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,…
How To Make a Flexible Work Culture Work For All Employees in a Firm
From today’s Forbes: Imagine a work culture in which team members can connect, regardless of where, when and how they work. The traditional workspace is rapidly changing, and today’s businesses…
Should You Share Your Feelings During a Work Conflict? Probably best to avoid it.
From today’s Harvard Business Review: When a disagreement gets heated with a colleague, it’s normal to feel all sorts of emotions: disappointment, anger, frustration. But should you express those emotions?…
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Proof Retail Jobs Don’t Need to Be Bad
From today’s New York Times by Eduardo Porter Bethamy Magrow is grateful that the minimum wage in New York City is rising to $13 at the end of next month.…
On Sex Discrimination, Men at Work Wonder if They’ve Overstepped
From Nov. 10 New York Times by Nellie Bowles: It has been a confusing season for America’s working men, as the conversation around workplace harassment reveals it to be a…