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James Miller Being Honored April 18

The 2024 Groat awardee helps bring opera to the people, and internship, scholarship and professional opportunities to ILRies.

Jim Miller ’88
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Alumni Stories

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A Self-Professed “Late Bloomer” Returns to East Hill

JC Tretter ’13 talks in an interview about broken bones, ruffling feathers, a bum knee, almost quitting football, constant eating, the fun of pro football, what’s next (not lawyering, fyi) and Cornell places he loves.
Joseph Carl "JC" Tretter Jr. '13
A Self-Professed “Late Bloomer” Returns to East Hill

Custodian to National Union Leader: an ILRie’s Journey

An ILR student helped establish the United Auto Workers Local 2300, which now represents Cornell building maintenance and service workers.
Al Davidoff ’80
Custodian to National Union Leader: an ILRie’s Journey

Groat-Alpern 2024 Awards Announced

Two Class of 1988 alumni will receive the ILR School’s highest awards on April 18 in New York City.
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Groat-Alpern 2024 Awards Announced

Remembering the Triangle Fire

The Kheel Center, ILRies and Cornellians carry on the collective action legacy that grew from the Triangle Factory Fire disaster.
Cornell students at the Triangle Fire memorial
Remembering the Triangle Fire

ILR Alumna Takes on Hollywood Bosses

ILR School alumna Ellen Stutzman ’04 served as chief negotiator for the Writers Guild of America West as it won a new contract that provides pay increases, television series staffing protections, protections against Artificial Intelligence and other improvements for more than 11,000 workers.
Ellen Stutzman. Photo courtesy of J.W. Hendricks.
ILR Alumna Takes on Hollywood Bosses

AI’s Transformative Impact Discussed

AI can help solve workplace challenges, but people remain the decision makers on big issues, Nickle LaMoreaux ‘01 told ILR Dean Alex Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, in their Sept. 7 webinar.
Nickle LaMoreaux
AI’s Transformative Impact Discussed

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Union Days Kicks Off with Keynote by Randi Weingarten ’80

Cornell ILR's Union Days begins Tuesday, March 5, with "Unions, Labor, and Freedom of Expression," a presentation given by Randi Weingarten ’80.
Randi Weingarten
Union Days Kicks Off with Keynote by Randi Weingarten ’80

Labor Law Expert Brings Expertise to ILR as Visiting Professor

Adelle Blackett spent the fall semester teaching, lecturing and collaborating with Cornell students and faculty.
Adelle Blackett
Labor Law Expert Brings Expertise to ILR as Visiting Professor

Professor Collins Honored

The National Academy of Human Resources recognized ILR Graduate Studies Director Chris Collins for his teaching, research, mentoring, leadership and other contributions to the industry.
Chris Collins. Photo provided: National Academy of Human Resources
Professor Collins Honored

Events

Joint Labor & Public Economics Workshop: George Borjas

George Borjas, Harvard Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants (with Anthony Edo) Abstract: In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because the undocumented may find it costly to participate in the open labor market and have restricted economic opportunities. By alleviating this labor market imperfection, a regularization program can move the market closer to the efficient competitive equilibrium and potentially increase employment and wages for both the newly legalized and the authorized workforce. Our empirical analysis reveals that the Mitterrand regularization program particularly increased employment and wages for low-skill native and immigrant men, and raised French GDP by over 1 percent.

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Joint Labor & Public Economics Workshop: George Borjas

Joint Labor & Public Economics Workshop: Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson, Duke Management Practices, Workplace Injuries, and the Effects of Government Safety Regulations (with Nick Bloom, David I. Levine, and Alison Pei) Abstract: Workplace injuries are a massive economic burden, yet they persist across a wide range of workplaces. Why? Reducing injury risk entails financial and opportunity cost, but it may also require adoption of management practices that are slow to diffuse. Linking confidential data from the Census Bureau with data on workplace injuries, we find that establishments with more structured management practices (monitoring production, setting targets, and establishing incentives) have substantially lower injury rates, a relationship that holds within industries and within establishments over time. We then examine how this variation in management influences the effects of government safety regulations on workers and firms. Enforcement inspections by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration reduce injuries, but only at establishments with few structured management practices. Inspections also lead to an increase in establishments’ use of structured management practices. Inspections have no detectable effect on establishments’ survival, investment, or productivity.

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Joint Labor & Public Economics Workshop: Matthew Johnson

Academic Freedom and the First Amendment: Academia as a Workplace

This event is part of Cornell's Freedom of Expression Theme Year and ILR's Union Days. UC Davis Professors Rana Jaleel and Brian Soucek will have a discussion moderated by ILR Professor Risa Lieberwitz about the implications of freedom of speech on academic freedom.
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Academic Freedom and the First Amendment: Academia as a Workplace

Labor Advocacy Career Fair

Discover internships and full-time opportunities with labor unions, law firms representing unions and/or individuals, and other organizations dedicated to workers’ rights. The Labor Advocacy Career Fair (formerly known as the Social Justice Career Fair) is open to all Ithaca-based Cornell students and will be a featured event during the university's annual Union Days series, sponsored by the ILR School.

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Labor Advocacy Career Fair

Who is Paid a Living Wage in NYS? Examining Gaps and Modeling Alternatives Using the Cornell ILR Wage Atlas

Join this event to demonstrate the Cornell ILR Wage Atlas live. You will hear from Dr. Russell Weaver, the researcher who designed the tool, about the ILR Living Wage Atlas and the latest findings to come out of it. You will also hear from partners Yannet Lathrop, Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst for the National Employment Law Project (NELP), and Dr. Karen King, Executive Director of the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women, on how they use the tool. Come learn how you can take advantage of this rich data source, too.

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Who is Paid a Living Wage in NYS? Examining Gaps and Modeling Alternatives Using the Cornell ILR Wage Atlas

Unionizing the Ivory Tower - A Special Book Event with the author, Al Davidoff

The Worker Institute is sponsoring a special book event that should be of interest to union leaders and activists, social justice organizers, labor studies students, and everyone wishing to promote worker rights. Unionizing the Ivory Tower chronicles how a thousand low-paid custodians, cooks, and gardeners succeeded in organizing a union at Cornell University.
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Unionizing the Ivory Tower - A Special Book Event with the author, Al Davidoff

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