In a region with more than one hundred years of manufacturing history, the Green Empowerment Zone established a board with more than 40 members from labor unions, state policy groups, Congressional ...

“This is one of the key concerns, especially for nurses,” Khan said, noting a worry that algorithms are taking over decision-making. With increasing remote monitoring of patients and automated ...

Security staffing is a labor-intensive business with thin margins and high turnover and federal projections point to roughly 157,000 openings a year, most of them replacements rather than new ...

Join us for a webinar to discuss the Labor Center’s new report on manufacturing jobs in the Bay Area, Making it in the Bay, ...

This searchable inventory documents how unions have addressed workplace technologies through collective bargaining. It includes provisions from more than 175 agreements, drawn from a review of over ...

A 2018 report from the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center estimated that autonomous trucking could eventually eliminate up to 294,000 long-haul driving jobs nationwide. The report also ...

“Digital technology has been used for decades to increase extraction of labor from workers and degrade working conditions,” said Mishal Khan. “Even if they don’t lose a single job to AI, it doesn’t ...

Will autonomous trucks mean the end of the road for truck drivers? The $740-billion-a-year U.S. trucking industry is widely expected to be an early adopter of self-driving technology, with numerous ...

Transparency rights are vitally important to labor. They are understood to be foundational to all other rights (UNI) and for strengthening collective bargaining (CWA). Transparency around the use of ...

Even as the economy has at last begun to expand at a more rapid pace, growth in wages and benefits for most American workers has continued its decades-long stagnation. Real hourly wages of the median ...

Construction in the United States was historically known as an industry where workers without a college education could find family-supporting jobs. Now, job quality for some construction workers has ...