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The president of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) dismissed concerns that the port workers’ strike could affect the lives of American citizens.

McDonald’s announced Monday it is calling time on self-serve soda stations in dining areas across the country with theft cited amongst a list of concerns working to end the popular practice.

Robots and A.I. technology have found their way into Sin City’s service industry, leaving economists and workers concerned about the future.

McDonald’s launched its first fully automated restaurant operated by robots in Fort Worth, Texas, this week as a test for future locations.

The World Economic Forum released a video in which “futurists” predict what human life will look like after the so-called Great Reset.

Robots are replacing unskilled migrants in American farm jobs, but farmers still want skilled migrants to operate the robots, says the president of a major farm advocacy group.

President Joe Biden has put a bust of Cesar Chavez in the Oval Office, even though Chavez was a militant opponent of Biden’s easy-migration, cheap labor policies. 

President Donald Trump’s decision to accept 15,000 refugees in 2020 only helps “bigots,” says Catherine Rampell, a pro-migration columnist at the Washington Post.

The coronavirus pandemic could potentially see jobs for humans  permanently replaced with machines according to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Jobs that are at risk of disappearing include retail salespersons, parking attendants, slaughterhouse workers, and toll collectors.

Amazon executive Jeff Wilke, a 20-year veteran of the company, plans to retire next year, but not before completing one of his major projects — eliminating human cashiers at Whole Foods locations across the country.

Low-wage migrant farm workers are spreading coronavirus through the southeast United States as they pick crops by hand, so the fix is more testing and medical care, not more labor-saving automation, according to the Washington Post.

Big agriculture has access to an unlimited number of foreign guestworkers through the H-2A program, but even that is not enough. They still insist on hiring illegal aliens, who make up as much as 70 percent of our country’s farmhands.

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang announced on Tuesday he is shutting down his presidential campaign after dismal results in the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary, but he also is signaling that his future may include another run for the White House.

The pending farmworker amnesty drafted by Democrats and business groups is likely to block the development and use of labor-saving machinery throughout the labor-intensive farm sector.

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang said immigrants were being used as scapegoats for automation in factories during the second Democrat debate on Wednesday.

Northeastern University President Joseph Aoun argued recently that artificial intelligence and robotics will kill 50 percent of American jobs.

California farms are hiking wages for U.S. workers and increasingly relying on automation and robots thanks to a shortage of foreign workers in President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy.

Jared Kushner’s effort to craft an immigration and wage compromise is reportedly being roiled by the Department of Agriculture’s effort to provide farming companies with many more low-wage visa workers.

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang (D) on Monday evening mocked the mainstream media for still insisting that “Russia” collusion, “racism,” and “sexism” got President Donald Trump elected and not understanding that Trump’s economic nationalism actually propelled him to the White House.

President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration in the United States is producing higher wages and better working conditions on American dairy farms, the New York Times admits. 

Basically, Ocasio-Crazy envisions a world where the government takes 90 percent from the rich and distributes it to hundreds of millions of American who no longer need to work due to automation.

Appearing at the SXSW conference Saturday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said people should be excited by the prospect of robots taking their jobs because it will afford them more time to pursue their creative passions.

According to a recent report, U.S. companies installed more robots in 2018 than ever before across a number of industries. Robot usage by Food and consumer goods industries surged 60 percent over 2017.

President Trump’s hint that he will increase legal immigration levels and a pending automation doomsday that lawmakers have yet to regulate threatens millions of America’s working and middle class workers. 

The billionaire class — the country’s top 0.01 percent of earners — have enjoyed more than 15 times as much wage growth as America’s working and middle class since 1979, new wage data reveals.

24 Amazon warehouse workers were hospitalized this week after a robot mishap released bear spray in their work area, according to a report.

The state of Maryland is reportedly testing new technology to replace humans holding “stop” signs to direct traffic at road work zones.

Self-driving cars will cause more car sex to take place, according to a report.

An LA hotel has begun using robot butlers to deliver items to guests rooms — but are robot butlers more effort than they are worth?

The approximately 3.5 million truck drivers across the United States faced a major change in operations today as President Trump’s administration failed to roll back a President Obama-era trucking regulation.

American wage-earners are facing a tough future as a new study reveals that more than 30 percent of the nation’s workforce could lose their jobs to automation by 2030.

Popular physicist Professor Stephen Hawking recently stated his belief that A.I.-powered robots will replace humans completely someday.

The combination of automation and continued mass immigration has left American workers increasingly supportive of economic nationalism and opposed to having their jobs either replaced by automated machines or foreign nationals.

More than 4,000 Americans were surveyed about the ever-increasing presence of robots in our daily lives, with over 70% expressing concern over robots replacing humans.

Legislators canceled a scheduled Tuesday committee vote on the huge Agricultural Guestworker Act, and have not set a new date.

Four million British private sector jobs could be replaced by robots within ten years, according to a report.