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More than 80,000 Kaiser Permanente emergency medical technicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and other staffers are threatening to walk out of work next month, in what could be the nation’s largest strike since 1997. The authorization to strike, approved by 98% of the union members who voted, does not mean a walk out will happen, but …

Automation is not likely to eliminate millions of jobs any time soon — but the U.S. still needs vastly improved policies if Americans are to build better careers and share prosperity as technological changes occur, according to a new MIT report about the workplace. The report, which represents the initial findings of MIT’s Task Force …

“There were some actions taken but they were not for conducting protests to air their grievances,” said U Thein Swe, minister of Labour, Immigration and Population, during a meeting with workers organisations on Monday. “Actions were taken as some labour organisations and protesting workers broke the law,” he said. U Thein Swe’s statement was in …

Hundreds of Apple workers across Europe who were employed to check Siri recordings for errors have lost their jobs after the company announced it was suspending the programme earlier this month. More than 300 employees have had their contracts ended in the company’s Cork facility alone, according to former employees, with more sent home from …

CLOSE California union behind health ballot initiative in Arizona. (Photo: shironosov/Getty Images/iStockphoto) A California union is financing a statewide health reform initiative that would ensure protections for Arizona residents with preexisting conditions. The ballot proposal titled Arizonans Fed Up with Failing Healthcare could appear on the November 2020 election ballot. The Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) …

Local health care employers are focusing their recruitment efforts on millennials to prepare for the double-whammy effect of Long Island’s aging population: As baby boomers age out of their health care jobs, they will begin to need more health care themselves.  The growing ranks of younger workers are already apparent. Some 55,000 Long Island millennials work …

Union workers at a petrochemical plant that President Trump visited in Pennsylvania were told they had to use paid time off or receive no pay for the day if they did not attend his remarks. Ray Fisher, a spokesman for Shell, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that workers have a 56-hour workweek that includes 16 hours …

At least some of the workers who attended the speech were instructed not to protest the President, who told the crowd of workers at the Royal Dutch Shell plant he would be imploring their union leaders to support his reelection.  The instructions to the workers came in a memo, a copy of which was obtained …

A swath of Kaiser Permanente workers in California has voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike that could draw in more than 80,000 employees of the healthcare giant across the nation, according to the coalition of unions representing them. The employees — who include most staff aside from doctors, mental health workers or certain nurses — …

The city’s largest airline announced the new rule Saturday after China’s aviation authority took steps to prevent Cathay workers who participate in protests from flying to mainland China or passing through the country’s airspace. China’s Civil Aviation Administration said Friday that it will ban Cathay employees who support or take part in “illegal demonstrations, protests …