The Worker Institute brings together researchers, educators and students with practitioners in labor, business and policymaking to address issues related to confronting systemic inequality and building a fair economy, robust democracy and just society. We will share opinion, analysis, research, data, insights and training from our faculty and staff.
Events
Labor Research Action Network Conference
The Worker Institute at Cornell is proud to co-sponsor the Labor Research Action Network's third national conference this year in Washington, D.C. This will be an opportunity for labor leaders, academics, activists, scholars, and students to exchange fresh ideas and new ways of thinking about the labor movement.
Brown Bag Lunch on Precarious Work and Movement Building, with Oscar Olivera from Bolivia
Please join us for a brown bag lunch discussion with one of Latin America's most well known and innovative labor and social movement organizers, Oscar Olivera, based in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
ILR Students Alex Klein And Allison Lapehn, Report From The Labor Roundtable
On November 14, 2014, The Worker Institute hosted the twelfth annual ILR Labor Roundtable at Cornell. Around 170 students – the largest recorded turnout in the event's history – came to the Roundtable to talk with 16 speakers representing the labor and social justice movements.
New York City Public Advocate Leticia "Tish" James spoke at the annual International Women's Day event, Women Uniting...Leading...And Moving Forward!, on Friday to celebrate the continued growth of women's leadership in unions and the workforce.
Ten Cornell ILR students will attend a taping of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and tour the NBC studios in Manhattan and Silvercup Studios in Queens in January. The tours are part of ILR's Winter Intersession Program (WISP), a program that provides students with work-related experiences during winter break.
The Gendered Nature of C.A.R.E. Workshop (Caregivers and Responsible Employment)
At "Elder Care, Child Care and Domestic Workers' Organizations" and "Work-Life Balance in Union and Non-Union Setting," participants will discuss how these projects developed and they might be broadened further.
Cornell ILR's Worker Institute and the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity Queen Mary, University of London, UK invite you to celebrate the publication of Gender and Leadership in Unions on March 21st, 2013.
Twenty two representatives from ILR faculty, Extension faculty, Ph.D. students and recent graduates representing the ILR School and the School's Scheinman Institute, Healthcare Transformation Project and Worker Institute at Cornell will speak on eighteen panels at LERA's 66th Annual Meeting.
International Labour Organization Director-General Guy Ryder described global challenges related to work and employment when he spoke at the Worker Institute at Cornell on Friday.
“Rights, Solidarity, and Justice: Working People Organizing, Past and Present,” will be held June 6-8 in Manhattan at the Graduate Center for Worker Education. About 500 are slated to participate.
Brown and Wheaton to Speak at Environmental Summit
The Worker Institute at Cornell is co-sponsoring Daemen College's annual Environmental Summit. Celebrating its ninth year, the event brings environmentally-focused organizations together to network and learn best practices from various Western New York experts.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, speaking at the Worker Institute's Transatlantic Social Dialogue meeting on June 6 in New York City, discussed the growing partnership between U.S. and German trade unions.
Saket Soni, director of the National Guestworker Alliance, discussed the emergence of temporary, subcontracted and other kinds of unstable employment on Friday at a Worker Institute-organized event.
Investing in Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery
Trade unionists, community leaders and United National agency and national delegation representatives are invited to a special meeting to network and discuss critical disaster preparedness, response and recovery issues. In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, this is an opportunity to share experiences, lessons learned and best practice proposals for solutions.
The New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse visited the Worker Institute in New York City on April 23 to speak with students about his work covering the 2011 attacks on collective bargaining in Wisconsin and Ohio, the current debates about minimum wage and the one-year anniversary of the Bangladesh factory collapse.
On the weekend of the march, and prior to the UN Climate Summit, the Worker Institute convened a meeting of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, hosting union leaders from 12 countries and climate activists such as Naomi Klein.
Researchers and trade union representatives from the U.S. and Canada discussed child care policy at a panel discussion. The meeting was held in the Worker Institute and was sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation's New York City office. Approximately 60 child care advocates and trade union leaders participated.
The Worker Institute at Cornell will host two workshops on the Affordable Care Act on September 11and 12 in Albany and Rochester, New York. These workshops "The Affordable Care Act: What Unions Need to Know" will provide union representatives with information on the new health care law.
On Friday, May 2nd, the ILR School’s Labor and Employment Law Program hosted a forum discussing the implications of NLRB Region 13 Regional Director Peter Ohr’s decision that Northwestern’s scholarship football players are employees under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
More than 60 Communications Workers of America (CWA) members in Ithaca this week for leadership training heard Bob Master discuss “The State of the Labor Movement and What We Can Do About It.”
As part of the 57th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, ILR was honored for its work to eliminate violence against women and to engage men as allies with women to promote social change and gender equity.
"Building Partnerships and Strategies Toward Recovery and Rebuilding" at ILR's Manhattan offices brought together leaders from unions, business, community and academia to discuss strategies and policies addressing Superstorm Sandy's impact on New York City and New York state.
Skinner and Sweeney attend CTA Congress to discuss new energy project
Lara Skinner and Sean Sweeney, directors of the Cornell Global Labor Institute, met with union leaders to discuss Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, a new project that was launched in New York during the October 2012 "Energy Emergency, Energy Transition" global trade union roundtable.
