Employers

Dockworkers’ union walks away from negotiations with East and Gulf Coast employers

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Dockworkers’ union walks away from negotiations with East and Gulf Coast employers

The CyberGuy Kurt Knutsson discusses placing dockworkers calls for on The Backside Line. The union representing dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports walked away from the negotiating desk with port employers this week over issues about automation as the 2 sides face a mid-January deadline to finalize a deal and stop the resumption of a … Read more

Employers hold sway in immigration bureaucracy

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Employers hold sway in immigration bureaucracy

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Prioritizing unique and more educated applicants for temporary work visas, employers play a central but understudied role in the U.S. immigration bureaucracy, with implications for careers and American innovation, new Cornell research finds. Analyzing a decade of initial applications for H-1B visas—skilled immigrant workers’ primary temporary pathway to U.S. employment—the research … Read more