West Midlands Combined Authority: Innovate #UK awards £1.2m to University to grow region’s battery #manufacturing & #innovation #workforce
https://www.wmca.org.uk/news/innovate-uk-awards-1-2m-to-university-to-grow-region-s-battery-manufacturing-innovation-workforce/

Headline on Bloomberg "Americans Are Less Motivated to Work This Year Compared to Last, New Data Shows."

Work is a zero-sum game. The system is designed so that you'll never actually be able to get ahead; it exists to extend the status quo.

The long con is over.

#economy #capitalism #workforce #labor #EatTheRich

#AllStarTrek I like the whole #DoAndroidDreamOfElectricSheep vibe of this episode.

It's, like, a completely mundane theft of the self for the corporate benefit, with the workers just starting to scratch the surface of what they've lost.
#StarTrekVoyager #StarTrek #Workforce

#AllStarTrek I think everybody secretly wishes they were actually in Star Fleet, but brainwashed into this dull, dronish life here on Earth. 🙄😂
#StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #Workforce

#AllStarTrek Here for #StarTrekVoyager #Workforce part Deux!

Let Janeway get her freak on for a while longer. 😂

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekVOY #VOY #Workforce @allstartrek

On #LaborDay I watch a film about #slavery b/c if we’re going to recognize the #workforce, we should acknowledge that the #US achieved great success by forcing #Black bodies to perform free labor. This year’s pick #TheWomanKing was amazing. I ❤️#ViolaDavis
#BlackMastodon

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_woman_king

This picture of how the #socialcare system exploits its foreign #workforce and then treats them as disposable, is wrong & immoral on a number of levels - take five minutes to read this & wonder what our county has become?

[and Merit Healthcare's weasily words in their defence, featured at the end of the article, are in my view best discounted]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/03/sent-home-how-kenyans-dream-of-life-as-a-uk-care-worker-turned-sour

#Jobs are up, #wages less so – and lower #purchasingpower could still lead the US into a #recession
https://www.alternet.org/jobs-are-up-wages-less-so-and-lower-purchasing-power-could-still-lead-the-us-into-a-recession/
#workforce #inflation #capitalism

Why Is #CollectiveBargaining Good for #Workers?
https://workerorganizing.org/collective-bargaining-agreement-negotiations-negotiate-contract-workers-wages-benefits-strike-6768/
#labor #unions #wages #workforce

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/

Looking at the NHS #workforce plan, the IFS thinks that in 12 years time it would mean that 1 in 11 #workers is employed by the #NHS; partly driven by the NHS' own assessment of rising needs & partly due to the likely unobtainable #productivity targets the plan uses to keep its numbers down (at the moment).

This will require a major rethink of how we fund the NHS; the Q. is whether our #politicians are up to the leadership required to get us to that point.

A healthy nation will not be cheap!

The skill shortage is here to stay as it is baked into the demographic pie 🥧. The big Baby Boomer cohort is retiring in the coming decade and they leave a big gap in the workforce that the small Gen Z cohort can’t fill (even with the help of migration). In this column I’m showing which jobs are losing most workers as they approach the retirement cliff like lemmings (farmers and drivers). There is a big searchable table that you can use to analyse the situation for your occupation.

Full column (no pay wall): https://thenewdaily-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/08/26/stats-guy-retirement-cliff/amp/

#retirement #skillsshortage #workforce #demographics

Reading notes by @aworkinglibrary on Silvia #Federici's #book "Caliban and the Witch /
Women, The Body and Primitive #Accumulation": https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/caliban-and-the-witch
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#capitalism #plague #history #witchHunt #workforce #employment #housework

Immigrants joining U.S. workforce at greatly increased levels: Goldman Sachs report https://politicaliq.com/2023/08/29/immigrants-joining-u-s-workforce-at-greatly-increased-levels/ #Immigrants #workforce #labor #WorkerShortage #workers #LaborParticipationRate #greencardbacklog #GreenCards #WorkerVisas #politicaliq #news #politics

We must rapidly expand our #infrastructure to meet the realities of 21st-century #modes of #transportation. This includes installations of #ebike #charging stations en masse and other resources to support this #workforce.
#CarFreeCityCentersPlease #safestreetsforall

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/08/23/the-moped-crisis-an-analysis-the-city-needs-a-systemic-fix-justice-for-workers-and-accountability-by-tech-giants

The #aviation industry can't successfully address future challenges without a diverse #workforce. We discuss this issue in the WP11 of @ENAC_Alumni's #TheFutureOfAirports: https://www.alumni.enac.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=652&fg=1. ✈️

#airports #aviation #FutureReady #NationalAviationDay #STEM

@Monika_UK

Well, yes & no... given the requirements to feed the population (and the increasing failings to properly do that) my guess is a future Govt. might ride roughshod over this aspect of the landowner interest (if only to try & forestall food riots and problems in the #workforce).

Our response to the #climatecrisis is being stifled by a lack of staff & financial support on #climate science & its associated professions/jobs.

Of course, we shouldn't be surprised that the general problems in #workforce dynamics & the funding of #research would also pattern & shape our response to #climatechange.

The #Tories have completely f*cked up the country & now we are all going to pay the price.

#headinmyhands

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/15/shortage-of-experts-and-low-pay-major-barriers-to-uks-net-zero-future

New strategy announced by the Biden administration outlines four main goals to expand US cyber workforce https://www.admin-magazine.com/News/National-Strategy-to-Expand-US-Cyber-Workforce-Announced #cyber #education #strategy #government #NCWES #SANS #NCSF #workforce