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This article examines the growing trend of labor organizing among tech workers in the United States. It acknowledges the significant power that tech workers hold in the industry and the recent increase in collective actions. The article also explores the complex class position of tech workers and the potential implications of unionizing in a capitalist market. Despite the historically unfriendly environment for unions in the tech industry, there has been a rise in tech union activity, with notable events like the Google walkout in 2018. However, these unions still represent a small portion of the industry. The article discusses the issues driving tech worker mobilizations, such as compensation and job security, and the challenges they face in organizing. It also draws parallels between tech workers and past labor movements, highlighting the efforts of the Alphabet Workers Union and the Communications Workers of America. The article concludes by considering the potential impact of tech worker unions on the industry and the unique perspective of tech workers that makes them suitable for unionization. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: climate change; deindustrialization; green economy; industrialization; labor; neoliberalism EN climate change deindustrialization green economy industrialization labor neoliberalism 14 20 7 06/05/21 20210401 NES 210401 Despite 2020's record fall in carbon dioxide emissions - largely due to extensive and repeated "lockdowns" of cities, plus dramatic decreases in air travel and the use of motor vehicles[4] - the world is far from making the changes necessary to avert climate catastrophe. The report also found that 135 Eskom officials are linked to Eskom vendors, which have conducted business with Eskom worth at least R6 billion ($412 million) - an average of around R45 million ($3 million) each. A clearer look at the roots of Eskom's fiscal crisis and international energy trends indicates that Eskom's unbundling and the related expansion of the REIPPPP will potentially exacerbate South Africa's energy crisis rather than help to resolve it, and deepen the country's already dire unemployment rate. I B ... South Africa's state-owned power utility, Eskom - which generates over 90 percent of energy consumed in the country - is in deep crisis. b i It is in this context that some are promoting the "unbundling" of Eskom, a measure initially imposed by the World Bank as a condition of debt relief. [Extracted from the article]

The unique public-private structure of the American welfare state enabled our healthcare institutions to process the dislocation and damage of industrial job loss and the ensuing expansion of inequality, into the form of patient demand for healthcare services - in turn expanding those institutions dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s even as the welfare state in general fell under severe attack. In this regard, the growth of the healthcare system closely parallels the expansion of the carceral state over the same period, and indeed shares an ultimate origin with it - the management of elements of a displaced, surplus population.[5] I B Long before the pandemic, the healthcare system was where American society exported social problems in hopes that someone would take care of them. b i This state-managed influx of demand turned the mainly private healthcare system into an enormous labor market anomaly. Keywords: deindustrialization; health care; labor; social welfare; women workers; working class EN deindustrialization health care labor social welfare women workers working class 54 61 8 06/05/21 20210401 NES 210401 Graph: Leo Gomez. And as sociologist Rachel Dwyer shows, the care economy in general - of which health care is the largest subset - has accounted for an absolute majority of new low-income jobs over the last several decades.[9] The healthcare industry, fueled by inequality, is cannibalizing the economy and generating low-wage work systematically. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: banking; capital; development; finance; industry; investment; labor; production; speculation; capitalism; deindustrialization; equality; outsourcing EN banking capital development finance industry investment labor production speculation capitalism deindustrialization equality outsourcing 20 31 12 02/20/21 20210101 NES 210101 Graph: Photo illustration by Aaron Lenchner. On the one hand, we have vested primary authority for the I issuance i and I modulation i of our supply of investment capital - the national money supply - in federal instrumentalities.[8] On the other, we have delegated primary responsibility for the I allocation i of our publicly generated investment capital to private sector lending institutions licensed by public authority.[9] "Public capital, private management" has long been our mode of financial hybridity. The only way to get public capital allocation right, and thus to get credit modulation and long-term productive investment right, is to manage public capital (Labor's Capital) publicly and private capital privately. [Extracted from the article]

Wage Guarantee/Insurance American workers who lose their jobs, if they secure new jobs at all, often find themselves relegated to jobs with lower pay. Just transition plans have often proposed jobs programs, but until recently few have been willing to offer a guarantee that workers who lose or change jobs will not suffer a loss of income. The Washington State Initiative 1631 provides that a minimum balance of fifty million dollars of the clean air and clean energy account must be set aside, replenished annually, and maintained for a worker-support program for bargaining unit and nonsupervisory fossil fuel workers who are affected by the transition away from fossil fuels to a clean energy economy. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the impact of automation on the working class in the U.S. It notes that the working class fears to be replaced by robots due to technological advances. It provides a background on the rapid automation of manufacturing in 1970s and how the Black workers were affected by the pressure of automation. It notes that the technological advances bring slow productivity growth instead of an increase in economic productivity.

The article discusses the state of the U.S. politics following the November 2014 election. Topics include the criticism of Richard Trumka, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) over the Democratic Party's victory, the Richmond Progressive Alliance's support of candidates running for city office in Richmond, California against a slate owned by the energy company Chevron Corp., and the working-class issues in the Democrat's campaign.

The article focuses on issues concerning the U.S. labor policy and debt. It highlights the inequalities of industrial corporate capitalism in the country as well as on issues involving worker uprisings and labor movement. Critical topics such as deindustrialization, neoliberalism, and unemployment are discussed.