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Doug Hales

Union risks future of East Coast ports

In September, Harold Daggett, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, representing maritime workers at East Coast and Gulf ports, addressed members in a letter....

Dockworkers’ union suspends strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to...

DETROIT (AP) – Some 45,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports are returning to work after their union reached a deal to suspend...
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THE LOAD: igus Bearings Inc. spokesman Mike Rielly, with one of the company’s collaborative robots, or co-bots, that it produces. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Robots will eliminate jobs but create new ones too

Unions are understandably worried about job losses that will come as manufacturers turn to technology to curb costs and improve production and efficiency. There’s no...
SETTING THE STAGE: Creative Conners Inc. Operations Manager Brian Belfer works on a project at the company’s Warren facility. The company specializes in manufacturing controls and chain hoists to aid in moving set pieces for theater productions. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Creative Conners develops technology that takes center stage

PBN MANUFACTURING AWARDS 2020 | Product Innovation & Design: Creative Conners Inc. IF YOU’VE SEEN recent plays or concerts involving set pieces as an integral...
THE U.S. is experiencing a lack of skilled labor amid a tight labor market. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/MARK KAUZLARICH

Opinion: Employers can’t retrain the U.S. workforce by themselves

Regardless of industry, today’s workers are bound by a common anxiety: their jobs will one day be performed by robots. While the threat is more imminent...
A NEW REPORT published by the Brookings Institution states that 46.1 percent of tasks in the Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area are susceptible to automation by 2030. / COURTESY BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

Report: 46.1% of average share of tasks in Providence metro susceptible...

PROVIDENCE – A new report from the Brookings Institution released Thursday states that 46.1 percent of the average share of tasks in the Providence-Warwick-Fall...

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Do you foresee cybersecurity breaches having an increasingly negative impact on your business in the next 5-10 years? Yes 50% No 50% Do you expect technological advances...
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