My latest: 🤖 The end of the Age of Labor? The case against mass technological unemployment. (And what happens if I’m wrong.) Also: 5 Quick Questions for ... CalTech's Ali Hajimiri on the future of space-based solar power ☀
ICYMI: From NFIB's May #smallbiz #jobs report released earlier this month via @EpochTimes : "Currentlabor market conditions are very tight, with 51% of all small business owners reporting that they could not fill their job openings.”
Corporate profit margin "nirvana" may be subsiding as we move into the back half of 2022. #SPX500 net profit margins reached 13.23% (last 12 months), highest since the '90s. Pressure from higher labor/input/interest costs likely to weigh on margins as the year goes on. @FactSet
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines slammed the mandatory school reporting of teachers beyond the official school year calendar, calling it a “new form of forced labor.”
Peter Dutton has accused the Labor government of attempting to “crab-walk” out of the AUKUS agreement which he said would be a “travesty” to Australia’s security future.
Victoria's new Deputy Premier has been struck down by COVID-19 on her second day in the Labor leadership team. #9News
Labor extends term of Australian defence force chief Angus Campbell by two years
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The United States we know today was built with the labor of enslaved Black Americans. The last were not freed (officially) until 19 June 1865. Let us celebrate— and never forget.
“Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.” —Harry Truman, 1952
This is Chris Smalls. He worked in an Amazon warehouse for over four years. In 2020 he was fired for protesting unsafe conditions and quarantine violations. In 2021 he started the labor union'>Amazon Labor Union calling for higher pay, better benefits, and better anti-discrimination policy.
Trump has defunded the police that stop corporations from looting -- the EPA, SEC, Labor Department, Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Product Safety Commission, FDA, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
If you appreciate 40-hour work weeks, safe working conditions, higher wages, weekends, and a day off today—thank the labor movement. #LaborDay
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