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News Archive

June 2022

New Report Analyzes What Workers Really Want
AP News
Kate Bronfenbrenner
New report analyzes workers’ organizing activity and identifies what workers really want
Detroit News
Art Wheaton
UAW flexes muscle with strike pay hike ahead of Detroit Three talks next year
CT Public
Kate Bronfenbrenner
In Connecticut and across the U.S., undergraduate student employees are forming unions
Three ILR Professors Promoted
Two ILRies leading Outreach institutes are informing the national conversation around the historic union organizing shift.
Cornell Chronicle
MILR Graduate Joins Cornell Trustees
Politico
Kate Bronfenbrenner and Patricia Campos-Medina
Unions lobby Biden for bolder approach to student debt relief
Marketplace
Chris Collins
The salary games some employers play
Politico
Patricia Campos-Medina
Teachers unions hit the Hill ahead of gun safety votes
Yahoo! Finance
Art Wheaton
Tesla hired a PR firm to monitor an employee Facebook group amid unionization effort, report says
Sourcing Journal
Jason Judd and JR Keller
Do Garment Workers Really Have Freedom of Association? Here’s What the Data Says
The Washington Post
Erica Groshen
Job openings in April remain near record highs, U.S. employers report
CNBC
Harry Katz
The Amazon, Starbucks, Apple union push is capturing what a majority of all American workers now say they want
Bloomberg
Bradford Bell
Elon Musk's Demand Staffers Stop 'Phoning It in' May Cost Him Talent
Aspen Institute
Courtney McCluney
Strategic Approaches to Racial Equity
Cornell Chronicle
ILRies Named Merrill Scholars
It’s a Wrap

May 2022

JR Keller
Your Manager Is Leaving: What Does That Mean for Your Career?
Amazon faces worker demands — from shareholders
Remote Work Declining As More People Return To The Office
The New Yorker
The Devastating Economic Impacts of an Abortion Ban
USA Today
The Worker Institute
Nail salon workers fight for safer workplaces, higher pay, full set of changes
Clean Clothes Campaign
Jason Judd
Major university study confirms need for fashion brands to sign a binding global agreement on severance
The Swaddle
Devon Proudfoot
Why Women May Resent Compliments About Being ‘Collaborative’ at Work
Salon
John August
Burned out by COVID and 80-hour workweeks, resident physicians unionize
Observer
Kate Bronfenbrenner
As Apple Store Workers Organize, the Company Pushes an Anti-Union Message
“You are Part of a Lifelong Community”
Pryce Wins Big Red Leadership Award
Senior Joins Fulbright Program
Five Faculty Members Honored
International banker
Kate Bronfenbrenner
ARE WE ABOUT TO WITNESS A WAVE OF UNIONISATION ACROSS THE US?
Los Angeles Times
John August
Frayed by ‘crazy’ pandemic work hours, L.A. physician trainees prep for strike vote
AP News
Risa Lieberwitz
Unionized Starbucks stores face hard work of bargaining
Marketplace
Ileen DeVault
Amazon shareholders to challenge the company on pay and working conditions
The Power and Gratitude Imbalance
NPR
Kate Bronfenbrenner
After forming a union, negotiating a contract can be an uphill battle
Business Insider
ILR School
The year workers said 'no'
News 10 Albany
The Worker Institute
Rally to empower New York’s nail salon workers
syracuse.com
Risa Lieberwitz
Weeks after opening, Amazon warehouse in Clay already may have a union controversy
KCUR
Risa Lieberwitz
For Kansas City Starbucks workers, ‘lifesaving’ benefits are on the bargaining table
John Abowd Receives Edward Lazear Prize
The New York Times
Francine Blau
Some abortion opponents make economic arguments. They’re in for a fight.
Business Insider
Ileen DeVault
Amazon's first warehouse union marked the true turning point towards 'real change' for workers, says a labor-history professor
Daily Mail
The Worker Institute
In New York, nail salon workers fight for their rights
William Sonnenstuhl Q&A
Barron's
ILR School
How Workers Gained an Edge—and Why They Won’t Lose It Soon
Impact of Incentives on Ethics Examined
Cornell Chronicle
Yang Researching Worker Voice
NJ - Star Ledger
Patricia Campos-Medina
When the pendulum of justice moves backward, your generation must resist it | A 2022 commencement essay

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