Tag Archives: Workers

Artificial intelligence is replacing entry-level workers whose jobs can be performed by generative AI tools like ChatGPT, a rigorous new study finds.   Early-career employees in fields that are most exposed to AI have experienced a 13% drop in employment since 2022, compared to more experienced workers in the same fields and when measured against people in sectors less buffeted …

The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has reportedly suspended a number of staff who criticised the agency’s direction under US President Donald Trump. The staff are said to have been among those who recently signed an open letter that castigated Trump officials over cuts and alleged interference, warning that another “national catastrophe” akin to Hurricane Katrina was possible. More …

Ballots are being cast Wednesday over a pivotal decision at a Kentucky manufacturing complex that is producing batteries for electric vehicles. Workers will decide whether to join the United Auto Workers and extend a streak of union victories in the South, where organized labor struggled to find solid footing. A two-day union vote closes Wednesday, about a week after production …

Michigan House Republicans unveil and quickly approve the bulk of a $78.5 billion budget proposal.  Plan would cut spending for most state departments, eliminate thousands of government jobs and ban DEI initiatives The proposed cuts would help pay for a $3 billion increase in road funding, along with $99 million in earmarks and $50 million for a UP copper mine …

Today, President Donald J. Trump held the seventh Cabinet meeting of his second term — gathering members of the Trump Administration together ahead of Labor Day to celebrate the victories American workers have experienced over the past eight months. President Trump opened the meeting by lauding the rising blue-collar wages, unprecedented private sector job growth, increased domestic steel production, historic …

Economists at Stanford University have found the strongest evidence yet that artificial intelligence is starting to eliminate certain jobs. But the story isn’t that simple: While younger workers are being replaced by AI in some industries, more experienced workers are seeing new opportunities emerge. Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at Stanford University, Ruyu Chen, a research scientist, and Bharat Chandar, a …

When Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door to cutting interest rates for the first time in nearly a year, he noted the tremors beginning to shake a main pillar of the U.S. economy: the labor market.  Concerns about the pace of job growth were heightened earlier this month after government data showed a sharp slowdown in hiring in …

Early on Tuesday morning, as parents went to drop off their young children at a bilingual childcare center in north-west Washington DC, they received a message from the administrator saying that unmarked cars were parked directly outside. Shortly after 8am, federal agents in tactical vests arrested two people unaffiliated with the center, the administrator said. “While these activities are not …

Preliminary investigations into the deaths of six people at a Northern Colorado dairy farm point toward the dairy farm workers being exposed to the toxic gas known as hydrogen sulfide, or “H2S.” The workers, who include a boy who was still in high school, were killed while working on a dairy farm in Keensburg, a town in southeastern Weld County. …

Elon Musk to pay $500 million in severance to 6,000 ex-Twitter workers  San Francisco Chronicle Musk’s X reaches tentative settlement in $500 million lawsuit over firings of platform’s former workers  Fox Business Elon Musk and X reach settlement with axed Twitter workers  BBC Elon Musk’s X strikes tentative agreement to settle $500 million lawsuit over Twitter firings  CNN Musk set to pay $500 million …