The Great Upgrade: Workers are seeking better jobs while their strong bargaining position lasts
From restaurants across the country closing early or altogether because of staff shortages to sign-on bonuses stretching into the six-figure mark, proof of the power that workers wield in the United States jobs market is everywhere. The combination of a near-record...
Maybe Not So Great: Analysis of historical data offers a better context to understand the Great Resignation
By Jay L. Zagorsky, Senior Lecturer, Questrom School of Business, Boston University The so-called Great Resignation was one of the top stories of 2021 as “record” numbers of workers reportedly quit their jobs. The latest figures came out on Jan. 4, 2022, and showed...
Why companies must change how they view workers as they compete for finding and keeping talent
The coronavirus pandemic has caused the biggest worker reshuffle in modern history and in the process radically shifted the balance of power from capital to labour, a new report argues. The Bain/Dynata survey titled The Working Future: More Human, Not Less looked at...
How Oshkosh Defense cheats Wisconsin workers with decision to produce $6B USPS contract out-of-state
State residents cheered when the Wisconsin-based manufacturer Oshkosh Defense won a large contract to build a new generation of post office delivery vehicles, up to 165,000. But now Wisconsinites are fuming about the company’s decision to produce those vehicles in...
Congress considers how to modify the Electoral Count Act of 1887 after voting rights stalled
A bipartisan group of senators is exploring legislation to overhaul how Congress counts Electoral College votes, but backers of stalled voting rights legislation are lukewarm on the effort as a substitute. The Electoral Count Act is an obscure law that has come under...
Absentee Ballots: Wisconsin Supreme Court rules drop boxes are permitted at least for February 15 primary
Absentee ballot drop boxes will continue to be allowed in Wisconsin for the state’s February 15 primary following a ruling on January 28 by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Justices also agreed to hear an expedited appeal of the case, meaning they are likely to...
Sports Diplomacy: There are better ways to pressure China than boycotting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
By Ryan Gauthier, Assistant Professor of Law, Thompson Rivers University By December 2021 there was a lot of talk about athletes boycotting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China’s persecution of its Uyghur population. But countries like the United States...
An Economic Shock: China gained so much so fast through trade policies that still impact America
By Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology In December 1978, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping introduced economic reforms that dramatically altered China’s economy by strengthening trade and cultural ties...
The Great Reset: Why Canada became the new home of the “American Dream” for immigrants
“Even with sanity restored to the White House, America’s reputation remains at a nadir. More than half the world’s population is under the age of forty. From Colombia to Morocco to Afghanistan, they’ve grown up watching America flail militarily and disgrace...
Of Mice and Men: How Joe Tsien became a celebrated scientist without a country
Celebrated scientist Joe Tsien retreated to China after his Georgia university and the U.S. government began investigating him. He says he is a victim of anti-Asian discrimination, but key parts of his story do not add up. On September 9, 1999, David Letterman...
Over 27 and Unmarried: How China’s “Leftover Women” are fighting back against the stigma of being single
By Chih-Ling Liu, Lecturer in Marketing, Lancaster University; and Robert Kozinets, Jayne and Hans Hufschmid Chair in Strategic Public Relations and Business Communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism In China, if you are female, educated,...
No Maus: Latest book-banning tirade by GOP targets pulitzer-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust
“When we ban books in schools before we ban guns, we admit we are more afraid of our children learning than we are of them dying.” – Baratunde Thurston The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on January 26 countered a Tennessee school...
