Blogs about: Young Workers
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Weekend Story: Young and jobless
From the Globe & Mail: Brendan Baines has spent day and night on fruitless job searches for the past three months. He has applied for about 50 jobs, been interviewed by fewer employers and receive… more →
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Watching Social Security Eat the Young Alive - Bill Frezza, Real Clear Markets
wrote 1 month ago: My 26 year old son got the most extraordinary letter from the Social Security Administration last we … more →
Weekend Story: Young and jobless
wrote 1 month ago: From the Globe & Mail: Brendan Baines has spent day and night on fruitless job searches for the … more →
Social Security - the greatest thing since sliced bread
wrote 2 months ago: I just opened my Social Security statement and enclosed was a newsletter entitled “What young worker … more →
Young Workers, Huge Debt: "Generation Debt"
wrote 2 months ago: Asalamu Alaikum. This is an article that came out back in June 2008. The article Alhamdulillah gives … more →
Singapore's union membership is growing, but they want young members
wrote 3 months ago: Another large international union is targeting professionals, but they’re aiming to the younge … more →
Weekend story: Are Young Workers Ready for Unions (and vice-versa)
wrote 3 months ago: From In These Times As the youngest national AFL-CIO officer ever elected, Liz Shuler, 39, the feder … more →
Even though baby-boomers are retiring, there's less jobs for young workers
wrote 4 months ago: About a week after Victoria was named the best city in Canada for young professionals, it’s ma … more →
Government can't follow it's own rules
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wrote 5 months ago: The Swine flu helpline has been caught out using workers under 18 at times when it is illegal for th … more →
Inexperience and Youth Escalate Risk of Workplace Injury
wrote 7 months ago: Is it time to take a closer look at the safety policies and procedures in your workplace? An estimat … more →
Young and jobless, or an easy turnover
wrote 8 months ago: I was reading in a recent right wing newspaper about how people born between 1939 and Seventies have … more →
Ladies Home Journal - Really?
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wrote 8 months ago: I was reading the Ladies Home Journal this afternoon, just relaxing with my Mother on the back porch … more →
Paperboys, young workers and illegal contracts
wrote 9 months ago: Recent reports of a 15 year paperboy finding he had no employment rights make most intriguing readin … more →
The Net Generation: A bunch of entitled brats
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wrote 12 months ago: The Economist did a great piece this month on the quandries of integrating the Net Generation (let … more →
Young Workers Earn Less, Report Claims
wrote 1 year ago: Earning less? Young workers in Pennsylvania – those between the ages of 18 and 29 – earn … more →
From Delhi to Hong Kong
wrote 1 year ago: It is still on hard to reconcile the differences between places like Delhi and Hong Kong. The high r … more →
Obama Degenerates From Inexperienced To Flat-Out Childish
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wrote 1 year ago: Barack Obama’s inexperience has been an issue since he began running for President. But maybe … more →
Young workers and trade unions in Australia
wrote 1 year ago: In July Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures revealed that trade union membership is contin … more →
Young workers need fighting unions
wrote 1 year ago: UNITE, the fighting union for fast food and retail workers in Victoria, has been making waves recent … more →
Union membership falling
wrote 1 year ago: Time to build UNITE Union membership among young workers is continuing to fall. Currently only one i … more →
