‘Moonshot’ project aims to restore trust in the digital public sphere

Researchers have received a seed grant for $250,000 and a chance at a $10 million award to support a project aimed at using artificial intelligence to establish a foundation for trustworthy AI-mediated communication across online platforms.

Book talk, film screening, keynote to highlight Union Days

The events, beginning April 9, will focus on labor unions, immigration rights and racial justice.

Rudeness may be rewarded – as a response to rudeness

If you don’t have anything nice to say, perhaps it’s OK to say it anyway – if responding to someone who has treated you or your group disrespectfully.

Summit creates foundation for campus, community connection

More than 300 Cornell employees and community members attended the seventh annual Inclusive Excellence Summit on March 24, gathering virtually from across the nation for a day of connection and reflection.

Job hopping builds hidden ‘mobility benefit’

New research found that the more often a person starts a new job, the better they get at it.

CAROW Announces AI and Work Grant Recipients

The ILR School’s Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) recently awarded three seed grants for new research that addresses questions around the intersection of AI and organizations, employment and work.

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JC Tretter ’13 elected executive director of NFL Players Association

The NFL Players Association Board of Player Representatives has elected ILRie JC Tretter ’13 as the union’s next executive director following a comprehensive, player-driven search process.

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New paper explores Black workers in the south and their views on unions

Black workers in the Southeast face numerous challenges, including little advance notice of their work schedules, concerns about workplace safety and racial discrimination, but they also believe unions could alleviate some of these issues, according to a working paper co-authored by Kate Bronfenbrenner, Ph.D. ’93, director of Labor Education Research at the ILR School.

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Distant past may expose companies to claims of hypocrisy

Companies risk being criticized as hypocritical when their words and deeds don’t match – even if those discrepancies are decades apart.