Biden courts Vietnam as US chases alternatives to Chinese factories

https://vietnam-aujourdhui.info/2023/09/10/biden-courts-vietnam-as-us-chases-alternatives-to-chinese-factories/

#VietnamNews #Diplomacy #Industry #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Vietnam

Plum cultivation industry has become a major driver for local economy in Payzawat County of Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Relying on a plum industry park built with the assistance of south China's Guangdong Province, Payzawat County has been improving the quality of plums cultivated here and enhancing the efficiency of the whole plum industrial chain, including planting, picking, sorting, refrigeration, packaging, processing and sales. #China #plum #industry

Take an innovative region with a good idea, invite other like-minded and motivated regions to Brussels and agree on a result-oriented cooperation. All the best for your foundation, ESRA (European Semiconductor Regions Alliance). 👍🤞🍾🇪🇺

#Saxony #microelectronics #industry

You'd have to be a fool to intentionally plan to develop #cancer or #dementia

You'd have to be cruel to intentionally harm children

You'd have to be ignorant to *want* to #smoke tobacco

You'd have to be ignorant to want to inhale traffic & wood smoke air pollution.

And yet, many people do want to smoke & do want to own combustion engine vehicles & wood stoves

When people are not acting in their own best interests, we need to ask who is misinforming them?

#industry #adverts #psychology

Landschaftspark #Duisburg Nord #industriekultur #ruhrgebiet #ruhrpott #travel #nrw #germany #ig_nrw #ig_deutschland #ig_ruhrpott #ig_ruhrpottfotografie #ig_ruhrgebiet #urbandecay #urban #urbanlandscapes #industry #industrial #lapadu #photography (Instagram 22.01.2019)

Foreign investors just aren't sold on India

FDI is falling as companies still find competitors like Vietnam more attractive.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Foreign-investors-just-aren-t-sold-on-India

#ForeignInvestment #FDI #PLI #vietnam #china #xiaomi #samsung #amazon #business #industry #economy #EaseOfBusiness #india

@dieiaa #Artwashing-#concerts @ #Greenwashing-mega-Event #IAA #IAAmobility...

#Bruckner, #KYTES, #Leony, #Glockenbach, #Elif, #LeventGeiger, #MossKena

An industry building and showing big #SUV for single male use in hottest year ever 2023 because it makes money prooves that #capitalism and #car #industry still want to #destroy planet #earth as a place where humanity can live.

You should not support such an industry event as an #artist, #designer or whatsoever #creative.

#FuckOff #automotive rich scum!

Message to President von der Leyen: Europe’s industrial workers can’t wait for next year’s SOTEU [Promoted content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/opinion/message-to-president-von-der-leyen-europes-industrial-workers-cant-wait-for-next-years-soteu/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Industry #labourmarkets #StateoftheUnion #tradeunion

> U.S. companies like #Intel and #Qualcomm have already lost significant sales in #China, the world’s second-largest #economy, due to the U.S. sanctions, crimping their research and development budgets. U.S. executives fear this could weigh on their long-term strength, in an #industry where only a few of the strongest, fastest companies tend to survive.

This may be bad news for the US but good news for the rest of the world, but more importantly it is self-inflicted. من حفر حفرة لأخيه وقع فيها

Because I'm focused on hopefully reversing my #diabetes (got my #A1C down to 6), I have severely restricted my #alcohol intake and still haven't tried #BlackGirlMagic #wines I've seen.

Given the blinding #whiteness of the #industry, globally and in the #US, I definitely plan to add their delicious-sounding #SauvignonBlanc and #CabernetMerlot blend to my list of selections when I do buy and drink bottles again (I don't "collect").

https://www.foodandwine.com/mcbride-sisters-wine-7852999

The #restaurant #industry has long coordinated efforts to suppress labor costs through the #NRA, a multimillion-dollar #lobbying machine funded both by its restaurant members and by the fees #workers pay for required food-safety classes, according to a recent New York Times report.

The group has spent its #war chest on lobbying campaigns to preserve a subminimum #wage for tipped workers — who are disproportionately young, women, and people of color, and far more likely to live in #poverty than regular minimum wage workers — and to help block state and federal sick leave proposals and minimum wage increases.

But now, restaurant executives are on edge. #Union campaigns are suddenly penetrating their industry, which employs about 10 percent of the American #workforce and has one of the lowest #unionization rates of any sector. Over the past few years, baristas have #unionized nearly 280 Starbucks stores in the face of enormous odds, and dozens of other coffee #shops and restaurants have followed suit.

“The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, every newspaper reports on every union win… when an unfair labor practice charge is filed, when there are challenges to elections,” said Felice Ekelman, a principal at Jackson Lewis, one of the oldest and most infamous union avoidance law firms in the country. “When did this become first page #news?”

“And guess who’s reading it?” replied Laura Pierson-Scheinberg, one of Ekelman’s Jackson Lewis colleagues, as the two sat across from each other on the main stage of the summit. “My kids. Literally. I have an 18-year-old, my kids are into it.”

The two lawyers were discussing a new threat for the restaurant industry: the unexpected rise of union campaigns in workplaces that, for decades, have largely been immune from such organizing efforts.

“Before, I used to say… ‘[Unionization] isn’t a problem for you in the restaurant industry,’” said Pierson-Scheinberg. But now, she warned, “Kids do not care about paying union dues. Two percent of pay, are you kidding me? Their Netflix costs more. They think it’s a hell of a deal.”

The “kids,” she added, are #organizing #workplaces which would have previously seemed unreachable.

https://www.levernews.com/fear-and-loathing-among-the-union-busters/

This section is *wild.* So you know how honeybees all have hard-set roles they play in the hive? Something we admire so much that it serves as a basis for how we approach industry? We just *assumed* it was true about other social insects UNTIL 2008! And guess what, wasps and ants both just do not care about job specializing and it makes their nests really good at bouncing back from tragedy *and* they live longer! #books #wasps #bees #industry

📢#OutNow in #OA: 'William #Moorcroft, Potter: Individuality by #Design' by Jonathan Mallinson.

#WilliamMoorcroft (1872-1945) was one of the most celebrated #potters of the early twentieth century. His career extended from the #Arts and #Crafts movement of the #lateVictorian age to the #Austerityaesthetics of the Second World War. Rejecting mass production and patronised by #Royalty, #Moorcroft’s work was a synthesis of #studio and #factory, #art and #industry.

This book is a pioneering study by Jonathan Mallinson, Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. It follows the career of William Moorcroft through a wealth of private papers, letters and diaries, business correspondence and published reviews in newspapers, trade magazines and #art journals. Richly illustrated with examples of his #pottery, it explores what lay behind the unique impact of work sought by #museums and treasured in homes the world over.

Access at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0349

Engineer shortage may harm US plan to turn Vietnam into chips powerhouse

https://vietnam-aujourdhui.info/2023/08/31/engineer-shortage-may-harm-us-plan-to-turn-vietnam-into-chips-powerhouse/

#VietnamNews #Industry #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Vietnam

As UAW seeks 4-day workweek, the idea gains ground with US workers - Now, look who wants a four-day workweek: the United Auto Workers (UAW).The union is ne... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3705553/as-uaw-seeks-4-day-workweek-the-idea-gains-ground-with-us-workers.html#tk.rss_all #techsupport #remotework #industry #careers #hris

Conditioned Incompetence

"... at all levels in all sectors of our society all over the world, both private and public, we see, to put it mildly, lousy leadership and fawning followership. Incompetence up and down the line."

https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2023/08/27/conditioned-incompetence/

#Collapse #Government #Industry #Incompetence

How India’s Economy and Hindutva Rise Together

India’s middle class has been the big winner from a deregulated economy. In turn, that middle class helps fuel the rise of populism and Hindutva.

https://thewire.in/communalism/how-indias-economy-and-hindutva-rise-together

#economy #IndianMiddleClass #hindutva #populism #neoliberalism #privatisation #deregulation #labour #GujaratModel #BJP #business #industry #india

#Industry, #politics, #business, lifestyle, etc., are activities of people. #ClimateChange wasn't mitigated by people, because on average, the average person didn't change from doing their climate-changing activities.

Unless you're living in la la land, this means that a #ClimateCrisis is a foregone conclusion.

That conclusion, or predetermined destiny, is due to the same status quo agency being influential now - as it has been historically.

The foolishness of la la land leaders

One of the reasons why people feel so much #alienation from #science is that no relevant connections are offered for their lives.

We need to think beyond #industry, #government, and #engineering when we think about #practical #applications of scientific #research. #Philosophy, #politics, and #art are relevant applications as well, and often more personal to people who feel alienated from science as we know it.

Nuclear physics feels more relevant when you're talking about Geiger counters being used to assess accident sites than when you're talking about them being used at bomb testing sites, even though the physics is essentially the same. Biochemistry feels more relevant when you're talking about water testing to monitor aquatic ecosystems for toxins than when you're talking about quality control for PepsiCo, even if you're talking about pH testing in both cases. Astronomy feels more relevant when you're talking about beautiful, profound JWST images that taught you something that amazed you about the universe we live in, than when it's a simple list of "fun facts" about galaxies. Chemistry feels more relevant when you get to try an experiment yourself in different ways, than when you're watching someone else do it formulaically.

Because one directly impacts people's lives for the better in meaningful ways, and the other causes harm, exists only for profit, or is totally abstract. One involves the #active #participation and #engagement of the learner with their own #curiosity, and the other is being lectured to by someone who thinks they know what's "really" important.

If you want to #interest more people in #learning and science, ask them #questions. Emphasize the #process of science, don't treat it as a set of established #facts. Engage with #issues of #representation and #ethics in your field, as well as #interdisciplinary work. And find ways to make your work felt positively in people's lives. Change what a #scientist is, and what science is for.

It's a #good thing non #popular #instances are not #scrutinized for #copyright #stuff as much...

Otherwise you,'d probably find me #assassinated in a #nearby #parkinglot by the

#Music #Industry #goons for
"Sharing valuable musicz"

(I bet they'd put a #vinyl with the #engraving "don't steal our s#%+ " next to their target as a kinda deterrent )
#StuffAlcea