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Labour warns over job losses in wake of driverless cars

Job losses as a result of self-driving cars cannot be allowed to replicate the “ravages of deindustrialisation”, Labour have warned.

During the second reading of the Automated Vehicles Bill, Transport Secretary Mark Harper told the Commons it is part of the Government’s plans to make the UK “the natural home for the self-driving vehicle industry”.

The Bill aims to set the legal framework for the safe deployment of self-driving vehicles.Shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said the mistakes of deindustrialisation cannot be made with the introduction of self-driving cars.She said: “There is one major area that this Bill does not address and […]

Labour Warns Against Job Losses in Self-Driving Car Era, Echoes Deindustrialisation Lessons

Labour Warns Against Job Losses in Self-Driving Car Era, Echoes Deindustrialisation Lessons

Labour Warns Against Job Losses in Self-Driving Car Era, Echoes Deindustrialisation Lessons As the UK gears up to become a global hub for self-driving vehicles, Labour voices have raised concerns about potential job losses, urging the government to learn from past mistakes of deindustrialisation. During the second reading of the Automated Vehicles Bill, Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh highlighted the need for careful consideration of automated vehicles’ impact on employment, especially in regions already battered by economic shifts. Meanwhile, Transport Secretary Mark Harper emphasized the bill’s role in positioning the UK as a leader in the self-driving vehicle industry. […]

Labour warns over job losses in wake of driverless cars

Labour warns over job losses in wake of driverless cars

Shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said the mistakes of deindustrialisation cannot be made with the introduction of self-driving cars.

Shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said the mistakes of deindustrialisation cannot be made with the introduction of self-driving cars. Job losses as a result of self-driving cars cannot be allowed to replicate the “ravages of deindustrialisation”, Labour have warned.

During the second reading of the Automated Vehicles Bill , Transport Secretary Mark Harper told the Commons it is part of the Government’s plans to make the UK “the natural home for the self-driving vehicle industry”.The Bill aims to set the legal […]

Do immigrants crossing the US southern border take union jobs? Fact-checking Donald Trump

Do immigrants crossing the US southern border take union jobs? Fact-checking Donald Trump

Assembly line worker Ryan Pontillo attaches an LG battery to a 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV at the General Motors Orion Assembly, June 15, 2023, in Lake Orion, Mich. (AP) Economy and labor experts told PolitiFact immigrants who recently crossed the U.S. border likely aren’t taking Michigan’s union jobs.

Instead, newly arrived migrants are likelier to work in jobs Americans don’t want to do, such as day laborer positions. These aren’t union jobs.

There is a correlation between an increase in immigration and a drop in unionization. However, experts said that’s not evidence that immigrants are taking […]

Understanding the Wave of Tech Industry Layoffs in 2024

Understanding the Wave of Tech Industry Layoffs in 2024

What’s behind the tech industry’s mass layoffs in 2024

Understanding the Wave of Tech Industry Layoffs in 2024

Earl Cotten · Follow Published in Newsbusinesses ·3 min read·2 hours ago– The tech industry is facing an unprecedented wave of layoffs in 2024, continuing a distressing trend from previous years. Executives point to various reasons, including a pandemic hiring binge , high inflation , and weak consumer demand , as the primary drivers behind these mass layoffs. However, with workforces returning to pre-pandemic levels and consumer confidence rebounding, there seem to be other factors at play that are prompting […]

Save The Worker, Save America

Save The Worker, Save America

Michael Lind’s latest book, Hell to Pay ,’ makes the case that corporate wage suppression, welfare programs, and the dismantling of unions have left the American economy in a perilous state.

For the past decade, conservatives have been going through something of an identity crisis. What was once a movement that embraced free-market capitalism, globalism, expertise, and military dominance now champions working-class populism, nationalism, subsidiarity, and non-interventionism. What keeps both forms of conservatism on the same spectrum is their opposition to leftist ideology, commitment to law and order, and reverence for Western civilization.

Most of today’s conservatives are somewhere […]

Oren Cass on Challenges Facing the U.S. Workforce

Bill Scanlan WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS THROUGHOUT THE MORNING. WHAT DO YOU SEE IS THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN WORK ORDERS TODAY AND IT’S JUST CHALLENGES? 00:01:30
Oren Cass IT IS INTERESTING AT THE MOMENT. ON THE ONE HAND, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AND SAY THIS MARKET LOOKS FANTASTIC VERY TIGHT. LAWYERS SAY THEY’RE … Show Full Text 00:03:28
Bill Scanlan WHY DO YOU THINK WAGES HAVE NOT GROWN IN THIS COUNTRY? 00:03:32
Oren Cass IT COMES DOWN TO THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO BUSINESSES. IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE BASIS — BASICS OF HOW […]

As AI takes greater hold, more control is needed

Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 | 2 a.m. View more of the Sun’s opinion section

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Letters to the editor – readers’ views Write a letter to the editor The conventional wisdom — don’t you love it? — holds that artificial intelligence won’t cost jobs. But it will. The evidence is mounting.I say this after doing my best to divine the thinking of the AI community on jobs in my reporting. I have made three television programs on AI and conducted one press briefing, and I have talked to experts at four universities […]

Starmer warns that AI must ‘must work for working people’

Starmer warns that AI must ‘must work for working people’

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed not to allow Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) cause a repeat of widespread job losses seen during Margaret Thatcher’s deindustrialisation of the 1980s.

Writing for The Independent , the Labour leader insisted that AI “must work for working people” – pledging a revolution in skills and training so Britain to avoid a major spike in employment.

“We must also learn from the deindustrialisation of the 80s and tech revolution of the 90s, a time when manual and clerical jobs were being automated or sent abroad to be done in other countries,” said Sir Keir. Read: We […]

Starmer warns that AI must ‘must work for working people’

Starmer warns that AI must ‘must work for working people’

Sir Keir Starmer (PA Wire) Sir Keir Starmer has vowed not to allow Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) cause a repeat of widespread job losses seen during Margaret Thatcher’s deindustrialisation of the 1980s.

Writing for The Independent , the Labour leader insisted that AI “must work for working people” – pledging a revolution in skills and training so Britain to avoid a major spike in employment.

“We must also learn from the deindustrialisation of the 80s and tech revolution of the 90s, a time when manual and clerical jobs were being automated or sent abroad to be done in other countries,” […]