Workers | Life & News

Environment

Nail salon workers suffer chemical exposures that can be like working...

Staff Writer - November 21, 2019

Lupita D. Montoya, University of Colorado Boulder and Aaron Lamplugh, University of Colorado Boulder Anyone who has walked past a nail salon is familiar with...

Politics

How Democrats can win back workers in 2020

Staff Writer - August 19, 2019

Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management Labor unions and the workers they represent were once the heart and soul of the Democratic Party. The 2016...

Economy

Is Trump’s trade war saving American jobs – or killing them?

Staff Writer - May 15, 2019

Jeffrey Kucik, University of Arizona With the U.S.-China trade war intensifying, there is a lot of talk about whether tariffs save American jobs – as...

Economy

Retailers like Walmart are embracing robots – here’s how workers can...

Staff Writer - April 15, 2019

Beth Humberd, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell Walmart recently said it plans to deploy robots to scan shelves,...

Economy

How to prevent the ‘robot apocalypse’ from ending labor as we...

Staff Writer - March 7, 2019

Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Elisabeth Reynolds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of...

Economy

Why Google’s employees walked out and what it could mean for...

Staff Writer - November 3, 2018

Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management The recent walkout by thousands of Google employees at offices around the world was the first protest of...

Economy

Why the unemployment rate will never get to zero percent –...

Staff Writer - September 22, 2018

Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University The U.S. Labor Department continues to release wonderful news for U.S. workers. Just this week, on Sept. 20, the agency said...

Economy

How Trump’s trade war affects working-class Americans

Staff Writer - August 3, 2018

Jeffrey Kucik, University of Arizona President Donald Trump justifies tariffs on imports by arguing that “unfair trade policies” have harmed American workers. This has led...