This Week’s Top Hits

Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at ILR, explains why Amazon preventing employees from discussing the workplace could backfire.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor, commented on the Consumer Price Index following layoffs at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, saying “at a national level, the standard errors aren’t really affected very much, and the reliability is still good, but it’s really disaggregated at the granular level.”

In this Q&A, Paul Ortiz, professor of labor history, contextualizes the current Los Angeles protests within the history of the labor movement and discusses how small businesses are responding to current immigration issues.

“There are a lot of common interests between the union and the company,” said Arthur Wheaton, ILR director of labor studies. “The union can benefit the company by giving management workers’ insights, gained from firsthand experience on how to solve problems.”

Jason Judd, executive director of the Global Labor Institute, explains that Chinese companies are avoiding Trump tariffs because they are increasingly building their own production facilities outside of China.

International students, says Professor Michael Lovenheim, “generate not only returns to themselves through higher wages, but they work in sectors that generate economic growth, they start businesses, they work in high-growth areas that generate more productivity and increase [Gross Domestic Product].”