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Public Impact
ILO’s 2023 Conference: the 8th for the Regulating for Decent Work Network in Geneva, Switzerland
More than 3,000 justice-involved people, employers, law enforcement personnel and others have received training since 2018 through an ILR program.
The Philip Taft Labor History Award, sponsored by the ILR School, has been awarded to Steven Beda, assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon.
Exhibit Celebrates Union Icon and Power of Collective
The “Norma Rae” movie immortalized unionizing efforts of southern textile workers that grew into a national boycott of cotton goods manufactured by a union-busting manufacturer. Kheel Center curators tell the deeper story.
For more than 300 days, Amazon workers talked with their peers to build relationships, trust and, ultimately, a union that many thought would never be possible, Amazon Labor Union leaders said at ILR during Union Days.
Increasing the Tompkins County minimum wage of $16.61 to a living wage would increase earnings for thousands of workers and reduce racial and gender disparities, according to a new Ithaca Co-Lab report.
The public is invited to ILR School “Talkin’ Union” events featuring speakers whose experiences reflect contemporary labor movement struggles and successes.
Speaker Kate Andrias, a Columbia Law School professor, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who studied as a Cornell undergraduate with the legendary Professor Milton Konvitz.
The ILR School Climate Jobs Institute, the first U.S. academic institution focused on conducting research and developing policy for governments across the nation to support clean energy targets, is launching Jan. 25 in New York City.
Moment or Movement? Organizing Superstars Speak Out
Jaz Brisack, Simon Rosenblum-Larson, Jessica Garcia and Heather Goodall
shared their insights about the organizing process and workers’ goals at a panel on campus.
Closing pay gaps will require employers, some of whom have little infrastructure or capacity to uphold the law, to think carefully about their compensation spectrum, experts said at an ILR forum.
Beginning today, employers with four or more employees or with one or more domestic workers must include a salary range when advertising jobs to be performed in New York City.
The final report of a study the Buffalo Co-Lab conducted with Erie County child care providers, advocates, unions and businesses was released under the banner of Child Care is Everyone's Business.
Ship Detained After ILR/ILO Workshop on Labor Abuse Among Fishers
A recent training by the ILO, in collaboration with Cornell’s New Conversations Project, has resulted in the South African government detaining a foreign-flagged fishing vessel suspected of engaging in labor abuses.
Kate Bronfenbrenner breaks down how unions expand into new sectors, navigate the ups and downs of attracting membership, and negotiate with management.
ILR Senior Economics Adviser Erica Groshen co-edited a special edition of the Harvard Data Science Review addressing changes made by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Cornell International Summer Debate Camp invites local students to join teens from around the world July 30 through Aug. 7 to learn about debate, a civil discourse skill.
Two ILRies leading Outreach institutes are informing the national conversation around the historic union organizing shift.
Cathy Creighton, director of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, and Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of ILR’s Worker Institute, have been putting their ILR education and experience to work in roles they now hold at the school.
New initiative and accompanying web-based tool helps employers see beyond criminal records of applicants and into the skills applicants would bring to jobs.
The war in Ukraine, the pandemic and climate change have upended the supply chain, topic of an April 14 eCornell Keynote webinar with apparel industry executives and ILR School Dean Alexander Colvin.
