Reports that focus on workers’ individual choices hide an important reality: corporations don’t want to take the fall for economic problems, but they are benefiting from new workplace practices. The employment shell game lets them off the hook.
The quiet drama 'Nomadland' makes a lot of sense for this strange Oscars year.
Gig economy companies were not true pioneers. The truth behind their dominance is their aggressive market takeovers, aided by their precarious labor model. The piece wage’s effect is to induce workers to toil longer and harder for less.
Neither political party has truly addressed the issue of economic security, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.
"United Goal, One Voice" is aim of partnering agreement between Kenya's metal workers union and associations of artisans and other informal workers.
The reality of precarious employment in Mexico is illustrated by the level of unemployment, informal work, the loss of purchasing power and the lack of labour justice.
Workers across many industries are increasingly banding together and standing up against management as part-time and contract work grows, automation amps up, and wages barely budge, labor observers say. Silicon Valley tech workers have started a coalition to unite.
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