This Week’s Top Hits

“It’s a crisis,” said Madeline Sterling, a primary care doctor at Weill Cornell Medicine and director of the Initiative on Home Care Work, housed in ILR’s Center for Applied Research on Work, about home care for the elderly. She also discusses recent clinical trials aimed at improving care.

“The law allows management to hire replacements in this kind of strike, so the workers just don't have a lot of leverage,” said Harry Katz, ILR School professor and director of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution, analyzing the leverage held by the currently striking Starbucks workers.

Vanessa Bohns, ILR professor of organizational behavior, refers to research to explain why a person may miss an opportunity to give a compliment.

Iris Packman, senior research & policy development associate at ILR’s Climate Jobs Institute, discusses why construction workers in New York’s renewable energy industry may travel or relocate for work and comments on the importance of Project Labor Agreements. The article also cites the institute’s NYS Solar Workforce study.

“We happen to have an administration which is less worried about doing things that are disruptive, so this is an opportunity,” said Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, commenting on a possible opportunity to centralize statistics-related government agencies.

Jason Judd, executive director of the Global Labor Institute, recommends that the fashion industry should “get their act together” with regard to heat and climate change, “because workers are suffering from heat stress and, in turn, so are margins.”