Cathy Creighton, director of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab, says even though TSA and ICE employees both fall under the Department of Homeland Security, they are trained for very different jobs.

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Cathy Creighton, director of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab and former field attorney for the NLRB, says TSA workers have been put through the wringer in 2025-2026.

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Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

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Patricia Campos-Medina, a policy expert on workplace and labor issues at Cornell University,  says the meatpacking industry is marked by high levels of productivity, yet workers have not seen their wages increase or health care benefits improve. 

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business

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Lee Adler is an expert on education and academic union issues at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Cathy Creighton, director of Cornell University's Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab and former field attorney for the NLRB, says the new changes allow for unprecedented political control over career civil servants.

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Art Wheaton is an expert on transportation industries and serves as director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He says Trump’s pivot comes with short and long-term implications for carmakers.

Economics and Business

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Erica Groshen, senior economic advisor at Cornell University and former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says private sector estimates are not necessarily good substitutes for official federal statistics.

Economics and Business

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Art Wheaton is an expert on transportation industries and serves as director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He says air traffic controllers have one of the highest stress jobs in the country.

Law, Government & Public Policy

Labor Relations & Human Resources

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Russell Weaver is a quantitative geographer and Director of Research at the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab.

Economics and Business

Industrial and Labor Relations

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John August, program director of healthcare labor relations at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says this policy chaos has profound impacts on healthcare workers who are the primary point of contact with patients.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

Labor Relations & Human Resources

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