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New Jersey’s Latina Civic Action organization has suggested Patrica Campos-Medina, executive director of ILR’s Worker Institute, as one of several possible Latinas to fill New Jersey’s recently vacated lieutenant governor position.

Private equity has expanded in the New York home care industry over the past decade, partly due to weak state and federal health and labor regulations, according to a new report from ILR’s Worker Institute, “Private Equity’s Impact on Home Care Workers and Patients in New York State.”

Private equity firms’ investment in home care agencies perpetuates poor working conditions for workers by continuing the exploitation that is prevalent across the industry, according to a new study from the ILR School’s Worker Institute.

A report from ILR’s Worker Institute about private equity’s consolidation of home care, healthcare, and hospice agencies is discussed, with Anne Marie Brady, research director, worker rights and equity, commenting on the potential negative impact of private-equity ownership on job quality and care quality.

Findings from a report by ILR’s Worker Institute in 2021 about New York City delivery workers are mentioned in this article; the report is titled “Essential but Unprotected: App-based Food Couriers in New York City.”

Private equity firms now control roughly half the home-based healthcare services in New York state says a report from ILR’s Worker Institute called “Private Equity Pathways into Home Care: The Case of New York State.”

Natalia Navas, Labor Leadership Programs Associate at ILR’s Woker Institute, discusses the mindset of Salvadorans living in the U.S. who may lose Temporary Protected Status and potentially face loss of employment and deportation.

Studying two decades of data collected through the Empire State Poll, researchers have found that the cost of living dominates respondents’ key concerns, eclipsing other priorities, such as the environment.

Patrica Campos-Medina, executive director of ILR’s Worker Institute, discusses problems with immigration, labor and democratic systems in the U.S. – how these problems are connected and how to fix them.

This article cites a report by ILR’s Worker Institute, saying that New York state has 98,250 workers with Temporary Protected Status, with most coming from Haiti and Venezuela; the report is called “We Are Home: Workers with TPS Belong Here.”

“They have devoted their entire years of productivity to this country,” says Patrica Campos-Medina, executive director of ILR’s Worker Institute – and co-author of the report “We Are Home: TPS Workers Belong Here” – describing the contributions to the U.S. of Central Americans with Temporary Protected Status.

New York state has 98,250 workers with TPS, most of whom come from Haiti and Venezuela, according to a study from ILR’s Worker Institute.

The economic and community impact of immigrant workers with Temporary Protected Status in New York state is the focus of a new report from ILR’s Worker Institute, called “We Are Home: Workers with TPS Belong Here.”

A new report from ILR’s Worker Institute found that immigrants in New York with Temporary Protected Status have strong attachments to their New York communities, are highly engaged in civic and political organizations and view the United States as their home.

Central Americans with TPS status make significant contributions to New York’s economy and civic and political organizations, an ILR School report says.

“Diversity is always good business practice, because you bring different voices to a problem … That’s what we’re missing by not being able to track it,” says Patrica Campos-Medina, executive director of ILR’s Worker Institute, about the dropped EEOC requirement for federal agencies to report certain demographic data.

A report from ILR’s Worker Institute is quoted in this article about how the use of artificial intelligence by Rainbow, a fashion retailer, has impacted models.

This podcast describes the essential role played by ILR’s Worker Institute in creating and supporting the new NYC Building Trades Peer Support Network, and it discusses the need for the network and how it will reduce suicide attempts and improve the mental health of construction workers.

Risa Lieberwitz, ILR professor of labor and employment law, provided expertise on the negotiating position of the Harvard graduate workers union, noting that it goes beyond a finances; for example, the union is asking for expanded protections for international students.

Risa Lieberwitz, ILR professor of labor and employment law, shared her expertise, saying that increasing class size amounts to increasing workload, and even if increasing from 10 students to 15 students falls within an employer’s discretion, the change’s impact may require Harvard to negotiate with the union.

ILR’s Worker Institute is noted as a partner of the new Building Trades Support Network, which will train peer supporters to assist with improving the mental health of New York City construction workers.

A report co-written by ILR’s Worker Institute, about how AI is affecting the careers of fashion models, is quoted in this article.

“I can imagine when she was trying to co-create this union with him, how much it would have cost her to speak up,” said Patrica Campos-Medina, executive director of ILR’s Worker Institute, commenting on allegations of sexual abuse within the United Farm Workers movement.

Gary LaBarbera says the Building and Construction Trades Council was “especially lucky” to have worked with Arianna Schindle and Jeff Grabelski, both from ILR’s Worker Institute, when developing a new peer support network aimed at improving construction workers’ mental health.

ILR’s Worker Institute is mentioned as a partner in the development and delivery of the curriculum for the new Building Trades Peer Support Network, which aims to train approximately 1,000 workers in the NYC construction industry as peer supporters, in order to improve mental health and reduce suicide rates.

ILR’s Worker Institute, which is a partner in the new Building Trades Peer Support Network, contributed to the network’s approach by confirming that peer-to-peer interventions work better for improving construction worker mental health than top-down interventions.

ILR’s Worker Institute is mentioned as a partner in the new Building Trades Peer Support Network, which aims to improve construction workers’ mental health by training approximately 1,000 workers throughout the trades and across job sites in New York City as peer supporters.

The ILR School’s Worker Institute and unions have launched an innovative peer support initiative to destigmatize mental health and reduce suicide in New York City’s construction industry.

“This is precisely the kind of initiative that Cornell ILR supports as we pursue our public service mission,” said Patrica Campos-Medina, executive director of ILR’s Worker Institute, about the institute’s contribution to the Building Trades Peer Support Network curriculum, which aims to improve NYC construction workers’ mental health.