Amazon Workers Narrowly Reject Union Drive at British Warehouse
The vote, which would have forced the tech giant to negotiate collectively with workers, was the closest an Amazon center in Britain had come to being unionized.
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Republican Party Rejects Free-Market Economics in Favor of Trump’s Signature Issues
The Republican Party is rejecting elite economic ideas in a bid for blue-collar votes, abandoning long-held free-market principles in the process.
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U.A.W. Says Lax Enforcement of Trade Deal Has Cost U.S. Jobs
The Biden administration declined to pursue a union complaint of labor abuses in Mexico, raising new concerns about offshoring.
What if the A.I. Boosters Are Wrong?
A skeptical paper by Daron Acemoglu, a labor economist at M.I.T., has triggered a heated debate over whether artificial intelligence will supercharge productivity.