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Experts skeptical Starbucks will bargain in good faith, stalls just the start

October 26, 2022

Contract negotiations between Starbucks and union workers have already stalled. The latest issue, Starbucks refusing to resume bargaining if the union allows workers to join meetings remotely. Kate Bronfenbrenner, Cathy Creighton and Angela Cornell are available for interviews.

Labor Relations & Human Resources
Industrial and Labor Relations
Law and Policy
Law School

Labor Day 2022: RTO mandates, unionization motivation, economic impacts for workers

August 23, 2022

Cornell University labor experts are available to weigh in on return-to-office policies and mandates, the increase of union organizing and strikes, how current economic conditions are impacting workers and more.

Labor Relations & Human Resources
Industrial and Labor Relations

Future of labor faces fundamental shift after Amazon union vote

April 5, 2022

Now that Staten Island Amazon warehouse workers have voted to form a union, what comes next? These Cornell University experts are available for interviews on next steps and larger impacts of the first successful union attempt at Amazon.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Starbucks has ‘reason to be worried’ ahead of union vote

November 8, 2021

Starting Wednesday, workers at three Starbucks coffee shops in and around Buffalo, New York will have four weeks to vote on whether to unionize. Kate Bronfenbrenner says Starbucks has reason to be worried with Workers United leading the unionizing efforts. Cathy Creighton is also available for interviews.

Industrial and Labor Relations
Economics and Business

Staten Island Amazon union filing shows ‘lack of experience’

October 26, 2021

Amazon workers at four warehouses on Staten Island have filed a petition to form a union. Kate Bronfenbrenner says filing with only 30 percent of workers shows a lack of experience and likely won’t bode well for the campaign.

Industrial and Labor Relations
New York City

Cornell labor experts on strikes surging across the US

November 4, 2021

Thousands of U.S. workers across numerous industries have participated in strikes and other labor actions this fall. The Cornell-ILR Labor Action Tracker provides a comprehensive database of strike and labor protest activity across the U.S. and these Cornell experts are available to speak to the increasing labor protest activity.

Labor Relations & Human Resources
Industrial and Labor Relations

Experts on unions, the workplace, and labor in 2022

January 13, 2022

With the Omicron wave, how will employers adapt and what’s to come for the future of work? The American workplace is restless, how long will we continue to see strikes and labor protest activity continue? Labor shortages are ongoing, will we see the Great Resignation keep up? These labor experts are available to weigh in on these questions and more as we start 2022.


In new push for labor reform, unions must energize grassroots

January 29, 2020

A bill to amend federal labor laws and expand guarantees for unionized workers is headed to the House next week. Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research and a senior lecturer at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says that the bill must be paired with union efforts to build grassroot support.

Economics and Business
Industrial and Labor Relations

White private sector takes brunt of union membership decline

January 22, 2020

Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research and a senior lecturer at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says she is not surprised by the decline in union membership given the hostile, anti-union stance of federal agencies like the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

Economics and Business
Industrial and Labor Relations

After WTO ruling, Trump hits EU with attention-grabbing tariffs

October 3, 2019

The U.S. announced it is moving to impose tariffs imports from the European Union, following a ruling from the World Trade Organization (WTO) earlier on Wednesday that authorized Washington to go ahead with tariffs. Kate Bronfenbrenner, senior lecturer at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says that the WTO’s decision gives Trump the option to use tariffs as a distraction from domestic issues at the expense of jobs beyond the airline industry - where the trade dispute originated.

Economics and Business
Industrial and Labor Relations
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