News Archive

March 2023

Belot Named Frances Perkins Professor
Cornell Research & Innovation
Onward, Upward?
ABC News
Alex Colvin
Video Starbucks workers take union fight to Capitol Hill
PBS
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Why scrutiny of Starbucks' alleged union violations is boiling over now
Society of Human Resource Management
Alex Kowalski
Mobile robots at work
The Christian Science Monitor
Harry Katz
Labor strikes are rising – and winning pay hikes
VICE News
Russell Weaver
Want to curb city crime? Evict fewer tenants, study says
The Globe and Mail
Virginia Doellgast
How AI is changing the jobs of call centre workers
Vox
Cathy Creighton
Longtime Starbucks CEO gets a chance to tell Congress why he’s been busting unions
Ithaca Journal
Eviction Filings Dashboard
'The private market is failing.' Elected officials, supporters rally for Good Cause
Newsweek
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Starbucks' Union Crackdown is Backfiring Spectacularly
ILR Hosting Debate Camp July 29-Aug 6
Q&A with Gali Racabi
Cornell Chronicle
University Vaccine Mandates Saved Lives, Money
Ithaca Advocates
Russell Weaver
Advocates predicting an increase in evictions with the end of state rental assistance
The Lever
Cathy Creighton
To Crush Unions, Starbucks Targets Employee Communications
Philadelphia Inquier
Labor Action Tracker
More student workers are forming unions — and striking — at universities in Philly and beyond
CNN
Johnnie Kallas
The three-day LA school strike is over. But get used to short, disruptive strikes like it
IRS Press Room
Daniel Werfel '93 Begins Work as 50th IRS Commissioner
Vox
Kate Bronfenbrenner
The bosses still aren’t back in charge
News 10 Albany
Russell Weaver
Rensselaer, Schenectady, Albany Counties top statewide eviction rate
Spectrum
Russell Weaver
Evictions in New York approach pre-pandemic rate
Inaugural ILR WIDE Student Fellows Explore Workplace DEI
ABC 7 News
Lee Adler
Los Angeles strike enters 2nd day, highlights low pay of school workers
The Spokesman-Review
Patricia Campos-Medina
Labor advocates, progressive lawmakers in Congress feel emboldened on expanding overtime pay
Cornell Chronicle
Russell Weaver
Dashboard Details Surge in NYS Eviction Filings
Cornell Chronicle
Four ILRies Named Center for Social Sciences Faculty Fellows
ILRie Helps Formerly Incarcerated
NPR
Francine Blau
It's Equal Pay Day. The gender pay gap has hardly budged in 20 years. What gives?
Michigan Live
Harry Katz
Michigan’s ‘right to work’ is at death’s door. What will its legacy be?
Player FM
Vanessa Bohns
Podcast: Why You Don‘t Need to be Powerful to be Influential | Vanessa Bohns
Cornell Chronicle
One in Five in NYS Face Workplace Sexual Harassment
Wall Street Journal
Erica Groshen
Falling Survey-Response Rates Undermine Economic Data
Business Insider
Russell Weaver
Layoffs are still historically low, so why does it feel like everyone's losing their job?
John August
Burden of enforcing contracts falling on healthcare union members to 'speak up'
Yahoo News
Russell Weaver
Push to raise NYS minimum wage worries some businesses
Axios
Art Wheaton
Norfolk Southern CEO in the hot seat
Nabiha Qureshi ’23 Awarded Rangel Fellowship
Cornell Chronicle
Johnnie Kallas
Travel Worsens Poor Conditions For Rural Health Aides
Yahoo! Finance
Duanyi Yang
The Perks Workers Want Also Make Them More Productive
Bloomberg
Alex Colvin
Balance of Power
The Hill
Francine Blau
The gender pay gap has stayed largely unchanged for 20 years. What will it take to close it?

February 2023

Bloomberg Law
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Worker-Led Organizing Efforts: Independent Unions Explained
Reuters
Labor Action Tracker
Some US Caterpillar workers plan possible strike once contract expires
CNBC
Art Wheaton
UAW leadership faces historic upheaval ahead of union negotiations with Detroit automakers
NPR
Alex Colvin
You may have heard of the 'union boom.' The numbers tell a different story
ABC News
Ileen DeVault and Labor Action Tracker
'Bare minimum Monday' marks latest quiet quitting trend
Spectrum NY 1
Russell Weaver
4 things to watch as New York budget negotiations start simmering
Psychology today
Vanessa Bohns
How to Use Predictable Laziness to Influence People at Work
City & State
The 2023 State Labor Power 100

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