May 1, 2017
President Trump’s campaign vow to create millions of new jobs propelled him to the White House. Let’s take a look at how he’s meeting those promises since taking office. Trump frequently boasts about U.S. employment numbers and often overstates his role in creating new jobs. Even the official White House… Read More»
Tags: Donald Trump, jobs, Jobs Report, May Day, outsourcing, Retail workers, Trump administration, UAW, unemployment, United Auto Workers
May 17, 2016
The tech industry is synonymous with cutting-edge innovation, yet the industry’s employment practices are frequently backward. There’s the lack of diversity in hiring and the prevalence of contracted work arrangements that, while often invisible, contribute to the deepening inequality in its hometown of Silicon Valley. One of the tech industry’s… Read More»
Tags: California, EPI, guestworkers, H-1B, immigration, outsourcing, San Jose, Silicon Valley, South Bay Labor Council, Southern California Edison, subcontracting, Walt Disney Land
February 10, 2015
In places like southern California and central Florida, there’s likely been an uptick in kitchen table conversations about a very non-kitchen-table-talk topic: the H-1B visa, which is intended for employers to use for hiring foreign workers in higher skilled jobs on a temporary basis when U.S. workers are not available.… Read More»
Tags: Disney, fissuring of work, guestworkers, H1-B, H1-B visas, I-Squared Act, Infosys, offshoring, Orrin Hatch, outsourcing, Sen. Orrin Hatch, subconractors, visa