This Week’s Top Hits

“It’s just another bump in the road,” said Art Wheaton, ILR director of labor studies, about Ford’s adjusting its EV product strategy to respond to changes in EV policy and consumer needs.

“It is purely a financial logic, not a healthcare logic,” observes Rosemary Batt, ILR professor of women and work, about sale-leasebacks of psychiatric hospitals.

This article references comments from John McCarthy, associate professor of global labor and work, about how AI is disrupting early careers.

In this blogcast, Patrica Campos-Medina, executive director of ILR’s Worker Institute, explores migration, belonging, worker power and the everyday people shaping the future of immigrant worker justice with Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris.

ILR Professor Virginia Doellgast provides insights on Disney’s partnership with OpenAI and its implications for creative labor and AI protections.

“One of the main reasons electricity prices are increasing in the U.S. is because we’re not building and producing enough electricity,” said Lara Skinner, executive director of the Climate Jobs Institute, in this article about U.S. policy on wind power and energy.