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Bloomberg has a story about an “AI drive through company” whose AI systems leave a lot to be desired. �In reality, 70% of customer interactions were handled by people in the Philippines. �Which, ...
by angryea
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on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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[This is a shortened repost from MySubstack. You may Subscribe now to read the full original version of this article. There is a free tier.] From Washington Examiner. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) predicted Sunday that the media industry will make a...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 10:10 AM PDT
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A Message from President Biden What have labor unions ever done to benefit any of us? Below are just a few of their major accomplishments, many of which we take for granted without acknowledging the debt we owe to those who came before us. Previous...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Mon Sep 04, 2023 at 05:07 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Sunday, Jan 1, 2023 · 12:13:44 AM +00:00 · xaxnar UPDATE: Zeynep Tufekci at The NY Times has posted The Shameful Open Secret Behind Southwest’s Failure It adds a new term to the story — technical debt — and confirms that management decisions...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Dec 31, 2022 at 06:14 AM PST
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Of course, closing down factories in the USA left lots of Americans out of work, but you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs! In China, there is no minimum wage and no “time and a half” overtime pay. Nor are there any paid vacation days....
by Perlinator
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on Thu Nov 04, 2021 at 01:26 PM PDT
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tRUMP always needs more foreign workers to cook and clean, pick up his underwear and buy his special makeup, in spite of the incongruity with his need to demean and vilify immigrants as less than human, rapists, filthy, murders, etc. He is having a...
by List maker NOT List taker
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on Fri Mar 06, 2020 at 02:40 PM PST
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On Friday August 30th, Olympia’s newspaper The Olympian (serving the South Sound region of Washington state) published an update on the labor negotiations between the unionized nurses at Providence St. Peter hospital and their corporate overlords -...
by chelonia testudines
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on Sat Aug 31, 2019 at 05:37 PM PDT
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Mickey Ray Williams keeps a Goodyear tire in his Gadsden, Ala., conference room. Made in Mexico and imported to Gadsden, that tire induces fear. It’s an Assurance All-Season tire. Those were developed at Goodyear’s Gadsden factory in 2014. Now some, or...
by Tom Conway
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on Wed Aug 14, 2019 at 07:54 AM PDT
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Amazon’s labor practices, from its warehouses to its corporate offices , are terrible—and of course its delivery workers ...
by Laura Clawson
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on Sat Sep 15, 2018 at 06:00 AM PDT
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OK. I admit that I should give a “pass” to Senator Joe Donnelly who is running for reelection in Indiana. I went to undergrad at Indiana University, and I know plenty of Hoosiers. They are a unique bunch of people. I think the last liberal who...
by Merlin1963
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on Sat Sep 01, 2018 at 03:52 PM PDT
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This came out today:
The off-road accessory was shipped in a box emblazoned with the logo of an auto parts brand owned by Mike Braun, a multimillionaire businessman who often rails against foreign outsourcing in his bid to become Indiana’s next...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Fri Aug 10, 2018 at 08:24 AM PDT
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I’m a good Democrat, pro-immigrant, but I have to admit I’m not in favor of H-1B visas, especially H-2B visas. Big business fretted in 1990 that they didn’t have enough knowledgeable Americans to do technical IT work and they needed a mechanism to...
by writingbiz
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on Tue Jun 12, 2018 at 04:53 PM PDT
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U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D. CA) wasn’t the only Democratic Senator to expose what’s going on in the Trump Administration:
It’s no secret that President Donald Trump has been trying to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, but it took a dogged...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Fri Jan 12, 2018 at 09:16 AM PST
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The group Good Jobs Nation has done a study of the rate at which federal contractors are outsourcing jobs and they found that the average number of outsourced jobs per year have tripled under Trump in comparison to under Obama, as seen in their graph,...
by Paul C
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on Tue Dec 05, 2017 at 05:29 PM PST
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There is so much bad to pick and choose from in the Republican corporate tax-gutting monstrosity being strong-armed through Congress right now, it's hard to focus on the sheer horror of what they’re trying to do for the sake of pleasing their huge...
by Dartagnan
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on Mon Nov 20, 2017 at 10:10 AM PST
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Seriously. How can the men and women of our armed forces not look at the latest smoke coming from the dumpster fire that is the trump administration (The White House’s bold new plan to “privatize” the war in Afghanistan) and not see it as a gigantic...
by JustaJ0e
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on Wed Aug 09, 2017 at 07:55 AM PDT
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We hear a lot about the economic populism that Donald Trump supposedly tapped into and that Democrats must reclaim to win. But what does that look like on the ground? Working America canvassed 355 ...
by Laura Clawson
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on Sat Jul 29, 2017 at 03:56 PM PDT
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D. WI) re-election campaign:
President Trump declared it “Made in America” week at the White House to promote products made in each of the 50 states.
That makes for a...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Fri Jul 21, 2017 at 04:24 PM PDT
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Friday afternoon, 40,000 AT&T workers in 36 states launched a three-day strike as part of their fight for a fair contract. David Bacon offered some background leading up to the strike:
AT&T has ...
by Laura Clawson
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on Sat May 20, 2017 at 03:55 PM PDT
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Forty-nine information technology (IT) workers were laid off this week by the University of California, San Francisco. They are going to be outsourcing that work to India in a five-year, $50 million contract with an India-based company. Part of that...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Mar 01, 2017 at 10:32 AM PST
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