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Associated Press

“If you can make it collective bargaining where everybody on the company side and everybody on the union side are trying to solve the difference, that’s a whole lot better than having all of the different owners pushing their own buttons and all of the different agents also trying to change it,” says Art Wheaton, director of labor studies.

CNN

“If you expand your circle a little, more people are willing to help than we think and that unburdens those closest to us,” says Vanessa Bohns, associate professor of the ILR School.

The Wall Street Journal

“When Chrome is up-to-date, it does a pretty good job of blocking these attacks. Once it is no longer updated, it becomes vulnerable to new threats,” says Vitaliy Shmatikov, professor of computer science. 

Bloomberg CityLab

Teresa Jordan, professor of engineering, says that urban areas face greater challenges as “You’re making holes where probably, in a populated city, there are already lots of other facilities using the area under the ground. They’ve already buried all sorts of stuff under the sidewalks, under buildings. To go in and just start digging, is a huge organizational challenge.” 

CNN Business

“It would be a crucial success,” says Alexander Colvin, dean of the ILR School, about the organization of a union at Tesla. “It’d be up there with successful organizing Amazon (AMZN).” 

Fortune

Charles K. Whitehead, professor of business law, writes this opinion piece arguing that companies should be required to disclose their ties to Russia. 

Reuters

Andrew Karolyi, dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, explains why getting rid of Russian assets is difficult for U.S. fund managers. 

San Francisco Chronicle

Michael Dorf, professor of law, says “subbing one Democratic appointee for another doesn’t change the fundamental dynamics on the court.”  

Fortune

Desirée LeClercq, assistant professor in the ILR School, writes this piece about the course of action President Biden should take in enacting sanctions by learning from past mistakes. 

National Geographic

Rachel Bezner-Kerr, professor of global development, is a co-author oon the latest report out of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 

Associated Press

Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history, discusses the difficulties of implementing successful sanctions on a country with a large economy, like Russia. 

Bloomberg

Tasha Lewis, associate professor in the department of human centered design, says “brands create blends [of fibers] to achieve a certain type of garment, but are not thinking about end of life of that garment.”