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Fair and Safe Return to Work: Protecting Workers and Communities during Reopening

This webinar will examine the issues that workers and communities are facing as New York City undergoes phase 4 of the reopening of its economy.
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Fair and Safe Return to Work: Protecting Workers and Communities during Reopening

Strategies for a Worker-Centered Reopening and Recovery

On July 1st the Worker Institute at Cornell University, ILR School convened an online webinar, Strategies for a Worker-Centered Reopening and Recovery, moderated by Juan González, Co-Host, DEMOCRACY NOW!
Worker writing on a whiteboard with a mask.
Strategies for a Worker-Centered Reopening and Recovery

Clean Energy and COVID-19: Green Priorities for the Economic Recovery

Worker Institute Executive Director, Lara Skinner speaks on a panel presented by eCornell, "Clean Energy and COVID-19: Green Priorities for the Economic Recovery."
Solar panels in a field.
Clean Energy and COVID-19: Green Priorities for the Economic Recovery

Gig Worker Rights in New York State during the Covid-19 Crisis and Beyond

"COVID is becoming an occupational disease,” said State Senator Jessica Ramos in her closing remarks in this Worker Institute hosted panel.
Man wearing a face mask riding an e-scooter on a city street
Gig Worker Rights in New York State during the Covid-19 Crisis and Beyond

Building Worker Power in NY State during the Covid-19 Crisis and Beyond

The virtual convening featured national and local labor leaders sharing insights on how workers have acted collectively during the Covid-19 crisis.
Building Worker POwer in NY State during the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond
Building Worker Power in NY State during the Covid-19 Crisis and Beyond

Unions’ Responses to COVID-19: A Transatlantic Perspective

On Monday, April 27th, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Cornell University In cooperation with The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR and The Transatlantic Social Dialogue hosted a live webinar on how unions have responded to the challenge of COVID-19.
Map showing the spread of the Covid-19 virus in Europe
Unions’ Responses to COVID-19: A Transatlantic Perspective

Challenges to Unions and Workers in the Age of COVID-19: Views from the Global South

On Wednesday, May 6th, the Worker Institute hosted a panel discussion on the main challenges facing unions and workers in the age of COVID-19.
Map illustrating the spread of Covid-19 in the global south
Challenges to Unions and Workers in the Age of COVID-19: Views from the Global South

NLLI Online Convening: Labor's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

On March 31, the Worker Institute convened alumni of the National Labor Leadership Initiative to explore responses to the COVID-19 crisis.
Screenshot of NLLI Online Convening
NLLI Online Convening: Labor's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

ILR School’s Extension Division Attends the SOMOS conference in Albany

The ILR School’s Extension Division was well-represented at the SOMOS conference, held March 6-8 in Albany.
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ILR School’s Extension Division Attends the SOMOS conference in Albany

Labor's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

On March 31, the Worker Institute convened alumni of the National Labor Leadership Initiative to explore responses to the COVID-19 crisis.
Labor's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic: Leading in a Time of Crisis
Labor's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Worker Institute hosts Annual Labor Roundtable

In Ithaca, on November 15th, the Worker Institute welcomed labor leaders to meet with students.
Students talking during the 2019 Labor Roundtable
Worker Institute hosts Annual Labor Roundtable

The Worker Institute hosts Climate Job New York's inaugural gala

On Sept. 24, during Climate Week, The Worker Institute at Cornell’s ILR School hosted Climate Jobs New York’s inaugural gala honoring Michael Bloomberg, James Slevin and Allison Ziogas at its Manhattan office.
Michael Bloomberg speaks at Climate Job New York's Inaugural Gala
The Worker Institute hosts Climate Job New York's inaugural gala

Panel with Policy Makers on Gig Economy held in Albany

The panel discussion titled "Policy Strategies for Protecting Workers in the New Economy" was held on Wednesday, May 15th in the Legislative Office Building, Albany Room Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY.
Panel in Albany on Wage Theft
Panel with Policy Makers on Gig Economy held in Albany

Worker Institute Hosts a Conference with International Social Scientists

Sexual harrassment in the workplace, labor's role in the climate crisis, gig work and other topics discussed.
The front desk of the ILR School's NYC offices
Worker Institute Hosts a Conference with International Social Scientists

International Labor Challenges Will Be Examined at Transatlantic Social Dialogue

Panelists at an event co-sponsored by ILR will discuss new social movement and policy strategies to improve access to high quality work and to organize new forms of solidarity in divided societies.
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International Labor Challenges Will Be Examined at Transatlantic Social Dialogue

Union Leadership Institute honors NY State Change Makers

The NYS AFL-CIO Cornell Union Leadership Institute celebrated 18 years of labor and worker leadership development.
Roberta Reardon speaks at ULI Change Makers Awards
Union Leadership Institute honors NY State Change Makers

Labor Rights for Marginalized Workers

TS Bambii, a sex worker representative from VOCAL-NY and DecrimNY, spoke about the economic necessity of sex work, and its inherent devaluation and criminalization at the panel “Labor Rights for Marginalized Workers,” hosted by the Worker Institute for Union Days.
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Labor Rights for Marginalized Workers

Discussion on Labor's Response to Non-Traditional Work Arrangements

Join the Worker Institute in Buffalo on November 9th for a discussion about how workers are affected by the “on-demand” or "gig" economy.
Discussion on Labor's Response to Non-Traditional Work Arrangements

Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy

On April 27th and l 28th, 2018 the Worker Institute at Cornell University hosted a conference titled, “Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy: Policy and Organizing Responses to Precarious Work.
Erica Smiley Speaks on a Panel with Dawn Gearhart and Daniel Gross at the Gig Economy Conference
Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy

Workers Rights in the Gig Economy

Responses by workers and their advocates to challenges in the gig economy will be explored in an April 27-28 conference organized by The Worker Institute at Cornell.
Workers Conference
Workers Rights in the Gig Economy

Remembrance and Activism United

Marking the 107th anniversary of the Triangle Fire tragedy, a turning point in labor history and law, the event will both remember its victims and focus on a new generation of activists who organize against global sweatshops.
Workers at the Triangle Fire Factory, 1911.
Remembrance and Activism United

Labor on Film

Beginning tomorrow, the Cornell Cinema is dedicating March showings to "Labor on Film." The eclectic series of films examine labor and labor issues both past and present, several with a focus on feminism in the workforce.
Labor on Film Dolores Huerta
Labor on Film

Climate Jobs Now! Summit

The Climate Jobs Now! Summit, which took place at the Cornell Club and was attended widely by labor and business leaders, focused on combatting climate change and reversing inequality in states and regions across the country.
Climate Jobs Now! Summit
Climate Jobs Now! Summit

Transatlantic Social Dialogue

The 15th annual U.S.-European Transatlantic Social Dialogue will bring together unionists, worker justice groups and academics from across the U.S., Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and Ireland.
The Worker Institute at Cornell
Transatlantic Social Dialogue

Post-Recession Report

The conference, held in downtown Buffalo, included a presentation on PUSH Buffalo, or People United for Sustainable Housing, a New York State Energy Research and Development Authority-funded effort to train residents to rehab houses so they are energy efficient.
Post-Recession Report

App Fights Wage Theft

An ILR School researcher was among the advocates and community leaders who met at the New York City Council’s Rapid Response Lab event on June 15 to discuss criminal justice and immigration reform issues.
Worker Institute at Cornell Research Specialist Legna J. Cabrera and Manuel Castro, executive director of New Immigrant Community Empowerment
App Fights Wage Theft

Change Maker Awards Reception: A Fundraiser for the ULI Scholarship Fund

The NYS AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute (ULI) is celebrating 16 years of labor and worker leadership development with an awards reception honoring the Change Makers.
Union Leadership Institute paricipants hold sections of pipe at retreat
Change Maker Awards Reception: A Fundraiser for the ULI Scholarship Fund

Student Fellows Presenting Research at SUNY Conference

Four student fellows of The Worker Institute at Cornell will present their research on worker centers, unions, day labor and immigrant rights at the annual SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference April 22 at SUNY Fredonia.
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Student Fellows Presenting Research at SUNY Conference

UNION DAYS 2017: Resisting, Organizing & Building Coalitions

Union Days and the Social Justice Career Fair are coming up from March 21 to March 23, 2017. All events are free and open to the public.
Union Days
UNION DAYS 2017: Resisting, Organizing & Building Coalitions

Labor Roundtable

Nineteen leaders in the United States labor and social justice movements, five of whom are ILR alumni, met with students on Friday, Nov. 18, for the Fourteenth Annual Labor Roundtable at Cornell’s Statler Hotel.
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Labor Roundtable