Public Impact Stories

The Dindigul Agreement to End Gender-based Violence and Harassment (GBVH) has been successful in empowering women to identify and combat gender-based violence in the workplace, largely due to a strong female-led union and a productive labor-management relationship, according to a recent assessment by Cornell’s Global Labor Institute.

App workers receive minimal benefits and protection. Termination decisions are made by algorithms, which are prone to error and discriminatory customer abuse. ILR Assistant Professor Andrew Wolf describes how policies that provide just cause protections for app-based workers can address this problem.

Making Work Work: Quality Work and Quality Care to Support Labor Market Participation and Retention of Care Workers and Care Recipients, is a new collaboration between The Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability and The Worker Institute.

This report, co-produced by GLI and the International Finance Corporation, with input from the International Labour Organization’s Better Work team, build upon past GLI research and examines the impacts of heat stress and flooding on the apparel industry.

On a panel, "Crisis at the NLRB: Legal Challenges, Political Power, Future Labor Rights," moderated by Mark Gaston Pearce, lawyer and Georgetown professor, Cathy Creighton, Director, Cornell ILR Buffalo, spoke alongside two former General Counsels of the NLRB, Jennifer Abruzzo and Richard Griffin, Jr. and American labor activist, Richard Bensinger.

Research-based website explains how small businesses can best follow the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and welcome customers and employees with disabilities

Dr. Rusty Weaver, Director of Research, Cornell ILR Buffalo office, will provide a live demonstration of the interactive map and several WNY community members will share local impact relative to the federal cuts, at an event on 10/28 at 10am at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY.

On October 9, 2025, thirty participants celebrated their graduation from the first Housekeeping Technician and Leadership Development Workshop Series, a collaborative training effort between Labor Leadership Initiatives at Cornell’s ILR School and the Worker Justice Project (WJP).