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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dockworkers’ Union Suspends Strike Until Jan. 15 to Allow Time to Negotiate New Contract

DETROIT (AP) — Some 45,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports are returning to work after their union reached a deal to suspend a strike that could have caused shortages and higher prices if it had dragged on.

The International Longshoremen’s Association is suspending its three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies, said in a joint statement that they have reached a tentative agreement on wages.

A person briefed on the agreement said the ports sweetened their wage offer from about […]

Dockworkers’ union suspends strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract

Dockworkers' union suspends strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract

DETROIT (AP) — Some 45,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports are returning to work after their union reached a deal to suspend a strike that could have caused shortages and higher prices if it had dragged on.

The International Longshoremen’s Association is suspending its three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies, said in a joint statement that they have reached a tentative agreement on wages.

A person briefed on the agreement said the ports sweetened their wage offer from about […]

Dockworkers join other unions in trying to fend off automation, or minimize impact

Dockworkers join other unions in trying to fend off automation, or minimize impact

The massive port workers’ strike that has shut down all the major dockyards on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. and the Gulf coast is highlighting a fear held by many workers: Eventually, we will be replaced by machines.

The International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents the approximately 45,000 dock workers who walked off the job Tuesday, is testing whether it’s possible to fight back.

The union is demanding, along with hefty pay raises, a total ban on the automation of gates, cranes and container-moving trucks in its ports. But it’s unclear whether they’ll be able to stave off a trend that […]

Enterprise Connect AI: Practitioners Advise Approaching AI With Caution

Enterprise Connect AI: Practitioners Advise Approaching AI With Caution

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Image: Tierney – stock.adobe.com During day two of Enterprise Connect AI , presenters with Deloitte shared their perspectives on how their clients are approaching the integration of AI into existing technology and systems. Later that morning, another pair of presenters spoke about the potential impact of AI on contact center employment and provided some thoughts about how to possibly mitigate the risk associated with implementing Gen AI. The Deloitte Keynote: Profitability and Performance Are Not Always Straightforward

Two speakers from Deloitte , Vinita Kumar, Business Development, and Dexter Zavalza, Conversational and Generative AI UX Design Lead, shared […]