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Activists Build a Grass-Roots Alliance Against Amazon
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon flourished over its first two decades with little opposition and less scrutiny. A new coalition and a report unveiled on Tuesday…
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Nissan cuts 12,500 jobs globally as car manufacturer struggles to boost profits
CAR manufacturer Nissan has revealed plans to axe more than 12,500 jobs around the world The figure is much higher than the 10,000 jobs cuts…
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Amazon to Retrain a Third of U.S. Workers as Automation Advances
Amazon has increasingly turned to robots and automation technology to fetch products from the shelves of its warehouses to ship to customers. Now the company…
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Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets
the look Ranchers and seekers of the “mythic West” travel each year to a small Nevada city to practice a tradition born of labor and…
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Northern Virginia Is Keeping Amazon’s 25,000 Jobs, and Wants You to Know It
WASHINGTON — When Amazon canceled its plans to build an expansive corporate campus in New York City this week, officials more than 200 miles away…
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A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’
SAN FRANCISCO — Despite a trade war between the United States and China and past admonishments from President Trump “to start building their damn computers…
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Revealed: The top 10 best – and worst – jobs for the future
Revealed: The top 10 best – and worst – jobs for the future, with tech and health care leading the way and factory work falling…
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Alok Sharma: Jobs market will be imperiled if Brexit deal voted down
Britain’s record breaking jobs market will be put into jeopardy if Tory rebels vote down May’s Brexit deal, minister warns Employment Minister Alok Sharma said…
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Amazon Announces New York and Virginia as HQ2 Picks
SEATTLE — Amazon laid out its plans for two of the biggest economic development projects in the country on Tuesday, announcing that it will put…
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Dad who works 3 jobs surprises daughter with dream dress for 8th grade dance
A Pittsburgh dad who works three jobs made his daughter’s dream come true last month and the heart-melting gesture has gone viral. Nevaeha Smith, 14,…
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Saudis forced to work as burger flippers as austerity bites
Saudis forced to work as mechanics, tea-sellers and burger flippers for first time as austerity bites Saudis used to high-end white collar jobs now taking…
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Steve Jobs’s daughter says he once told her she smelled like a toilet
‘You smell like a toilet.’ The cruel dig Steve Jobs made to his daughter as he lay dying of cancer and how he once told…
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Couple seeks videographer for wedding-night sex tape
A British couple has made headlines by advertising for a professional videographer to film their wedding night sex tape. The man and woman — who…
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DC couple who quit jobs to travel on bicycles killed in terror attack
PICTURED – American couple killed in a terror attack in Tajikistan: Tourists who were run down on their bikes by an SUV filled with knife-wielding…
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These companies care most about their employees
It pays to care. People magazine released its second annual “Companies That Care” list with research and consulting firm Great Place to Work on Wednesday,…
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Britain loses nearly 90,000 retail jobs as shoppers go online
Britain loses nearly 90,000 retail jobs in a year as high street stores struggle with online shopping and bigger business rates Tens of thousands of…
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Millennials are bailing on their high-paying jobs to travel
Sarah Solomon had a pretty sweet life. The 20-something publicist was always out at fashion events, dinners and parties — and even hung out with…
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Mattel Lays Off Thousands After Toys ‘R’ Us Bankruptcy
The toy-maker will also close some of its factories. Today, toy-maker Mattel is disclosing to reporters that it will be forced to reduce labor by…
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Staff reveal the shortcuts they take to make their jobs easier
Workers reveal the ‘dirty little secrets’ of their industries – from waiters who dish up defrosted food in restaurants to hotel cleaning staff who DON’T…
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‘I was hired to take care of an elderly dog and it died on day two’
‘I had to clean ear wax out of broken hearing aids!’ Twitter users reveal their WORST summer jobs in a hilarious online thread Tonight Show…
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We meet workers who lead the charge in getting Britain back to work and defy Brexit doom-mongers
The Sun on Sunday can reveal how professions including healthcare have seen a spike in take-up as employment hits a record 32.4million — 75.7 per…
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Stars Who Were Fired From Jobs
James Gunn Walt Disney Studios announced in July 2018 that it had fired the director from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 after several of…
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The government has no idea how many gig workers there are
Antoinette Kunda wasn’t always rushing to make deliveries for strangers and pick up riders. Prior to the Great Recession, she worked as an executive administrative…
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Poundworld will shut 40 more stores and axe 531 jobs
Poundworld will shut 40 more stores and axe 531 jobs – bringing total branch closures to 145 and staff redundancies to 1,800 by end of…
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Making millennials feel incompetent makes bosses feel superior
Lazy, entitled, over-confident and selfish are just a few adjectives used to describe millennials — those born between 1981 and 1996. It’s easy to pin…
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Weinstein denies admitting he offered jobs in exchange for sex
Harvey Weinstein ‘admits’ he offered actresses jobs in exchange for sex in sensational interview – but now the reporter behind it says he may have…
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Poundworld will close 25 stores putting 242 jobs at risk
Poundworld will close 25 stores causing the loss of 242 jobs in latest blow to the High Street Administrators to Poundworld to close 25 stores,…
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Daily Mail launches campaign to save Britain’s high streets
Save Britain’s high streets: As it’s revealed 50,000 retail jobs were axed in the past six months the Mail calls for urgent overhaul of crippling…
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