurant, it may not be the fault of the employees you see — but rather the ones you don’t. An acute labor shortage in the restaurant ...
Workers in Shanghai struggle to get back to work
Tesla’s Shanghai factory was “back up and running” as of Wednesday, according to CEO Elon Musk’s comments during a quarterly earnings call, per a StreetAccount transcript. This...
Federal Workers Can’t Sue Over Biden’s Vaccine Mandate, Appeals Court Says
Topline Federal workers who want to challenge President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate should turn to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), an agency created to protect the rights of federa...
Why Black workers are joining the Great Resignation
As the Great Resignation continues and workers migrate to new positions with better benefits and greater salaries, not every employee’s motivation is the same for transitioning to a different ro...
Where have all the older workers gone and will they ever come back?
Not that long ago I found myself at a lunch in the middle of London where a well known British business figure said something unexpected about the menace of rising inflation. Any company with a board ...
Starbucks is weighing better benefits for nonunion workers
Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in Seattle, Washington on March 22, 2017. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Starbucks‘ campaign to dissuad...
Why Crypto Is A Lifeline For Sex Workers Banned By Banks
Crypto ecosystems provide tools and functionalities that collide perfectly with the chaotic world of sex workers. Banks, Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Square, Circle, Cashapp, Venmo, and many platforms ha...
Here are the signs the job market is hot for workers
A “Now Hiring” advertisement in a store window in Bay Shore, New York, on March 24, 2022. Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images Claims for unemployment insurance last week fell to their ...
Activision workers walk out over lifting of vaccine mandate. It ‘came as a shock to everybody.’
Employees pass in front of the main entrance at Activision Blizzard in Irvine in July. The Irvine office and two other offices out of state will still require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-...
GM keeps plants running in China by asking workers to live in factory, sleep on floors
DETROIT – As the biggest city in China goes on lockdown, General Motors is taking extreme measures to keep new car production going, including asking workers to sleep on factory floors. Leaders in Sha...
Dow Jones Gains Despite Jobs Miss; Amazon Rises As Workers Unionize; 3 Stocks Eye Buy Points
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained as the stock market rallied. Visa (V) and Walmart (WMT) were top blue chip performers. Meanwhile, Amazon (AMZN) rose despite a groundbreaking unionization vote...
Don’t burn bridges: Companies are welcoming back older workers
Chris Thorson, age 55, is very busy. He has a side hustle making Scandinavian knives; he’s a high school volunteer mountain bike coach in Minneapolis; and he’s board chair of the nonprofit National Ce...
Amazon Workers In Staten Island Vote To Unionize In Blow To Retail Giant
Topline Amazon workers at a warehouse in Staten Island voted in favor of unionizing on Friday, in the first success the labor movement has had in organizing workers at the country’s second-largest pri...
Costco’s Rotisserie Chicken Supply Is At Risk, Why Food Should Not Be Used As A Weapon, Grocery Workers To Strike
I’m out this morning with a feature that tugs on the heartstrings in some weird ways: There’s a tale of pet peacocks sent to auction and the baby ducks purchased for a grandson for Easter that had to ...
Autos union chief responds to Elon Musk ‘inviting’ UAW to organize Tesla workers
Founder and CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks during a media tour of the Tesla Gigafactory, which will produce batteries for the electric carmaker, in Sparks, Nevada. James Glover II | Reuters If T...
Amazon, Starbucks workers push for unions after Covid upended labor market
Workers stand in line to cast ballots for a union election at Amazon’s JFK8 distribution center, in the Staten Island borough of New York City, U.S. March 25, 2022. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Th...
China’s Big Tech Firms Are Axing Thousands of Workers
BEIJING—China’s biggest tech companies are conducting large-scale layoffs this year as they deal with an economic slowdown and Beijing’s regulatory pressure. Tencent Holdings Ltd. TCEHY -7.14% , opera...
Flexible hours let this company’s workers fit work around their lives
Allison Greenwald, senior product manager at The Alley Group, spent five weeks in Alaska while working a flexible schedule. Courtesy: Allison Greenwald Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs an...
Walmart wants to hire more than 50,000 workers in new-business push
An employee restocks frozen food products at a Walmart Inc. store in Burbank, California. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart said Wednesday that it wants to hire more than 50,000 emp...
When Quitting Normalizes, Benefit to Low-Wage Workers May Subside
Low-wage workers capitalized on the rare opportunity of a tight labor market with a burst of job-switching. That wave shows signs of easing now and economists say that, apart from a one-off rise in wa...