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IBM has begun laying off staff at its Research Triangle Park campus in Durham, North Carolina, and more cuts are anticipated in the UK and, perhaps, elsewhere.
A new academic paper estimates that job losses from adoption of robotic technology could change cost up to 6 million U.S. workers their jobs by 2025.
In the 17 states and the District of Columbia where minimum wage rates were raised last year, wages grew more than twice as fast as in states where minimum wages were unchanged.
Last Friday, a federal District Court in Northern California granted McDonald's bid for summary judgment in a case involving the company's liability for unfair labor practices at its franchised...
A class action lawsuit against Major League Baseball has been allowed to move forward by a California federal court. Minor league players are seeking to be paid minimum wage for the hours they spent...
The U.S. workforce is forecast to grow by 10 million over the next 20 years, and that growth will be fueled by immigration.
AT&T has reached a tentative settlement with the the Communications Workers of America over the 20,000 people the telecom employs in its Southwest region.
The turnaround of the fortunes of Detroit has failed to benefit the almost 100,000 who are out of work, a fact rarely, if ever, mentioned in the stories about the Motor City's resurrection.
Tesla employee reveals sexual harassment and other charges made against the automaker last fall.
Will Tesla auto workers stick with the company and its stock options or will they opt for union contract? It's still early days, but the battle lines are being drawn.
Clean energy companies support more than 3 million jobs in the United States, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The United Automobile Workers (UAW) plans to launch a "Buy American" advertising campaign intended to encourage U.S. consumers to buy union-made vehicles manufactured in the United States.
When Tesla started in 2003, CEO Elon Musk could never have imagined his electric car company would face the prospects of workers who would want to be part of a union.
Some 5,000 production workers at Tesla's California plant may be ready to seek assistance to unionize.
With President Trump's pledge to bring more jobs back to America and to rekindle the middle class, 24/7 Wall St. wanted to see what has been taking place so far in 2017.