Ukraine launches joint weapons production
A new joint production program, new #factories & #weapons #manufacturing facilities will be built in #Ukraine & abroad. The international sites will be member countries participating in Ramstein summit
New legal, tax regulations also to be put in place for #Ukrainian #weapons #manufacturers, facilitating the construction of new sites, allowing them to rapidly scale up production
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Ukraine shows footage of Bober drones hitting Russian air defenses, fighter jet in Crimea — Ukraine’s new interceptor UAVs are starting to knock Russia’s long-range Shahed drones out of the sky — Germany still weighing Taurus missile supply to Ukraine — [vlog/video] Why Norway is investing billions in Ukraine’s victory … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/wednesday-july-2-2025/
Ah, yes, the groundbreaking revelation that #innovation thrives in #boom times rather than during #economic collapse. 🤯 #Mid-sized #cities are apparently #patent #factories now, because who needs #Silicon #Valley when you have Des Moines? 🌽🚀 Let's just spread those federal dollars like confetti and watch innovation rain down. 🌧️💸
https://www.governance.fyi/p/booms-not-busts-drives-innovation #growth #HackerNews #ngated
Peep show: 40K #IoT cameras worldwide stream #secrets to anyone with a browser
"Majority of #exposures located in the US, including #datacenters, #healthcare facilities, #factories, and more"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/40000_iot_cameras_exposed/
1954 – Sunbeam Wolsey Nylon Spinning, Blackpool, Cork
Architect: Buchan Kane Foley
Now largely unrecognisable, this is one of the last remnants of the vast Sunbeam Wolsey work in Blackpool, once Cork city’s largest employment base. Sited alongside the River Bride from which it originally took its power and water supply. A large portion of t
https://www.archiseek.com/1954-sunbeam-wolsey-nylon-spinning-blackpool-cork/
#ArchitectureOfCorkCity #1954 #BuchanKaneFoley #Cork #factories
“A job in industry is also now harder to attain. Modern #factories are high-tech, run by #engineers and #technicians. In the early 1980s #BlueCollar assemblers, machine operators and repair workers made up more than half of the #manufacturing workforce.
Today they account for less than a third. #Whitecollar professionals outnumber blue-collar factory-floor workers by a wide margin. Even once obtained, a #FactoryJob is far less likely to be unionised than in previous decades, with membership having fallen from one in four workers in the 1980s to less than one in ten today.
In order to find the modern equivalent of such jobs, we looked for #employment with the same traits. What offers decent #pay, #unionisation, requires no #degree and can soak up the male workforce?
The result: mechanics, repair technicians, security workers and the skilled trades.”
<https://archive.md/L1J7W> (paywall) / <https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/06/10/factory-work-is-overrated-here-are-the-jobs-of-the-future>
#Florida considers easing #ChildLabor laws after pushing out #immigrants
A new law under consideration in the state Legislature would roll back child labor laws to make up for a dwindling labor pool.
By Ja'han Jones
March 27, 2025, 12:15 PM EDT
"As Florida officials enable Trump’s #MassDeportation policies, lawmakers in the state are looking to children to take on some of the jobs that have typically been done by immigrants.
"Making its way through the state Senate is a new law, Senate Bill 918, that aims to loosen child labor laws and allow teenagers to work overnight shifts.
"As CNN reported: 'The state’s legislature on Tuesday advanced a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.'
"#SB918 also 'includes a number of changes including eliminating working time restrictions on teenagers aged 14 and 15 if they are home-schooled and ending guaranteed meal breaks for 16 and 17 year olds,' CNN reported.
"Florida Gov. #RonDeSantis backs the law and has defended the idea of teenagers and college students working these jobs. DeSantis also explicitly linked the effort to the loss of immigrant labor. Speaking about the consequences of state verification laws at an event with border czar #TomHoman, the governor said, 'Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people. And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now?'
"In recent years, several states — many of them led by #Republican governors — have rolled back child labor laws. This map from the Economic Policy Institute illustrates the spike in states rolling back these laws from 2021 to 2024. Back in 2023, for example, #Arkansas Gov. #SarahHuckabeeSanders signed a bill that made it easier for companies to hire children without getting consent from their parents. One month earlier, The New York Times published a bombshell report about the exploitation of immigrant children in #factories operated by some of the most well-known companies in the U.S.
"That story should have spurred a nationwide push to strengthen child labor laws. Instead, states like Florida are going in the opposite direction, weakening such laws in part to deal with the fallout from the conservative movement’s demonization of immigrants. They’re essentially using child labor to paper over the gaps left by their draconian immigration policies.
"#Project2025, the far-right playbook for Trump’s second term, specifically calls for rolling back #HazardRegulations around child labor. The text claims, 'Some young adults show an interest in inherently dangerous jobs' and argues that 'with parental consent and proper training, certain young adults should be allowed to learn and work in more dangerous occupations.'
"Even as child labor laws are being rolled back, the Trump administration is working to gut social services, including funds that help provide school lunches to children and programs, like the supplemental nutrition assistance program, that help feed poor families. And if those cuts stay in place, they may leave American families with few alternatives to sending their children to work to keep food on the table."
Source:
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/florida-child-labor-law-sb-918-rcna198275
#DeSantis #DeSatan #SNAPCuts #ResistICE #Authoritarianism #USPol #MedicaidCuts #TrumpIsANazi #AuthoritarianRule
#ThisIsFascism #ImmigrantsFeedUs #ImmigrationCrackdown
1959 – Brown & Polson / Knorr, Davitt Road, Inchicore, Dublin
Architect: Patrick Scott, Michael Scott & Associates
Brown & Polson originally started out as a starch manufacturer in Scotland, but eventually branched into other cooking ingredient
https://www.archiseek.com/1959-brown-polson-knorr-davitt-road-inchicore-dublin/
#ArchitectureOfDublinCity #LostBuildingsOfIreland #1959 #DavittRoadDublin #factories #Goldenbridge #LostDublin #MichaelScottAssociates #PatrickScott19212014
1960 – Kire Manufacturing, Kinsale, Co. Cork
Architect: Ronnie Tallon, Michael Scott & Associates
Kire Manufacturing carried on business as manufacturers of ladies’ garments mainly for export. Its main factory was here in Kinsale and it had branch factories at Fermoy, Bandon and Newmarke
https://www.archiseek.com/1960-kire-manufacturing-kinsale-co-cork/
#ArchitectureOfCork #LostBuildingsOfIreland #1960 #CoCork #factories #Kinsale #MichaelScottAssociates #RonnieTallon19272014
Donald Trump was elected partly on the promise of a factory renaissance. Made-in-America may come back, but not necessarily in the places that led U.S. manufacturing 80 years ago. #jobs #factories #RustBelt
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0603/trump-manufacturing-jobs-rust-belt-south
Donald Trump was elected partly on the promise of a factory renaissance. Made-in-America may come back, but not necessarily in the places that led U.S. manufacturing 80 years ago. #jobs #factories #RustBelt
Posted into The American Story @the-american-story-csmonitor
1958 – Fish Curing Plant, Galway
Architect: Piaras Beaumont, Bord Iascaigh Mhara
Shallow pitched roof modernism with vertical emphasis provided by the ice tower. The original stonework to the office building and the cantilevered roofs over the loading doors can still be seen but the tower was much altered before being removed complet
https://www.archiseek.com/1958-fish-curing-plant-galway/
#ArchitectureOfGalway #1958 #ArchitectureOfGalway #CoGalway #factories #PiarasBeaumont
1967 – Former Tayto Factory, Coolock
Architect: David W. Cronin
A fantastic Brutalist offices and factory building of odd angles, ramps, and distinct geometric forms - most obviously from the aerial photograph. Later expansion filled in some of these spaces. After designing some striking Irish industrial buildings, the architect David Cronin left Ire
https://www.archiseek.com/1967-former-tayto-factory-coolock/
#ArchitectureOfDublinCity #1967 #Coolock #DavidWCronin #factories
1952 – Former Blackwater Cottons Factory, Youghal, Co. Cork
Architect: Chillingworth & Levie
Corkman William Dwyer started a cloth manufacturing plant, Seafield Fabrics, in Youghal during 1947. Then, in 1952, he opened Blackwater Cottons, eventually 250 people were employed in the two plants which were side by side. While Sea
https://www.archiseek.com/1952-former-blackwater-cottons-factory-youghal-co-cork/
#ArchitectureOfCork #1952 #ChillingworthLevie #CoCork #factories #Youghal
1965 – Lyons Factory, Goldenbridge, Dublin
Architect: Joseph N. Kidney & Co.
A central hub for blending, packaging, and distributing tea, this Lyons factory was a major employer in the local area, providing jobs for hundreds of people. The large Davitt Road premises helped Lyons e
https://www.archiseek.com/1965-lyons-factory-goldenbridge-dublin/
#ArchitectureOfDublinCity #LostBuildingsOfIreland #DavittRoadDublin #Dublin #factories #Goldenbridge #JosephNKidneyCo #LostDublin
“It was the #unions that made the #jobs good, not the #factories. And the unions are largely gone.” open.substack.com/pub/deanbake...
Can David Brooks Stop Lying?
https://www.alojapan.com/1276830/nissan-mulls-japan-global-plant-closures-in-cost-cutting-overhaul/ Nissan mulls Japan, global plant closures in cost-cutting overhaul ##Automobile #business #closure #corporate #CostCuts #factories #Japan #JapanNews #news #Nissan The Yomiuri newspaper, which was the first to report the potential closure of Nissan plants in Japan and overseas, stated that two factories in Mexico are under review. However, Nissan issued a statement on its website asserting that reports regarding the potential shutdown of certa…
Port of Los Angeles Boss Sees Dramatic Drop in Cargo Volumes
when the reduced import of goods from china and Asia is felt in the factories and supermarkets, Americans will realize how great tariffs are for each and every one of them
https://gcaptain.com/port-of-los-angeles-boss-sees-dramatic-drop-in-cargo-volumes/
#tariffs #USA #China #economics #Port #Import #factories #supermarkets
