What will be the effect of artificial intelligence on labor in the United States? The current government’s agenda for labor will undoubtedly have an influence here.

Last year, President Donald 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.

Trump is aiming to finish the job. Amazingly, on August 19, a Republican-appointed Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit dec

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