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An Amazon worker on the picket line during a strike over pay at the Amazon.com Inc. fulfilment center in Coventry, U.K., on Feb. 28, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence has emerged as a key tool for companies to drive growth — and reduce labor costs —particularly as pressure mounts for businesses to remain competitive. Companies in …

Irvine, Calif. – Today, workers on Blizzard’s Story and Franchise Development (SFD) team strongly voted in favor of union representation with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), either by signing a union authorization card or indicating that they wanted union representation via an online portal. The workers will be members of CWA Local 9510 in Orange County, Calif., and Microsoft …

Exclusive | Walmart’s New Employee Perk Takes a Bite Out of Workers’ Grocery Bills  The Wall Street Journal Walmart broadens 10% staff discount to include most grocery products  Yahoo Finance Walmart expands grocery discount for 1.6 million employees as tariffs renew inflation concerns  CNBC Walmart broadens 10% staff discount to include most grocery products, WSJ reports  Reuters Walmart extends employee discount to nearly all …

Hennepin County commissioners voted 6-1 Tuesday to retake control of the nonprofit that runs HCMC and its clinics after years of budget problems, moving to prevent a closure of the safety-net hospital in downtown Minneapolis. The controversial move dissolves the Hennepin Healthcare System board of community volunteers created in 2007 to oversee the hospital’s day-to-day operations. The health system has …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers whose jobs have been reinstated after dizzying Trump administration disruptions say they remain stuck in a budgetary, political, and professional limbo. Their work includes major agency priorities such as HIV testing and monitoring, as well as work at the nation’s leading sexually transmitted infections lab. And while employees are …

‘Ridiculously traumatized’: CDC workers fear returning to work after fatal shooting  Politico CDC staffers voice frustration over Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric in wake of shooting  yahoo.com Man fired 180 shots, breaking 150 windows, in CDC attack  AP News How to help the family of DeKalb officer killed in CDC shooting  AJC.com McBath offers condolences in CDC shooting  FOX 5 Atlanta Source link

Facebook Tweet Email Link Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers whose jobs have been reinstated after dizzying Trump administration disruptions say they remain stuck in a budgetary, political, and professional limbo. Their work includes major agency priorities such as HIV testing and monitoring, as well as work at the nation’s leading sexually transmitted infections lab. And while employees are …

Businesses trying to do more with less have historically leaned on automation during recessions, but the advent of generative AI could scramble the typical pattern of winners and losers when the next downturn strikes. While white-collar knowledge workers have previously not suffered from severe recession-induced layoffs or jobless recoveries, the next time could be different, JPMorgan senior U.S. economist Murat …

The U.S. economy isn’t in a recession yet, but the number of industries cutting back on headcount is concerning, and future revisions to jobs data could show employment is already falling, according to Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi. In a series of X posts on Sunday, he followed up his warning from last weekend that the economy is on …

I came to Cleveland, Ohio, for the 50th anniversary of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention. I expected the hallways to be buzzing with conversations about AI, and they were, but not in the way I’d hoped. For the first two days, the phrase I heard most from my fellow journalists was “we must protect ourselves.” In session …