Attention aspiring scholars in Work & Employment and Industrial Relations... Just one week remains until the deadline for Cornell ILR School #PhD program applications. #GlobalLaborandWork

Great session in Intro to ILR this morning #ILR4066 —a panel of recent-ish alums—as part of our “One Major; Endless Possibilities“ series. Thank you, panelists!

“If professors abdicate their responsibility to ensure the freedom of all their students to speak their minds, what happens in the classroom hardly deserves the name of higher education.”
Honored to sign onto this some of my Cornell University colleagues.

cornellsun.com/2023/11/13/liv…

“Solidarity still pays off...”
—Adam Seth Litwin
dailyherald.com/news/20231111/… via Daily Herald #ILR2050

Article discusses the impacts of #AI in workplaces and references a New York Times opinion essay written by Adam Seth Litwin, associate professor at ILR. bit.ly/46Zsu37

Great 'Worker Militancy' conversation w/ Adam Seth Litwin Ellen Stutzman Harry Katz Scheinman Institute via eCornell View the recording by registering here: ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/…

So many questions about this thing I found in the coffee/copy room just now. Did the person initially leave an entire cookie, thinking that someone should simply claim it in its entirety?Did the person who took the bite think that others would come take bites of their own? Etc…

“Nonunion autoworkers are not the enemy. Those are our future union family.”
—Shawn Fain, UAW president
nytimes.com/2023/10/23/bus…

OK... Here are some new 'classes' of jobs that #AI may well bring about...

wsj.com/tech/ai/the-ne… via The Wall Street Journal #ILR2050 #ILR1510 #ILR4066

Offering some thoughts on the UAW negotiations and strike action:

bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

Unions need to get involved early in negotiating new technologies... and the UAW and Writers Guild of America West Writers Guild of America East SAG-AFTRA strikes make clear that labor gets it.

Story quotes me, Thomas A. Kochan, Daron Acemoglu, and Lisa Kresge.

nytimes.com/2023/09/16/bus… #ILR2050 #ILR1510

In the midst of today’s fabulous #LaborDay writing/coverage, don’t miss my deeper dive re: Writers Guild of America West Writers Guild of America East #WritersStrike entering month #5.
Unions can save bosses and shareholders from themselves...
themessenger.com/opinion/hollyw… Cornell University Cornell ILR School Cornell UniversityNews Cornell UniversityMedia

'Taken together, this one-two punch effectively makes union organizing possible again...'
—Harold Meyerson
Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead prospect.org/labor/2023-08-… #ILR2050

“Employers want to improve retention. Offering a way for the workers to have some voice, and interviewing workers as they exit, can be a very important way for them to figure out solutions.”
—Erica Groshen
#ILR2050
nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/…

How concerned should we be that #AI will reduce demand for frontline service-sector labor? I think I'm OK with it—certainly in this #LaborMarket .
Welcome to the drive-through, can AI take your order?
wsj.com/articles/can-a… via The Wall Street Journal

'Streamers may be able to weather a long strike because of the large inventory of content they’ve built up. If customers keep paying their monthly fees, Litwin said, Netflix and other companies “can hold on for a long, long time.” Cornell ILR School LERA

nytimes.com/2023/07/19/art…

Modern-day #Luddites amongst Kenyan tea pickers. And like their forebears... who can blame them?

We owe them (and probably most workers) some serious institutional reforms in the wake #TechChange .

semafor.com/article/06/13/… #ILR4066

“…If you don’t produce enough rotisserie chicken, my AI engineers are not the ones dealing with angry members.”

Sometimes, even the AI could use a little infusion of frontline worker knowledge.

wsj.com/articles/ai-pr… via The Wall Street Journal #ILR4066