Congratulations, Susanne Bruyère! Read more about our @cornellyti.bsky.social director's influential career and work: www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/faculty...

Congratulations to Adam on this well deserved honor!

Check out Alex Kowalski's excellent new paper on robots in fulfillment warehouses. We think this is the first published paper that was first work-shopped at Cornell's new Sociology of Organizations, Labor, and Economy Seminar! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Shifting from numerical to narrative-based performance reviews can significantly impact employees’ perceptions of fairness and their likelihood of improving performance based on the feedback, according to research led by Emily Zitek, associate professor of organizational behavior at #CornellILR.

Remembering Nick Salvatore, professor emeritus of global labor and work in #CornellILR, an award-winning historian and teacher, and a lifelong champion for working people. Salvatore, who taught at Cornell for 36 years, died Nov. 29 in Ithaca; he was 82.

Thrilled to share that I’m co-organizing the Columbia–Cornell Political Economy of Work Junior Scholars Workshop; our second year organizing the junior work law scholars.

Last month, @casssunstein.bsky.social led a timely discussion of the past, present and future of free expression at American universities when he delivered #CornellILR's annual Konvitz Memorial Lecture, titled "Free Speech on Campus."

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the ILR School's first day of classes, back on November 5, 1945! Included here are a few photos from our "ILR By the Decade" timeline, which you can view here: https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ilr-80-years-decade Happy 80 years, #CornellILR! ❤️

Agreed. U.S. states too.

#CornellILR is proud to share that the National Conflict Resolution Service (NCRS) has played an important role in helping keep Broadway’s lights on, through a new collective bargaining agreement between @actorsequity.bsky.social and The Broadway League. Read more: actorsequity.org/news/PR/2025...

Amazon reportedly plans to automate 75% of its operations. #CornellILR's Alex Kowalski says the threat of automation was always lurking, but any really big impacts had been concerns for the more distant future. "This release shows that widespread job loss could happen sooner than anticipated."

Cass R. Sunstein, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, will lead a timely discussion of the past, present and future of free expression at American universities when he delivers #CornellILR's annual Milton R. Konvitz Memorial Lectureship in American Ideals.

🚨The deadline for abstract submissions to the Harry Katz conference & special issue is coming up on October 1. 📚Guest Editors: @ilralex.bsky.social, Ariel Avgar and Danielle van Jaarsveld 📅Conference: @cornellilr.bsky.social April 11–12, 2026 🗒️For more 👉: shorturl.at/ER2XK

🚨 New Paper! 🚨 Why do employers violate employment law? Turns out the answer is radically different for small businesses, especially IBIPOC businesses whose marginallization diminishes HR capacity. We find this complicates govt enforcement efforts. Out now in IREL doi.org/10.1111/irel...

Political Economy of Work Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Columbia University December 5-6, 2025.  #EconSky #PoliSky #EconConf Proposal deadline 9/15 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨 I’m excited to announce that, “The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy” is now available online ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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) 🔗 forms.gle/vDkCHyenE5yQ...

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. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

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

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

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

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. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

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!

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.

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...

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 #Co#CornellILR/2 apnews.com/article/bide...htt

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. www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/faculty...

Hi Bluesky👋 We are a database of labor strikes and protests in the US, with comprehensive data on strikes since 2021. We'll be posting strike-related news and our monthly and annual reports. See you at the picket line✊