This Week’s Top Hits

Art Wheaton, ILR director of labor studies, comments on the progress and challenges facing the UAW’s reform efforts.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, comments on how the bureau may deal with certain missing data now that the government shutdown is over.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, describes staffing challenges at the bureau as it re-opens after the government shutdown and which reports the bureau is likely to prioritize.

Kate Bronfenbrenner, ILR director of labor education research, analyzes the effect of labor laws and the National Labor Relations Board on the dispute between Starbucks and the Starbucks Workers United union.

Cathy Creighton, director of ILR’s Buffalo co-lab, shares her expertise about unions and comments on the resilience of Starbucks workers.

“That act really enforced what we think of today as an eight-hour workday and a basic 40-hour workweek,” said Ileen Devault, ILR professor of labor history, about the Fair Labor Standards Act signed in 1938.