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Zohran Mamdani is celebrating Labor Day in a fitting way: Setting up a new city office to work more closely with unions and workers across NYC.The New York City mayor is launching an Office of Worker Power, which the administration says will be a resource for labor unions and local…
The job market is tipping in favor of blue-collar and service workers over white-collar fields.The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ new jobs report showed August was a promising time to be a job seeker. The US added 162,000 jobs, about three times the expected gain of 55,000. Growth was widely distributed…
Union security workers for the California offices of OpenAI, Anthropic, and other tech companies announced on Wednesday that they had authorized a strike.The security personnel, who are seeking better pay, are employed by staffing agencies that provide building security for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Salesforce, the SEIU-United Service Workers…
While tech companies are pouring billions into AI infrastructure, they are also competing fiercely for AI talent — and the AI boom is reshaping the choices available to workers.Alongside established giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon, frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic now offer the chance to work at…
The UK job market is looking grim for people fresh out of university.According to the latest UK Job Market Report from job-matching platform Adzuna, the company’s index — which aggregates online listings from more than 1,000 sources — counted an average of 8,383 live UK graduate vacancies in July.That’s down…
Workers are retrospectively adding AI skills to their LinkedIn profiles — while remote-work and DEI language is falling out of favor.That is the finding of a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, which analyzed monthly snapshots of 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles.Nearly a fifth of those accounts had…
Ask a tech worker about their biggest career regret, and they might have a hard time picking just one.In a fast-changing, highly competitive industry, it’s easy to second-guess career decisions — and wonder whether another path might have been the better one.In interviews with Business Insider, tech professionals from companies…
TikTok is shuttering its Nashville office in early October and laying off 250 staffers.Last week, the company told impacted workers they’d remain on payroll for the next couple of months before the office officially closed. After that, employees are being offered one month of severance pay plus an additional month…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing new safeguards for delivery workers in New York City — and the proposal would give City Hall more regulatory power over commerce giants like Amazon.The Delivery Protection Act, sponsored by New York City Council Member Tiffany L. Cabán, would increase licensing requirements for companies that…
In Canton, Mississippi, where Nissan assembles the Altima sedan and the Frontier pickup, there are cameras watching how workers move.The automaker says the AI-powered system is saving it millions of dollars — and ensuring that factory workers stay healthy.”We’re not talking about job elimination,” Victor Taylor, Nissan’s divisional vice president…
