This Week’s Top Hits

Justin Bloesch, ILR assistant professor, analyzes the projected economic impact of a severe winter storm on the construction and service industries.

“There’s chronic issues here that keep recurring, and the parties seem to be at a state where they’re not able to resolve them,” said John August, director of healthcare labor relations at Scheinman Institute, about the NYC nursing strike. The article also cites ILR’s Labor Action Tracker.

Cathy Creighton, director of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, discusses the unprecedented nature of recent actions by the federal government against unionized workers.

Ian Greer, director of the ILR Ithaca Co-Lab, compares just-cause labor protections in several U.S. states and in the Netherlands.

“The recent research shows that no healthcare segment is beyond the reach of private equity owners who exploit publicly funded healthcare organizations for their own gains,” said Rosemary Batt, ILR professor of women and work, in this article about private equity ownership in the healthcare system.

As a guest on the Directionally Correct podcast, JR Keller, ILR associate professor, responds with research-based expertise to a wide range of HR-related questions. He also discusses ILR’s Executive Master of Human Resource Management Program and ILR’s Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies.