The Muslim Brothers embrace the same neoliberal policies favored by the Mubarak regime and, if anything, envision an even more expansive program of privatization of public assets. The Brothers’ leadership also has a history of opposing militant labor action. Some Brothers who happen to work in industrial or clerical jobs have been more sympathetic to local workers’ issues. But they have not received support from the Guidance Bureau, which directs the organization and presumably has strong influence over the positions of the Mursi government. Since Mursi assumed office, physical and legal attacks on trade union activists have increased. Hundreds of workers have been fired for trade union activities and thugs have beaten many others. In September 2012 an Alexandria court sentenced five union leaders at the Alexandria Port Containers Company to three years in jail for leading a strike of 600 workers in October 2011. [2] This sentence is the harshest for a striker since the era of President Anwar al-Sadat. The case is under appeal.
"The study, conducted by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI), finds that from 2000 to 2014, American workers’ total productivity increased 21.6 percent, while the median worker’s compensation, including pay and benefits, rose just 1.8 percent.
The new data continue a trend that goes back decades. From 1973 to 2014, "American worker productivity increased 72.2 percent while median worker compensation rose just 8.7 percent. From 1948 to 1973, by contrast, typical worker compensation and productivity grew at roughly the same rate.
Paul Jay interviews Minqi Li, an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah specializing in Political Economy, World Systems and the Chinese Economy. He was a political prisoner in China from 1990 to 1992. He is the author of "After Neoliberalism: Empi
Interview with William K. Black, author of THE BEST WAY TO ROB A BANK IS TO OWN ONE, teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC).
By Derek Thompson, Jan 23 2014What Jobs Will the Robots Take? Nearly half of American jobs today could be automated in "a decade or two," according to new research. The question is: Which half? "...Frey and Osborne project that the next wave of computer progress will continue to shred human work where it already has: manufacturing, administrative support, retail, and transportation. Most remaining factory jobs are "likely to diminish over the next decades," they write. Cashiers, counter clerks, and telemarketers are similarly endangered."
Jean-Paul Brasseur / the Belgian party VIVANT « Libérer le travail en le détaxant et financer notre sécurité sociale par une taxe sur la consommation, uniquement sur les produits qui le plus souvent, sont fabriqués par la machine » (+ revenu de base inco
The existence of such "killer robots" is worrying Christof Heyns, the United Nations envoy on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Presenting a report in Geneva, he called for a ban on developing robots which could identify and kill without any human input. "Time is of the essence. Trying to stop technology is a bit like trying to stop time itself - it moves on," he said. "Autonomous robots should be seen as neither a good thing nor a bad thing, [ Rich Walker, managing director of the Shadow Robot Company] told The Independent. "It's the way they are deployed."
"Information for the youth : Silenced to Deliver is the second part of MakeITFair’s reports in three series. The first part dealt with raw material for mobile phones, laptop computers and the consumer electronics and how they are assembled, and the third
The proposed law makes it mandatory that every unsanitary latrine will have to be demolished or converted into sanitary latrines within nine months of the notification of the law. It prohibits any agency or individual from employing manual scavengers and those already in this kind of job — directly or indirectly — will have to be discharged irrespective of any contract, agreement, custom or traditional commitments. The State government will give assistance for conversion of unsanitary latrines into sanitary ones to occupiers of a premise which has more than one owner, but non-receipt of financial assistance will not be a valid reason for continued maintenance or use of an unsanitary latrine, beyond the period of nine months.
Jasmine Owens. The link between colonialism, exploitation, and nuclear weapons is seen most clearly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "Eighty percent of the uranium used in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs originated from the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the Congo was the number one supplier of uranium to the U.S., and the people of the DRC paid a heavy price."