Recently, non-farm employment in New Jersey has been shaky, with employment falling in two of the last three months. Much of the job loss has been in the leisure and hospitality and information sectors, said an economist at Wells Fargo Securities.
“The recent pullback masks the 39,800 jobs gained since employment in the Garden State, which is the official nickname of the state of New Jersey, bottomed in early 2011, but does it portend a trend?
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will get a warm labor union, progressive welcome tomorrow at its annual conference in Washington. D.C., and we will keep you updated with a live Twitter feed ( hashtag #OccupyCPAC ) courtesy of Metropolitan Washington [D.C.] Council AFL-CIO.
The Who’s Who of the 1 percentlike Mitt Romney, Scott Walker, Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, Ann Coulter, Grover Norquist and other stars of the extremist rogue’s gallerywill be on hand. But so will representatives of the rest of us, the 99 percent, with big puppets, inflatables, chants, songs and of course tents to Occupy CPAC.
If you happen to be in the D.C. area tomorrow and want to join in the fun, events are set for noon and 5 p.m. (EST) at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel (2600 Woodley Rd. at Connecticut Ave. N.W.). The nearest Metro stop is the Woodley Park station.
The creator of the Internet Archive is being awarded for his work and foresight by the Software and Information Industry Association, the association announced Tuesday.
Archive founder Brewster Kahle will be given the first SIIA Peter E. Jackson Innovation Award during the SIIA’s annual Codie Awards dinner, held during the organization’s Information Industry Summit this week in New York.
“Brewster gets you thinking out of the box, and helps you start imagining a world that is different from the one you are living in,” said Kathy Greenler Sexton, vice president of the SIIA Content Division.
Hundreds of demonstrators faced off with police in riot gears in the streets of Aktau in western Kazakhstan on Monday, the fourth day of violent protest movements in the region that already killed 14 people and wounded scores in two other cities.
The protest demanding the restoration of telephone and Internet service in Zhanaozen was peaceful and there was no arrest, according to the New York Times.
Zhanaozen is under a state of emergency after Friday’s deadly clashes between striking oil workers and police. The strikers, who have been camping in the streets for several months, were angered by attempts to remove them and attacked police with stones and petrol bombs.
Indiana’s airwaves are being saturated with ads featuring Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) promoting his right to work for less legislation that Republican lawmakers are trying to ram through the legislature. But Daniels continues to refuse to reveal who is bankrolling the media barrage.
The ads are funded by a shadowy group that calls itself the Indiana Opportunity Fund. Public records show the group has spent $600,000 on the right to work for less propaganda. But, the group—founded by Republican party activist Jim Bopp—is not required to divulge the source of the cash and Daniels has ignored requests from Hoosier working families, the media and others to disclose whose deep pockets he is dipping into for the advertisements.
He also claims in those commercials that a third of all companies that consider locating in the state decide not to because of the lack of a so-called right to work law. But Danie
Forecasts for IT hiring are almost universally predicting that project managers and business analysts will be in demand in 2012, but what about cloud transformation officers?
With big data, mobile computing, social media, cloud computing and the consumerization of IT all converging on IT in 2012, some new — and intriguing — job titles are beginning to emerge.
Computerworld went digging and unearthed a handful of positions you can expect to see popping up more and more — along with details on what you’ll need to land one of them.
Union representatives of the International Transport Workers Federation from Australia and New Zealand were not allowed by the Fiji government to enter the country Wednesday. The three-day mission was to investigate alleged violation of human and labour rights by the Bainimarama military regime.
Previous image Enlarge Close Next image /Upon arrival at Fijis Nadi Airport, Australian Council of Trade Unions President Ged Kearney and her New Zealand counterpart, Helen Kelly, were turned away and sent home.
“The human rights of all Fijians are being willfully abused by the Bainimarama military regime. T