Bruuuutal rebuke for the district on Tuesday.

A healthy energy breakfast this morning. Excellent intellectual and editorial work by Jens Arnholtz @[email protected] and Bjarke Refslund.

New book on power resources out June 3! routledge.com/Workers-Power-… . Thread 1/8

Guglielmo Meardi Jens Arnholtz @[email protected] Ian Greer hosted a nice discussion of the book here at Cornell

New York State is clawing back hundreds of thousands of UI overpayments from people who can't afford to pay, many accused of fraud after making an honest mistake. Op ed with National Employment Law Project and National Center for Law and Economic Justice shows how the legislature can fix this now -- timesunion.com/opinion/articl…

In NYC hearing about The Future of the Care Economy at The Worker Institute and meeting labor movement folks. Edifying & informative Saturday morning session now with Sarita Gupta and Zoe West.

🚨 New pre-print paper! It tells the story of NY Taxi Workers organizing Uber drivers in the broad historical context of tech change & labor in the NYC taxi industry. Theoretically it synthesizes emergent the power resource approach to studying the labor mvmt hdl.handle.net/1813/115249

🚨There is a FREE conference on economic justice happening in #Buffalo later this month (June 20-22) that will feature an amazing slate of speakers from local and national organizations. Click the link below to register. Hope to see you there!🚨 ppgbuffalo.org/news-and-event…

Oh, man, UI reform. What is according to most reasonable people a "no brainer" or an uncontroversial technical fix is to NY State not doable. Here's what happened -- nysfocus.com/2024/06/06/une…

Dear network, we are organizing at the Cornell ILR School in NYC 9-10 May 2025 a conference on "Labor and the transition to electric vehicles: A global perspective". We are seeking contributions on the broad consequences of this shift. An edited book will be proposed Cornell University Press

Conference on EVs, workers, and just transition, coming up in April 2025 at Cornell ILR School in NYC. If you have a paper or want to attend, get in touch!

EV conference is actually May 9 and 10. So don't mark your calendar for the month of April 2025!

Fun and informative conference in Buffalo with Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab on politics, policy, art, and great ideas for the Ithaca Co-Lab.

Live feed of us locking in to our work so we can get to the march on Friday:

It's the 89th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act and unemployment insurance. We need to expand both programs as defined benefit pension coverage is just 15%, and in many states, less than 20% of unemployed workers are getting UI.

Hundreds of Cornell workers represented by the UAW are rallying in front of Bailey Hall on the university's campus. If Cornell doesn't meet the union's demands at the bargaining table, an authorization vote showed 94% of workers support striking, according to the UAW.

From early Monday morning: Cornell workers represented by the UAW officially went on strike Sunday night for the first time in decades, with thousands of students poised to arrive on campus this week. ithacavoice.org/2024/08/worker…

UAW President Shawn Fain calls out Cornell University in his speech at the DNC

Dear colleagues, There is still time to apply for our conference on Labor and the EV shift to be held in May 2025 in NYC. Selected authors will get all their travelling fees covered. An edited book will be submitted Cornell University Press.

The Tompkins County Workers Center just released this UAW picket line schedule for the upcoming week (Aug. 26-31), asking community members to join in support of striking workers and donate to their strike fund