New Research Shows Home Care Cooperative Can Improve Patient Care Home care cooperatives – agencies co-owned and managed by home care workers – have key factors that appear to significantly improve the quality of care for patients, according to a new study co-author...

A new #CornellILR co-authored study shows that home care cooperatives – agencies co-owned and managed by home care workers – have key factors that appear to significantly improve the quality of care for patients. @madelinesterling.bsky.social www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/researc...

Do you want to report a #strike or a #protest near you to the Labor Action Tracker?

You can do so by clicking on the "Report a Strike" option on our website.

Help us map a #picket line close to you.

📢 CFP: Columbia–Cornell Jr Scholars Workshop on the Political Economy of Work 🗽 Dec 5–6, 2025 in NYC!

Open to early-career scholars in law, soc, econ, poli sci, history.

Submit 1p abstract by Sept 15
✅ Feedback + mentoring
✅ Travel/lodging support (if needed)

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Does third party interventions improve the health of bargaining relationships? Bradley Weinberg #queensuniversity shows that earlier procedures such as #conciliation and #mediation are related to a lower likelihood of relationship dissolution than subsequent ones.
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Four faculty receive 2025 Carpenter Advising Awards | Cornell Chronicle Nominations are solicited annually from all members of the academic community, the awards bestowed in recognition of the importance of undergraduate advising.

Gali Racabi (@gracabi.bsky.social) is one of four Cornell faculty members to win a Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, which recognizes the sustained and distinguished contributions of tenure-track faculty and senior lecturers to advising undergraduates. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

‘Be Your Own Boss?’ Explaining Variation in Worker Response to the Gig Economy's Ideology in the Global North and South The proponents of app-based, algorithmically mediated employment seek to create an easily transferable uniform labour process around the world. These apps classify their workers as independent contra...

How does local place & its socio-political & histories of racism shape gig economy algorithms? Our take out now in @bjireditor.bsky.social "‘Be Your Own Boss?’ Explaining Variation in Worker Response to the Gig Economy's Ideology in the Global North and South" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fascinating new research on strategic HR and competitive dynamics in the gig economy from Mike Maffie and Tash Lakhani! Nice research design too, taking advantage of a change in Uber policies. Shows the value of having data collection projects active out in the field at a critical moment.

Cornell ILR is recruiting a Postdoc in Global Labor and Work - focusing on AI and labor. Deadline May 15, 2025. Please circulate widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/...

Reminder: this year's Konvitz Lecture will take place on March 27 (tomorrow!) at 4:30 p.m. in 423 King-Shaw Hall (in-person) or via Zoom. More details via the link below.

📢Call for papers for a conference and special issue honoring Harry C. Katz is now open!
#⃣ Issue: Labor Relations at a Crossroads: Charting the Course Forward
🗓️Deadline: 1 Oct 2025
📝Editors: Ariel Avgar, @ilralex.bsky.social & Danielle van Jaarsveld
🔍More: shorturl.at/RtkOj

A lot of mine in there too!

The Vital Importance of Good Economic Statistics | Chats A discussion with Erica Groshen on the role of the BLS, the importance of good data for decision-making, and concerns about political interference degrading the integrity of government statistics.

Here's my take on “The Vital Importance of Good Economic Statistics”—and the threats to them.

Listen to a new @econofact.bsky.social podcast: econofact.org/podcast/the-...

#econsky #statistics #economicstatistics #BLS #federalstatistics #inflation #jobsday #jobs #data #datascience

I think that’s right, KD Lang was subbing for Bryan Adams - good memory! She did a great set too - a superior substitute.

I was at that concert too! A group of us from the U of T Amnesty International club went. I have a recollection though of KD Lang filling in for Tracy Chapman - though my memory could be a bit hazy after 35+ years!

Does mandatory #employment #arbitration impact employee rights and remedies? Mark Gough @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
shows that employee win rates in arbitration are lower than those found in state and federal #court.
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Santiago Anria Q&A Santiago Anria came to the ILR School's Department of Global Labor and Work following an assistant professorship in the Department of Political Science and Latin American Studies at Dickinson College....

In this faculty Q&A, learn more about @anriasantiago.bsky.social, assistant professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at #CornellILR! Anria studies the relationships between social movements, labor unions and political parties in Latin America. www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/faculty...

Latest strike numbers from the Labor Action Tracker: down from last year’s recent high, but still seeing widespread strike activity - check out the report for all the details!

🚨The Labor Action Tracker 2024 Annual Report drops tomorrow at 7am EST!🚨

Tomorrow morning we will be releasing our annual report compiling all of our 2024 work stoppage data - stay tuned to learn more about worker action in the U.S. over the past year!

Archival photo of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Cornell ILR School's Kheel Center

Cornell alumna Claire Deng uncovered something unexpected last summer in #CornellILR's Kheel Center: one of only two known transcripts of a Chicago 1957 speech given by Martin Luther King Jr., who had just come to national prominence, emphasizing connections between workers’ rights and civil rights.

How transparent is your company? Our index will show which companies silence workers The LOV index will show which companies use forced arbitration and NDAs to keep employees from talking about discrimination and harassment.

Big news! My nonprofit Lift Our Voices is launching a corporate rating system this year, so workers can see how transparent their company is about silencing workers. For more, read my op-ed with Gretchen Carlson in Fast Company today. www.fastcompany.com/91245276/lov...

Biden establishes a national monument for Frances Perkins, the 1st female Cabinet secretary President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins.

Today, President Biden will sign a proclamation establishing the Frances Perkins National Monument to honor America’s first woman Cabinet Secretary and the longest-serving Secretary of Labor. Perkins also served as a lecturer and frequent guest at #CornellILR. 1/2 apnews.com/article/bide...htt

Behavioral Researcher Joins ExPO Lab Usman Liaquat has joined ILR's Experimental Psychology and Organizations (ExPO) Lab as a Future of Work fellow.

Usman Liaquat, an ILR Future of Work fellow who joined  #CornellILR's Experimental Psychology and Organizations (ExPO) Lab group this fall, researches how people perceive changes within organizations, specifically around increasing diversity in the workplace.
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