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News Archive

January 2022

CNBC
Cathy Creighton
A ‘Gen U’ of young Starbucks baristas is powering a growing push to unionize
Art Wheaton
INSIDE THE FLX: Cornell’s Arthur Wheaton on how goods get to market and why sometimes they don’t (podcast)
Q&A with Ileen A. DeVault
BBC News
Kate Bronfenbrenner
The rise of the anti-work movement
Marketplace
Erica Groshen
The statistic Fed Chair Powell uses to keep an eye out for wage inflation
ILR, Weill Cornell Medicine Researchers Publish Findings
Buffalo Co-Lab Studies Child Care Crisis
The Washington Post
Risa Lieberwitz
Raven Software union moves to vote absent Activision Blizzard recognition
Fast Company
Cathy Creighton and Ileen DeVault
How do workers take on a national chain like Starbucks? One store at a time
WBFO
Cathy Creighton
County, providers say more support needed to cover 'true cost of child care'
The City
The Worker Institute
Delivery Workers Cheer Restroom Access and Tip Transparency Alongside AOC and Chuck Schumer
The Buffalo News
Russell Weaver
Another Voice: Strengthening U.S. democracy can start in cities
The Buffalo News
Cathy Creighton
Starbucks workers agree to union in Buffalo, NY
The Washington Post
Risa Lieberwitz
Activision Blizzard employees at Raven Software ask management to recognize new union
VICE News
Cathy Creighton
What the Black Death’s Labor Shortage Can Tell Us About Our Own
NBC News
Ariel Avgar
Biden’s vow to be ‘most pro-union president’ tested in first year
Spectrum
Cathy Creighton
Erie County points to Cornell analysis in ask for additional child care funding
Ileen DeVault
Judge issues temporary restraining order against union as King Soopers strike heads into second week
The New York Times
Risa Lieberwitz
Some Colleges Loosen Rules for a Virus That Won’t Go Away
Mashable
Louis Hyman
Who gets called a 'tech worker' is the big question for 2022
NBC News
Risa Lieberwitz
Video game giant Activision Blizzard faces worker walkout
Ileen DeVault
What’s Working: The King Soopers labor strike isn’t Colorado’s first. Here’s why we’ll probably see more.
Risa Lieberwitz
Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine or Test Rule, Allows Healthcare Requirement
The Atlantic
Vanessa Bohns
I’m Not Sorry for My Delay
The New York Times
Erica Groshen
Millions have lost a step into the middle class, researchers say
Fortune
Desiree LeClercq
Op-Ed: Biden’s ‘worker-centered’ trade policy fails U.S. workers
The Washington Post
Adam Seth Litwin
Front-line workers are getting some of the tech (and tracking) of office workers
The Washington Post
Erica Groshen
Here’s another thing the pandemic has screwed up: economic forecasts
Vox
Cathy Creighton
A new era for the American worker
Research Project on Worker Organizing Announced
Cornell Chronicle
Creighton, Saleh are 2021-22 Engaged Learning Fellows
Russell Weaver
Record year for job growth reaches disappointing end as gains slow in December
Politifact logo
George Boyer
‘Christmas Carol’ character’s wages not the best comparison to today’s minimum wage worker
Forbes
JR Keller
Be careful how you reject internal candidates, you may lose them entirely
Inside Higher Ed
Ronald Ehrenberg
Income inequality drives up tuition, study argues
CNBC
Patricia Campos-Medina
‘All work produces value’: What experts say Eric Adams gets wrong about ‘low skill’ workers
Marketplace
Alex Colvin
Employers struggle to hire and retain workers almost two years into the pandemic
More Training, Fewer Layoffs: Research

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