News Room America, June 14, 2014, Saturday

News Room America

June 14, 2014, Saturday

News Room America (full article)

Appointee for Member, Presidential Emergency Board


Bonnie S. Weinstock has been a labor and employment arbitrator and mediator since 1981.  She is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators.  She is also on the arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the National Mediation Board, and numerous state and local panels.  She has a nationwide practice and has served as an arbitrator in a variety of industries, including airlines, hotels and restaurants, health care, education, service, publishing, government, entertainment, and manufacturing.  Ms. Weinstock has served as a member of the Advisory Council for Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School and the President's Council of Cornell Women.  

The Real News, June 13, 2014, Friday

The Real News

June 13, 2014, Friday 

The Real News (full video)

TRNN Debate: How Can We Fix the Student Debt Crisis


Ronald G. Ehrenberg is the Director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. A noted higher education scholar, he has served as a vice president and a trustee of Cornell University, and is currently a trustee of the State University of New York (SUNY). He is the author of Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much (Harvard University Press) and the editor of What's Happening to Public Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press). In 2013, he was awarded the Howard G. Bowen Distinguished Career Award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education; the award is presented annually to an individual whose professional life has largely been devoted to the study of higher education and whose career has significantly advanced the field through extraordinary scholarship, leadership and service.

The Gazette (Montreal), June 7, 2014, Saturday

The Gazette (Montreal)

June 7, 2014, Saturday 

The Gazette (full article)

Fewer employed women could slow growth

"The Canadian labour market since 2008 has been very different than the U.S.," she said.

U.S. female participation fell to 17th place in 2010 from sixth in 1990 among 22 nations studied in a paper by Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Canada was tied for ninth with the Netherlands. The U.S. government requires companies employing more than 50 people to offer 12 weeks of unpaid parental leave under a 1993 law. Canada expanded paid benefits that can be claimed through the national employment insurance program by either parent to a maximum of 104 weeks in 2010.