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Jobs report on eve of election will be among the most distorted in years

AP News
Erica Groshen, a senior economic adviser at ILR and a former commissioner of the BLS, explained that revisions to the job report are “not a bug; they are a feature” of the government’s data-gathering.
Jobs report on eve of election will be among the most distorted in years

It Shouldn’t Be This Easy to Sign Away Your Right to a Trial

The New York Times
This opinion piece highlights an article written last year by Alexander Colvin, dean of ILR, which noted that in employment cases, employees do worse in arbitration than in court.
It Shouldn’t Be This Easy to Sign Away Your Right to a Trial

Another Voice: The American Dream is not dead, it's just mismanaged

The Buffalo News
In this opinion piece, Susan Woods of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab discusses The American Dream.
Another Voice: The American Dream is not dead, it's just mismanaged

At the heart of the Boeing strike, an emotional fight over a lost pension plan

NPR
Art Wheaton, director of labor studies at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, says “If you had it for decades and you gave it up in the last negotiations, it's not unreasonable to ask to get it reinstated. But I don't think it's achievable.”
At the heart of the Boeing strike, an emotional fight over a lost pension plan

Why Boeing Workers Rejected a New Contract: Retirement Benefits

The New York Times
Harry Katz, professor of collective bargaining, discusses the ongoing Boeing labor negotiations.
Why Boeing Workers Rejected a New Contract: Retirement Benefits

New Touch Technologies Bring Screen Time to the Blind

Wall Street Journal
The Yang Tan Institute on Employment and Disability says that about half of the adult blind U.S. population isn’t employed.
New Touch Technologies Bring Screen Time to the Blind

ILR in the News

Boston Public Radio full show: Sept. 12, 2022
Why Buffalo was the place to unionize Starbucks
Workers unionize but big businesses continue to resist
U.S. trade unions: Inside the revival brewing at Starbucks
Chicago is (still) a union town
Labor: Taylor’s Digital Stopwatch
Sexual harassment is so prevalent in the service industry workers struggle to identify it
NYC may ban e-bikes in public housing following a spate of fires
What goes into calculating employment numbers?
Job Openings Hold Firm at 11 Million While Consumer Confidence Picks Up
How unions are winning again, in 4 charts
Columbus art museum workers call for 'a seat at the table'
Labor movement adds union members store by store
Accounting giant PwC’s boozy U.K. event ends with coma and lawsuit
Balance of Power
Independent unions are having a moment. But are they here to stay?
Diverse workers driving new union push
The Unionization Wave Is Rising; Can It Survive A Recession?
Starbucks Dials Up Anti-Union Heat by Accusing NLRB of Collusion
An Alaskan Election Direction Inspection

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