What will be the eff ect of artificial intelligence on labor in the United States?

Last year, President Trump praised Elon Musk lavishly for telling his workers that he would fire them if they went on strike. "You're the greatest," he said. This is reminiscent of the opening salvo in the unprecedented attack on labor launched by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. He fired 11,000 air traffic controllers who had gone on strike.

This assault jump-started a steady and accelerated erosion of the rights of workers to organize, form unions and bargain collectively under the law.

Amazingly, on Aug. 19, the Republican-appointed 5th U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans decided that the structure of the National Labor Relations Board was likely unconstitutional. In doing this, the court decided in f

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