“Workers are right to think the ball is in their court,” says Adam Seth Litwin, associate professor in the ILR School. “They need to take a really big bite of the apple right now, because whatever they get, they’re going to have it in their mouth for a long time.”

“This is something that started a couple of years back,” says Alex Colvin, dean of the ILR School, referring to a slight increase in labor actions. “But this current set of strikes definitely is larger than typical that we've seen over recent decades.” 

“The Supreme Court is complicit in what Texas is doing here by having destabilized the law of abortion,” says Michael Dorf, professor of law. 

Art Wheaton, director of Western NY Labor and Environmental Programs for the Worker Institute, says, “Our air traffic control system is woefully out of date. They haven’t really invested in that system in decades. There have been issues with our skies — having too many planes and not enough computer capacity to route them for 40 years…”

Vanessa Bohns, associate professor in the ILR School, discusses how to redefine and achieve influence in the workplace. 

In this op-ed, David Orr, director of the Cornell Local Roads Program, argues that local highway and public works departments will suffer greatly if Congress fails to pass a long-term infrastructure bill.

“The lockdowns were a disaster for customer-facing service workers and some, but not all, goods production workers,” said Daniel Alpert, an adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School. “But while the jobs vanished, after a few months, suddenly aggregate incomes recovered due to government transfers.”

“As we do remote sensing of dozens of exoplanets, spanning a range of masses and temperatures, we will develop a more complete picture of the true diversity of alien worlds – from those hot enough to harbor iron rain to others with more moderate climates, from those heftier than Jupiter to others not much bigger than the Earth,” says Ray Jayawardhana, study co-author and the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.

“There is a difference between making a user platform easy to use and creating a user platform that feels like a video game, that doesn’t feel like I’m taking a lot of risk,” says Vicki Bogan, professor of applied economics and management who studies gamification of finance. 

“Today’s outage brought our reliance on Facebook — and its properties like WhatsApp and Instagram — into sharp relief,” says Brooke Erin Duffy associate professor of communications. “The abruptness of today’s outage highlights the staggering level of precarity that structures our increasingly digitally mediated work economy.” 

“I wouldn’t have said this a few years ago, but I could imagine that Chief Justice Roberts will dissent. Maybe he’ll even write the dissent,” says Sherry F. Colb, professor of law. 

Vanessa Bohns, associate professor of organizational behavior, and Laura Giurge, postdoctoral research fellow of organizational behavior at London Business School, co-write this opinion piece about the miscommunication surrounding off-hours email response expectations.