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☆ Why Everyone Is Still Mad About Inflation, High Prices: Salary Fights
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Ever since 2022, when inflation hit a 40-year high of 9%, Americans have been pissed off about the economy. Traditionally, economists (being economists) have focused on the economic costs of inflation — i.e., are price increases wiping out everyone's annual raise? In a normal economy, the small raises companies give are enough to offset the minimal inflation we typically see. In a survey of 3,000 workers, researchers found that most — a whopping 79% — just accepted the salary they were offered. AdvertisementBut now, poring over the new study, I realize I overlooked the role inflation has played in reshaping the pandemic-era workplace.

Persons: Donald Trump, didn't, —, I've, Will, we're, Aki Ito Organizations: Pew Research Center, National Bureau of Economic Research, Business Locations: American

☆ Mental health workers strike against Kaiser Permanente in Southern California
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Robert Ilich | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —More than 2,000 unionized mental health workers in Southern California went on strike against Kaiser Permanente on Monday after the two sides failed to reach a new labor agreement. The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) — which represents 19,000 healthcare workers in California and Hawaii, including 4,700 mental health workers — picketed outside Kaiser facilities in Los Angeles, San Diego, Anaheim and Fontana, seeking an increase in salaries, restoration of pensions and increased staffing. Union members on strike in Southern California have said their demands are line in with what Kaiser has provided to the majority of its workforce. Kaiser, one of the nation’s largest non-profit healthcare providers, is required by law to provide mental health services to its members even with the workers on strike. A survey in 2022 from CNN in partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation showed that nine out of 10 US adults believe the country has a mental health crisis.

Persons: Kaiser, ” Josh Garcia, — Organizations: CNN, Kaiser Permanente, National Union of Healthcare Workers, Fontana, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Kaiser Family Foundation Locations: Southern California, California, Hawaii, Kaiser, Los Angeles, San Diego, Anaheim, Northern California

☆ Flight logs show Elon Musk's private jets are busy hitting swing states as he campaigns for Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Grace Kay | Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk's private planes made eight flights to Pennsylvania this past week, flight logs show. Elon Musk's private planes took eight flights to and from Pennsylvania over the past week as the billionaire rallied voters. Elon Musk's private jet in Harrisburg on October 19. In the weeks leading up to Musk's Pennsylvania rallies, SpaceX launched its fifth Starship test flight, successfully catching the spacecraft's Super Heavy booster for the first time. While Musk has been campaigning for Trump, Tesla has been preparing for its third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.

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“Losing the workers would devastate our companies, our industry and our economy.”‘The math is just not there’There is evidence that foreign-born construction workers help keep the housing market in check. “Immigrant construction workers in Sun Belt metros like Raleigh, Nashville, Houston, and San Antonio have helped these cities sustain their housing cost advantage over coastal cities despite rapid growth in housing demand,” the authors wrote. Undocumented workers would likely flee ahead of any national deportation effort, Hetrick said, even though many have been in the U.S. for well over a decade. Past as prologueLast year, the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, enacted a series of restrictions and penalties to deter the employment of undocumented workers. Many immigrant workers hastily left the state even before the policies took effect, with social media videos showing some construction sites sitting empty.

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☆ Tentative deal announced to end Boeing strike
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-19 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —A tentative deal has been reached to end the five-week-long strike at troubled aircraft maker Boeing, the union announced to its 33,000 striking members early Saturday. Rank-and-file already nearly unanimously rejected a previous tentative agreement, precipitating the first strike at the company in 16 years. Many union members had expressed anger over the loss of the pensions. The union credited Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su with brokering the deal in indirect talks between the union and management. A week after that deal was rejected, Boeing improved its offer to 30% in wage increases over the four-year deal, terming that its best and final offer.

Persons: Kelly Ortberg, Julie Su, Su, Max Organizations: New, New York CNN, Boeing, International Association of Machinists, International Longshoremen’s Association, Gulf, Airbus, Alaska Airlines, Federal Aviation Administration Locations: New York

☆ Pro-Trump group funded by Musk struggles with outreach targets
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Four people involved in the group's outreach told Reuters that managers warned canvassers they are missing targets and needed to raise the number of would-be voters they contact. Another person briefed on the matter said America PAC was struggling to find sufficient people to conduct audits in other states. Musk, ranked by Forbes as the world's richest person, so far has supplied at least $75 million to America PAC, according to federal disclosures, making the group a crucial part of Trump's bid to regain the White House. In Nevada, it isn't clear whether Young's audit has concluded, reached any findings or prompted any change in America PAC's outreach. America PAC recently updated its website to prominently display advertisements seeking canvassers.

Persons: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, canvassers, Alysia McMillan, McMillan, We're, we've, Trump, Chris Young, Young didn't, Kamala Harris, carmaker Tesla, Musk, We've Organizations: PAC Town Hall, America PAC, Republican, PAC, Election, Reuters, Wisconsin, Senior, Trump, Democratic, Forbes, SpaceX, Lone Locations: Folsom , Pennsylvania, U.S, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, America

☆ Trump vows to deport millions. Builders say it would drain their crews and drive up home costs
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-19 | by ( Jing Feng | Nicole Acevedo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"It would be detrimental to the construction industry and our labor supply and exacerbate our housing affordability problems," said Jim Tobin, CEO of the National Association of Home Builders. Brent Taylor President of Taylor Construction Group, Tampa, Fla.Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants were living in the U.S. as of 2022, the latest federal data shows, down from an 11.8 million peak in 2007. The labor pool is tight already, with the U.S. construction industry still looking to fill 370,000 open positions, according to federal data. 'The math is just not there'There is evidence that foreign-born construction workers help keep the housing market in check. Undocumented workers would likely flee ahead of any national deportation effort, Hetrick said, even though many have been in the U.S. for well over a decade.

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☆ A company's remote-working hire turned out to be in North Korea. He tried to hold it to ransom.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

North Korean workers have been infiltrating US companies, but extortion has emerged as a new tactic. Early into his four-month employment, he used remote-work tools to infiltrate the company's systems, downloading a large amount of company data, per Secureworks. Last year, FBI leaders warned that the money earned in salaries was being funneled to North Korean weapons programs. AdvertisementA Ukrainian man was also accused of operating "laptop farms" for North Korean workers. He told Business Insider that thorough vetting and background checks are often the "only fallback" to prevent rogue access to sensitive company data.

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In yet another incident, crowds of angry drivers gather outside an apartment complex, demanding justice for a fellow delivery driver said to be bullied by security guards there. They’re among the many episodes of explosive confrontations across China involving delivery workers widely circulated on Chinese social media, showing people stretched to the breaking point. As China’s economy grapples with a raft of setbacks, from a protracted property crisis to a lack of consumer spending, delivery workers are taking a beating. That eats into delivery workers’ income as their pay is usually tied to a commission based on the price of the order. In 2019, a delivery driver died after he was hit by a tree knocked over by strong winds in Beijing, according to state media Global Times.

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☆ 100-year-old artifacts kept inside Kansas City time capsule are revealed at World War I museum
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Graham Hurley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

In 1924, historians and museum curators banded together to bury a time capsule inside the Liberty Memorial, to be opened in 100 years. In the 1920s, a group of prominent Kansas City residents formed the Liberty Memorial Association to construct a memorial dedicated to honor those who served in World War I. With the help of the Kansas City Police Department bomb and arson unit, the capsule was successfully opened with no explosions. The first of these artifacts was a tube of seeds representing the Kansas City agricultural community. The final object is a printing plate from the Kansas City Star dated to November 1, 1921.

Persons: ”, Matthew Naylor, Christopher Warren, Naylor, Warren, Calvin Coolidge, ” Warren Organizations: CNN, National WWI Museum and Memorial, Liberty, Kansas City, Liberty Memorial Association, National WWI Museum and Memorial . Workers, Staff, Kansas City Police Department, Kansas City Star Locations: Kansas City , Missouri, Kansas, Kansas City, Warren

☆ North Carolina: FEMA forced to pause Hurricane Helene aid due to reported threats toward responders
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Paradise Afshar | Ella Nilsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Aid to several communities impacted by Hurricane Helene was temporarily paused in parts of North Carolina over the weekend due to reports of threats against Federal Emergency Management Agency responders, amid a backdrop of misinformation about responses to recent storms. Some FEMA teams helping disaster survivors apply for assistance in rural North Carolina are currently working at secure disaster recovery centers in counties where federal workers are receiving threats, a FEMA spokesperson told CNN on Monday. More than 100 people were killed in North Carolina and thousands of others were left grappling with catastrophic damage. There were more than 1,200 FEMA staff providing support in North Carolina as of Saturday, according to an update from the agency. FEMA officials have received threats before, but the difference is the magnitude of threats received in the wake of Helene’s devastation in North Carolina, the FEMA spokesperson told CNN.

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While Republicans don’t need to win Nevada to flip the Senate, the state could help dictate the size of a GOP majority. Rosen told NBC News before addressing the Culinary Union that voters have a “clear choice” in the Senate race. “I think Sam Brown is just too extreme, and I want to continue being that pragmatic problem solver, that bipartisan senator who gets results for Nevada,” Rosen said. “It’s a massively missed opportunity,” said one Nevada Republican operative who requested anonymity to speak candidly about party strategy. Asked if Harris should distinguish herself more from the president to win Nevada, Rosen said: “The race is about Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump.

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☆ Disney World employees felt pressured to stay and work despite forecasts of looming tornadoes and flash floods in the hours leading up to Hurricane Milton
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Multiple Disney World employees told BI about their disappointment with how the company handled Milton. The Walt Disney World Resort was still open for business. AdvertisementIn a statement, a Walt Disney World spokesperson said the company prioritizes the well-being of those on park grounds. At Disney World, workers' minimum wage starts at $18 an hour. With 80,000 staffers, the Disney World Resort is one of the largest single-site employers in the United States.

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This article is part of the Opinion series At the Brink,about the threat of nuclear weapons in an unstable world. It follows a decades-long freeze on designing, building or testing new nuclear weapons. The new buildings and cutting-edge machinery will eventually process the uranium needed to make the next generation of American nuclear weapons. Now there are an estimated 12,000 nuclear weapons in the world. It is undeniably true that the world is becoming more contentious, and nuclear weapons do deter our adversaries.

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☆ In the past week, 4 of Elon's direct reports have announced they are leaving Tesla
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Multiple Tesla executives announced they are leaving or have left over the past week. AdvertisementTesla has been shedding executives ahead of its Robotaxi event, with four of Elon Musk's direct reports saying they'd left the company over the past week. Tesla's director of public policy and business development Jos Dings announced on LinkedIn that he was leaving the company on October 1. On October 6, global vehicle automation and safety policy lead Marc Van Impe also announced on LinkedIn he had left Tesla. In total, Musk has lost eight of his direct reports at Tesla over the past year.

Persons: —, Tesla, Elon Musk's, they'd, Nagesh Saldi, Bloomberg, Jos Dings, Marc Van Impe, Van Impe, Rohan Patel, Dings, David Zhang, hadn't, Daniel Ho, Musk, Drew Baglino, Rebecca Tinucci, Supercharging, Elon Organizations: Tesla, Service, Business, LinkedIn, SpaceX, Tesla's, Warner Bros Locations: Burbank , California

☆ The 9 Elements of a Trump Rally
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Ian Prasad Philbrick | Ashley Wu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +89 min

We have some voters, they’re for us, but they’ve never voted and they’re going to want to vote. There’s something wrong with Kamala and I just don’t know what it is, but there is definitely something missing. They’re going to get him in Florida.” It was always… That seemed to be the documents case. That’s great. They’re great.

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☆ The cost of Boeing's strike keeps rising as talks continue
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Boeing is set to resume negotiations with union bosses on Monday. Thousands of members of the IAM union have been on strike since September 13. A group of Bank of America analysts, led by Ron Epstein, estimated that the strike was costing Boeing $50 million a day. Some 33,000 Boeing workers represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers have been on strike since September 13. Nearly 95% of union members voted against Boeing's initial offer of a 25% pay rise across the four-year contract.

Persons: —, Ron Epstein, Kelly Ortberg, Boeing's Organizations: Boeing, Analysts, IAM, Service, Bank of America, International Association of Machinists, Aerospace Workers, Reuters, Business Insider

☆ Here are all the winners in the port strike deal
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Chris Isidore | Vanessa Yurkevich | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —The deal reached Thursday evening that ended a strike by 50,000 portworkers has a lot of winners and few if any losers. But that wage deal stopped what could have become the most disruptive US strike in decades had it lasted weeks or months. The strike halted the flow of imports and exports across dozens of ports, what could have been a massive blow had the strike continued. Not that this was the deal that the the United States Maritime Alliance, the group that negotiates on behalf of ship lines, terminal operators and ports, wanted. But it was the one they could settle for after the Biden administration made clear it wasn’t going to intervene.

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☆ Russia's defense industry has a massive labor shortage. Rules on what jobs women can do are part of the issue.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Russia's defense industry is short some tens of thousands of skilled laborers. Demographic trends and policies further strain Russia's labor force and defense industry. AdvertisementRussia does have one largely untapped source of labor for the defense industry: women. AdvertisementThe decline in Russia's labor force is forecast to continue until 2040, Massicot wrote. This would make bringing women into defense manufacturing a hard cultural and political pivot, Massicot said on X.

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After the positive flu result, health care workers started using more personal protective gear around the patient. Separately, as part of routine flu surveillance and not because doctors suspected anything unusual in the patient’s case, the hospital sent the patient’s flu sample to be tested for H5, which is the bird flu virus strain. Officials found that during the patient’s time at the hospital, 112 health care workers had interacted with them. After exposure to the bird flu virus, people typically develop symptoms within 3 to 5 days. All of that additional information on the health workers will be secondary to the blood tests results, Rivers said, and whether they show signs of a previous infection.

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☆ The port strike is over. Here’s what happens next
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Chris Isidore | Vanessa Yurkevich | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Then union members will get additional $4-per-hour raises every year during the life of the six-year tentative deal. The union had been willing to consider the $4-an-hour deal before the strike, union boss Harold Daggett said on the picket line outside the Port of New York and New Jersey early Tuesday, soon after the start of the strike. Thursday’s deal likely is the end of the strike, but it doesn’t close the door on a new strike in the future. Should the members vote against the deal, the strike might start once again. But union members voted nearly unanimously to reject it and have remained on strike since September 13.

Persons: Harold Daggett, Bryan R, Smith, Helene, Bethann Rooney, ”, Rooney Organizations: New, New York CNN, United, International Longshoremen’s Association, United States Maritime Alliance, Getty, Port Authority of New, Hurricane Sandy, International Association of Machinists, Boeing Locations: New York, United States, East, Gulf Coast, Port of New York, New Jersey, Maine, Texas, Virginia, Port Newark, AFP, Port Authority of New York, Port, NY, NJ, Hurricane

☆ Impact Plastics: Tennessee factory says workers had time to flee Helene’s floodwaters. Their families disagree
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Alisha Ebrahimji | Caroll Alvarado | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The 56-year-old grandmother was one of 11 Tennessee plastics plant workers swept away by Hurricane Helene’s deadly floodwaters after they tried to leave the facility. Impact Plastics has forcefully denied those claims, saying late Thursday the allegations are false, and no employee was stopped from leaving. Supervisors “did not prohibit its employees from leaving” and “did not threaten anyone with discharge from employment,” Impact Plastics said. The agency, who is working with TBI to investigate, hadn’t yet received a fatality report from Impact Plastics as of Wednesday evening. Now Jarvis just has one question for Impact Plastics: “Why’d you make us work that day?

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☆ Massive East Coast port strike: five things to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —A massive port strike along the East and Gulf Coasts that kicked off on Tuesday has the potential to become one of America’s most disruptive work stoppages in recent times. Here’s the latest information you need to know about the port strike. People are panic-buying toilet paper, reports on social media show, displaying empty store shelves where toilet paper and sometimes paper towels used to be. Unlike toilet paper, bananas go bad, so shippers weren’t able to ship large volumes in advance of strikes. On Wednesday, Biden starkly warned against the “man-made disaster” caused by the ongoing port strike and urged the two sides to come to an agreement to avoid significant economic impacts.

Persons: ”, Harold Daggett, Dockworkers, USMX, Biden, Joe Biden, Taft, Hartley, “, ” Biden, Kamala Harris, didn’t, Donald Trump’s, Trump, Kamala Harris ’, Joint Base Andrews, “ We’re, Betsy Klein, Allison Morrow, Chris Isidore, Vanessa Yurkevich, Kayla Tausche, Arlette Saenz Organizations: New, New York CNN, Gulf Coasts, International Longshoremen’s Association, United States Maritime Alliance, CNN, ILA, Anderson Economic, American Farm Bureau Federation, Democratic, ”, NLRB, American, Wednesday, Joint Base Locations: New York, East, USMX, Maine, Texas, Canada, Mexico, Taft, America

Bertha Mendoza made a final call to her husband of 38 years as raging Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped her and others at a Tennessee plastics plant. In a call to her husband, Elias Mendoza, Bertha, 56, said she loved him, her son Guillermo Mendoza told NBC News. Meanwhile, survivors lashed out at the company for failing to warn workers and making them go to work that day. Fernando Ruiz, the son of Lidia Verdugo, one of the plant workers, confirmed to NBC News that his mother had died. ... It’s about more than just providing Spanish fliers or interpretation but having specific outreach efforts to the community.”At an afternoon news conference, Tennessee Gov.

Persons: Bertha Mendoza, Elias Mendoza, Bertha, Guillermo Mendoza, ”, Mendoza, Hurricane Helene, Saul Young, Robbie Jarvis, “, ” Jarvis, Helene, Fernando Ruiz, Lidia Verdugo, we've, Myron Jones, Lisa Sherman Luna, Bill Lee, Lee, Jacob Ingram, ” Guillermo Mendoza, Araceli Mendoza, Ingram, ” Mendoza, Francisco Javier Guerrero, Rosa Andrade Reynoso Organizations: Workers, NBC, First Baptist Church, Erwin, News Sentinel, USA, Network, Impact Plastics, Authorities, NBC News, Tennessee, Hazard Incident Management, Refugee Rights Coalition, Tennessee Gov, Tennessee Bureau of, Knoxville News Sentinel Locations: Tennessee, Erwin, Riverview, Tenn, Hurricane, Michoacán, Mexico, Knoxville

WASHINGTON — A dockworkers strike threatens to harm shipping, manufacturing, pre-holiday retail inventories — and Vice President Kamala Harris' bid for the presidency. They have been at an impasse with the United States Maritime Alliance, or USMX, which represents shipping and port operations companies. As polls show Harris trailing Trump on the question of who is best suited to handle the economy, the work stoppage puts Democrats in a bind. Harold Daggett, center, with picketing workers outside of the APM container terminal at the Port of Newark in New Jersey, on Tuesday. "President Trump promised to support the ILA in its opposition to automated terminals in the U.S.," Daggett said in the statement.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Kamala Harris, Harris, Tim Walz, Donald Trump's, Sen, JD Vance, Ohio, —, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Julie Su, Lael Brainard, Trump, Harold Daggett, ” Daggett, Biden, Taft, Hartley, They've, Daggett, Joe Biden’s, “, Michael Nagle, ” Trump, Tim Ryan, Vance, didn't, ” Organizations: Longshoreman's Association, Minnesota Gov, United States Maritime Alliance, Trump, ILA, AFL, Teamsters, Fox News, Democratic, USMX, APM, Port, Bloomberg, Getty, Democratic Party, Federal, Senate Locations: Gulf of Mexico, New York, Washington, Taft, U.S, Delaware, Palm Beach , Florida, Queens, Newark, New Jersey, Trump's

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