The workforce is changing and American workers are more vulnerable than ever.
Jobs today are more precarious for everyone from creative professionals struggling for their next job to truckers worried about losing their jobs to a self-driving car. There are more and more part-time, subcontracting and temporary jobs. And often, women, people of color, people with disabilities, and undocumented immigrants work in non-traditional settings and live without benefits, protection, or decent wages.
Hispanics earn less than blacks, Asian Americans, and white workers. And along with black workers, they are the most vulnerable to job loss amid economic uncertainty. They face insufficient bargaining power, legal loopholes and discrimination, and are often forced into low-pay, high-risk jobs.
Corporations continue to make decisions based on profit maximization through employee well-being, broader economic health and sustainability, and democracy. But that will not support America’s workforce.
Workers want to have a voice at work. They want and deserve a say in the conditions of their work and compensation for their work. Through our Future of Work(ers) program, we focus on ensuring that all workers, regardless of status, have equal rights to health and safety at work, providing social protection for all, and shaping the policies and economic systems they envision based on from priorities. workers.
All workers are essential to building a fair economy, and we fund work to improve worker rights policies, transform business practices, and redefine America’s workforce, including new and emerging technologies. While technological advances have undermined the power and privacy of workers in the past, we believe it is the key to innovating tomorrow’s workforce. When used correctly, new technologies can create new industries, professions and jobs, not replace them. Technology can also help create more accessible jobs for people with disabilities.
Workers around the world are in crisis, partly because they have no say in their economic lives. Another goal is to increase the influence of all workers, especially those who historically have less power. Because the lack of protection of some leads to the vulnerability of all.
José Garcia is director of the Future of Work(ers) program at the Ford Foundation. He leads the Foundation’s efforts to support organizations that invent new ways to increase the voice and influence of workers.
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Source: La Opinion
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