Advancing collective representation, Revitalizing worker voice
Elevating dialogue on contemporary worker rights and labor issues to ensure a sustainable, prosperous society.
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Engaging with labor, business, policymakers and NGOs
Focusing on collaboration, not competition, to find solutions for problems faced by working people and their families.
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Building a sustainable society
Bringing together worker and environmental interests to create jobs and address climate issues.
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Encouraging global collaboration
Conducting research and sponsoring events incorporating varied global perspectives and promoting public discourse.
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Including the excluded worker
Improving conditions and benefits for workers lacking adequate workplace protections.
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Informing policy reform, Leading strategic change
Providing innovative thinking and expertise to train leaders and drive organizational transformation.
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Promoting rights and representation for all workers
Leading research and education efforts to build greater equity and a culture of respect and fairness in today's diverse workplace.
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Combining research with practice
Sharing relevant, timely academic insight and studies with the labor community and practitioners across the globe.
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The Worker Institute at Cornell starts from the idea that strong workers' rights and collective representation are essential elements of a vibrant, prosperous, democratic society.
Through research, education and public discourse, the institute applies innovative thinking and problem-solving approaches to the workplace, economy and society, in the interests of working people and their families.
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Strategic Corporate Research Summer School 2013
Ithaca, NYTransatlantic Social Dialogue: A Cross-National Labor and Academic Exchange
BrusselsJuly
UALE Northeast Regional Summer School for Union Women
Ithaca, NYNYS AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute Summer Seminar
Ithaca, NY
Rights, Solidarity, Justice
Seven from the Worker Institute speaking at labor conference
Rebuild and Reform NYS Energy System
Union leaders discuss deficiences revealed by Hurricane Sandy
Worker Institute in Argentina
Associates Skinner and Sweeney promote new energy project
Bayard to leave post as Worker Institute executive director
Union leader targets Walmart worker abuse
Pat O'Neil speaks to ILR students during Union Days
Initiatives
Equity at Work
Seeking practices that promote workplace respect, fairness, equity and justice.
International Collective Action
Research, education and action that promote public discourse on the need for collective representation on a global scale.
Labor, Environment and Sustainable Development
Knowledge, policies and practices to enhance the role of labor and working people in addressing environmental and climate crises.
Precarious Workforce
Focusing on the rights and conditions of low-wage and contingent workers, the most vulnerable segment of the workforce.
Strategic Leadership
Engaging with leaders of worker organizations committed to innovative strategies for organizational transformation in a changing political and economic climate.
Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
This video highlights the new Trade Unions for Energy Democracy initiative, a project emerging from the October 10-12 Energy Emergency, Energy Transition global trade union roundtable.
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Student and University Pressure Leads to Adidas Settlement
Cornell ILR sophomore Karen Li discusses student involvement in getting Adidas to pay $1.8 million in severance pay to factory workers in Indonesia. ( 1:28)
Produced by Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, this video profiles Sean Sweeney and Lara Skinner for their research on climate jobs in New York State.