by DCG The Hollywood Reporter reports that many entertainment workers are living out of their cars due to worsening income inequality. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, 15,748 Angelenos currently live in his or her vehicle. Those in the entertainment industry …
Via Marketwatch Robots aren’t replacing everyone, but a quarter of U.S. jobs will be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence accelerates the automation of existing work, according to a new Brookings Institution report. The report, published Thursday, says roughly 36 million …
Via The Week Humiliating stunt is latest in a series of headline-grabbing workplace punishments Video footage shows employees at a Chinese beauty company crawling along the street on their hands and knees after failing to meet targets. Pedestrians in Tengzhou, …
The government shutdown faces mounting lawsuits, including over ‘involuntary servitude’ from CNBC. via CNBC: If the partial government shutdown continues through this week – and there is no end in sight – Friday will mark the second paycheck missed by …
via pjmedia: Well, well, well. In a case of “we told you so,” liberals who work in the restaurant industry are finding that 2019 has brought them fewer hours at work. Sure, they now get that beloved $15 an hour (why …
via Bloomberg: PG&E Corp., the California utility giant facing billions of dollars in wildfire liabilities, may notify employees as soon as Monday that it’s preparing a potential bankruptcy filing, according to people familiar with the situation. The San Francisco-based utility …
by howmuch The U.S. economy is booming. Republicans think President Trump deserves much of the credit for cutting business and individual tax rates combined with a deregulation agenda. And Democrats believe former President Obama rightfully deserves ownership for America’s recovery. Regardless of who gets credit, …
Shutdown Crisis: Unpaid Government Workers Owe $400M in Mortgage and Rent This Month For many federal workers, keeping a roof over their heads got a lot harder in January thanks to the partial government shutdown that is approaching its third …
via nbcnews: Millions of U.S. workers will see increased pay in 2019 due to minimum-wage hikes in 20 states and 21 cities. With the federal minimum wage stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009, many states and cities have taken it …
The agency that oversees the government’s civilian workforce is facing scrutiny after suggesting federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown barter with their landlords if they can’t make rent payments, advice that it later said was posted “inadvertently.” https://marygreeley.com/?p=79573 …
by Michael Snyder After just 4 days, federal workers are flocking to social media to share heart-wrenching stories of the misery and pain that they are suffering through because of the current government shutdown. As you will see below, it …
So the employees get the shaft while the executives who drove the company into bankruptcy get bonuses. Sounds about par for the course in the good ole U S of A. Via Money When Sheila Brewer heard Sears got approval …
from Zero Hedge The world is about to get a whole lot dirtier. On Monday, global cleaning giant Denmark’s ISS A/S, which is also one of the world’s largest private employers, pulled a page right out of the Fifth Element when it announced …
via Meadow Clark: China is deploying emotional surveillance technology that mines data from the minds of its citizens. Essentially, they’re data mining by reading their brains. The light-weight sensory helmets have been rolled out on an industrial scale. The mind data-mining …
by Geoffrey Grider Ariel sings! She sparkles! And she’s made by Chinese factory workers, mostly women, and paid just 1 penny by Disney for each doll that shimmers off shop shelves. Unless you support legal Chinese slave labor and exploitative factory …
via dailymail: Facebook employees are turning on boss Mark Zuckerberg, it was reported last night, as British MPs leaked a trove of documents then accused the company of spying on users’ calls and texts and signing secret deals to give access …
from Zero Hedge Update II: The cutbacks announced by GM Monday morning were more severe than most analysts expected – and were certainly steeper than leaked reports published late Sunday and early Monday had suggested. After GM shares were halted pending news …
Break Amazon up. It’s too big and treats employees like slaves AC
‘Electric shocks & broken bones’: Amazon workers to protest ‘inhuman’ conditions on Black Friday Amazon warehouse workers are set to protest ‘inhuman’ working conditions in planned demonstrations across Europe on Black Friday. Hundreds of Amazon employees are working with the …
Amazon workers urged to walk out on Black Friday in protests over online giant’s ‘inhumane’ treatment of staff Amazon warehouse walkers could walk out over Black Friday as sales set to soar Staff say there have been ‘broken bones’ and …
by Michael Snyder Job cuts and layoffs are coming fast and furious now as the U.S. economy really starts to slow down. We haven’t seen anything like this since 2008, when millions of Americans lost their jobs in just a …
by howmuch The U.S. economy is booming. Republicans think President Trump deserves much of the credit for cutting business and individual tax rates combined with a deregulation agenda. And Democrats believe former President Obama rightfully deserves ownership for America’s recovery. Regardless of who gets credit, …
by Geoffrey Grider Amazon is staffing up for the holiday rush with around 100,000 additional hires. As big as that number sounds, it’s actually fewer people than the e-commerce giant added in either the 2016 or 2017 holiday seasons, when …
via PJmedia: Dr. Robert Epstein, a psychologist who studies search engine manipulation effects (SEME), has warned that Facebook and Google could shift as many as 12 million votes in the 2018 mid-term elections. A new Recode analysis of employee contributions at tech …
by Michael Snyder The middle class in America has been declining for decades, and we continue to get even more evidence of the catastrophic damage that has already been done. According to the Social Security Administration, the median yearly wage in …
via Joe Guzzardi: The headline financial news story of late is Verizon’s announcement that it offered a voluntary severance package to about 44,000 employees or about one-third of its workforce. But the subtitle is equally disturbing. Verizon will transfer more than 2,500 jobs …
Just months after the mainstream media slammed President Trump’s stiff tariffs on steel and aluminum for provoking a devastating “trade war” with China and Canada, US steel workers are now poised to receive their “biggest pay raise” in years. According …
“The vast majority of political contributions from Apple employees are directed to liberal candidates or Democratic Party-aligned organizations, according to a report released Thursday amid growing Republican concern over anti-conservative bias. From 2014 through 2018, some 91 percent of overall …
Verizon Communications offered voluntary severance packages last month to roughly 44,000 employees.That comes to more than a quarter of the carrier’s workforce. A spokesman for the company confirmed the scope of the offer, which was previously reported by The Wall Street …
It is amazing how stupid low wage workers are to buy into the Democrat’s open borders unlimited immigration BS. It is a law of economics that the more of something the lower it’s cost. In the case of low wage …