Tip Sheets

Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Despite bumpy rollout and ‘polarizing style’, Cybertruck stokes anticipation

November 29, 2023

Art Wheaton, an expert on transportation industries and director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on Tesla's first deliveries of its highly scrutinized Cybertruck.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

White House supply chain council faces difficult task

November 28, 2023

Nick Fabrizio, senior lecturer in health policy at Cornell University, says the council has its work cut out for them as it’s very hard to anticipate what the population needs, how much to produce and how quickly products will arrive to consumers. 

Industrial and Labor Relations
Economics and Business
Law, Government & Public Policy

Autoworker strike entering escalation phase—what’s next?

September 21, 2023

Art Wheaton serves as director of labor studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Buffalo Co-Lab.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Industrial and Labor Relations

Will the summer of strikes spread to the Detroit Three?

August 9, 2023

Art Wheaton serves as director of labor studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR).

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Economics and Business

Cornell experts available to discuss UAW contract impasse, strike implications

September 11, 2023

Alex Colvin, dean of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), is an expert on issues related to collective bargaining, arbitration and dispute resolution.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Labor Relations & Human Resources
Industrial and Labor Relations

UPS-Teamsters deal a victory for labor, collective bargaining

July 25, 2023

Art Wheaton serves as director of labor studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and says the deal amounts to a big win for labor.

Industrial and Labor Relations
Law and Policy
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

‘A rolling hazard to any community’: Industry expert calls rail safety a national problem

March 6, 2023

Art Wheaton is an expert on transportation industries and serves as director of labor studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, he says Congress deserves part of the blame for the spate of train accidents.

Economics and Business
Law, Government & Public Policy
Industrial and Labor Relations

Biden faces enforcement challenge with new contractor emissions requirement

November 10, 2022

Arthur Wheaton, a transportation industry and supply chain expert and director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on the Biden administration's newly proposed rule for contractor emissions.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Law, Government & Public Policy
Industrial and Labor Relations

Legislation to block rail strike misses ‘biggest sticking point’

November 29, 2022

Transportation industry expert, Arthur Wheaton, and employment law expert, Angela Cornell, comment on Biden administration and congressional plans to avert a railroad strike next month. 

Industrial and Labor Relations
Law, Government & Public Policy

Failure to prevent rail strike could be ‘catastrophic’ for US business

September 13, 2022

The looming possibility of a national railroad strike has businesses nationwide concerned. Arthur Wheaton says a rail strike by freight railroad workers on Friday would impose serious consequences and could hurt almost all U.S. business sectors in a short amount of time.

Industrial and Labor Relations
Economics and Business