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Washington (AFP) - The US has seen GDP growth blow past predictions, hiring numbers surge unexpectedly and consumers still spending even as interest rates climbed -- deftly averting a dreaded recession in 2023. While interest rates have hit the highest level in more than two decades, a situation ordinarily accompanied by higher unemployment and a consumption pullback, it has not been the case this time. What accounts for the surprise? 'Value of talent'Low unemployment, wage growth and hiring have underpinned consumers' willingness to spend. The situation stems from turmoil businesses experienc...
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Washington (AFP) - A rule issued Tuesday by the US Labor Department making it tougher for companies to classify workers as "independent contractors" could take a toll on the gig economy -- and is likely to face challenges. The Biden administration rule rescinds requirements under former president Donald Trump which made it easier to consider workers contractors rather than employees. This includes drivers of ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft, or delivery workers for companies like DoorDash. But the Department of Labor said Tuesday that it believes the Trump-era rule is not in line wi...
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San Francisco (AFP) - SpaceX on Thursday went to court to try to derail a US National Labor Relations Board hearing over complaints by workers who say they were fired for criticizing chief executive Elon Musk. SpaceX argued that the structure of the regulatory board is unconstitutional and the hearing process violates the company's right to a jury trial, according to a copy of the complaint filed in a federal court in Texas. The filing did not refute the notion that former workers whose complaints are at issue in the case were fired for asking colleagues to sign a letter critical of Musk's soc...
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New York (AFP) - The US economy is contending with a wave of union activism unseen in decades as organized labor seizes a rare opportunity to play hardball in a tight employment market. Sectors experiencing unrest include automobiles, health care, restaurants, defense, airlines, technology and the performing arts. In some cases, employees have threatened to walk out, but didn't actually strike. "Workers haven't had much leverage for decades, and certainly not in the aftermath of the 2008-2008 recession," said Susan Schurman, professor of labor relations at Rutgers University. Schurman conside...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - US health care provider Kaiser Permanente and unions representing tens of thousands of its staff said Friday they had reached a tentative deal to end what was billed as the sector's biggest ever strike. The stoppage was the latest labor dispute to rock the United States in a year that has seen workers downing their tools from Detroit to Hollywood. "We are excited to have reached a tentative agreement with the frontline health care workers of the @UnionCoalition this morning," the corporation wrote on social media. More than 75,000 members of the SEIU-UHW and other unions wa...
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Paris (AFP) - Claudia Goldin has long thought of herself as a kind of detective within economics, employing tools across academic disciplines in a quest to examine how women fit into the workforce. On Monday, Goldin, the first woman to be tenured at Harvard University's economics department, attained the "dismal science" most exalted honour: the Nobel Prize for Economics. Reached by telephone, Goldin told AFP the Nobel is a "very important prize, not just for me, but for the many people who work in this field and who are trying to understand why there is so much change, but there are still lar...
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Washington (AFP) - For the past year, Taylor Simpson has been searching for a stable job while working part-time, but she is struggling to find a position she likes even though companies are hiring. As hiring in the United States cools, jobseekers like 24-year-old Simpson have a harder time finding suitable work, even as data suggests the labor market remains strong. The number of applications per job posting surged by around 40 percent from a year ago on employment platform ZipRecruiter in the second quarter, said the company's chief economist Julia Pollak. The numbers have remained elevated ...
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Wayne (United States) (AFP) - Tim Jackson was partly through a car repair Thursday night when he learned that Ford's Wayne, Michigan factory had been tapped as one of three plants nationally to strike. "Everybody started yelling," Jackson recalled as he stood outside the Ford assembly plant on Friday evening while passing cars honked in approval of the United Auto Workers strike. Spirits were high on the picket line throughout Friday, the opening salvo in the 88-year-old union's first ever simultaneous strike of Detroit's "Big Three" auto manufacturers. The UAW had for weeks telegraphed a pote...
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New York (AFP) - This week's Detroit Auto Show is meant to showcase impressive new electric vehicles, but the fanfare looks destined to be upstaged by a brewing labor dispute and the increasing likelihood of a strike. The show, known officially as the North American International Detroit Auto Show, opens to the public on Saturday following media and technology days earlier in the week. But this year's Detroit gathering -- now mainly a forum for products of the three legacy Michigan automakers -- comes as Detroit's "Big Three" face down-to-the-wire contract negotiations with the United Auto Wor...
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New York (AFP) - Workers at Detroit's three auto giants overwhelmingly voted to authorize union leaders to call a strike if there is no contract by next month's deadline, the union announced Friday. The United Auto Workers announced that it won at least 95 percent support for a possible strike at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis if negotiations fail to produce a contract by the September 14 deadline, with an average of 97 percent across the three companies. The vote, which was expected, does not mean there will be a stoppage, but it gives newly-installed UAW President Shawn Fain an addition...
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