Tag: labor
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Biden takes on Dems’ ‘Mission Impossible’: Revitalizing coal country
After years of watching their standing erode in energy-producing states, Democrats under President Joe Biden have accepted the challenge that’s vexed them for a decade: convincing fossil fuel workers that they will still be okay even if their current jobs evaporate as the nation embraces a climate change-friendly economy. Democrats have a term for their…
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US economy misses forecasts, adds just 145,000 jobs in December
Reuters/Rebecca Cook The labour market cooled at the end of 2019 but stayed creating jobs to get a listing. That brought the total earnings for the year to 2.1 million, also based on what could be anticipated from the decade-long expansion. Every month wage growth continued to outpace inflation but fell short of their growth…
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The massive GM strike is a perfect example of our political moment and a harbinger of the coming battles between labor and corporations
AP Unions are becoming more popular so will labor strikes, and as that prevalence grows. 2019 showed this absolutely throughout the United Automobile Workers (UAW) attack of General Motors. The fight is also an illustration of the disparities within our economy under President Donald Trump and reveal why we want unions in the first location.…
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Sunrun Sales Outpace Installations in Q3 as Labor Crunch Hits Home
Sunrun met expectations for solar installations in the next quarter, but a tight labour market is getting in the way of its growth objective. The San Francisco-based firm delivered 107 megawatts at Q3, up 7 percent last year. That struck the low end of the guidance for this past year 's actions; Sunrun has met…