MEDIA ALERT: Experts available on the UAW strike

Cornell labor experts are available to discuss multiple aspects of the United Auto Workers contract dispute as well as implications going forward.

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Business Insider

William Michael Lynn, professor of services marketing at the Nolan School, explains the five reasons why we leave a larger gratuity.

Associated Press

Art Wheaton, senior extension associate at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, says, “It severely hits the dealerships, and it hurts the customers who purchased those very expensive vehicles in good faith. You just told all your customers, 'Hey we can't fix those $50,000 to $70,000 cars we just sold you because we can't get you the parts.'”

Bloomberg

Kate Bronfenbrenner, senior lecturer at ILR,  joins Bloomberg Markets to explain the difficulty of negotiating between striking autoworkers and manufacturers.

Agence France-Press

“We now think that we have observational evidence that the carbon we see on Europa’s surface came from the ocean. That's not a trivial thing. Carbon is a biologically essential element,” says Samantha Trumbo, research associate at the Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science.

Axios

Cathy Creighton, director of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, discusses the impact of the loss of pandemic-era funding on the childcare industry.

 

The Washington Post

Flavio Lehner, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences, says, “The more extreme the precipitation, the bigger of a relative effect we see from climate change.”