We welcome your comments via text. That is 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from and you can post your comments on facebook, x and instagram cspanwj. The Biggest Challenges you see facing American Workers, things like job security, pay, remote work, unions, etc. 202 7488000 is the line to use for those of you who are working. 202 7488001, if you are unemployed or looking for work. We will get to your comments and suggestions momentarily on washington journal. We will start with nerd while its look at seven stats about American Workers. They do a lot of financial facts. Labor day snaps not, seven thats about American Workers. When labor day became a federal holiday in 1894 before Artificial Intelligence and remote work, the American Workforce faced other significant disruptions. Workers were beginning to leave the farming jobs that up until the 1800s had made over half the work force. According to a 19 66 Wesleyan University study, many of those farmers as well as new immigrants, headed to growing cities for industrial work. The seven challenges they see on this labor day, 2023, lowest on employment rate in five decades. Women are gaining on men in the labor market. Unemployment is low among all tract races and ethnicities. Ai looks to be the new frontier in the workforce. Artificial intelligence is the latest disruptor there. Union membership is more rare than ever, but more workers are going on strike. Finally, postcovid they say, work from home arrangements are here to say. We will dive into that a little more from nerd wallet. This is from the associated press. Their headline, about unions, from strikes to new Union Contracts, labor days organizing roots are especially strong this year. They say that conservatives need the Early September tribute to workers has been an official holiday forest30 years. But, and emboldened Labor Movement has created an enronment closer to the era from which labor day was born. Like the late 1800s, workers are facing rapid, Economic Transformation and a growing gap in pay between themselves and new, billionaire leaders of industry, mirroring the start inequality seen more than a century ago. 202 7488000, the line to call if you are currently working. 202 7488001, if you are looking for work. If you are retired, 202 7488002. We ask you the question this morning, what you see as the biggest challenge facing American Workers . This was the president of the aflcio, lives sure, and her state of the Union Address state of the unions address. Here is some of what she had to say. [video clip] every day, i travel this country and talk to workers. I am talking to workers in onions, but also unions, but talking to people who are yet part of a union. This is what i hear from them. I do not feel good about my future. I need to make more money. I wish i could afford a home. I need a stable job. I wish i had some power over my work and my life right now. There is a reason that song, north of richmond, is the number one song in this country right now. For a long time, working people in this country have felt powerless. They have been powerless. Here is the truth we are going to talk about today. Working people are reclaiming our power. [applause] working people. Working people are taking on the companies that have exploited us for a long time now. So, the state of the unions, the state of the unions is on the rise. [applause] on the rise with every strike, with every picket line, every win we deliver for workers all over this country. Host part of liz schullers comments last week. 202 7488000, the lines use for those of you who are currently employed. 202 7488001, for those of you who are looking for work, unemployed. For retired workers, 202 7488002. The biggest challenge facing American Workers. Our opening topic on washington journal this morning. From the Washington Post this morning, the headline, workers cast aside the 95 grind. Whitecollar workers back in the office, just do not expect them for eight hours as more companies tell American Workers to return to their cubicles for3 or four days a week, part of a wave of tougher returned to Office Mandates kicking in this fall. One thing is clear. The era of sitting at your desk from 9 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. Is over. Instead, a transformative shift to the work day, employees are cashing in on an unspoken new flexibility, they are returning to the office on their own terms. Coming in late after a workout, or leaving early to grab groceries or pickup their children before logging back on. While Many Employers are now asking people to come in a certain number of days a week, hardly any are tracking exactly how long they stay. In most of the country, about half of Office Visits now last at least six hours, according to a work place analytics firm, that is in stark contrast to before the pandemic. Kevin, virginia on the retired line. Go ahead. Caller yes, living on a fixed income is hard. I feel there should be basic, universal income for 500 a month for all retirees. That is how i feel. I think it would help out a lot. Host all right. Also from queens on the retired line is joe. Good morning. Caller good morning. The issue with jobs and everything, this is a great country and there is always opportunity. What is happening now is, america got during covid. Work is still the same. The achievement is still the same, working at home then going to be honest, i think being home, we are getting more accomplished. The travel that some of these workers take, takes two or three hours to go back home, especially in new york city. He popped out of bed, start working and getting into the grind of things. You probably get things done. I think because of covid, the workforce has changed. It is making america lazy in a sense, they do not have to get up and get dressed and get ready to go. In the other sense, you are probably getting more work done being at home. It is not a bad thing in that sense, either. It is a catch 22. We are in the middle. Host host it is a tough one. Appreciate that. This is the view from nerd wallet and the seven trends they are seeing in the American Workforce on this labor day. The work from home arrangements are here to stay. They write the majority of fulltime workers, 59 still spend their weeks on site at their jobs but the pandemic seems to have caused a permanent shift for many. The larger share of workers not spending all or some of their time working from home, according to an August Survey of working arrangements and attitudes. Before the pandemic, workers spent less than 5 of their time working from home according to the American Time use survey. Now, they do so more than 30 of the time. A consortium of researchers and universities that has conducted the monthly Online Survey since may 2020 saw the figure has 60 in the fall of 2021, at the height of the pandemic. Biggest challenge for American Workers. 202 7488000, for those of you who are working. For those of you who are working for work, 202 7488001. For our retired callers, 202 7488002. Lynn is in baltimore. Good morning. Caller yes, unfortunate that americans do not really know the authentic history of labor day, why it came into being. I am a little disappointed cspan has let me down on that this morning. I wish you would have reminded people that the original holiday for started i the International WorkingMens Association in the 1840s was called mayday, it was held on mayday. That was considered the International Level celebration of the working class. Labor day as we know it here in the United States was an innovation by some clever american capitalists that created an alternative to coopt those tendencies and lure workers away from the ideas of these radical marxists that basically celibate in their labor day on mayday. We have labor day as a counterpoint to what was the International Celebration the workers held every year, mayday. It is pretty clear the biggest challenge the American Working class and the International Working class faces is ai robotics and centralization of power and institutions like the World Economic forum, or the uns world health organization. I thought it was interesting that your prior caller blamed this or that or talked about the pandemic. There was no pandemic in my eyes. What we had were lockdowns. I do not even accept the media that there was a pandemic. That is part of the problem we are facing. If you are willing to submit to that false narrative, you have surrendered your rights as an independent, human being. If you are going to make them vax you to have a job or be tested or stick that qtip up your nose or be forced to mask because of these corrupt, corporate institutions telling you you are in the middle of a pandemic, you deserve what you get, American Working class. Thanks for giving me the time. Host lets here for todd from todd who is looking for work in michigan. Caller yes, i am calling from the state of affairs in my state. We have lost so much population that we have taken away the Good Companies and me being 25 years, almost 30 years in the Construction Business, you cannot find anybody now that pays you legally. That wants to take your taxes out, that will give you Social Security or benefits. Host why not . What is going on there . Caller well, it is due to the population loss we have lost in our state for almost 15 years. The way i look at it, we are at the bottom barrel of employers. They refuse to 1099 you, they refused to w to you. Therefore, i am not going to work for another company when i spent time to where i built up a nice Social Security for myself and i am going to turn around and i am going to work the last 10, may be eight years, of my working career for nothing. Host what kind of work do you do . When you are working, what is your career . Caller i am an interior and exterior kolker. I have been for almost 20 years. You just cant find any reliable, Good Companies in this state anymore. It does not matter if you are a framer, a drywaller, a painter, whatever. The Construction Business back in michigan, they refuse to take they refused to 1099 you. Therefore, that hurts your Social Security when you get older in life. You have to pay into it. If you do not pay into it, you do not get nothing. Host if they are not going to give you a w2, what are they doing . Caller you know what, they go through so many people it is surprising, sir. It really is. They have such a big turnover in this state in construction that it is amazing. Yet, unless you are not a union worker in this state, this is the way our state is running now. Host i appreciate your experience. We will go next to joel on the working line calling from middleton, wisconsin. Good morning. Caller hey, bill. You are one of my favorite hosts ever and i appreciate you and cspan. Residency, 120 hours a week. I do not buy into this less than eight hours a week, or this coming in crap. It is not going to work that way around me, i guarantee you. Im getting older. No. It is not going to work. We are not going to compete with the rest of the word world well with that mentality that many people do. I do not have anything profound to say. Host what kind of work have you been doing . Caller physician. And, i work half a day. 6 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. Or 6 00 p. M. To 6 00 a. M. That is what it takes to get the job done. If people get that mentality we have the capacity to do that. For people that have to take off to take a quick cleaning or something, no, we are not doing that. So. Thank you, bill. Host thanks for your call. 202 7488000, the line for those of you who are currently employed. If you are unemployed, not working, 202 7488001. The line for retired folks, 202 7488002. From foxbusiness opinion piece, labor day 2023, here is a principal way for workers to make their own choices. The authors of this piece right that, conservatives need to commit to policies that prioritize workers having the opportunits ey need to lead rewarding and fulfilling careers using their own ingenuity and initiative to contribute to 21st century innovation and serve their famiesnd local communities. That means empowering workers to make more of thei own choices, instead ofetng bureaucrats and Union Officials control what they earn, where they work and how or economy forces. Nor the workforce of 2023 resembles that of the 1950s big labor era, which is one of t reasons workers and families well being he to begin with the freedoms for workers to make important career decisions or themselves. The opinion piece of a couple authors in foxbusiness. Lets hear from john in amsterdam, new york, on the retired line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. If younger people today are demanding certain benefits that they are not receiving, that a lot of places they do not have pensions like they used to, you can collect Social Security by going all over the country and working, but they should have the same type of system for pensions. So, the younger people that are demanding certain hours and hours they want work, the factories where i work are gone. Most people, younger people, if you do not have that much of an education, you end up working in a Department Store or supermarket. There is nothing wrong with that. But, there is something wrong with this. As long as we got to change our work habits, the younger people are not going to want to work 40 hour work weeks. If you can pay your bills and biden thinks you want to buy, there has to be a big change of the workforce in which there is. If people are losing their pensions who got pensions which is not right, that is something that has to be looked into. Social security is going broke. The amount of money you put into your immediate family, not to other people, that is what it should be. That is what people are getting pissed off about. It is your money and it should be used for your family when you are gone. Host nerd wallet on this labor day, the seven stats about labor day, the workforce on this labor day. A couple more of those here we have talked about a few already. Ai looks to be the new frontier in the workforce, the workplace. Artificial intelligence is the latest disruptor to the workplace. Accelerated by generative ai tools like chatgpt, from openai and barda. An estimated one quarter of all tasks could be automated among the jobs most exposed to ai. According to a march report from olden sacks, another report released in july at mckinsey estimates that by 2030, workplace activities that account for up to 30 of hours worked in the u. S. Could be automated. A couple other stats, Union Membership is more rare than ever. About 14. 3 million workers were part of a union in 2020 according to the bureau of labor statistics. As a portion of u. S. Workforce, Union Membership is more rare than ever. In 2022, 10. 1 percent of workers belonged to a union, down from 20. 1 of workers in 1983, the earliest comparable data. They say that more workers despite that are going on strike, even while Union Membership is down. More workers are turning to strikes as a way to pressure employers to agree to higher wages and better working conditions. The number of workers participating in a major strike involving at least 1000 workers increased by at least 50 from 2021 to 2022, according to the beos, that is from the statistics compiled by nerd wallet. Lets hear from ronald in roxbury, massachusetts. Good morning. Go ahead. Caller i keep on hearing about this show me something on the tv about this. Talking about the, at 187,000 people that got jobs. What is they talking about . I was in south korea. Then, i was in the vietnam war. I do not see where all these jobs are. Stop making these phone calls and keep campaigns with jet engines. What happened to the four jet engines . Even trump flying a jet engine with two engines. You got to show me something on the screen on tv. Host lets hear from michael in columbia, south carolina. Go ahead. Good morning. Caller how are you doing . How are you doing this morning . Host just fine, how are you doing . Caller i was doing i am doing fine. I am calling concerning the gap in michigan. If you are owing to work, you have got to work for a company and they are going to take Social Security out. Therefore, i hear him say he is working these construction jobs and that is where you have got to pay into your own Social Security. If you do not pay into Social Security, you do not get none. His point was, he is not putting into Social Security. You have to go to the Social Security office and get those forms and put your money into the Social Security. Host what i think part of his point to was, he was saying in michigan, there are not any jobs the employers he was working at, providing jobs that were either w2based or 1099based. Caller still, no