News Archive

January 2023

Times Union News
Ian Greer
Commentary: A fraud crackdown won’t fix unemployment insurance
Business Insider
Peter Bamberger
How I broke the last taboo
Bigler Reappointed Chair of NYS Council
Lipsky Legacy Celebrated
Fast Company
Kate Bronfenbrenner
How the Supreme Court could severely limit workers’ right to strike
CNN
Risa Lieberwitz
Apple’s first US labor union reaches new milestone for tech industry
Spectrum
Russell Weaver
Fewer than 4 in 10 New Yorkers earn a living wage, researchers find
News 10 Albany
Russell Weaver
New Cornell data shows more than half of New Yorkers earn below a living wage
The New York Times
Labor Action Tracker
The Fed May Finally Be Winning the War on Inflation. But at What Cost?
The Baltimore Sun
Kate Bronfenbrenner
As Starbucks unionizing slows, some strike, others skeptical
CNN
Labor Action Tracker
7,000 ‘exhausted and burnt out’ NYC nurses walk out
CNN
Patricia Campos-Medina
Silicon Valley layoffs go from bad to worse
Politico
Cathy Creighton
The Supreme Court case that has unions on edge
Yantorno Named to Leadership Team
syracuse.com
Esta Bigler
Cannabis Workforce Initiative gearing up to educate, train New Yorkers on weed
The New Republic
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Starbucks Workers Are Unionizing. Their Bosses Are Refusing to Bargain.
The Dallas Morning News
John August
How Southwest lost its way - and how it can work its way back to the top
Q&A with Caitlin Ray
Cornell Chronicle
Fewer Than 40% of New Yorkers Earn a Living Wage
Marketplace
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Gen Z is the most pro-union generation
MSN
Risa Lieberwitz
Workers at Microsoft-owned ZeniMax Media voted ‘yes’ to unionize 300 QA staff positions
Entrepreneur
Louis Hyman
Online Credit Reports & How They Are Tracking Everything You Do
Los Angeles Times
Kate Bronfenbrenner
UC Strike Energizes Labor Surge
Yahoo News
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Chicago saw a wave of new unions form in 2022. Getting to the bargaining table is the next challenge.
Vox
Erica Groshen
3 different paths the economy could take in 2023

December 2022

Marketplace
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Federal agency that oversees unions will get first funding boost in a decade
Fortune
Lara Skinner
An offshore wind project being built with union labor could be exactly what energy workers need
MSN
Labor Action Tracker
Year in Review: Worker strikes surged in 2022 amid new unionization wave
Money
Diane Burton and Esta Bigler
Dollar Scholar Asks: Why Does Pay Transparency Matter, Anyway?
Boston Globe
Kate Bronfenbrenner
When the union comes to a coffee shop near you
Los Angeles Times
Brian Dunn
Workers have high hopes for pay hikes next year. Perhaps too high
Fort Worth Report
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Striking Star-Telegram employees return to work
NJ Spotlight News
Patricia Campos-Medina
In growing labor movement, workers want to be treated as human beings
Axios
Art Wheaton
Unions face a reckoning with electric vehicles
Forbes
Lisa Nishii
Inclusive Conversations For Inclusive Leadership
Vox
Kate Bronfenbrenner
How workers fought back in 2022
Fortune
Labor Action Tracker
America’s worker-boss war is just beginning: expect more conflicts across blue and white-collar industries in 2023
Axios
Johnnie Kallas
Worker strikes surged in 2022
The Buffalo News
Russell Weaver
Court fight over Buffalo's redistricting draws sharp exchanges from rival experts
Business Insider
Kate Bronfenbrenner
CEOs who resist America's growing union wave are making a 'huge mistake' in the war for talent
Marketplace
Cathy Creighton
Federal labor board lobbies for additional funding, staffing resources as Congressional deadline looms
Apple Podcasts
Eli Friedman
Podcast: Workers Protest in Modern China, Part 2
Apple Podcasts
Eli Friedman
Podcast: Workers Protest in Modern China, Part 1
Endowments Honor Bettman ’74
Three Faculty Members Named Full Professors
American Banker
Ileen DeVault
'We aren't being recognized': Workers' union bid at one financial institution
Gleeson Named Edmund Ezra Day Professor
Inside Higher Ed
Kate Bronfenbrenner
‘These Are the Wrong Kids to Do This To’
CNN
Eli Friedman
Apple made China the backbone of its iPhone assembly. Shifting away could take years
ABC News
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Impacted by inflation, workers in academia, make demands

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