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25 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
When @amazon's official news account is talking about peeing in bottles, that's workers winning.

The ratio!
We all deserve dignity on the job. This ain't it, @amazon.
Ohio transportation workers in 1901: "...for a long time the company had established unjust rules... They were not allowed sufficient time for meals... in fact, they were not even allowed time for the necessaries of nature." Excerpt @JohnWBudd's excellent Labor Relations textbook

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26 Mar
Public feeling towards labor unions is more positive than in any year on record back over half a century, @electionstudies.

Public feeling towards big business is more negative than in any year on record.

The gap is bigger than any year on record. Image
The representation gap -- the difference between the share of workers who want a union & share who have one -- has been growing. Best evidence @TomKochan @_elkelly @ILRReview.

More than half of all workers want to belong to a union but less than 11% do.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… Image
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25 Mar
898K Americans filed new regular state + PUA claims for unemployment insurance in the week ending 3/20, down 13% from prior week.

Tho this is still a very high level historically, it's the lowest since 51 weeks ago when we experienced a record-smashing claims spike to 3.3m. Image
The share of adults employed is lifting off & workers' expectations about the labor market continues its rapid improvement, per new evidence @uscensusbureau #householdpulsesurvey.
The rise in employed share over the last month is corroborated in Bick & Blandin's quasi-CPS.
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25 Mar
Share of adults employed lifting off, up 0.5 pp in last 4 weeks& across #JobsDay ref wks. Most in 3 months.

% of adults reporting being employed

56.9 : Mar3-15
56.5 : Feb17-Mar1
56.4 : Feb3-15
55.4 : Jan20-Feb1
56.3 : Jan6-18
56.8 : Dec9-21
56.3 : Nov25-Dec7
58.1 : Nov11-23
Workers' labor market expectations continue very rapid improvement. May foreshadow real gains.

Millions expecting employment income loss in next 4 weeks : period
47.5 : Mar3-15
51.0 : Feb17-Mar1
57.8 : Feb3-15
61.6 : Jan20-Feb1
66.1 : Jan6-18
76.5 : Dec9-21
76.7 : Nov25-Dec7
These are from the @uscensusbureau #householdpulsesurvey.
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5 Mar
Happy #JobsReport.

Forecasts’ center:
+210K jobs, up from 49K last month
6.3% unemployment

8:30 ET @BLS_gov delivers the most-important signals abt how economy is changing. Hope you’re staying healthy.
The incomplete recovery stalled this fall as the virus surged again.

Since April, Americans' have had more lost jobs than the maximum job loss during the Great Recession.
The economy added 379,000 jobs in January and revisions to the prior two months added another 38,000 to the tally. That's the biggest gain since Oct.
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4 Dec 20
Happy #JobsDay. 8:30 ET @BLS_gov delivers the most-important signals abt how economy is changing.

Forecasts' center:
+432,000 jobs
6.8% unemployment, tick down from 6.9%

But lots of reason to expect weaker jobs growth.
+245K jobs gained last month (mid-Oct to mid-Nov).

Small +11K revisions of last 2 months.

This continues the deceleration of job growth we seen steadily for months.
We are down 9.8 million jobs since Feb and growth is decelerating, likely to turn negative over the current month.

For comparison, during the Great Recession, we lost fewer than 9 million jobs.
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4 Dec 20
A whole-of-America may get COVID approach.
cnn.com/2020/10/25/pol…
A whole-of-government may get COVID approach too.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hou…
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