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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

Cornell experts on EPA regulations rollback

March 13, 2025

Sheila Olmstead, Talbot Andrews, and Art Wheaton comment on steps to roll back environmental regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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

Cornell experts on tariff impacts for auto, clothing sectors

April 3, 2025

Denise Green, director of the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection, says the bulk of apparel and shoes sold in the U.S. are manufactured in China, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Economics and Business
Foreign Policy

Firing of striking prison workers unfortunate, but not unexpected

March 11, 2025

Art Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says the striking workers should have realized discipline could result from violating the no strike clause.

New York State

DoorDash settlement highlights need for algorithmic transparency in gig economy

February 25, 2025

Andrew Wolf, an assistant professor who studies the gig economy at Cornell University’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations, says that while the ruling is good news for gig workers, the door is still wide open for similar infractions to occur.

Industrial and Labor Relations
Economics and Business

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

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

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

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

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