Mother Jones, January 6, 2014, Monday

Mother Jones

January 6, 2014, Monday

Mother Jones (full article)

H&M Plans to Pay Garment Workers Fair Wages. Here's Why That's Probably BS.

Jefferson Cowie, the chair of the Department of Labor Relations, Law, & History at Cornell University, echoed those concerns. "It is hard to see governments taking a strong role in boosting wages in the short run," he told me. Fair wages can also be hard to enforce. I saw this firsthand while reporting my sumangali story: In India, the government does have a minimum wage for textile workers—but many of the female workers I spoke with were not being paid that wage, and didn't have access to a union.

Metro, December 30, 2013, Monday

Metro

December 30, 2013, Monday

Metro (full article)

Boost your professional skills with a certificate program

"The certificate is great for a career professional that’s already experienced to some degree, looks to broaden and deepen their knowledge, and seeks to have the opportunity to understand leading practices,” says Janet Rizzuto, managing director of human resource studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial Labor Relations in New York City.

The Hearld, December 24, 2013, Tuesday

The Hearld

December 24, 2013, Tuesday

The Herald (full article)

Labor complaint questions timing of Boeing vote

An international taking over a local happens very rarely and usually because of illegal activities or extreme incompetence, said Art Wheaton, a faculty member and labor relations expert at the Worker Institute at Cornell University. "It would not happen over politics."

Marketplace, December 20, 2013, Friday

Marketplace

December 20, 2013, Friday

Marketplace (full article)

The stock market is not the economy! OK, what about GDP?

“The economy as it’s experienced by people has not improved nearly as much as some of these GDP statistics suggest,” says American Enterprise Institute labor economist Michael Strain (ILR Alumnus).

“We still have a significant portion that is long-term unemployed,” says Linda Barrington, executive director of Linda Barrington is executive director of the Institute for Compensation Studies at Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School. “The biggest challenge we’re gonna be facing is how do we bring those who really were pushed out of the market for a long time back in as we recover.”

In These Times, December 19, 2013, Thursday

In These Times

December 19, 2013, Thursday

In These Times (full article)

The Adjunct's Lament

“Workers may like greater flexibility,” says Kate Griffiths, a professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations and a director of the newly-launched Precarious Research Network. “But they do not like greater job insecurity and lower wages and benefits. Flexibility without security is not desirable.”

MLB.com, December 12, 2013, Thursday

MLB.com

December 12, 2013, Thursday

MLB.com (full article)

MLB appoints Halem as EVP, labor relations

Commissioner Bud Selig appointed Dan Halem as executive vice president of labor relations for Major League Baseball on Thursday.

Halem, who graduated from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1988 and from Harvard Law School, joined MLB after working as a partner in the Labor and Employment Law Department at the New York office of Proskauer.

GRITtv, December 10, 2013, Tuesday

GRITtv

December 10, 2013, Tuesday

GRITtv (full interview/article)

Trade Unions and Extending Solidarity to the Ecosystem

What would it mean to extend solidarity to the eco-system? That's the question at the heart of this conversation with union activist and environmentalist, Sean Sweeney, Global Labor Institute at Cornell .

Puget Sound Business Journal, December 10, 2013, Tuesday

Puget Sound Business Journal

December 10, 2013, Tuesday

Puget Sound Business Journal (full article)

Could union use NLRB as lever to keep 777X in Washington?

But Kate Bronfenbrenner, a senior lecturer in labor relations at Cornell University, suggests that Boeing’s stance in November that it would guarantee 777X work in Washington state only if union members approved their proposed contract extension could be construed as “threats and coercion.”