LA Times journalists vote to unionize
From today’s LA Times: Journalists at the Los Angeles Times have overwhelmingly elected to form a union, a first for the 136-year-old news organization that for much of its history…
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MLK Day 2018, A Time to Reflect on Socio-Economic Injustice In All Forms
In honor of MLK Day, we post a short educational video here with excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Baldwin that draw the connection between racial injustice and…
KY Gets OK To Require Work From Medicaid Recipients, Most Already Do
From National Public Radio: Poor residents in Kentucky will have to work or do volunteer work if they want to keep their Medicaid benefits after the Trump administration on Friday…
Strategies to Manage Your Career: From Networking to Balancing Work and Life
From the New York Times Business Section: There is no shortage of books claiming to reveal the secret truth behind successful careers. Then there are all the podcasts, TED talks,…
LA Times Newsroom Votes on Whether to Unionize, Tronc tries to suppress it
Here is an object lesson in why workers at the LA Times newsroom voted to unionize. Below is the “story” that appears in the LA Times about this historically significant…
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Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From New York Times: From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming…
Automation Could Displace 800 Million Workers Worldwide By 2030, Study Says
From today’s National Public Radio: A coming wave of job automation could force between 400 million and 800 million people worldwide out of a job in the next 13 years,…
Labor Board Reverses Ruling That Helped Workers Fight Large Chains
From today’s New York Times: The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday overturned a key Obama-era precedent that had given workers significant leverage in challenging companies like fast-food and hotel…
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Women and Power in the Workplace
From today’s New York Times: “Revolution will come in a form we cannot yet imagine,” the critical theorists Fred Moten and Stefano Harney wrote in their 2013 essay “The Undercommons,”…
Will Robots Take Our Children’s Jobs?
From today’s New York Times: Like a lot of children, my sons, Toby, 7, and Anton, 4, are obsessed with robots. In the children’s books they devour at bedtime, happy,…