The Worker Institute brings together researchers, educators and students with practitioners in labor, business and policymaking to address issues related to confronting systemic inequality and building a fair economy, robust democracy and just society. We will share opinion, analysis, research, data, insights and training from our faculty and staff.
Events
Clean Energy and COVID-19: Green Priorities for the Economic Recovery
Worker Institute Executive Director, Lara Skinner speaks on a panel presented by eCornell, "Clean Energy and COVID-19: Green Priorities for the Economic Recovery."
Unions’ Responses to COVID-19: A Transatlantic Perspective
On Monday, April 27th, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Cornell University In cooperation with The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR and The Transatlantic Social Dialogue hosted a live webinar on how unions have responded to the challenge of COVID-19.
The Worker Institute hosts Climate Job New York's inaugural gala
On Sept. 24, during Climate Week, The Worker Institute at Cornell’s ILR School hosted Climate Jobs New York’s inaugural gala honoring Michael Bloomberg, James Slevin and Allison Ziogas at its Manhattan office.
Panel with Policy Makers on Gig Economy held in Albany
The panel discussion titled "Policy Strategies for Protecting Workers in the New Economy" was held on Wednesday, May 15th in the Legislative Office Building, Albany Room Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY.
International Labor Challenges Will Be Examined at Transatlantic Social Dialogue
Panelists at an event co-sponsored by ILR will discuss new social movement and policy strategies to improve access to high quality work and to organize new forms of solidarity in divided societies.
TS Bambii, a sex worker representative from VOCAL-NY and DecrimNY, spoke about the economic necessity of sex work, and its inherent devaluation and criminalization at the panel “Labor Rights for Marginalized Workers,” hosted by the Worker Institute for Union Days.
On April 27th and l 28th, 2018 the Worker Institute at Cornell University hosted a conference titled, “Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy: Policy and Organizing Responses to Precarious Work.
Responses by workers and their advocates to challenges in the gig economy will be explored in an April 27-28 conference organized by The Worker Institute at Cornell.
Marking the 107th anniversary of the Triangle Fire tragedy, a turning point in labor history and law, the event will both remember its victims and focus on a new generation of activists who organize against global sweatshops.
Beginning tomorrow, the Cornell Cinema is dedicating March showings to "Labor on Film." The eclectic series of films examine labor and labor issues both past and present, several with a focus on feminism in the workforce.
The Climate Jobs Now! Summit, which took place at the Cornell Club and was attended widely by labor and business leaders, focused on combatting climate change and reversing inequality in states and regions across the country.
The 15th annual U.S.-European Transatlantic Social Dialogue will bring together unionists, worker justice groups and academics from across the U.S., Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and Ireland.
The conference, held in downtown Buffalo, included a presentation on PUSH Buffalo, or People United for Sustainable Housing, a New York State Energy Research and Development Authority-funded effort to train residents to rehab houses so they are energy efficient.
An ILR School researcher was among the advocates and community leaders who met at the New York City Council’s Rapid Response Lab event on June 15 to discuss criminal justice and immigration reform issues.
Change Maker Awards Reception: A Fundraiser for the ULI Scholarship Fund
The NYS AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute (ULI) is celebrating 16 years of labor and worker leadership development with an awards reception honoring the Change Makers.
Student Fellows Presenting Research at SUNY Conference
Four student fellows of The Worker Institute at Cornell will present their research on worker centers, unions, day labor and immigrant rights at the annual SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference April 22 at SUNY Fredonia.
Nineteen leaders in the United States labor and social justice movements, five of whom are ILR alumni, met with students on Friday, Nov. 18, for the Fourteenth Annual Labor Roundtable at Cornell’s Statler Hotel.
In his State of the University Address on Oct. 28, Interim Cornell President Hunter Rawlings recognized the ILR School’s role in strengthening the ties between Ithaca and New York City, whom has had a presence in NYC since 1948.
