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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Over the last 15 years, California has emerged as a national and world leader in the fight to avoid climate disaster, passing a comprehensive and evolving suite of climate measures to accelerate the ...

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 ...

The Bay Area is well known for its tech industry, but the role of manufacturing in the region’s economy is often overlooked. The long-term decline in manufacturing across many parts of the U.S. has ...

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) included additional federal subsidies to make health insurance more affordable in the individual market, but these expire at the end of 2025. If Congress does ...