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Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Auto tariffs ‘boon’ to Tesla, threat to unionized workers and ‘Big Three’

March 27, 2025

Ian Greer is a research professor at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), comments on newly announced 25 percent tariffs on cars and car parts imported into the U.S.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Law and Policy

Trump’s cuts to the VA would have ‘devastating’ impact on veterans

March 6, 2025

Paul Ortiz is a professor of labor history at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division, and 7th Special Forces Group.

Labor Relations & Human Resources
Law, Government & Public Policy
Health, Nutrition & Medicine

VW plant closures spotlights payments to shareholders

October 29, 2024

Ian Greer is a research professor at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) who studies the German auto industry. Despite the rhetoric from VW management, he says it is not only market forces causing current financial problems.

International
Industrial and Labor Relations
Economics and Business

Rejection of Musk pay package a victory for corporate governance

December 3, 2024

Brian Dunn is the director of the Institute for Compensation Studies in Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. 

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Industrial and Labor Relations

Cornell labor expert comments on SEIU rejoining with AFL-CIO

January 9, 2025

Cathy Creighton is director of Cornell University's Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab and a former field attorney for the NLRB. She says the renewed partnership comes as the labor movement braces for anticipated attacks from the federal government under president-elect Donald Trump.

Industrial and Labor Relations
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Market conditions not shaping up well for GM’s Chinese ventures

December 4, 2024

Art Wheaton is an auto industry expert in Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Given that GM is facing many headwinds in China, he says a write down was not surprising.

Economics and Business
International
Industrial and Labor Relations

First American Pope viewed as an ally for global workers

May 8, 2025

Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute in Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says the election of Pope Leo XIV is a moment of celebration for Catholics around the world, but specifically for the faithful in the Americas.

Economics and Business
Labor Relations & Human Resources
Foreign Policy

Stress, dated equipment lead to 'terrible working conditions' at Newark

May 6, 2025

Art Wheaton, director of Labor Studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says there has been incredible pressure on air traffic controllers going back to the Reagan administration.

Labor Relations & Human Resources
Law, Government & Public Policy

Impact of auto tariffs: ‘Chaos, price increases, falling sales’

March 27, 2025

Art Wheaton is an expert on transportation industries and serves as director of labor studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). He anticipates the immediate impact of the tariffs as, “chaos, price increases and falling sales in the near term.”

Economics and Business
Foreign Policy

Boeing’s decision to lay off striking workers not the ‘sign of a well-run company’

October 16, 2024

Art Wheaton serves as director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and says Boeing’s recent moves are only compounding its problems.

Economics and Business
Industrial and Labor Relations

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