As industry workers face layoffs, outsourcing and the specter of artificial intelligence, leaders of the union painted this year's bargaining cycle as a "do or die" moment.
“Also on the docket are addressing major layoffs that have swept the industry in the last few years (the union estimates that about one-third of its working members have been laid off in the last year alone) and outsourcing of work to foreign countries.”
I suppose the latter has to do with the effects of globalisation and the fact that employers can find cheaper labour anywhere else in the world. The West has more expensive labour than the rest of the world.
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Richard "RB" Botto wow, RB, I hadn’t realised this:
“Also on the docket are addressing major layoffs that have swept the industry in the last few years (the union estimates that about one-third of its working members have been laid off in the last year alone) and outsourcing of work to foreign countries.”
I suppose the latter has to do with the effects of globalisation and the fact that employers can find cheaper labour anywhere else in the world. The West has more expensive labour than the rest of the world.