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Insecure Europe—the need for a job guarantee

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu A job guarantee would not only eliminate long-term unemployment ...

Empowering communities and fossil fuel workers to go green

Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com Last summer, Rogan Young Pine travelled through the Northwest Territories installing solar panels on off-grid cabins....

4 reasons Canada needs part-time work for all

Click here to view original web page at breachmedia.ca Universal part-time work would alleviate gender inequality, give parents ...

The Sustainable Jobs Blueprint positions workers to lead in clean energy economy

Click here to view original web page at www.pembina.org The Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act (Bill C-50) is a critical piece of climate legislation that will...

Time for a job guarantee in Europe?

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu A job guarantee could end long spells of joblessness for millions in the EU ...

Canadian Protections for Gig Workers Are Falling Flat

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com The government of British Columbia has announced its intention to introduce legislation to protect gig workers...

Big Tech lobbying is derailing the AI Act

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu Behind closed doors, the companies have fiercely lobbied the European Union...

Long hours at low wages: the human labour powering AI’s development

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The Finnish tech firm Metroc recently began using prison labour to train a large language model...

AI: The information economy becomes ever more energy and resource intensive

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Back in 2009 I wrote a piece entitled “The unbearable lightness of information.” Since then the...

‘Women’s economics’ goes mainstream

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu Claudia Goldin’s Nobel prize puts women’s labour-force participation...

The impact of work on well-being: 6 factors that will affect the future of work and...

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Work has long been considered a social determinant of health. Like housing, education, income security and...

Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program is ballooning — creating a new class of wage slaves from abroad

Click here to view original web page at www.thestar.com Intake through the program has grown by 45% and tying permits to a single employer increases...

Digital “Platforms” Are Just a New Way for Corporations to Exploit Workers

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Must we continue to be obliged to think of scorched and scalded human beings whenever we...

We’re in an AI hype cycle—can Canada make it a responsible one?

Click here to view original web page at monitormag.ca It’s been difficult, if not downright frustrating, to wade through the confusion that the term artificial...

The Global Rights Index and building a better world

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu Attacks on workers’ rights are on the rise—in no region of the world ...

Ten Years after Disaster, Lac-Mégantic Is a Model for a Greener Future

Click here to view original web page at thewalrus.ca Rebuilding from scratch meant the Quebec community ...

To meet U.N. climate, biodiversity goals, 79% of plant cover must be saved, study

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com A study suggests that approximately 79% of Earth’s remaining natural vegetation ...

To Counter AI Risk, We Must Develop a More Integrated Intelligence

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org The explosive rise in the power of AI presents humanity with an existential risk. To counter...

Here’s How BC Should Protect Gig Workers

Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca New business models are exploiting workers and ...

AI Genie Out of the Bottle: UN Readies To Face the Challenge to Make it Work for the Good of Humanity

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury is Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations and Founder...

Mining for Data: The Extractive Economy Behind AI

Click here to view original web page at www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu ChatGPT and other large language models are triggering a profound industrial reorganisation in the digital economy....

Canada’s Modern Slavery Act is the start — not the end — of efforts to address the issue in supply chains

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com On May 3, Canada passed legislation aimed at addressing modern slavery — a term that typically...

Women’s Cooperatives Work to Sustain the Social Fabric in Argentina

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net Nearby is an agroecological garden and a plant nursery, further on there are pens for raising...

Empowering Women is Key to Breaking the Devastating Cycle of Poverty & Food Insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net Studies consistently show that women have lower rates of agricultural productivity compared to men in the...
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