Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with unemployment www.salem-news.com 2010 A new study reconfirms what many people know from first-hand experience: Mexican workers' purchasing power has plummeted since the turn of the century. According to the analysis, Mexican workers earning the daily minimum wage had to toil 11.38 hours in December 2011 to buy a basic basket of commodities... http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/mexican-workers.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/mexican-workers.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:30:00 PST Truck drivers at the Port of Seattle have walked off the job by the hundred, leaving lawmakers in a quandary. Drivers at several trucking companies that haul containers between the port and intermodal rail yards say the companies they contract with are paying them at less than the market rate. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/truckers-seattle.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/truckers-seattle.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:34:00 PST Monday, Occupy Oakland and labor organizations have called a demonstration to protest the use of armed Coast Guard cutters and helicopters to escort a ship into the port of Longview, Washington to load grain from the EGT terminal. The terminal is being picketed by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)... this is a struggle for their survival. http://salem-news.com/articles/january202012/ilwu-military-ko.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january202012/ilwu-military-ko.php Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:35:00 PST The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is waging a battle against union-busting. ILWU Local 21 in Longview, Washington is under attack by a giant consortium, EGT, which has built a $200 million grain terminal and is running it as a scab operation. This directly violates the port agreement with ILWU which has had jurisdiction for over 75 years. http://salem-news.com/articles/january112012/union-solidarity-mm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january112012/union-solidarity-mm.php Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:19:00 PST A new Quarterly Economic Commentary report published by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Ireland estimates that with the eurozone crisis continuing to cast a shadow over any possible Irish economic recovery, tens of thousands will continue to emigrate from the country in 2012. “The financial crisis currently gripping the eurozone, coupled with tightening fiscal policy across the region, are likely to send the eurozone back into recession,” the report reads. http://salem-news.com/articles/december072011/irish-emigration.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december072011/irish-emigration.php Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:27:00 PST Construction employment declined in 146 out of 337 metropolitan areas between October 2010 and October 2011, increased in 140 and stayed level in 51, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. It was noted that many communities continue to lose construction jobs even as a federal program to invest in highway, transit and other infrastructure construction have been stalled in Congress for years. http://salem-news.com/articles/december062011/const-jobs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december062011/const-jobs.php Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:49:00 PST "Of all the industries hammered by the economic downturn, construction has been among the hardest hit. Since the housing bubble burst, millions of construction workers have had to look for a job. "So today, I’m joining many of these workers to say that it makes absolutely no sense when there’s so much work to be done that they’re not doing the work. (Applause.) Not when there are so many roads and bridges and runways waiting to be repaired and waiting to be rebuilt..." http://salem-news.com/articles/november032011/jobs-act.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november032011/jobs-act.php Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:45:00 PDT The year 1848 is noted for the revolutions that swept across much of Europe. Historians in the future may write of the revolutions of 2011. What started as a popular revolt in Tunisia in late 2010 and spread throughout the Arab world has now gone world wide as people gather everywhere to protest the current order. http://salem-news.com/articles/october182011/revolution-2012.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october182011/revolution-2012.php Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:41:00 PDT We hear a lot these days about the need for “shovel ready jobs” and the lack of them. For those who want answers, not excuses, let’s visit some of the places where job preventers work. First stop: The home of the President of the United States and his Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency. This group steals more jobs and wealth in one week than a corporate jet full of greedy bankers in a lifetime. http://salem-news.com/articles/october172011/shovel-ready-js.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october172011/shovel-ready-js.php Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:55:00 PDT As we celebrate Labor Day today, it seems appropriate to do a cursory review of the changes that have taken place for labor in our country since its founding and of where we are today. The earliest settlements established groups that were primarily concerned with survival. http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/labor-value-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/labor-value-bc.php Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:13:00 PDT Construction spending continued to show a mixed and volatile pattern in July, the Associated General Contractors of America reported today in an analysis of new Census Bureau data. Association officials said the data reflects continued weakness in the overall construction market. http://salem-news.com/articles/september012011/us-construction.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september012011/us-construction.php Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:29:00 PDT As we all now know, the United States is in economic and political turmoil. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 9.5 percent in August, partly because of concern about the health of the U.S. and European economies. What we need now is jobs, jobs, jobs. And not just low-paying jobs that are unlikely to provide sufficient wages to live on. http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/economic-woes-rs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/economic-woes-rs.php Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:22:00 PDT When I leave a restaurant, in addition to leaving a generous tip, I silently thank everyone working there for giving me money. They hadn’t given me money directly of course, but they did indirectly, in that they are not paid a living wage which is reflected in lower meal costs. In other words they paid for part of my meal. The standard rebuttal from restaurant owners is that they would “like” to pay their people more, but in order to remain competitive they have to cut costs as much as possible. http://salem-news.com/articles/august112011/living_wages_dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august112011/living_wages_dj.php Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:45:00 PDT While vacationing in Charleston, South Carolina earlier this year, the local media were full of editorials critical of the April 20, 2011, complaint issued by the National Labor Relations Board against Boeing Company. The complaint alleges that Boeing’s decision to assemble large commercial aircraft at a new final assembly plant in South Carolina violated the National Labor Relations Act. http://salem-news.com/articles/july312011/right-to-work-rs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july312011/right-to-work-rs.php Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:54:00 PDT With deepening strategic ties between India and USA, there is also increased military-to-military contact for training and inter-operability. Both India and USA are democracies, one the largest and the other the oldest, both with volunteer militaries statutorily under civilian control. Just as the two democracies have much to learn from each other, so too, have their respective militaries and their respective veterans. http://salem-news.com/articles/june232011/india-veterans-sv.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june232011/india-veterans-sv.php Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:58:00 PDT The word prosperity most frequently refers to increase in material wealth. Not so often, it refers in a wider sense to all round development of individuals and society, with justice and social equity being the corner stone. There is perhaps no society, past or present, in which all sections of people have become prosperous, especially in the latter sense. http://salem-news.com/articles/june222011/prosperity-cost-sv.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june222011/prosperity-cost-sv.php Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:48:00 PDT What a beautiful experience, watching and listening to these wise men and women. I’ve realized “America” is full of good people like them. Unfortunately, they do not get the exposure, attention or the respect they deserve, and therefore their influence is far lesser than they deserve. http://salem-news.com/articles/june192011/libya-presser-dm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june192011/libya-presser-dm.php Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:37:00 PDT In present times, barring ritual voting in elections, the will of We the People of the Republic of India rarely receives recognition. A people's victory is rarer still in today's dispensation by central or state governments which are imposing on the people, a pattern of development that is increasingly being questioned. http://salem-news.com/articles/june192011/posco-update-sv.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june192011/posco-update-sv.php Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:43:00 PDT The people and especially the village children in Jagatsinghpur District in Odisha have shown the nation how people matter over governments' plans for development of business corporations at their cost. The children “illegally” lay down on the hot earth under in the blazing summer heat and refused to move to allow entry to government officials to take over forest land and their villages for the POSCO mega-project. http://salem-news.com/articles/june182011/child-leaders-sgv.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june182011/child-leaders-sgv.php Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:23:00 PDT Contractors suffered from a new round of price increases for key materials in May but were largely unable to pass their costs along to customers, according to an analysis of producer price index figures released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. The ongoing cost squeeze is blamed on a sluggish demand for construction... http://salem-news.com/articles/june142011/construction-sag.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june142011/construction-sag.php Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:31:00 PDT Thousands of residents of Dhinkia and Gobindpur, including hundreds of children, have been peacefully lying on the ground in the searing heat to protect their homes, lands and livelihoods as the police continue to enter their lands by force. Serious questions remain concerning the clearance granted to acquire the land of the villagers. http://salem-news.com/articles/june122011/india-police.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june122011/india-police.php Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:02:00 PDT On 2nd May 2011, Indian Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh finally approved the diversion of over 3,000 acres of forest land, of the 4,000 acres demanded, for a steel-power-port complex of the POSCO India project. Earlier, Ramesh had approved the environmental and coastal regulation zone clearances that the project had secured in 2007, even though all these clearances were obtained by fraud, and thus illegal... http://salem-news.com/articles/june102011/posco-water.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june102011/posco-water.php Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:04:00 PDT The brutal police action unleashed by the UPA Government on Baba Ramdev's fasting camp in Delhi has shocked the nation’s conscience; even the Hon'ble Supreme Court has taken suo moto cognisance of the blatant disregard for fundamental rights, and questioned the Government raison de d’etre to so quell dissent. Most mainstream political parties have jostled with each other to gain attention in condemning the incident. http://salem-news.com/articles/june102011/posco-india.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june102011/posco-india.php Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:47:00 PDT The Great Recession decimated millions and millions of jobs, leaving countless numbers of hard-working Americans without incomes or prospects. Created by the financial industry meltdown in 2008, more than eight million jobs vaporized in its wake sending the U.S. economy into a long-term swoon with the official unemployment rate stuck indefinitely at about 9 percent. http://salem-news.com/articles/june072011/modest-proposal-jpb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june072011/modest-proposal-jpb.php Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:01:00 PDT The $1,202,614,324,202 dollar cost to date and counting, for the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan is the low estimate, or rather the literal cost. This does not include the cost of borrowing that money, or the cost of 5 or 6 decades of medical care and disability pensions for several hundred thousand American soldiers. http://salem-news.com/articles/june072011/taxpayers-raked-dm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june072011/taxpayers-raked-dm.php Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:44:00 PDT The shipping of goods across the US-Mexico border is back on a brisk track. But employment opportunities on both sides of the international line are still not keeping pace with the so-called economic recovery. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/us-jobs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/us-jobs.php Thu, 12 May 2011 16:31:00 PDT The United States is the richest nation on the planet and yet we find ourselves mired in a long-term recovery from the Great Recession of 2008. The biggest problem affecting the greatest number of Americans is the high unemployment rate, which is not expected to return to pre-recession levels for many years. http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/solving-unemployment-jpb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/solving-unemployment-jpb.php Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:58:00 PDT Employment in Ciudad Juarez’s bedrock maquiladora industry is recovering at a much slower pace than elsewhere in Mexico. Of 164,590 new jobs created in the assembly-for-export industry during 2010, only 10,271 were located in Ciudad Juarez. http://salem-news.com/articles/march212011/ciudad-workers.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march212011/ciudad-workers.php Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:16:00 PDT Unions have a lot of bad press in the United States on two levels. First is the real or alleged corruption that has been displayed by union officials/people over the decades. The second is the American fantasy of individuality and self-reliance which eschews citizen cooperation. There is a good explanation for the first; the second is equivalent to an urban legend. http://salem-news.com/articles/march122011/union-failure-dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march122011/union-failure-dj.php Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:12:00 PST Be completely clear on how you understand what is underway in the Wisconsin attack on worker rights. That attack, it is now absolutely clear, is a planned, totally unprovoked, manipulative and malign political-dogma/driven attempt to renew and complete the Reagan attack intended to kill off the union movement in this nation. http://salem-news.com/articles/february262011/wisconsin-workers-hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february262011/wisconsin-workers-hcr.php Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:39:00 PST