UMass Labor Center Saved from Shutdown

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In a September post to this blog [https://academeblog.org/2016/09/05/saving-the-labor-center-at-umass-amherst/], I reported on the efforts to keep the UMass Labor Center from being closed. Earlier this month, the Amherst Bulletin included a story by Jack Suntrup titled “UMass Labor Center Saved from Shutdown and New Scholarships to Center Available”: “After months of upheaval…

Statistics of the Day

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH If the World Were 100 People: Gender 50 would be female 50 would be male Age 26 would be 0-14 66 would be 15-64 8 would be 65 and older Geography 60 would be from Asia 15 would be from Africa 11 would be from Europe 9 would be from Latin…

Image of the Day

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is a photo of parents of university students sleeping on mats in a gymnasium during a “parents’ weekend” at a university in Wuhan, China.

Statistics of the Day: Labor-Related

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This news report is from CNN: General Motors is cutting almost half the jobs at its only plant inside Detroit city limits. In another sign of slowing auto sales, the Detroit-Hamtramck plant will eliminate its second shift and about 1,300 of its 3,000 jobs. The layoffs will take place in March.…