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gounion wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:24 am No, it's something I found on FB. But I've seen these for years, and I know that it's VERY true that states being right-to-work and anti-union depresses wages.
Odd how you won't say what group on fb posted it
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 3:20 pm Odd how you won't say what group on fb posted it
It was from a friend who is a fellow union member.
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With the exception of Illinois it’s a list of the very highest cost of living states. At 10% of the working population not likely that unions are influencing income rates.
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Bludogdem wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 6:16 pm With the exception of Illinois it’s a list of the very highest cost of living states. At 10% of the working population not likely that unions are influencing income rates.
It's the union density that influences. The lower the density, the fewer union contracts to keep wages up. In high-density states, non-union employers have to pay more to keep employees. Without the density, wages fall.

But that's what you're for, isn't it, Green Grass?
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This is what the owner class is all about. Oh, sure, it’s “employment at will” as long as it’s THEIR will. Hospital sues to stop workers from quitting to go to another hospital. https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news ... VK6ETmjXLM
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gounion wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 3:35 pm It was from a friend who is a fellow union member.
Strange how the upper numbers are very accurate but the lower numbers way off.
Typical for something put out by labor......full of lies
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Detroit overtaxed homeowners $600M. Years later, advocates still seeking reparations.
"You all should have never been put in this position," said U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, speaking virtually to a crowd of 700 Detroiters, many of whom were hurt by the overtaxation. "These overassessments were illegal; they were systemic, and they gutted out our neighborhoods."
"When I lost my home, I didn't just lose a structure: I lost my health; I lost my footing; I lost confidence in myself," Bonnett said. "I think that the city really needs to know that when you put the community in these positions, you're not just taking a building from us. You're taking the American Dream from us. You're taking what some of us are so proud to gain in the first place, which is a family home. And when it happened to me, it almost destroyed me. It almost destroyed my family."
How past oppression becomes future and present oppression
“Any action that leads to a budget deficit automatically triggers the return of the Financial Review Commission's complete control over city finances," city spokesman John Roach told the Free Press. "We will not support anything that once again leads to Detroit's loss of self-determination.”
Citing the bankruptcy as reason they cant do justice for Detroit residents or compensate them.
"There are other instances where they take something from you as part of a larger strategy of dehumanization, or infantilization, or a larger process of structural racism," Atuahene said. "In those instances, I've taken more than just your property, I've also taken your dignity, and that's called the dignity-taking. And the idea is to say when this larger harm called the dignity-taking has occurred, mere reparations are not enough. Just giving you compensation for the thing taken is not enough. What's required is a more robust remedy that I call dignity restoration, and that's the process of giving you compensation for things taken, but through a process that affirms your humanity and restores your agency."
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gounion wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 7:26 am This is what the owner class is all about. Oh, sure, it’s “employment at will” as long as it’s THEIR will. Hospital sues to stop workers from quitting to go to another hospital. https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news ... VK6ETmjXLM
all kind of crazy stuff like using national guard rather than making the jobs livable wage and safe and a place people want to work or using cafeteria people as school teachers and military people to do hospital work anything it seems to conserve the rotten conditions that are causing the staffing shortages. These are some desperate and stubborn people hell bent on having their way no matter who it hurts.


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Let me congratulate the 8,400 King Soopers workers in Colorado for winning a new contract that includes a pay raise of up to $5 an hour, better healthcare benefits & safer working conditions. This victory proves that when workers stand together they can defeat corporate greed.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrDyii0P4DU

Hospital Greed Is Destroying Our Nurses. Here’s Why. | NYT Opinion
We’re entering our third year of Covid, and America’s nurses — who we celebrated as heroes during the early days of lockdown — are now leaving the bedside. The pandemic arrived with many people having great hope for reform on many fronts, including the nursing industry, but much of that optimism seems to have faded.

In the Opinion Video above, nurses set the record straight about the root cause of the nursing crisis: chronic understaffing by profit-driven hospitals that predates the pandemic. “I could no longer work in critical care under the conditions I was being forced to work under with poor staffing,” explains one nurse, “and that’s when I left.” They also tear down the common misconception that there’s a shortage of nurses. In fact, there are more qualified nurses today in America than ever before.
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gounion wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 6:34 pm It's the union density that influences. The lower the density, the fewer union contracts to keep wages up. In high-density states, non-union employers have to pay more to keep employees. Without the density, wages fall.

But that's what you're for, isn't it, Green Grass?
Unions no longer have that level of density to influence base stats like median income.

The high col states have higher median salaries because of hi-tech, banking and finance, etc.

Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nike, J P Morgan, etc. salaries and bonuses are responsible for high median salaries in high col states.
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Bludogdem wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 11:48 am Unions no longer have that level of density to influence base stats like median income.

The high col states have higher median salaries because of hi-tech, banking and finance, etc.

Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nike, J P Morgan, etc. salaries and bonuses are responsible for high median salaries in high col states.
Bullshit. You think Washington's wages aren't affected by Boeing's large footprint?

And wages are rising everywhere because of unionization efforts. That's why Amazon went to $15 an hour.

Let's remember Nike doesn't make anything here.

Unions lift up the working class.
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Bludogdem wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 11:48 am Unions no longer have that level of density to influence base stats like median income.
According to...
The high col states have higher median salaries because of hi-tech, banking and finance, etc.
Source?
Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nike, J P Morgan, etc. salaries and bonuses are responsible for high median salaries in high col states.
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More crazy schemes causing and then exasperating staffing shortages and helping to spread covid

Senators say they were denied full access to federal prison
Boylan said a staffing shortage in Danbury is requiring many correctional officers to work double shifts. Officers are exhausted, morale is low and conditions are dangerous, he said.

Staffing problems also are resulting in officers working in several units, which may be helping to spread the virus, Boylan said. And it is taking too long — two days — to receive virus testing results for staff, he said.........
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and more

Bus drivers go on strike to protest low pay in rural Mississippi school district

Bus drivers in the Jefferson Davis County went on strike Friday morning after the school board approved paying $25 an hour to emergency drivers as an incentive to help with driver shortage. The item was approved 4-1 at a recent board meeting. “I have zero problem with having anyone that is willing to drive our busses,” said District 2 School Board Member Bobby Wilson. “I do have a problem with $25 an hour. I would like to know why we are doubling the salary for certified personnel to drive versus the $12-$15 for our regular drivers.”

According to Superintendent Ike Haynes, the district is facing a severe labor shortage and his solution was to reach out to former bus drivers, coaches, teachers, etc. to help fill in the gaps. “There are several former drivers in the district that have CDLs,” said Superintendent Haynes. “The $25 an hour is simply an enticement in our time of need.”

“I stand with our bus drivers, I vote no,” said Wilson.

The following morning the bus drivers went on strike. A special board meeting was called that evening to rectify the situation.

“It doesn’t matter what job they hold, every employee, their job and what they do goes to the greater good and we are blessed across the board,” said Haynes. After a one-hour strike, Haynes met with the bus drivers at the bus shop over their pay concerns. “We are here tonight to make sure that our bus drivers in this district, many of which have worked here over 11 years, feel respected and compensated,” Haynes said.

Haynes recommended to the board to increase current bus drivers’ pay to $20 an hour.
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Motor City wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:05 am and more

Bus drivers go on strike to protest low pay in rural Mississippi school district




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Jobless claims: Another 260,000 individuals filed new claims last week

First-time unemployment filings ticked lower last week after notching a three-month high in the previous reading amid renewed virus-related disruptions.

The Labor Department released its weekly jobless claims report at 8:30 a.m. ET on Thursday. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/weekly-u ... 06502.html
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Q4 GDP: US economy expanded at 6.9% annualized rate, topping expectations

U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) ramped up in the final months of 2021, with still-solid consumer spending helping stoke growth and offset early negative impacts from the Omicron variant's spread.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first estimate of fourth-quarter GDP on Thursday. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/q4-gdp-u ... ?.tsrc=372
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Amazon workers eligible to hold union election at New York warehouse -NLRB

Jan 26 (Reuters) - A group of Amazon.com workers has met the requirements to hold a union election at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, a spokesperson for the U.S. National Labor Relations Board confirmed on Wednesday, paving the way for another high-profile labor battle at the online retailer.

NLRB spokesperson Kayla Blado wrote in an email that group of workers, known as the Amazon Labor Union, had "reached a sufficient showing of interest." In order to hold an election supervised by the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, unions must show that they have gathered signatures of support from at least 30% of workers who are eligible to vote.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail ... 022-01-26/
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Several Michigan unemployment insurance claimants file class-action lawsuit against agency
Several Michigan unemployment insurance claimants who have received bills from the state saying they owe money back are suing Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency and its director Julia Dale.

Attorneys David Blanchard and Frances Hollander with the Ann Arbor law firm Blanchard & Walker said they filed a 37-page class-action complaint Friday in the Michigan Court of Claims, stating that the agency acted outside the law by determining claimants aren't eligible for benefits more than a year after benefits were paid.

"The agency is so clearly not following their own law, they're acting without jurisdiction, and acting beyond any statutory authority that they have," Blanchard said in an interview with the Detroit Free Press.......
Its just so deprivating to see unemployed people have crimes committed against them by their own unemployment office.
The lawsuit said the agency is violating the due process rights of Michigan residents granted under the state constitution by:

-Undertaking collection activity, which includes seizing tax refunds, garnishing wages or withholding future benefits, based on "monetary determinations" issued more than a year after benefits were paid, which is a violation of the Michigan Employment Security Act.
-Seeking recovery of overpayments that's required to be waived.
-Engaging in collection activity without any final determination on the merits.

"Those who are just now recovering from financial hardship are facing unlawful seizure of wages and tax returns without any legal basis," the lawsuit said.

Blanchard said he has seen other cases of early collection activity from the agency, while claimants are still appealing or protesting an agency decision, but added: "It's just gotten to an outrageous level.

"What's different now is that you can't get a hearing for more than a year," he said.
The determination comes a year late and cant even get a hearing for a year what are they a wrecking service wreck the people without fear of having to answer to them? These are the things that tell the strength and future of an economy and they dont look good.
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I wouldn't bet 10 cents on this economy. Everything's wearing pretty thin right now. The Fed had to deal with the 14 per cent inflation caused by the shortages in goods, personnel, and raw materials. They will raise rates, only question is how many times.

The shortages are, of course, a natural consequence of the pandemic and trade disruptions, but the media have successfully pinned the blame on poor Biden, who had enough problems already, having taken over for a catastrophic Russian disinformation op also known as a Republican presidency.

So you have market volatility at 40, when in the past 30 has been queasy stomach time, and the roller coaster has cranked up to 11. They yak away on CNBC, throwing around all the big words taught in business schools, but you can tell that they are along for the ride just like us, and don't know a whole lot more about an unknowable future.

Crypto is a zombie process. NFT is a dead man walking. Tech is old news, and starting to look like last decade's golden goose. The CNBC types are all on about puts and calls, and when they start slinging jargon and tricky advanced investments is when you know the party's over for the guaranteed 20% gain era. Some of the other media are doing their damndest to get the Republicans back into power, and if that happens, it's always bad for the average investor. A few sharks make out, everyone else gets eaten. Rinse, repeat.

And that's leaving the real possibility of a catastrophic European war out of it.

I guess it's hold and pray time.
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Companies unexpectedly cut 301,000 jobs in January as omicron slams jobs market, ADP says

Companies cut jobs in January for the first time in more than a year as the omicron spread appeared to hit hiring, payroll processing firm ADP reported Wednesday.

Private payrolls fell by 301,000 for the month, well below the Dow Jones estimate for growth of 200,000 and a marked plunge from the downwardly revised 776,000 gain in December. It was the first time ADP reported negative job growth since December 2020.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/adp-job ... -2022.html
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Kroger's King Soopers union workers approve new contract

(Reuters) - Workers at nearly 80 King Soopers, owned by Kroger Co, approved a new three-year contract, the Colorado-based chain said on Tuesday, ending a stalemate that had caused a 10-day strike at the start of the year.

King Soopers will invest $170 million in wage increases through the life of the agreement, with additional health-care investments.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/krogers- ... 18650.html
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Jobless claims: Another 238,000 American filed new claims last week

Jobless claims trended lower in the latest weekly data, underscoring still-elevated demand for workers even as Omicron-related disruptions continued to exert pressure on the labor market.

The Labor Department released its latest weekly jobless claims report Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/weekly-u ... 06955.html
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Another monster jobs report, well above forecast.

467,000 added in January
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Why the balance of power in tech is shifting toward workers - Technology Review
A record number of tech worker unions formed in the US last year. They’re part of a global effort.

Something has changed for the tech giants. Even as they continue to hold tremendous influence in our daily lives, a growing accountability movement has begun to check their power. Led in large part by tech workers themselves, a movement seeking reform of how these companies do business, treat their employees, and conduct themselves as global citizens has taken on unprecedented momentum, particularly in the past year.

Concerns and anger over tech companies’ impact in the world is nothing new, of course. What’s changed is that workers are increasingly getting organized. Whether writing public letters, marching in protest, filing lawsuits, or unionizing, the labor force that makes the corporate tech world run is finding its voice, demanding a future in which companies do better and are held more responsible for their actions.

A week to remember
It began with a Facebook outage. For some six hours on October 4, 2021, services for its 3.5 billion users across the world were unreachable. The timing couldn’t have been worse for the company: just hours before, whistleblower Frances Haugen had dropped a series of damning revelations about Facebook’s willingness to put corporate goals above ethics and its users’ well-being. The stock price plunged. On the 5th, a Tuesday, Haugen would unflinchingly testify for three and a half hours before the United States Senate Commerce Committee on how “Facebook consistently chose to prioritize its profits” over public safety.

If executives at Facebook and other tech companies hoped Haugen would be an outlier, Ifeoma Ozoma had other plans: a day after Haugen’s testimony, Ozoma and several colleagues launched the Tech Worker Handbook online. Ozoma was herself a whistleblower, having called out racial and gender discrimination at Pinterest, together with her coworker Aerica Shimizu Banks, in 2020. Since then, she has become something of an inspiration for whistleblowers in the tech world. “I’ve heard from tech workers asking for advice since I first went public,” she says. She responded to hundreds of people individually, but to her that solution was just “not scalable,” so she used what she’d learned from those experiences to build the website. It got 30,000 hits on the first day.

The handbook guides potential whistleblowers on how to handle the media, explains legal rights, and teaches both online safety—to avoid corporate surveillance, for example—and offline tactics, like how to get through a doxxing campaign. “Preparedness is power,” says the front page. “Individuals should not have to rely on whisper networks for justice.” The site received an effusive response online and endorsements from activists, researchers, and other whistleblowers.

Just a day after publishing her handbook, Ozoma notched another major victory for accountability: on October 7, California governor Gavin Newsom signed bill SB 331 into law.
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