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Your robot has arrived
You can now hail a self-driving taxi in San Francisco and restaurants are testing out robot servers…
Jacob Zinkula,Nora Naughton,L…
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Amazon drivers are poised to get a 7% pay rise after they started to think about unionizing
The company said the investment in its DSP program will help increase the driver's pay to a nationa…
Beatrice Nolan
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CEO compensation at some of the largest companies was a whopping 268 times as much as their average worker last year
Companies cut costs last year while raising consumer prices and paying their CEOs at least 268 time…
Katie Balevic
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Forget free cash, there's an even more American way to help people get ahead
Basic income programs continue to ripple across the US. But some experts say there's a policy that'…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden slows his timeline for the shift to EVs in a compromise with unions concerned about jobs
A new rule limiting tailpipe pollution creates a slower timeline to EV adoption after the auto indu…
Catherine Boudreau
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The South's economic boom is masking a harsher reality. It still has several of the poorest states in the nation.
The South's economic boom isn't happening everywhere in the region. Some Southern states are among …
Jacob Zinkula
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Union households tend to have over $100,000 more in wealth than nonunion families, Federal Reserve data shows
Union households hold just over $330,000 in median wealth, but the vast majority of US workers aren…
Juliana Kaplan
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Dartmouth men's basketball is the first college team to vote to unionize. But the fight over the future of college sports could just be beginning.
Dartmouth men's basketball's union push could lead to a wave of unionization across college sports.…
Jacob Zinkula
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Greece responds to backlash after introducing a 6-day workweek
The Greek government said the new policy provides the option of working extra as "an exceptional me…
Ana Altchek
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The forever labor shortage is pitting parents and their childfree coworkers against each other
Childfree workers are sometimes left to pick up the slack of parents. They blame their employers.
Juliana Kaplan
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Some countries are cutting down their workweeks. Greece is doing the exact opposite.
Workers will receive 40% more pay for extra hours and 115% more for holiday work.
Shubhangi Goel
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'Total joke': Josh Hawley's bid to win labor support just backfired
The Missouri Republican rallied with striking UAW members last year. They're still backing his like…
Bryan Metzger
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There's a huge pay raise on the way for clean energy workers
The Treasury Department unveiled a new rule that says developers could get bigger tax credits if th…
Juliana Kaplan
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As head of the Labor Department Julie Su has a tough task: filling the economy with good jobs. She's up for the challenge.
Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su knows how important a good job is because one transformed her fa…
Juliana Kaplan
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In potential leadership shakeup, Amazon Labor Union agrees to hold new elections for top positions
The Amazon Labor Union will hold new leadership elections, which could see the departure of the cur…
Katherine Long
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A major labor union said the rise in unruly airline passengers is 'deeply concerning' — after 2 fights days apart on the same Ryanair route
Unite, one of the UK's two largest labor unions, has raised concerns with airlines and airports aft…
Pete Syme
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Chris Smalls, Amazon Labor Union president and founder, tells Business Insider he will not run for reelection
Chris Smalls led the Amazon Labor Union to a historic victory, then grew distant from organizing, m…
Katherine Long
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Apple illegally denied benefits to the first unionized store in the country, says National Labor Relations Board
Apple illegally withheld benefits from the first unionized Apple Store in the country, claims NLRB.
Caroline Haskins
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Russia's worker shortage is so bad the economy is leaning on the Soviet-era practice of using prison labor, think tank says
Russia made 19 billion rubles last year from forced convict labor, according to finance ministry da…
Jennifer Sor
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Welcome to the red-hot blue-collar job boom
Walmart and UPS offer six-figure salaries and lucrative benefits. White-collar workers, meanwhile, …