Public Impact

As the 2024 Alice B. Grant Labor Leader in Residence, ILRie Randi Weingarten spent time at ILR teaching, speaking and meeting with students, professors and university staff.

Four people affiliated with ILR helped foster a $750,000 grant supporting the Ray Corollary Initiative's mission to increase diversity within the alternative dispute resolution profession.

Doctoral student Claire Malcomb supports undergraduate research on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Youbin Kang is researching the impact of immigration status on workplace precarity.

Postdoctoral associate and Future of Work fellow Hadia Akhtar Khan is developing programming and conferences.

Thirty years after the genocide that devastated his country and killed most of his family, Freddy Mutanguha continues to stand for the empathy he developed in the tragedy’s aftermath.

ILR graduate students say Liz Karns' class helped them develop values, identify issues and learn how to take ethical actions.

Some of the most significant labor-management issues of 2023-24 are being discussed by ILR alums, faculty and external experts.

The National Academy of Human Resources recognized ILR Graduate Studies Director Chris Collins for his teaching, research, mentoring, leadership and other contributions to the industry.

A seven-year, multi-university partnership will examine migrant workers and international mobility programs in New Zealand, also known as Aotearoa, Australia, Canada and the U.S.

The Evergreen State has positioned itself as a climate leader in America, but a new report from the ILR Climate Jobs Institute reveals there is much more to be done to ensure that its climate investments maximize high-quality job creation, equity and economic development.

Five ILR students led grassroots community projects, thanks to funding from Cornell’s student-run Community Partnership Funding Board.

More than 3,000 justice-involved people, employers, law enforcement personnel and others have received training since 2018 through an ILR program.

Increasing the Tompkins County minimum wage of $16.61 to a living wage would increase earnings for thousands of workers and reduce racial and gender disparities, according to a new Ithaca Co-Lab report.

ILR Professor John Hausknecht discusses a new law aimed at reducing hiring discrimination.

The ILR School database that documents U.S. work stoppages informs journalists, policymakers, activists, scholars and the public about labor activism and unrest.

Union leaders, elected officials, non-profit organizations and others across the nation are lauding the growth of the ILR School initiative.

The New York State Apprenticeship and Training Council will be led through 2025 by Esta Bigler.

The “Good Jobs for All?” summit focused on barriers faced by workers in Ithaca, where ILR faculty, students and community members have been investigating joblessness, wage inequality and related issues.

Johnnie Kallas started the ILR Labor Action Tracker, which tracks labor strikes across the country, and is now also studying their effectiveness.

Ian Greer, Ithaca Co-Lab director and other ILR researchers have found that living wage legislation would have a dramatic impact on the earnings of many Black workers in Tompkins County.

Research-based data and policy analysis on a range of issues impacting New York’s workers, unions and employers are the focus of the ILR School’s second annual Labor Day report.

The Cornell International Summer Debate Camp invites local students to join teens from around the world July 30 through Aug. 7 to learn about debate, a civil discourse skill.