This Week’s Top Hits

“It’s a brutal market,” said Art Wheaton, ILR director of labor studies, commenting on market conditions for electric vehicles in the U.S.

“This is not a technical problem but a political one” said Jason Judd, executive director of the Global Labor Institute, about the fashion industry’s progress with adapting to climate change.

Cathy Creighton, director of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab and a former attorney at the National Labor Relations Board, explains how the lack of a quorum at the board could hinder union organizing efforts.

“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.