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Uncertainty can still be scary, but it also means that the future is still in our hands. Learn more: aijobstory.org
AI & Jobs: Know the Story, Shape the Future
The research on AI and job displacement is more complicated than the headlines suggest. Here's what we found.
aijobstory.org
Alarming headlines about AI wiping out jobs are everywhere—and they’re shaping how the public and policymakers think about the future of work. But when you dig into the studies behind those headlines, a more complicated picture emerges...
🔼 HIGH ROAD 🔽 LOW EMISSIONS Our new report demonstrates that market incentives for high-road employment lead to improved outcomes for workers, employers, and the climate while supporting long-term program sustainability! substack.com/home/post/p-...
High Road, Low Emissions
Our new report demonstrates that market incentives for high-road employment lead to improved outcomes for workers, employers, and the climate while supporting long-term program sustainability.
substack.com
When LA hosted the World Cup in 1994, community activists organized a tour of working-class neighborhoods for visiting journalists to see the rich diversity of cultures in LA. It was one of the first campaigns of what would later be @laane.org, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
UCLA IRLE@uclairle.bsky.social · 2mo ago#PowerFromThePast - Did you know Los Angeles hosted the FIFA World Cup in 1994? This video shed light on the working class reality underpinning the glamor and glory of the tournament. Watch here: vimeo.com/198767134?fl... View more Los Angeles working class labor history: memorywork.irle.ucla.edu
LA City Council President @mhdcd8.bsky.social is pushing a motion to delay wages and healthcare for hotel and airport workers and exclude entire groups of workers on the agenda TOMORROW. Visit laane.org/standstrong to say NO TO THE EXTORTION and stand strong with working class families!
Casey Wasserman has hired the investment bank Moelis & Company to advise on the sale of his company. Moelis.... Moelis... where have I heard that name before? Oh... Ken Moelis, founder and executive chairman of Moelis & Company, is on the board of LA28 🙃
Wasserman Retains Investment Bank as Sale Process Kicks Into Gear
Moelis & Co. recently advised Excel Sports Management on its sale to Goldman Sachs, valued at $1 billion.
hollywoodreporter.com
Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez — a long-time union organizer who is concerned about supporting the local workforce — also getting very frustrated with LA28: "You have all those MAGA Republicans sitting on your board. We don't have confidence you're doing the right thing for the city of LA"
Alissa Walker@awalkerinla.bsky.social · 5mo agoCouncilmember Monica Rodriguez is getting frustrated with the lack of LA28's fiscal transparency and reiterating some of the talking points in the letter she sent to Hoover last week. "We have to verify what is actually being done. This 'trust us' isn't working"
The Fair Games coalition is protesting the opening of LACMA's new building this weekend to draw attention to LA28 chair Casey Wasserman's seat on LACMA's board. Here's Wasserman and fiancée Jenny Chandler at the LACMA gala last night
new: some 32,000 workers at 200+ hotels, stadiums and airport vendors across Southern California & Arizona have the right to skip work for safety reasons if ICE agents are present, L.A. hospitality union @unitehere11.bsky.social said Monday to employers. www.latimes.com/california/s...
If SoCal hotels, stadiums host ICE agents, employees can miss work, union says as World Cup nears
Unite Here Local 11 said in a letter that the presence of federal agents inside or in the immediate vicinity of properties constitutes conditions that trigger employees’ right to refuse to work.
latimes.com
NO TO KINGS! NO TO GREED! 🚫👑🚫🤑 Join @dsa.la this Saturday at the No Kings Rally in DTLA to help tax the rich! actionnetwork.org/events/tax-t...
Tax the Rich Canvass
We’re socialists. We don’t need to tell you that the corporations, bosses, and billionaires are destroying our society, our future, and our environment just so they can make a quick extra buck. But i...
actionnetwork.org
we're gonna TAX THE RICH hehehe 🤭 DSA-LA will tabling at comedy shows across LA for the month of March. We’re looking for volunteers to help gather signatures to get the Overpaid CEO Tax on the ballot before getting to enjoy the show. Sign up at dsa.la/funny !
I'm on the E Line and just saw some people gathering signatures for the Overpaid CEO ballot measure at one of the stations. Earlier on the B Line, a young man wearing a Nirvana shirt (the gray one with yellow letters) was collecting signatures for the LAFD tax.
Let's make amazon.com pay to fix LA's potholes. 🦺 The Overpaid CEO Tax would generate $100 million to repair over 100 miles of sidewalks EVERY YEAR. It's time to tax greed to pay for what we need. 🤑💰 Learn more at ceotax.la – and if somebody asks you to sign their petition for the tax, say YES!
Firefighters union, renter advocates launch tax initiative to fund road repairs, new stations, housing production lbpost.com/news/firefig...
Firefighters union, renter advocates launch tax initiative to fund road repairs, new stations, housing production
If passed, most residents would be exempt from paying the tax, which is aimed at commercial properties and high-earning homeowners. It also has protections against landlords passing the cost on to ren...
lbpost.com
A CEO making $95.8 million while their median worker makes $14,674 is not just excessive. It is immoral. Shoutout to San Francisco for pushing to strengthen its “Overpaid CEO Tax”, and to Los Angeles for stepping up too. Tax the corporate kings and invest in the people doing the real work!
“If our national leaders won’t make overpaid CEOs pay their fair share, then we will.” - Víctor Sánchez of @laaneorg.bsky.social, a leader of an LA ballot campaign to tax large CEO-worker pay gaps. @sarahanderson.bsky.social has the latest:
Taking Aim at Overpaid CEOs
Landmark San Francisco and Los Angeles ballot initiatives aim to hike taxes on corporations with huge gaps between CEO and worker pay.
thenation.com
