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The Future of Work: Connecting Our Fights for Worker and Economic Justice. Workshop Goals and Agenda. Deepen our ANALYSIS of the Future of Work Make CONNECTIONS between local and state level campaigns Share STRATEGY on how to connect these fights. Our main point.
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The Future of Work: Connecting Our Fights for Worker and Economic Justice
Workshop Goals and Agenda • Deepen our ANALYSIS of the Future of Work • Make CONNECTIONS between local and state level campaigns • Share STRATEGY on how to connect these fights
Our main point The nature of work has changed, fundamentally and forever
Workers in the US used to take 3 things for granted
But there has been a historic shift in the workplace …and not for the better
Share of continent labor is up 50% in last 10 years First is a shift in the nature of employment
This is not a natural phenomenon …it’s driven by a corporate business model
Yikes! …this is not good for workers at all!
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The new normal is long periods of unemployment interrupted by brief employment 40% of the unemployed have been so for 27 weeks or longer Second, the shift in the nature of unemployment
Rise of Structural Unemployment – from circumstantial to structural and from short-term to long-term
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Third, the linking of local and global labor markets
Here’s another main point Unless you are in the 1%, then we are all in the same boat and it’s sinking
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Three big implications of this analysis For the Future of Work in America
Only way forward There are 3 paths we can take
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