To maintain productivity and safety, some jobs are installing robot coworkers. Labor unions worry that the robots will continue to occupy jobs after the pandemic ends while others say they will free up workers for other positions.
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This holiday season, Amazon will move millions of packages at dizzying speed. Internal injury reports suggest all that convenience is coming at the expense of worker safety.
Ultimately, the better advice for workers seeking to avoid “disruption” is to become the agents of disruption themselves.
The rise of the robots has been greatly exaggerated. Whose interests does that serve?
For every industrial robot introduced into the workforce, six jobs are eliminated. – Since a few days, Amazon has started Amazon Go. The idea is simple: a shop where you go in, take whatever you want from the shelves, and the cost goes automatically to a magnetic card that you carry.
America has a long, complicated track record of dreading that robots would take our jobs.
When everyone’s out of a job, will workers unite?
There is no evidence that automation leads to joblessness or inequality
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