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“For employees who are considering starting a union or going kind of toe-to-toe with their employer, they should be encouraged by these numbers,” says Cathy Creighton, director of #CornellILR's @buffalocolab."It's turning out to be ... a sustained effort." spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/hudson-val…

Cathy Creighton, director of #CornellILR's @buffalocolab, says that the Cemex decision is "giving judges a little more freedom in their thinking to issue a Gissel bargaining order where they might not have before Cemex." law360.com/employment-aut…

Join us, 10/30, 1-2:30pm ET for a discussion on How the Labor Movement Strengthens Democracy in the US and Globally, ilr.cornell.edu/carow/events/h…

Art Wheaton, senior extension associate at ILR's @buffalocolab, explains New York’s Taylor Law, which prohibits corrections officers from going on strike. bit.ly/3X5jA1O

@RustBeltGeo, director of research at ILR's @buffalocolab, discusses the results of a new poll that showed that 74% of New Yorkers supported universal childcare. bit.ly/3T3BvDy

Arthur Wheaton, extension associate at ILR's @buffalocolab, says “It’s not that the union is saying, ‘We refuse to work because we need more money. This is the company saying, ‘You won’t agree to our demands, so we’re not going to let you work anymore.’” bit.ly/3yUX7v2

Cathy Creighton, director of ILR's @buffalocolab, explains Cemex. bit.ly/3yMI0DT

@CornellILR_News @buffalocolab @ecornell_online Ask Cathy Creighton from the Cornell/Buffalo Co-Lab about NLRB protesting under her organizing drive supervising the “salting campaign “….

42% of New Yorkers sampled by #CornellILR said they decided to forego work (due to cost and inaccessibility) outside the home due to child care issues, said Cathy Creighton, director of @buffalocolab. 4/?

@buffalocolab Would you support public funding for universal child care? 79% of people surveyed via #CornellILR’s Empire State Poll said yes, explains Creighton. 5/?

@buffalocolab 34% of American workforce, about 55 million people, are part of the gig economy, and about 10% of NYS residents are part of the gig economy, according to @DrCamposMedina, executive director of #CornellILR's @workerinstitute. 6/?

@buffalocolab @DrCamposMedina @workerinstitute “We at the @workerinstitute have this unique ability and role that we work with labor leaders in the formal labor movement to help them understand what’s happening in the economy, what’s happened to workers + the new innovations/policies that need to happen so that we grow.” 8/?

@buffalocolab @DrCamposMedina @workerinstitute The Yang-Tan Institute received $14M federal to evaluate subminimum wage programs in order to help direct people with disabilities who are earning subminimum wages to competitive employment, says Ellice Switzer of the @YTICornell. 9/?

@buffalocolab @DrCamposMedina @workerinstitute @YTICornell Tim McNutt of #CornellILR's Criminal Justice Employment Initiative (CJEI) explains that the CJEI program has created Restorative Record to include credentials for justice-impacted people that are often overlooked when employers are hiring. 10/?

@buffalocolab @DrCamposMedina @workerinstitute @YTICornell Employer research by the CJEI program showed that 58% of companies with more than 50 employees often use background checks, and many of these rely on criminal records that often include errors, McNutt explained. 11/?

@buffalocolab @DrCamposMedina @workerinstitute @YTICornell #CornellILR's Climate Jobs Institute has grown to ~30 people as it guides NYS + the U.S.’s transition to a clean energy economy while creating high-quality union jobs, confronting race + gender inequality and building a diverse, equitable + unionized clean energy workforce. 12/?

@buffalocolab @DrCamposMedina @workerinstitute @YTICornell The #1 thing we hear from partners is that they need our research and data to advocate for policy changes in our state, says #CornellILR's Russell Weaver, research director of @buffalocolab. 13/? (cont. in next tweet)

@buffalocolab @DrCamposMedina @workerinstitute @YTICornell “Part of our mission has been to synthesize datasets + create digital tools that allow partners to get answers to their questions with just a few clicks.” #CornellILR's Wage Atlas collects six tools that integrate @uscensusbureau, @NYSLabor & MIT Living Wage Calculator data. 14/?

Cathy Creighton—director of #CornellILR's @buffalocolab—says union leaders are running into extra resistance this year because the workforce is riled up. “Employees are mad because they don’t have their fair share of the pie, and they want to go on strike.”wsj.com/business/airli…

Cathy Creighton, director of #CornellILR's @buffalocolab, explains the process of forming a union, in this opinion piece.buffalonews.com/opinion/anothe…