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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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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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

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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

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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

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Walgreens has struck a deal with private-equity firm Sycamore Partners that would take the struggling drugstore chain off the public market for around $10 billion. 

Labor Relations & Human Resources

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Lee Adler is an expert on employment law and unions at Cornell University. Depending upon the substance of the directives, he says teachers without any protections inside their collective bargaining agreements will need to be on alert.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Labor Relations & Human Resources

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Bradford Bell is a professor in strategic human resources and director of Cornell’s Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies. He says the cooling of the job market has created an opportunity for employers to push back against working from home.

Labor Relations & Human Resources

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

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Ariel Avgar, is a professor in Cornell University’s school of Industrial and Labor Relations, where his research focuses on employment relations in the healthcare industry. He says setting mandatory staffing ratios is a great first step in making sure that residents receive high quality care, however, it should not be a standalone measure.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

Labor Relations & Human Resources

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Jeffrey Grabelsky, co-director of the National Labor Leadership Institute at Cornell University, is an expert on building and construction trades unions. He weighs in on the current hold-up involving affordable housing initiatives in the NYS budget.

New York State

New York City

Industrial and Labor Relations

Labor Relations & Human Resources

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