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New York at Work 2024

Annual Report

ILR’s annual Outreach report to policymakers and the public recaps some of our research-based data and policy analysis on issues affecting workers, unions, communities and employers

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AI and Data Science in the Workplace

The role of AI and data science on the future of work is a growing emphasis for ILR faculty research and teaching.

New research by Professor Virginia Doellgast is an example of how ILR faculty are studying the effects of new technology on the workplace. In her latest paper, Doellgast explores how workers can be protected from algorithmic management and AI abuses.

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Artificial Intelligence Conscience

Justice at Work: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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“Stories of Belonging” Highlights Journeys of Central Americans

A traveling exhibit highlighting the intersections of racism, dispossession and migration grew out of LR Worker Institute Executive Director Patricia Campos-Medina’s doctoral thesis.
Jose Urias is featured in "Stories of Belonging"
“Stories of Belonging” Highlights Journeys of Central Americans

Neurodiversity and Employment: Podcast Features Bruyère

Neurodiversity in the workplace is the topic of a Cornell Keynotes podcast episode with Susanne Bruyère from the Yang-Tan Institute.
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Neurodiversity and Employment: Podcast Features Bruyère

Ithaca Sculptures to Honor Women Who Drove Social Justice

Cornell Chronicle
A sculpture depicting Frances Perkins, who taught at ILR from 1957-65, will be unveiled Aug. 17 in downtown Ithaca.
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Ithaca Sculptures to Honor Women Who Drove Social Justice

New York State: Economy, Policy, and Practice

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As a New York land-grant college, we have a state mandate to apply our work in service to our local communities, state and regional economies, and partners in governance. We create and share knowledge, build relationships, and inform strategies aimed at improving economic well-being for all New Yorkers.

Coupling our strong physical foundations in Buffalo, Ithaca, and New York City with our rapidly expanding virtual presence in the COVID-19 era, our resources and infrastructure allow us to pursue local innovations that have global implications.

State Impact Day Highlights Outreach Research

The day-long Sept. 27 meeting in King-Shaw Hall at ILR drew state legislative staffers and representatives of the governor’s office and the state Department of Labor. It included presentations from ILR Outreach faculty based in New York City, Ithaca and Buffalo.
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State Impact Day Highlights Outreach Research

Government Intervention Key to Fixing Inequality in Health Care Facilities

Cornell Chronicle
Rosemary Batt ’73, the Alice Cook Professor of Women and Work, has co-authored a policy brief suggesting that U.S. policymakers and regulators rethink the way government finances are allotted to health care facilities.
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Government Intervention Key to Fixing Inequality in Health Care Facilities

NY at Work Report: Cost of Living Most Critical Issue

Cornell Chronicle
Drawing on expertise, research-based data and policy analysis on a range of issues affecting the state’s workers, unions, communities and employers, the fourth annual New York at Work report is intended to serve as an informative, accessible and relevant resource for policymakers and the public.
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NY at Work Report: Cost of Living Most Critical Issue

A driving principle behind our research, teaching, training, and practice is that everyone deserves fair and equal access to jobs, housing, healthcare, and other means for achieving economic security. Our work seeks solutions that remove inequitable barriers to economic opportunities, whether those barriers occur within an individual workplace or at the structural levels of our political and economic systems.

You can see a handful of our recent work below.

Matt Saleh Asks Questions, Spurs Impact

Matt is fascinated by the law and its relationship to disability and criminal justice. He is an energetic teacher and researcher in Cornell University’s ILR School, and he has taken on roles involving equity in employment.
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Matt Saleh Asks Questions, Spurs Impact

Best Paper Award Won by Yang-Tan Researchers

Jennifer D. Brooks and Sarah von Schrader investigated how access to remote work for people with disabilities has been affected since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jennifer Brooks sits in her office while viewing the title page of her award-winning paper on her computer screen.
Best Paper Award Won by Yang-Tan Researchers

Restorative Record Enters Beta Stage For Second Chance Month

For Second Chance Month, Cornell ILR’s Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative (CJEI) launched a beta version of its Restorative Record, a digital hiring tool for justice-impacted job candidates to secure employment against exclusionary practices and stigma.
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Restorative Record Enters Beta Stage For Second Chance Month

Collective Representation and Worker Voice

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We were founded to study and improve the world of work. We have strong research roots in labor relations and negotiations, and our work with varying communities comes from our commitment to understanding collective representation, the perspectives of workers, and improving workers' lives.

ILR Panel Discusses Collective Bargaining in Women’s Professional Hockey

A discussion focused on the evolution of, and challenges facing, women’s professional hockey was hosted on Monday by ILR International Visiting Fellow Kelly Pike, ’03, Ph.D. ’14.
Kelly Pike, ’03, Ph.D. ’14, Digit Murphy, CALS ’83, Brianne Jenner, A&S ’15, and David Doorey
ILR Panel Discusses Collective Bargaining in Women’s Professional Hockey

Story of Chinese Laborers Told Through Kheel Center Items

Cornell Chronicle
The history of labor organizations and worker issues in China is the focus of Keywords of Chinese Labor: An Exhibition, opening this month in an art gallery in Brooklyn.
Sean Chang of Catherwood Library and Claire Deng of the Kheel Center look through some of the China Labor Collection files in the Kheel Center.
Story of Chinese Laborers Told Through Kheel Center Items

IAM Takes Bold Steps in Addressing Climate Crisis and Embracing Green Technologies, Releases Report on Clean Energy Economy for the Future

At the 2024 IAM Grand Lodge Convention, a groundbreaking discussion was held, with insights from a comprehensive study conducted by Cornell ILR's Climate Jobs Institute, in partnership with the IAM, about the urgency of the climate crisis and potential for growth and renewal within the union.
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IAM Takes Bold Steps in Addressing Climate Crisis and Embracing Green Technologies, Releases Report on Clean Energy Economy for the Future

Leadership Development

We work with communities, organizations, departments and companies – all to help develop leaders who will make workplaces and employment itself better. Foundations in management and collective bargaining, and our 75 years in industry put us in a unique position to help develop leaders in business, labor and policy.

CAHRS

Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies

CAHRS is the world's leading partnership between industry and academia, devoted to global human resource management. The CAHRS partnership connects leading companies to Cornell University, the ILR School, and leading faculty, students and intellectual leaders throughout the world.

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Labor Leadership Training

We work with union leaders at national and state levels to develop training programs for aspiring and established leaders within the labor field.

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Senior Leader Programs

We bring together world-class faculty with business and industry leaders to design and deliver training systems that develop HR, business and management leaders. Learn from world-class faculty dedicated to HR research and driving organizational performance.

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Cleaning Up Criminal Records: CJEI Event to Walk Through New Clean Slate Act

On Nov. 18, Cornell ILR’s Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative (CJEI) will cohost an event at Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca, NY, to educate the public on New York State’s upcoming Clean Slate Act.
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Cleaning Up Criminal Records: CJEI Event to Walk Through New Clean Slate Act

More Complaints, Worse Performance When AI Monitors Work

Cornell Chronicle
Organizations using AI to monitor employees’ behavior and productivity can expect them to complain more, be less productive and want to quit more – unless the technology can be framed as supporting their development, ILR research finds.
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More Complaints, Worse Performance When AI Monitors Work

Climate Jobs Institute Launches First-ever Climate Jobs eCornell Online Certificate

Cornell’s Climate Jobs Institute Launches New Climate Jobs 4-course Online Certificate through eCornell
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Climate Jobs Institute Launches First-ever Climate Jobs eCornell Online Certificate

ILR in the News

Our work from the media

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Boeing and workers dig in for a long fight, despite strike’s cost

The New York Times
Harry Katz, professor of collective bargaining, discusses the Boeing strike.
Boeing and workers dig in for a long fight, despite strike’s cost

Political Lessons from American Cities

In this podcast episode, Professor Shannon Gleeson discusses the book she co-authored with Els de Graauw (Baruch College/CUNY Graduate Center), "Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston."
Political Lessons from American Cities

These local students are unionizing

Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of Labor Education Research, says that universities’ general inexperience with collective bargaining can lead to bureaucratic complications that can slow down or hamper the negotiating process.
These local students are unionizing