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Jobless claims: Another 198,000 individuals filed new claims last week

First-time unemployment filings fell by 8,000 claims from last week’s reading, marking the second lowest print during the pandemic and signaling continued recovery in the labor market as high demand for workers pours into the new year.

The Labor Department released its latest report on initial and continuing claims on 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 ... 05705.html
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At least 20 states to increase minimum wage starting Saturday

At least 20 states are beginning the new year by increasing their minimum wages, while Puerto Rico and several cities and counties are also bumping up pay for workers in 2022.

A total of 26 states will have minimum wage increases go into effect in 2022, with wage hikes beginning in 22 states on Jan. 1, according to Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S., a company providing information on finance, regulatory compliance and the law.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/5878 ... ting-today
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Airlines have canceled more than 2,500 Sunday flights
.....Airlines have canceled more than 2,500 Sunday flights across the country and into and out of the United States, according to flight tracker FlightAware. That's on top of more than 2,700 Saturday flight cancellations, bringing the total since Christmas Eve to more than 15,000 canceled flights. This weekend's cancellations marked the worst two-day stretch of the holiday travel season and affected passengers on nearly every U.S. airline......
Workers solve problems for their employers but work doesn't solve problems of workers and their families and something is very wrong with that. The wages and health insurance and hours are all deliberately administered in a way to make them worthless and leave lingering problems, to leave worry and anxiety to grow and flourish, to leave health conditions untreated to make unsecure peoples shelter and living conditions.
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NLRB judge says owner of I-95 McDonald’s must rehire union organizers laid off during COVID-19 pandemic

DARIEN — A judge on Thursday ordered the owner of a McDonald’s franchise at the Interstate 95 service plaza in Darien to rehire four employees laid off at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic who she ruled had not been rehired in retaliation for their labor organizing activities.

The 47-page ruling from National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Donna Dawson came nearly a year after a nine-day hearing conducted via Zoom that began in December 2020 and ended in January 2021.

https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/NLR ... 741106.php
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ap215 wrote: Mon Jan 03, 2022 12:47 am NLRB judge says owner of I-95 McDonald’s must rehire union organizers laid off during COVID-19 pandemic

DARIEN — A judge on Thursday ordered the owner of a McDonald’s franchise at the Interstate 95 service plaza in Darien to rehire four employees laid off at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic who she ruled had not been rehired in retaliation for their labor organizing activities.

The 47-page ruling from National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Donna Dawson came nearly a year after a nine-day hearing conducted via Zoom that began in December 2020 and ended in January 2021.

https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/NLR ... 741106.php
Wait for it...con making less than the amount Rupert Murdoch pays for a haircut in 3, 2, 1...UNIONS ARE BAD!
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DNC staff votes to unionize

Staffers at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Tuesday voted to unionize and join with SEIU Local 500.

“We are incredibly excited to join SEIU Local 500 to live our Democratic values at our workplace,” DNC staffer and union leader Alison Goh said in a statement. “Throughout this process, our aim has been not only to improve the lives of current and future staff at the DNC, but to ensure our staff, no matter where they live, are protected and given the resources they need to thrive in their careers and succeed in our mission to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5 ... o-unionize
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ap215 wrote: Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:35 pm DNC staff votes to unionize

Staffers at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Tuesday voted to unionize and join with SEIU Local 500.

“We are incredibly excited to join SEIU Local 500 to live our Democratic values at our workplace,” DNC staffer and union leader Alison Goh said in a statement. “Throughout this process, our aim has been not only to improve the lives of current and future staff at the DNC, but to ensure our staff, no matter where they live, are protected and given the resources they need to thrive in their careers and succeed in our mission to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5 ... o-unionize
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December private payrolls rose by 807,000, far exceeding expectations: ADP

U.S. private employers added jobs at a much faster-than-anticipated rate in December, helping to alleviate some worker shortages as the tight U.S. labor market persisted.

The U.S. economy saw 807,000 private payrolls return in the final month of 2021, ADP said in its closely watched report on Wednesday. This compared to the 410,000 job gains consensus economists anticipated, based on Bloomberg data. Employers had brought back 505,000 jobs in November, according to ADP's revised estimate for that month.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/december ... 59127.html
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ap215 wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 7:34 am December private payrolls rose by 807,000, far exceeding expectations: ADP

U.S. private employers added jobs at a much faster-than-anticipated rate in December, helping to alleviate some worker shortages as the tight U.S. labor market persisted.

The U.S. economy saw 807,000 private payrolls return in the final month of 2021, ADP said in its closely watched report on Wednesday. This compared to the 410,000 job gains consensus economists anticipated, based on Bloomberg data. Employers had brought back 505,000 jobs in November, according to ADP's revised estimate for that month.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/december ... 59127.html
Just coming to post this. Wow.
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The economic metrics may look good, but they’re bad metrics
...The debate over whether or not we’re experiencing the “Greatest Economy Ever” or one of the worst in several decades raises an important note about how we measure the economy — frankly, population-wide statistics more generally — in the first place....
Like they want people to worship a suggestion but people they can see the way things are for themselves and those around them.
.....Take unemployment for example. Wage stagnation among the bottom 90% of the economy fundamentally changes the economic meaning of being employed. The median employee commands less from the economy than they used to. It also obscures the changing experience of “employment” itself, which increasingly means an insecure gig job that doesn’t come with benefits. Gig jobs skyrocketed between 1978 and 2010.

One phenomenon economists have struggled to explain over the past several months is the “Great Resignation.” After all, why would someone willingly give up a job they have for no job? Well, perhaps it’s because the nature of a job itself has changed so dramatically. Consider the fact that resignations have been concentrated in low-income, insecure sectors of the economy, such as hospitality. One interpretation of the Great Resignation is as a backlash to the gigification and earning stagnation of these sectors. People are deciding that the measly paychecks they’re offered aren’t worth the insecurity or poor treatment they have to put up with to get them. It turns out that “a job’s a job” simply isn’t true, particularly over the sweep of time.
The cheesy term they made up (Great Resignation) for people with nothing to gain from employment and nothing to lose without it is yet another in a long line of offensive and out of touch misinformation, spread about to hide some really awful inhumane conditions. Which we should all think about the next time they rail about misinformation done by others.
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December jobs report: Payrolls rise by 199,000 as unemployment rate falls to 3.9%

The U.S. economy unexpectedly saw a slowdown in hiring in December compared to November, while the unemployment rate improved to a fresh pandemic-era low.

The Labor Department released its December jobs report Friday 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/december ... 53058.html
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Unemployment is now at a low 3.9 % under Biden with around 200K jobs added. It's time to bring out the receipts, to show how again how utterly dishonest and vile the GOP is. And a huge part of the corporate owned conservative MSM is also pushing this same shit.

Let's compare what they said under Trump with the same 3.9 percent unemployment rate and jobs numbers, to what they're saying today about Biden with the similar figures.

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Fox News@FoxNews · Aug 5, 2018
.@Varneyco: "It's very hard to argue against 4% growth, 3.9% unemployment, 155 million people have a job. That's a remarkable performance in such a short time of this presidency."
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1026087424177434626

Fox News @FoxNews Sep 3, 2018
.@GovMikeHuckabee: "We have a lot to celebrate this #LaborDay: More people are working. Consumer confidence at an 18-year high. Unemployment, 3.9%. GDP, 4.2%, expected to be 3 for the whole year."
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1036584593892278272

Fox News @FoxNews· Aug 5, 2018
.@MariaBartiromo: "Wages up 2.8% year over year. Unemployment rate 3.9%. Economic growth 4.1%."
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1026104788470128640

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It's NOTHING but alternate reality gaslighting bullshit.
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Whitmer in Detroit Monday for new $1B economic development bill signing
Thanks to the effective collaboration of legislative leadership in both parties, our state will be competitive for every dollar and every job for years to come. I am confident that, together, we can continue to create tens of thousands of good-paying jobs and uplift our communities by setting up this critical economic development fund," she said in a statement last week.


MIOSHA investigating United Wholesale Mortgage after dozens of complaints about lack of COVID-19 protocol
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) is investigating United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) after receiving dozens of complaints about how the Pontiac business is handling COVID-19.

MIOSHA has received more than 50 complaints about the company since November 2021. It has not commented on the ongoing investigation.

With cases of COVID-19 at an all-time high in Oakland County, many workers are worried.

"The test positivity rate in Oakland County is 25.5%. It's the highest it's ever been," said county spokesperson Bill Mullan.

Current and former employees detailed the alleged lack of protocols, saying that there are mandatory meetings being held with hundreds and sometimes thousands of people.

Workers also allege that there is no social distancing, masks aren't required, plexiglass dividers between work areas are no longer up, and employees can't work from home. Additionally, employees claim that they are not informed when a co-worker they had close contact with tests positive for Covid, and people are coming to work sick because they need to use their paid time off when sick.........
the kind of things that fill up hospital emergency rooms and cause staffing shortages
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ap215 wrote: Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:35 pm DNC staff votes to unionize

Staffers at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Tuesday voted to unionize and join with SEIU Local 500.

“We are incredibly excited to join SEIU Local 500 to live our Democratic values at our workplace,” DNC staffer and union leader Alison Goh said in a statement. “Throughout this process, our aim has been not only to improve the lives of current and future staff at the DNC, but to ensure our staff, no matter where they live, are protected and given the resources they need to thrive in their careers and succeed in our mission to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5 ... o-unionize
That is probably the most interesting story on this thread. It will be interesting to see how management reacts
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Glennfs wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 1:54 pm That is probably the most interesting story on this thread. It will be interesting to see how management reacts
Oh, I know that. They’ll negotiate and give them a good contract. That’s not going to be an issue. They’ll have every labor union in America watching them.
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Drak wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:48 pm Unemployment is now at a low 3.9 % under Biden with around 200K jobs added. It's time to bring out the receipts, to show how again how utterly dishonest and vile the GOP is. And a huge part of the corporate owned conservative MSM is also pushing this same shit.

Let's compare what they said under Trump with the same 3.9 percent unemployment rate and jobs numbers, to what they're saying today about Biden with the similar figures.

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Fox News@FoxNews · Aug 5, 2018
.@Varneyco: "It's very hard to argue against 4% growth, 3.9% unemployment, 155 million people have a job. That's a remarkable performance in such a short time of this presidency."
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1026087424177434626

Fox News @FoxNews Sep 3, 2018
.@GovMikeHuckabee: "We have a lot to celebrate this #LaborDay: More people are working. Consumer confidence at an 18-year high. Unemployment, 3.9%. GDP, 4.2%, expected to be 3 for the whole year."
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1036584593892278272

Fox News @FoxNews· Aug 5, 2018
.@MariaBartiromo: "Wages up 2.8% year over year. Unemployment rate 3.9%. Economic growth 4.1%."
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1026104788470128640

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It's NOTHING but alternate reality gaslighting bullshit.
26000 manufacturing jobs with the leisure industry leading the new jobs list.
So if this were a Republican administration you folks would be saying that the new jobs are flipping burgers.
The jobs estimate was 422,000 while the actual number came in at the 199000 figure.
To me the problem is why are the estimates so far off. It seems that the real problem is with those who calculate the estimates not the actual new job numbers.
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Shush. The lies and evidence with receipts speak for themselves.
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Here’s another receipt. It’s non stop lies and bullshit with the GOP and its cult base.


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Biden is on the wrong side of things.

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/stat ... 9308989440
FDR did not succeed because he made the stock market go up or down during his tenure, but because he made the stock market irrelevant.
All their faith and hope is in creating and maintaining a phony image to be praised and worshipped but people can see their own situation and more and more are awakening to understand the image is phony.
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https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1474129460177903622
...Of course they’re frustrated. It’s not policing’s job or purpose to address housing, provide healthcare or counseling, or solve the reasons people sleep on the subway.

Maybe if we shifted some of that $11B/year spent on robo dogs to housing services we could get somewhere....
You know why NY’s ‘recovery’ isn’t happening?.....
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Motor City wrote: Sat Jan 08, 2022 1:11 pm Biden is on the wrong side of things.

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/stat ... 9308989440



All their faith and hope is in creating and maintaining a phony image to be praised and worshipped but people can see their own situation and more and more are awakening to understand the image is phony.
FDR's new deal was a failure and did not fix or end the great depression. Just prior to WWII we still had unemployment near 20pct.
The fact that so many people believe the new deal fixed our economy proves if you repeat a lie enough people will believe it.
What made FDR one of our greatest presidents (unless you were a Japanese American) is the way he lead and guided our country through WWII.
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:02 am FDR's new deal was a failure and did not fix or end the great depression.
Your opinion is noted.

In turn, I will allow folks to read what actual historians think. BTW, they agree the New Deal didn't, per se, on its own, "end" the Great Depression - probably was the "military Keynesianism" so to speak of WW II that did - that also doesn't mean it was a "failure".

Did New Deal Programs Help End the Great Depression?
https://www.history.com/news/new-deal-e ... depression

A "failure" would mean the programs didn't have long lasting positive impacts on American economy and society besides ending the Depression, and I again think that's false.
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:02 am FDR's new deal was a failure and did not fix or end the great depression. Just prior to WWII we still had unemployment near 20pct.
The fact that so many people believe the new deal fixed our economy proves if you repeat a lie enough people will believe it.
What made FDR one of our greatest presidents (unless you were a Japanese American) is the way he lead and guided our country through WWII.
You will believe the Heritage Foundation re-writing of history, won't you?

Explain what would have happened if FDR hadn't regulated the banks and ended the bank failures. Go ahead.
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:02 am FDR's new deal was a failure and did not fix or end the great depression. Just prior to WWII we still had unemployment near 20pct.
The fact that so many people believe the new deal fixed our economy proves if you repeat a lie enough people will believe it.
What made FDR one of our greatest presidents (unless you were a Japanese American) is the way he lead and guided our country through WWII.
I’ll dispute the “failure”. It helped change fundamental direction for society. Didn’t do much for the depression. WWII was an effective tonic for the economy.
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:02 am FDR's new deal was a failure and did not fix or end the great depression. Just prior to WWII we still had unemployment near 20pct.
The fact that so many people believe the new deal fixed our economy proves if you repeat a lie enough people will believe it.
What made FDR one of our greatest presidents (unless you were a Japanese American) is the way he lead and guided our country through WWII.
Had you been your age now during WWII you Muslim-ban, anti-Asian xenophobes would have backed internment and relocation. FDR did it on your behalf.
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