Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Is AI saving jobs… or taking them?

Is AI saving jobs… or taking them?

3d rendering group of robotic businessman or robot assembly Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to take your cybersecurity job. Or, AI will save your job.

Well, which is it?

As with all things security-related, AI-related and employment-related, it’s complicated. How AI creates jobs A major reason it’s complicated is that AI is helping to increase the demand for cybersecurity professionals in two broad ways. First, malicious actors use AI to get past security defenses and raise the overall risk of data breaches . The bad guys can increasingly use AI-based tools for improved reconnaissance and target profiling. It enables more sophisticated […]

Manufacturing jobs have recovered, but not everywhere

Manufacturing jobs have recovered, but not everywhere

Manufacturing employment has rebounded nationally, but growth is concentrated in the Sun Belt and Mountain West, while the Rust Belt continues to rust.

By August Benzow and Connor O’Brien

Manufacturing employment in the United States has surpassed its pre-pandemic levels, the first time since the 1970s that the sector has regained all the jobs it lost in a recession. Yet its recovery lags behind job growth in other sectors of the economy and masks large regional disparities.In nearly half of the country’s states — and fully half of all counties — manufacturing employment has not yet rebounded to 2019 […]

Lowry: Dockworkers for economic stagnation

Lowry: Dockworkers for economic stagnation

This 2018 photo shows cranes loading and lifting containers at an automated cargo wharf in Qingdao in China’s eastern Shandong province. (Photo STR/AFP via Getty Images) It’s the processing gate that roared.

APM Terminals at the Port of Mobile in Alabama uses a semi-automated gate to process trucks without union labor, and this supposed outrage is one of the reasons the International Longshoremen’s Association went on strike. Never mind that the gate has been in operation for years, and is a more efficient and safer way to check and admit trucks.

The strike, affecting ports on the East Coast and in […]

ILA dockworkers win 62% wage increase, suspend strike until automation threat is resolved

ILA dockworkers win 62% wage increase, suspend strike until automation threat is resolved

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On the fourth day of the strike that took 45,000 longshore workers off East Coast docks from Maine to Texas, the International Longshoremen’s Association and the bosses agreed on a 62% wage increase over six years, and the union suspended the labor action on Oct.4. It remains to be seen if agreement on other outstanding issues, especially automation, can be reached by Jan. 15, 2025, when the extended Master Contract once again expires. Striking longshore workers with signs defending their […]

Olds bottle depot automation results in more jobs

Olds bottle depot automation results in more jobs

An employee sorts containers dropped off. Doug Collie/MVP Staff

Olds Bottle Depot manager Lisa Swan shows a monitor in action. Doug Collie/MVP Staff

Full bags sit, ready to be loaded into a truck and taken away. Doug Collie/MVP Staff 1 / 5 Expand Listen to this article 00:01:57 OLDS — Contrary to what some might expect, automation of the Olds Bottle Depot actually resulted in increased employment, manager Lisa Swan says.Swan made that statement in September while touring the Albertan through the facility during the 50 th anniversary celebration of Accredited Supports to […]

Short-lived strike puts focus on how dockworkers’ labor keeps economy, supply chain rolling

Short-lived strike puts focus on how dockworkers’ labor keeps economy, supply chain rolling

Port workers from the International Longshoremen’s Association participate in a strike at the Virginia International Gateway in Portsmouth Oct. 1, 2024. A compromise was reached Oct. 3 between the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance and under a tentative agreement on wages — a 61.5 percent increase over six years — workers returned to the ports until Jan. 15, 2025. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters) Some labor strikes can be comfortably ignored by many Americans.

But when an estimated 45,000 dockworkers at 36 East and Gulf Coast ports walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. ET on […]

Crane Consumables plans expansion after years of growth

Crane Consumables plans expansion after years of growth

The Cranes, father-and-son Rod and Robert Crane who helm the business. How many companies have culture offi cers? How many of
those culture offi cers are canine? At Crane Consumables,
three: Charlie Crane, Sherman Crane and Archie Crane.
With tail wags, happy barks and even tricks for treats, the pups take their job very seriously.
The Cranes, father-and-son Rod and Robert Crane who helm the business, credit the pups with brightening faces and enlivening the workspace to support their high employee retention rate amid a nationwide labor crisis: over 50 percent of the workforce has been with the converter for […]

AI in the job market necessitates continuous upskilling and reskilling

AI in the job market necessitates continuous upskilling and reskilling

By Aarul Malaviya, Founder, Zamit

The advent of AI has been causing a transformational shift across industries all over the world and this has had a direct impact on the employment market. On the one hand, AI automation leads to improvements in the organisation’s efficiency and productivity, but on the other hand, it creates job disposability and thus requires constant skill upgrades and skill development. This evolution calls for employee and employer readiness to proactively respond to the changes to stay ahead of the curve.

Employment: A review of the current status New jobs for machines and automation […]

We all must cope with rapidly evolving technologies

We all must cope with rapidly evolving technologies

Advancements in modern technology since the 1970s have been nothing short of amazing. In fact, after January 1, 1983, which is widely regarded as the official birthday of the Internet, the world has not been the same, as mankind has more and more leaned on technology to improve efficiency and make life easier, at least for most people.

It’s not surprising, therefore, that with the leap to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) we are now seeing a real threat to jobs.

This issue, which is both encouraging and troubling, was explored in detail in a Business Observer Special Report […]

Port workers’ next demand: Stop robots from taking our jobs

Port workers’ next demand: Stop robots from taking our jobs

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY – OCTOBER 04: Cranes are seen at Port of Newark on October 04, 2024 in Newark, New Jersey. A U.S. ports strike which halted shipping on the East and Gulf coasts for three days came to an end on Thursday after International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) announced that the union had reached an agreement with the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) on wages, suspending the strike until January. The strike involved 45,000 workers across 36 ports, from Texas to Maine. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) (Michael M. Santiago) Washington Post

When Harold Daggett looks at the self-checkout […]