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Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving, Too.
This pattern, visible in an Upshot analysis of census microdata, is startling in retrospect. Major coastal metros have been hubs of the kind of educated workers coveted most by high-powered employers and economic development officials. Economists have lamented the growing coastal concentration of their wealth. A politics of resentment in America has fed on it, too. These urban centers have become a class of their own — “superstar cities” — with outsize impact on the American economy fueled by the clustering of workers with degrees. But it appears in domestic migration data that, years after lower-wage residents have been priced out of expensive coastal metros, higher-paid workers are now turning away from them, too.
Working-age Americans with a degree are still flowing into these regions from other parts of the country, often in large numbers. But as the pool leaving grows faster, that educational advantage is eroding. Boston’s pull with college graduates has weakened. Seattle’s edge vanished during the pandemic. And the analysis shows San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and Washington all crossing a significant threshold: More college-educated workers left than moved in. For most of this century, large metros with a million residents or more have received all of the net gains from college-educated workers migrating around the country, at the expense of smaller places. But among those large urban areas, the dozen metros with the highest living costs — nearly all of them coastal — have had a uniquely bifurcated migration pattern: As they saw net gains from college graduates, they lost large numbers of workers without degrees.
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Survey: Most workers would welcome digital monitoring to boost productivity
Workers will accept digital tools that monitor them as long as the oversight helpd them be more productive, according to a new survey by research firm Gartner.
A whopping 96% of “digital workers” indicated they would be willing to accept electronic monitoring of their online work in exchange for training opportunities or career development (34%); learning more about their job (33%); or gaining proactive help from IT (30%).
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Unionized Apple Store Workers Want You To Start Tipping Them
CORE’s Twitter account outlined some of the proposals in a thread on Thursday, where it acknowledged the tipping system might be a “little controversial.” “A big ask from our team when preparing for negotiations was to include some sort of profit-sharing or bonus structure,” the union said in the thread. “We thought a lot about the easiest way to accomplish this and we thought adopting a model already used by other workers who provide services to their community might be the simplest to implement.” The union also noted that “all monies collected through this manner would be dispersed to members of the bargaining unit biweekly based on any hours worked.” Other proposals for negotiation with Apple include expanding Apple’s list of paid holidays, increasing vacation time for full-time and part-time employees, and offering wellness leave.
They’re also asking Apple to double pay for staffers who work over 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week, double overtime weekend pay, increased pay for first-aid certified workers, and offering a maximum of 34 weeks of severance pay after layoffs. “We realize that this is a negotiation, and these are initial proposals,” said a union representative. “Our goal is and always has been to bring back an acceptable contract for the membership to ratify.”
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Unionized Apple Workers Say Tip Your Genius Bar-Tender
Workers at one of only two unionized Apple stores in the country are in the throes of contract negotiation. One of the many ideas on the table: introducing the option to tip into customer transactions.
Unionized Maryland Apple Store Workers Request 10% Raise and Option to Accept Customer Tips
Employee representatives have requested raises of up to 10 percent and they want Apple to implement a tipping system that would provide customers with the option to offer 3%, 5%, or custom tips when checking out with an in-store credit card transaction. “This will allow thankful patrons the ability to express gratitude for a job well done without any obligations,” the union said. Tip money would be split among employees based on hours worked.
The union is requesting double pay for employees who work more than eight hours per day or 40 hours a week, along with more pay for employees working overtime on weekends. Employees also want higher pay over a larger number of holidays, a $1 an hour increase for workers who become first-aid certified, up to 34 weeks of severance pay for layoffs, extended paid bereavement leave up to 45 days per year, with pets and close friends to be included under the allowed time off, and expanded vacation pay.
The union said that “these are initial proposals” and that it realizes that this “is a negotiation.” Apple’s Towson, Maryland store unionized last summer, and it is one of two unionized retail locations.
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